Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Men's Ice Hockey Final: Canada 3 USA 2 ("Sudden Death") Finland 5 Slovakia 3 So, Canada (Gold) has a population of 34,017,000 U.S.A. (Silver) has a population of 308,372,000...
Finland took the lead twice in this exciting game and Sweden came back twice. 2-2 at full-time meant a "sudden death" extra time. Finland clearly wanted it more than their ancient rivals, the Swedes,...
Official figures sent the pound sliding yesterday as it was revealed the government had borrowed £4.3 billion in January. Normally in January, annual tax revenues push the Exchequer into the black. It is the first time there has been a deficit in January since...
Jerome David Salinger has died aged 91 at his home in New Hampshire. Creator of the character Holden Caulfield, whose perception of the world as being full of "phonies" touched a chord with a whole baby-boomer generation, followed by Gen X and still sells well today....
Fifty ways to leave your lover : go back to your wife! But revenge strikes back when the lover puts up a "soulmates" billboard. "The giant images of YaVaughnie Wilkins and Charles E Phillips in happier times have the words "You are my soulmate forever!" above...
American soldiers and paratroopers in full combat gear have landed in the centre of Port au Prince by 20 Black Hawk helicopters. The US Army state that they are there "to provide security" and to work with...
Canadian folk singer, Kate McGarrigle has died of cancer, aged 63. McGarrigle was once married to fellow folkie, Loudon Wainwright III, and is the mother of successful music artistes, Rufus and Martha. ...
Each amazing rescue is a miracle, and this continues today with the dramatic rescue of a Danish UN worker, Jens Kristensen, who was retreived from the rubble on a stretcher, but with barely a scratch. This raises...
The execution in China in December 2009 of a man said to be seriously mentally ill, Akmal Shaikh, 53, who ran a taxi cab firm in north London, caused a serious diplomatic rift between the UK and China, with Prime...
Two female teaching staff at a primary school have lost their claims for unfair dismissal at an Employment Tribunal in London. One case was heard in November, when Phillipa Heath-Philpotts, described as "an expert in controlling aggressive children" lost her...
An Australian Doctor, Robert Eley, of University of Southern Queensland, has shown that the symptoms of asthma in children may be improved by regularly playing wind instruments. Dr. Eley took a group of Australian Aborigine boys and gave them digeridoo lessons for six...
We all know of people who have chest pains when under stress, and this alarming symptom is often written off as "indigestion". However, now it seems it could be true that the heart is affected by stress and is not just folklore. Doctors at University College Hospital,...
"The UK Independence Party is to call for a ban on the burka and the niqab — the Islamic cloak that covers women from head to toe and the mask that conceals most of the face — claiming they affront British...
SCOTT FITZGERALD famously said in The Great Gatsby that "the rich are different from the rest of us" and now neurological scientists at the University of California (UCLA) have found that children from...
BREAKING...nervous policemen have shot dead six alleged gunmen at Delhi Airport " Six gunmen are reported to have been shot by Indian security forces at Delhi's main international airport, according to airport officials. Security had been strengthened at several...