British government to allow police to lock up people for 42 days without charge

A Bill is being proposed that would allow British police to lock you up for 42 days without a charge, just on the basis of "terror threat." A petition organized by Protect the Human  that protests the Bill has...

Source: Saudi hosts Afghan peace talks with Taliban reps

Oh that will really do a lot of good. It's like catching Bin Laden and Bush planning further attacks on America."LONDON, England (CNN) -- In a groundbreaking meeting, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently hosted talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant...

Firefox's Download Day a failure?

Firefox 3 was released to millions of users and ended up setting a World Record for most downloads in a day. Servers crashed, bloggers blogged, and the Internet Explorer team sent a cake; everyone was happy. However,...

First Antarctic Night Vision Flight

Upside down from the rest of the world, separated by ice, wind and ocean, the frozen continent's is cut off from the world around it, leaving its human occupants separated from their home countries for long stretches...

Secret, Foreign, Terrorist Money Floods Into Obama Campaign

"Monday, September 29, 2008 9:23 PMBy: Kenneth R. Timmerman  More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won't disclose. And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign...

Apparent Steve Fossett belongings found

(CNN) -- Hikers in California have found items that may belong to missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, officials said Wednesday. ...

Engineer sent text 22 seconds before fatal train crash

" LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Metrolink engineer driving a commuter train sent a text message about 22 seconds before the train collided with a Union Pacific freight train last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday....

US implements COOL food labeling

The US has finally implemented a law that requires country-of-origin labeling on meat, fish, poultry, produce and peanuts as of September 30, 2008.  "On May 13, 2002, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act...

Ahmadinejad Accepts Israel's Right to Exist

A major shift in the stance of Iran in its relationship to Israel was quietly announced by Iran's normally bellicose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week during an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now while...

The Final Act in America's Fall From Power

Beneath the loud and distracting drama surrounding the US financial meltdown and the ensuing bailouts and nationalization of banks and household name financial giants resides an even more significant truth, "The...

Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft

" Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft Topics:Technology | Information Technology Sectors:Software and Computer Services | Software | Technology Microsoft [MSFT  26.14    1.13  (+4.52%)   ] Chief Executive Steve...

Sidney Crosby awarded Order of Nova Scotia

Sidney Crosby was just named to the Order of Nova Scotia, and became the youngest awardee in the Order's history; but, instead of glory he's getting backlash–from commenters.Seems that some readers don't think that...

Consumer Confidence Unexpectedly Improves, Is This The Turning Point?

The jump in consumer confidence index is looks positive indicator for US economy .People has started their expending who wil suport the analyst to see the groth storey of usa is not going to get dead,,, DOW is at low home  sales data is at lowest point people want...

Muslim sues Tesco for forcing him to carry alcohol

"A Muslim youth who worked with Britain's biggest retailer Tesco has sued the store for religious discrimination after he came to know that he carried crates of alcohol bottles as part of his job, the Daily Mail reported Monday. Mohammed Ahmed, 32, who was raised in Saudi...

Food & energy security: Commonwealth states urged to cut defence expenditure

"The Commonwealth countries of Asia should reduce the expenditure on defence and armaments and use the resources thus saved for the uplift of the poor who are the worst affected by the rise in prices of food and energy, the civil society organisations of Commonwealth states...

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