The Bank of England today slashed interest rates by a further 1%, bringing the interest rate to a historic low. The interest rate cuts in recent months have been among the fastest in Britain's history."The Bank of...
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"LONDON: The Sugababes have switched on Oxford Street's Christmas lights in front of 50,000 screaming fans. The 49th annual event took place at House of Fraser in the busy London Street.Thousands of small energy-efficient lightbulbs have been used to design the lights, which...
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"Angry relatives of Madrid crash victims asked yesterday why the aircraft was allowed to fly two hours after it aborted a take-off because of a technical fault. A total of 153 people died on Wednesday when the Spanair aircraft bound for the Canary Islands failed to take off,...
"Taylor Woodrow, a UK-based construction company, has switched its 1,800 employees' e-mail from Microsoft Outlook to enterprise Gmail. The company is also beginning to use other components of Google Apps, the suite of Web-based applications that includes, in addition to...
An athlete running at top speed is a beautiful thing and something that's very hard for the sculptor or painter to capture so controversial Brit artist Martin Creed gives us the real deal - his latest work is real...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 330 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAh, Yes, the Gansta Lexicon of Languages spoken by our Kids regardless that they would not know a Gangster if it slapped them upside the head. My own...
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" AUTHORITIES are investigating how a baby girl was left alone inside a locked childcare centre after it closed for the day.A Sydney father, identified by the Sydney Morning Herald only as Bharat , said that when he went to pick up his one-year-old daughter Ankita from the...
It seems that every few weeks another organization announces that it will switch to Linux. Here's an announcement from Paris by a French police force:""We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change...
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"Microsoft has denied that its software had arbitrarily changed Windows Vista's update settings, saying that users were responsible for the modifications that generated claims of unauthorized patch installs.
Reacting to reports that first surfaced last week, a program manager...
"Just days after David Beckham's California debut, the state's Supreme Court has upheld a ban on his former brand of kangaroo-skin boot.
California's highest court barred athletic shoe maker Adidas from selling...
Not that this is new news, but it is a reminder that without adequate PC protections, i.e., anti-virus, firewall, spyware blockers and removal, as well as education on the problem of malwares and cyber attacks any...
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This posting comes from my friend Graham's Treehugger.com:"Newsweek is once again doing a story about hybrid cars and they've asked us to help them find the right people. Here are the criteria:
I'm a New York...
"LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. troop pullout from Iraq would leave the country as a potent launchpad for international terrorism and Washington would be forced to go back in within a couple of years, a leading al Qaeda expert said on Tuesday.
Rohan Gunaratna told a security...
Matte actually beat me to this one, because he's posting from around 17 hours in the future! The Australian side has won its third consecutive World Cup, celebrating a bit prematurely due to confusion about...
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" Nepal could also beat Team India in West Indies! What I’m more concerned with is the attitude of ICC towards the other cricket playing nations like Kenya (which made it to semi-finals in the last World...
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