Boy Comes to US for Heart Transplant
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TOKYO, Japan (June 14) — Eleven-year-old Hiroki Ando will likely die if he does not get a new heart. Read more
£3,000 for Muslim cocktail waitress who had to work in ‘sexy’ dress (but who didn’t mind appearing on Facebook wearing a skimpy top)
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A Muslim cocktail waitress who quit after refusing to wear a ‘sexy’ dress has won almost £3,000 in compensation for sexual harassment. Read more
Hailstorm kills 14 in China
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At least 14 people were killed and more than 180 others were injured in a severe hailstorm that destroyed thousands of homes across eastern China’s Anhui province, authorities said yesterday. Read more
Russia's Reach
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A Georgian civilian is checked at a Russian army position on Aug. 16, 2008, in the village of Igoeti on the road from Gori to Tbilisi, about 45 kilometers from Tbilisi, Georgia. Read more
Underground Video from Iran Protests
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Long story short: After polls closed on Friday, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister and reformist candidate, declared he had won the Iranian presidential election after a campaign filled with the government trying to thwart his grass-roots movement at every turn. Some, oh, 15 minutes later the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency announced that President [...]
My 12-year-old car runs good. Too good?
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Our twins turn 12 today, which means our Dodge Grand Caravan — which we bought to accommodate the sudden increase in family size in 1997 — is also 12. Read more
Pro-Mousavi Crowd Defy Iran Protest Ban
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4:44pm UK, Monday June 15, 2009 Tens of thousands of a defeated presidential candidate’s supporters have gathered in Tehran – defying an Iranian interior ministry ban. Riot police line up before Mousavi [...]
Michael Jackson ‘sued for $20 million’
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MOST-READ NEWS ARTICLES HOT FORUM THREADS NOW ‘Enders Max in hit-and-run whodunnit ‘Hollyoaks’ actor breaks man’s leg In Pictures: ‘Hollyoaks’ McQueen death Report: Jennifer Aniston is pregnant Silverman booed off at UK stand-up debut Cruise’s agent denies actor’s death Dixon left “heartbroken” by label axe Leon: ‘Peter Kay’s track is deceiving’ Money row ’caused Madonna [...]
China’s New Censorware Software Contains Pirated Code
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I wrote earlier about China’s new censorship moves with regards to PCs, mandating that new PCs there have site-blocking software installed, or at least provided via an included CD. Ironically, though not surprisingly, it turns out that the filtering software, “Green Dam-Youth Escort,” contains pirated code. Read full story from technologyexpert.blogspot.com Read more
‘TOSS BOGUS IRAN ELECTION’
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TEHRAN, Iran — Defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi demanded yesterday that Iran’s presidential election be annulled, as his supporters clashed with police and shouted, “Death to the dictator!” from the rooftops. Read more
“The Daily Show”‘s John Hodgman solves CA’s budget problems (VIDEO)
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Since nobody else has been able to figure out California’s budget problems, we might as well listen to “The Daily Show’s” John Hodgman. Tuesday night, he offered some options: 1. “We must sell California… Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area [...]
Remittance Slowdown, Wake-Up Call for Latin America
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WASHINGTON — Jesus Antonio Soriano had long wanted to give something back to his native Chalatenango, a province in northern El Salvador devastated by civil war in the 1980s. And so four years ago, the agronomist, with three partners, developed a plan to improve land values and create jobs by building a residential and recreational [...]
Longtime Inventor Takes Green Idea to Pork Expo
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DES MOINES — This is an American success story about a man inventing a better mousetrap, except that the undesirable thing he’s catching is a little more personal, and universal, than a mouse. Read more
Pakistan Seeks Taliban’s Mehsud, Thought to Be Behind Bhutto Assassination
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LAHORE, Pakistan, June 14 — Pakistani officials announced Sunday night that security forces will launch a military operation against Baitullah Mehsud, a feared Taliban leader who has asserted responsibility for numerous suicide bombings across the country and who is believed to have ordered the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in late 2007. Read [...]
Once Detained at Guantanamo, 4 Uighurs Find Home in Bermuda
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, June 14 — The four men in short-sleeve shirts looked like ordinary tourists, enjoying a Sunday lunch and butter pecan ice cream afterward as they observed the sparkling waters surrounding this Atlantic resort island. Read more
Juarez’s Addicts Targeted by Unknown Attackers
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, June 14 — The patients at the Life Without Addictions drug rehabilitation center here were bunking down in their grim, gray dormitory two weeks ago when a group of gunmen burst in and opened fire. The attack left five addicts dead. Read more
South Africans Savor Anticipation of Hosting Soccer’s 2010 World Cup
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JOHANNESBURG — MacMillan Siyoko paused. His eyes misted. He struggled to find the words to express his feelings about an event scheduled to begin here one year from now. Read more