"Australia A secured a place in the A Team Triangular Series final after allrounder Cameron White triggered a New Zealand A collapse that left his side needing 145 runs in 50 overs. Australia did the needful in 24.5; David Hussey hurrying matters with a 56-ball 78. New...
Short selling, limited in UK and US makes the market more stable " Ruthless City traders who made millions by sending share prices into freefall were finally the big losers. The crackdown on...
With oil/gas and energy in general being such a high profile policy subject during the current US Presidential contest, the following pragmatic analysis of the strategic importance of the "To drill, or not to drill"...
"MANILA -- Triggered by attacks in certain areas in Mindanao, the Philippine government will no longer sign the controversial Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Press Secretary Jesus Dureza made the...
Crowd control is poor in India and stampedes are common. Maybe there were many lives could be saved if the procedure of this sort incident was improved by the authorities. Just like the survivor said the victims of...
Mississippi clearly needs a new governor. Gov. Haley Barbour has previously let five other convicted killers go."The last thing a governor wants - and especially a law-and-order Republican governor - is a controversy over a pardon or commutation of sentence, especially when...
I think he should have known better about how the majority live..or maybe he lives on other planet? " A cabinet minister welcomed spiralling petrol prices last night as an incentive for drivers to make fewer car...
Every time I visit Nowpublic there appears to be another new natural disaster.Is this the result of Global Warming or are we just in the middle of a natural cycle?"Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen have left at least 14 people dead and forced the...
"By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment CorrespondentLONDON (Reuters) - Credit Suisse's investment arm is banking on commodity prices to fall over the rest of this year, with the price of crude oil dropping back to between $100 and $120 a barrel, one of its top executives said...
The potential for the 'quake lake' - a lake in China whose dam was threatened by the earthquake there - to flood has been removed, according to the Chinese government."Evacuees headed down from temporary camps Wednesday after Chinese authorities declared the flood threat over...
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday recommended senior Pentagon official Michael Donley to be secretary of the U.S. Air Force in a shake-up triggered by mistakes in handling nuclear...
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"Some have interpreted remarks by the European Central Bank chief Jean Paul Trichet last week about raising interest rates as similar to comments from the Bundesbank which triggered the 1987 dollar and equity crash. Last Friday’s oil price surge has echoes of the 1970s and...
I don't know what the truth of this situation was. Truth is, virtually none of us in North America do.Was it simply a terrorist action or was it a terrorist ambush? We can't tell now and often can't tell after the fact.. "MIAMI (AFP) — US Marines "acted appropriately"...
I'm sure every one you was caught up in the T5 disaster feels sorry for Mr Walsh losing out on his bonus."BA profits soar, boss refuses bonus The troubled opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5 has...
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At least 26 children have died in rural China from a virus that is now spreading into Beijing. So far, two kindergartens in the city have been closed against the spread of the outbreak of hand, foot and mouth...
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