admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
LONDON – As Britain prepares for the deepest budget cuts in generations to tackle a crippling mound of public debt, the government is facing a pressing legal question: Is its austerity plan sexist? Like other wealthy nations including the United States, Britain ran up an unprecedented deficit in recent years – a liability that ballooned [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
TOKYO – Attempting to combat the rising yen that analysts have blamed for slowed export growth and a sputtering economy, Japan on Monday unveiled two separate measures, with its central bank expanding its lending program and the government announcing a modest $10.9 billion (920 billion yen) stimulus package. This Story Japan moves to fight rising [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
RIO DE JANEIRO — A jury convicted a Brazilian rancher Saturday of orchestrating the slaying of U.S.-born nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang in 2005. Regivaldo Galvao — the last of five defendants to stand trial in the case — was sentenced to 30 years in prison, said Telma Lima, a spokeswoman for the federal [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
REYNOSA, Mexico — Their families pleaded with them not to leave, fearful of the growing danger that faces migrants trekking through Mexican territory where brutal drug gangs hold sway. This Story Families of massacred migrants couldn’t pay ransom This Story Families of massacred migrants couldn’t pay ransom Mexico targets money laundering with plan to limit [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
An exhaustive U.N. investigation into the history of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has concluded that the Rwandan military and its allies carried out hundreds of large-scale killings of ethnic Hutu refugees during the 1990s that amounted to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide, according to a confidential copy of the [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Obama administration, which came to office promising stronger leadership on Sudan, is now scrambling to salvage a 2005 U.S.-backed peace accord and prevent Africa’s largest nation from sliding back into civil war. This Story Obama administration intensifies efforts in Sudan Standing up for democracy in Sudan Young standing up for democracy in Sudan In [...]
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
KABUL (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead five campaign workers for a candidate in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election next month, officials said on Sunday, another sign of rising insecurity as Washington prepares to review its war strategy. Read more
admin @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pledged on Sunday to finish restoring the Gulf Coast area hit by Hurricane Katrina, five years after the storm ravaged the region and hurt the credibility of his Republican predecessor. Read more