Pro-Tibetan activists unfurled a banner proclaiming "Free Tibet" over an Olympics poster at the headquarters of China's nationwide TV broadcaster. This is the latest in a string of unsanctioned protests during the...
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" NEW DELHI: The annual inflation rate climbed to 11.91 per cent for the first time in more than 13 years in early July, driven by higher costs of commodities and strong demand in the economy. This is a quarter per cent jump week on week. ( Watch ) The fuel, power and...
The UK government has cancelled a planned 2p rise in fuel tax in light of the ever increasing petrol prices. However the timing to the decision, coming as it does shortly before the very important by-election in Glasgow East, has being deemed suspicious. Gordon Brown may be...
When George Willig scaled the South Tower of the World Trade Center, he motivation was "because it's there". The motivation behind the man who climbed the side of the New York Times building seems to have been...
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"Maybe he lost his shirt at a casino. Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a naked man who stole a beer and then hijacked a bus several miles northeast of the Strip. A police spokesman says the man fled from a...
Two men campaigning for father's rights have again scaled the home of the Labour deputy leader to bring attention to their calls for more rights for fathers in custody cases."Two protestors from Fathers 4 Justice...
Sierra Nevada mountain living just isn't worth as much as it used to be. Poor Lake Tahoe and the beautiful Ponderosa Pine forests that welcome people from all over ... especially, San Francisco. The fuel to drive the...
Some people believe in the superstition that cats have nine lives, because cats can survive falls from high places with few, if any injuries. This gives the appearance that the cats return to life after sustaining a...
I guess this is one way of guaranteeing coverage - climbing a building full of journalists and photographers. " Alain Robert, a French stuntman known for climbing tall buildings, scaled the north face of the New...
Edmund Hillary's grand daughter has decided to continue family tradition of climbing mount everest. 18-year-old granddaughter, Amelia, will also participate in "Everest Day" celebrations on May 29....
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The Chinese government made a fervent appeal yesterday for tents after 5 million people are reported to have loss their home. Govt also brought in the first foreign teams of doctors and field...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorGuess my first question would be, Why the hell are you naked outside to begin with in -20 degrees in winter? Certainly smacks of stupidity both in his actions and...
Are you ready for the Mardi Gras?"Oh yes, there will be Bawd.
Intimately, attached, no doubt, to Sen. David Vitter.
The Krewe du Vieux - a collection of excrutiatingly satirical subkrewes dedicated to the ribald...
I think Wiggum was continuing the chase on foot."Local cops were in hot pursuit of breakfast early Saturday morning as a tipsy thief tried but failed to make off with treats from the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Co.
Those...
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