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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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Let me preface by saying that nothing of a lot of sense comes out of Tehran these days. For instance, their latest “ambassador of death” drone, according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, really carries “a main message of peace and friendship.” Now, Iran is telling the world that the impending stoning sentence for a woman [...]
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Over the Labor Day weekend I put up some new curtain rods in the living room, which required removing the old hardware, drilling a few holes and mounting the new. (A relatively straightforward task that, for some reason , turned into a Five Blasphemous Oath project. I predicted it would be only [...]
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3:52pm UK, Tuesday September 07, 2010 Andy Winter, Sky News Online A father has been accused of repeatedly raping one of his daughters and keeping another locked in a small room for [...]
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WENN Levi Johnston has reportedly struck up a romance with singer Brittani Senser after appearing in her recent music video. The former boyfriend of Bristol Palin made a special appearance in Senser’s promo for ‘After Love’ earlier this year, and the pair attended the Teen Choice Awards together as friends last month. However, according to [...]
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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas says he asked the US to settle his dispute with Israel over settlement expansion. Read more
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VIENNA — The UN atomic agency expressed alarm yesterday about Iran’s decision to bar some of its inspectors, suggesting that its efforts to monitor the country’s nuclear program were suffering as a result. The International Atomic Energy Agency warning followed Iran’s recent decision to strip two experienced inspectors of the right to monitor [...]
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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 [...]
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MEYRIN, Switzerland – Using a machine kept colder than space, scientists at the world’s most ambitious international research facility are puzzling out the questions of the universe, working to re-create the cosmic soup served up by the Big Bang. But the famous institute is also facing a far more earthly conundrum: how to pay the [...]
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“Sound” and “stable” was how a top Communist Party official described the two countries’ relationship while receiving the U.S. delegation, which included National Economic Council Director Lawrence H. Summers and deputy national security adviser Thomas Donilon. The meeting comes after the U.S.-China relationship has been battered on several fronts. The United States has fought with [...]