"Military personnel exiting war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan could soon be helped to kick behaviour - including heavy drinking and dangerous driving - which keeps them alive in the theatre of war, but is not conducive to civilian life. Surgeon Commander Dr Neil Greenberg,...
"Oldtimers keep coming back for run/walk By Photo by Steve Gerace Gene Moyer, left, and Harry Daniell enjoy a laugh before climbing the Castle Street stage stairs to be recognized for their top finishes in the 2007 Mount Shasta...
Thousands of Hindus participate in this religious procession but arrangement are always very weak. Today is the opening day of the procession and millions of Hindu devotees would particiapte. But stampede would...
Chalk up one for the good guys." Anti-terror police arrested 10 suspected Muslim militants and seized a large cache of high-powered bombs, foiling a major attack targeting Westerners in the Indonesian capital, police and media reports said Thursday. Among those detained was...
25 people have been arrested in Turkey in connection with an alleged anti-government plot. Amongst the arrests are retired generals and journalists. Meanwhile, the opposition party is calling the exercise a "witch hunt"."A senior Turkish general has called for calm after a...
Over 1,100 people in Saskatchewan have been or are in the process of being evacuated after a fast-moving forest fire blew towards yet another small Northern community.At least 200 residents were evacuated from their...
British cycling has been somewhat resurgent in the past few years -- maybe a peripheral effect of the Lance Armstrong era. I don't know much about the British scene other than the fact that Malcom Elliott is still...
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Taking strong exception of current political crisis in Zimbabwe United states will not accept final results of Presidential elections to be held this Friday. Washington has clearly made its mind of the eviction of...
Looks like one of John McCain's advisors let loose a little too much "straight talk" in an article published yesterday in Fortune magazine, saying that a terrorist attack would be a blessing for the McCain campaign....
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know "Pigs will Fly" if any Government had the balls to even touch this with a 10 foot oil dipstick." U.S. lawmakers urged to curb oil speculators Price would fall to...
Saudi Arabia will be hosting a meeting of oil producing and consuming nations to discuss the rapidly rising cost of oil around the world.Wouldn't a consumer of oil be every country though?"The US and other consumers...
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"Yahoo's executive exodus continues Three more high-ranking officials are leaving Yahoo, as the executive exodus continues at the embattled company. Juan Carlos Perez Yahoo continues to lose high-ranking officials, as more business and technology leaders give up and bail out...
Yahoo! is hemorrhaging execs these days. The latest to fly the coop is the creator of the Del.ico.us social bookmarking site, Joshua Schachter.""Just time to move on, I think," Schachter said in an e-mail, but didn't...
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China has now released over 1,000 people from jail that were involved in the unrest in Tibet earlier this year."The official Xinhua news agency quoted a senior official saying those freed had been held for minor...
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Worst birthday ever: it's bad enough that Burma's elected leader. Aung San Suu Kyi, has been under house arrest for 13 years, but to attack a rally on her birthday?"At least six truckloads of Swan-Arr-Shin, or...
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