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Appearing on tonight’s Sky.Com News is Helen Zaltzman from the AnswerMeThisPodcast. Helen will be telling us about the recent Internet craze involving Rick Astley. Read more about this now in her blog below.
When Tim Berners-Lee sat down at his desk to invent the world wide web, he must have had some qualms about it.
Might […]
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The speaker of the US congress has called for an international investigation into China’s reaction to protests in Tibet. In this video, Nancy Pelosi poses for photos at a meeting with the Dalai Lama during her visit to Dharamshala in India.
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Katie Price and Peter Andre have returned to the set of I’m A Celebrity… for their new documentary.
The couple fell in love while filming the reality TV show in 2003 and tied the knot the following year.
They visited the jungle to rekindle their memories during a family holiday to Australia, according to the Daily […]
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The U.S. Geological Survey has verified a major 7.2 magnitude earthquake at 6:33 p.m. EDT on Thursday, in northwestern China, 141 miles SE of Hotan, Xinjiang.
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March 21, 2008 — LONDON - Paul Scofield, the towering British stage actor who won international fame and an Academy Award for the film “A Man for All Seasons,” has died. He was 86.
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Sacramento — Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, wants to tax big oil to help fund education, which would take a $4 billion spending cut under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal for closing the state’s big gap between revenues and expenses in the fiscal year that begins in July.
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High-tech Japan was 21st century back when this new era was still a mere science-fiction backdrop for dreamers in many other lands. This week, the Japanese government showed just how visionary it can be in the field of diplomacy, too: In a special ceremony conducted before a gathering of national and foreign reporters, and government […]
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The flap over Princess Masako, Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, a book about the Japanese Imperial family by the Australian journalist, Ben Hills, seemed to have come and gone rather quickly. It was last February.that Mr Hill’s Japanese publisher, Kodansha, dropped its plans to publish a translation of the book, after the Imperial Household Agency […]
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Up to 100 Tibetan protesters are thought to have been killed as Chinese troops attempt to crush the biggest uprising against Beijing’s rule in two decades, evoking fears of another Tiananmen Square as what began as a peaceful protest by monks spills over into violence.
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Estados Unidos y México alcanzaron esta semana un hito histórico en su continuo avance hacia la integración comercial. Como lo establecieron los negociadores del NAFTA hace 15 años, el 1 de enero de 2008 era la fecha límite para eliminar las últimas barreras comerciales entre las dos naciones — específicamente aquellas que protegían los productos […]
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a big speech in Cairo in June in which she set down some criteria by which to judge the fairness and openness of the upcoming elections in Egypt. The speech seemed to augur a tough approach by the administration, a determination to press hard for real reforms in the […]
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LONDON — Political squalls have drenched Gordon Brown this October, already as cruel a month as the new prime minister hopes ever to encounter. He suddenly struggles to convince voters that nothing more serious than autumn rain is falling on his new Labor government — not a shower of acid that will erode Brown’s reputation […]
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Less than one year into his job as president of the U.N. General Assembly, former Swedish ambassador Jan Eliasson admits that “Washington is more fun.”
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PARIS, March 16 — Opposition parties took over at least 30 major cities from President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling party in local elections Sunday that were viewed by many voters and analysts as a barometer of public frustration with the style and policies of his government.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 16 — At least 18 people were killed in a missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, according to witnesses and officials.
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In a runoff on Nov. 4, 2007, voters in Guatemala elected Álvaro Colom president to succeed Oscar Berger of the center-right Grand National Alliance (GANA) party. The new president is expected to be sworn in to a four-year term on Jan. 14, 2008.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 10 — Two women held captive by Colombian rebels for most of this decade were handed over to the Venezuelan government Thursday, triggering euphoria among their friends and family and raising hopes that other hostages could soon be released.
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Mitt Romney says he “saw” his father “march” with Martin Luther King Jr. Rudolph W. Giuliani claims that he is one of the “five best-known Americans in the world.” According to John McCain, the Constitution established the United States as a “Christian nation.” Ron Paul believes that a “NAFTA superhighway” is being planned to link […]
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WINNEBA, Ghana — Ama Maysiema danced down the main drag of this seaside town in sweaty exultation. Rumors had spread that opposition leader John Atta Mills had died. But there he was, standing up through the sunroof of a Toyota Land Cruiser, waving to supporters as they drummed, sang and cheered their support.
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BAGHDAD, March 13 — Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday.
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