" Every 20th person in Pakistan is suffering from eye diseases and there is a pressing need to rescue people from this menace, says Lt Gen (retired) Jahandad Khan, founder and president of Al Shifa Trust, an eye hospital. He says there were 1.7 million blind in Pakistan...
A killer flower virus may be on the verge of wiping out thousands of rhododendrons at one of the National Trust gardens in the UK.Bodnant Gardens, near Snowdonia, north Wales, fear that it may be the Sudden Oak Death...
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" New ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a significant bump for Barack Obama. Among net leaned likely voters, Obama turned a two point deficit two weeks ago into a nine point advantage: Obama 52 (+5)McCain 43...
I wanted to take a minute (before the article) to post that this comes from a website that debunks alot of the information out there from BOTH parties -and gets to the heart of who's telling the tuth, who is stretching it a little (grey area), and who is flat out wrong.Since...
"JERUSALEM — The Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on charges including bribe-taking, fraud and breach of trust. ""The recommendation, which followed a corruption investigation that unfolded over several months, has no legal weight...
"WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said. ...
Phil Gramm tells people to "quit whining" when he had much to do with the deregulation of the banking industry and the involvement of wall street that blew up the housing bubble and burst it. People are generally willing to work for money that will put food on the table, pay...
The flooding of the Great Ape Trust was quite a big deal in Iowa this August as it was just recently constructed. Already, more money will have to be be distributed to the Great Ape Trust, which was fairly...
The UK north south divide in economy and health still exists but this new 'fat map' of Britain seems to indicate that the south is now succumbing the obesity problem that has seen some areas of the UK having up to...
"(LifeWire) -- Bob Johnson was close to his aunt growing up. But when she learned he was gay, she began making hurtful comments; eventually, they drifted apart. Then Johnson, 43, was diagnosed with colon cancer. Relatives flocked to his side -- except for his aunt. ...
There are at least 45 rare or protected species of British wildlife that will benefit from their own woodland area at what will be known as the Sunday Times Wood in Hertfordshire. One of the species that will benefit...
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Indian NAZ foundation which challenged at the High Court arrests made in 2002 under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code , has expressed concerns over the removal of provison in section 377 without proper...
Startling finds in a recent National Trust survey: of 1,600 schoolchildren questioned, nearly half couldn't recognise an oak leaf, a barn owl or tell the difference between a bee and a wasp. Yet they had no...