Tag: Christmas
TWO MONTHS AT EUROCENTER DDC, COLOMBO
"After I sat for my Advanced Level examination I was selected to participate in a two-month course on web designing at a software company called EuroCenter in Kollupitiya. The knowledge I obtained during these two...
Since You Both Raised the Issue Last Night
it's time for a Obama-Clinton/Clinton-Obama democratic ticket
CBC: Rose Coloured Glasses
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCBC-Canada's most Politically Correct Taxpayer Funded Television Network strives to inform viewers only one side of any story and their opinions, especially viewers who...
Italian Biscotti Traditions
My grandparents immigrated to the United States from Puglia Italy in 1912. Like many Italians they brought their culture, traditions and recipes. Our family has especially enjoyed our traditional Christmas Eve...
Kenya Elections Drama - Dora’s 15-day Misadventure
"A few weeks before Kenya’s elections, Dora landed a 6-day-a-week job as a domestic worker in Langata, a middle-class neighborhood just 20 minute’s walk from her house. Dora’s employer, Maryanne, also a mother of three, needed someone to help take care of her home while...
Hurrah! It's the most depressing day of the year
It's pitch dark both to and fro work, your Christmas bills are due, and to stay warm you need to dress like a shapeless lump of wool. Yes, today is the most depressing day of the year.A Cardiff University...
The Times Starts its Top-50 Lists 11 Months Early
Every year the pundits say, "This'll be the biggest year for blah blah blah..." Inauspicious start, guys and gals, with the ultimate creators of these projects still on strike: anything not already in the can or in...
Kayakers arrive in NZ after 62 days
"Two adventurers who spent two months paddling across the Tasman Sea in a kayak arrived in New Zealand today, becoming the first people to kayak there from Australia.
Several thousand people crowded the shore at Ngamotu Beach, near New Plymouth on New Zealand's west coast, to...
Iran arrests death penalty opponent; hangings inc...
"DEATH PENALTY-IRAN: Top Campaigner Harassed, Hangings Increase
By Kimia Sanati
Credit:ILNA /Sajad Safari
Emaddedin Baghi
TEHRAN, Jan 14 (IPS) - Emaddedin Baghi, Iran’s leading anti-death penalty campaigner, is back behind bars in the country’s notorious Evin prison after...
Students Provide Bikes to Ghana Children for Scho...
Dallas Christian school students collecting bicycles for W. African village children. Goal includes providing bus.
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Eighteen-year-old Logan Brock and her parents and three sisters got nothing in their stockings, but they'll still tell you this was their best Christmas...
$5000 Reward: Dallas Tiger Killer
"On Christmas Day, the same day the tragic tiger event happened at the San Francisco Zoo, a horrific story seemed to fall through the cracks.
Tiger Found Shot To Death in Dallas, TX, the same day an escaped tiger in...
A Dublin man has returned home safely after an ep...
"A Southside man has returned home safely after an epic adventure to the South Pole.
Kevin Dempsey (52), who is originally from Churchtown, became only the second Irish person ever to arrive at the pole hauling his...
Tony Blair Plays Soccer in Egypt
So Blair is playing football again - this time in Egypt - hope he did better than when he played at a school and missed the net completely (video attached) - being a peace envoy after being a warmaker is enough...
Victim Was Too Scared to Escape Killer, Police Say
This is a really bizarre case. I can only imagine what was going through this kid's mind as he was forced around town after watching his siblings being murdered. Probably completely in shock."The man accused of killing Iliada Zois and her 14-year-old brother then held another...
