Tag: People
China quake victims flee 'flood' as the death tol...
UPDATE: 8:44AM EST" China has started to evacuate more than 2,000 people on fears of floods stretching for 40 kilometres (25 miles) in the wake of a deadly earthquake, state media said Saturday. Monday's...
Cannes Less About Films and More About the Glamour
"Partying and celeb-spotting have elbowed aside the movie business at the Cannes Film Festival. Celia Walden reports 'What's 'Le Festival', Mummy?" asked the neat little French boy seated opposite me, as our TGV...
Indian Premier League (IPLT20)
"Willow TV is showing video streaming for Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America."
Website to trace Brits in crises
This is interesting, it's a new sevice launched by teh UK Foreign Office to track British citizens if they're abroad during an emergency, so friends and family can see if they're ok. The effort has been given new impetus as several British tourists went missing during the...
May 15th is nylon stockings day!
May 15th marks the 68th anniversary of the first sale of women’s nylons. Du Pont Corporation were the first to introduce them back on May 15th, 1940 and sold over 5 million pair on that day. Celebrate today by...
Disaboom Announces Launch of Official Barack Obam...
Visitors to http://www.disaboom.com/barackobama will find not only aprofile and biography of Senator Obama, but also his position statements,his record on disability issues, a blog detailing both campaign events andkey statements, video messaging from Obama, and opportunities...
Gordon Brown unveils his vision for the future
In the political fight of his life, Gordon Brown is urging voters to stand by their man."Gordon Brown yesterday asked people to judge him by his policies not his personality as he unveiled his "passionate" vision for the next year.The day after executing the biggest U-turn of...
Japan to start counting crow`s feet
Before you will be able to get any cigarettes out of the vending machines in Japan, you better make sure you have plenty of wrinkles, crow`s feet, and skin sags so that the machine can tell if you are old enough to...
Ban bread as bird food - it does more harm than good
Apparently spending a lazy afternoon in the park feeding the birds and lying on the grass is not a great way to spend the day. Bread should be banned as a bird food because it is unhealthy and dangerous and can even...
Have a sweet tooth? Find the answer in your genes.
Regardless of age or sex, a variation in genetics (specifically the glucose transporter type 2, GLUT2) will cause individuals to consume more sugars. The study is done by the University of Toronto and published by...
Parents board flight, forget toddler at airport
In a scene reminescent of the first installment of Macaulay Culkin film "Home Alone", a Filipino family leaves behind the youngest brood in haste to catch a flight at a Canadian airport." A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and forgot their tot at the...
Child prodigy becomes world`s youngest 3rd year t...
"A Singaporean child prodigy who made news last year when he passed the GCE Chemistry `O` Level Examination at the tender age of seven, has entered Singapore Polytechnic to become the youngest student ever to attend a third-year tertiary module anywhere in the world. Ainan...
Bangladesh Train Collision Kills 8
Eight people were killed near Dhaka in Bangladesh, and many more are feared injured."Two trains collided Wednesday in eastern Bangladesh, killing at least eight people, a railway official said.Bangladesh Railway spokesman Shafiqul Alam Khan said an additional 16 people were...
