Tips To Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Stay Home This Fireworks Season

"Animal shelters around the country will be preparing their kennels over the next couple of days to receive the usual number of "fireworks dogs" who escape their homes/yards after becoming frightened of Fourth of July fireworks displays. Susan Sharpe, APDT, CPDT, owner of...

‘Philippine hospitals not good for health’--expert

A UK-based health expert has warned about the dangers of chemicals found in common household and industrial materials which, unavoidably, are also found in medical care institutions.  I've always had that queasy feeling when in hospitals." Unknown to many,...

Digital consumer rights

"Digital consumer rights Sean Whelan, Europe Correspondent, reports that the plea for digital consumer rights is pretty much Jim Murray's last act after 17 years as director of the European Consumer Organisation. 'Do we have to accept that when we take the shrink wrap off a...

MySpace to acquire Photobucket

"Rupert Murdoch watched Google snatch YouTube, but he's not letting Photobucket get away. Social-networking site MySpace, owned by Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to acquire Photobucket, the Web's No. 1 photo-sharing service, according to a source close to the deal. The...

Alarm over building site pranks

"A West Yorkshire building firm has vowed to hunt down workers who filmed themselves performing dangerous stunts on a construction site. Workers from NG Bailey were shown setting fire to each other, fighting with sticks and diving from a crane into a pile of cardboard...

Russia:Cancel U.S. Sanctions on Russian Companies

....The U.S. imposed sanctions on three Russian companies and organizations - arms exporter Rosoboronexport, the Tula Instrument-Making Design Bureau, and the Kolomna Machine-Building Design Bureau - for allegedly selling missiles and weapons goods to Iran and...

Lord Mayor's Show

This annual event has been taking over the streets of London for nearly 800 years now. The parade involves over 6,000 people, bands, over 140 decorated floats, costumed performers and a gilded State Coach that the Lord Mayor travels in. If you aren't sick of fireworks by this...