Here is the man who took Congressman Mark Foley's 16th congressional district who said he would restore morality to the District. The MSM is not all over this story like Foley's story who did not have any...
The rate of female drinking is increasing more quickly than men with female teenagers already outstripping boys in UK. Analysis of a Europe-wide study also shows that alcohol consumption in southern Mediterranean...
highlighted by Sanjay Jha | 2 days ago | updated 16 hrs ago 72 views | 3 comments
An Anglican clergyman who advocated that homosexuals be tattooed with labels calling them sodomites has apologized for his remarks. Such language is extreemly unusual in the Church of England."A Church of England clergyman who wrote that gay men should be forced to have...
Wow now we have the hype and the problem is made to be 10 times worse than it really is. I wonder if the media realises its power of causing a real finacial melt down, people panic sell their shares move their money buy gold. This sudden slump on the stocks and...
" Brazil's local elections have brought mixed results for President Luiz Ignacio da Silva's Workers' Party. Almost 130 million Brazilian voters went to the polls on Sunday to elect mayors and councillors. The...
UPDATE 5:00 EDT: Here's the latest public storm advisory:"Gustav continues moving northwestward toward Hispaniola. A hurricane warning remains in effect for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Barahona...
China is once again lifting the standards before the Games, and this time it is targeted towards air passengers who causes trouble. China will be punishing airlines whose passengers refuse to disembark or misbehave...
highlighted by Heiky | 10 wks ago | updated 10 wks ago 950 views | 30 comments
" MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) A “sobering experience” was how a television reporter who was freed late Tuesday night by her Abu Sayyaf captors described her nine-day ordeal as she thanked friends and...
highlighted by jaysonng | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 269 views | 1 comment
Sooner or late this bubble has to burst. It could be the markets will take fright when they really think President Obama is going to be elected, or afterwards when they sober up. But I would short US markets going forward.
Morgan Tsvangirai will return to Zimbabwe tomorrow, after six-weeks abroad, to begin his run-off campaign in the second round of the country's presidential election."His return last weekend was delayed amid...
highlighted by amyjudd | 20 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago 195 views | 2 comments
Rain, rain and more rain. Shreveport Louisiana got drenched with rain over the last few days and remains under a flood watch. So far at least 125 have been flooded."A third day of drenching storms loomed...
The St. Johns river crested today, bringing major flood warnings all along the river, both north and south of the border.Many homes were left without power and over 50 streets were flooded in Fredericton, New...
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"Lisa Callaway's son Alwyn weighed 7lb 8oz, with perfectly formed limbs and a shock of dark hair. But the baby she and husband William had longed for lived only two days, killed by the professionals entrusted with...
I"m not convinced that the best thing to do after a terror attack is to send a SMS to every single mobile phone in the vicinity... on Sept 11, my phone was a paperweight as signal towers choked on the extra traffic,...
highlighted by jordan | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 286 views | 1 comment
Tibetan Exiles have agreed to halt protests during elections in Nepal for the next two weeks after China's envoy warned of continued arrests if they kept protesting. The exiles promise to continue protests after...
highlighted by Rob Walker | 27 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago 337 views | 1 comment