"The influential Public Accounts Committee of the Pakistani parliament is now officially to be controlled by the opposition and headed by Nisar Ali, a close aide of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and is likely to start with gusto by digging up the dirt on former...
Opinion Barry Artiste Much like Environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki lambasting the Conservative Government over it's Environmental Policies. Environmentalist David Suzuki went on a Cross Country, town to town tour in a...
The Republican party is at it again in the run-up to the November elections in the USA. Analysis of the last two Presidential elections make it clear that manipulation of voting laws and processes by the GOP caused...
"The Mississippi River rushes through a break in Indian Grave Drainage District levee north of Quincy, Ill., and south of Meyer, Ill., on June 18.""Well before record floods overwhelmed at least two dozen levees in...
Is not easy at all to become a professional and until you are not professional most of the times you are considered as "those crazy guys".Here is the sad part of one of this "dangerous" sports."25 year-old Paul...
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There's not much you can say about a story like this..." WELEETKA, Okla. (AP) — The bodies of two girls were found shot to death in rural Oklahoma along a dirt road the best friends walked dozens of times to play and go to sleepovers.By Tuesday, investigators had no...
Paving the way for an Ice-Pirates-esque future:"Nasa's new robotic craft on Mars may be resting on a large patch of ice.The latest images sent to Earth reveal tantalising glimpses of what looks like frozen...
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"Nairobi's Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding violence...
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"“For all the Pan-Africanism of the last four decades,” said Hugo Van Vuuren, “it is quite rare to have young students from South, East, and West Africa, in the same room without a soccer ball somehow...
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"Bungling car thieves were chased by police all the way from the M1 motorway, across playing fields and along a dirt track before crashing through a fence in Northampton - straight into force headquarters.
Four people were arrested after the Mitsubishi Shogun they...
This is at least the second major rollover accident that hurt or killed Canadian troops in the last year or so. "Two Canadian soldiers were killed instantly yesterday when their light-armoured vehicle rolled over during an operation in southern Afghanistan.
Military officials...
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"Every city has its ups and downs, some more extreme than others. Berlin was divided by a war, with the West heavily subsidized for decades after industry fled to other parts of the country and the East artificially propped up by a Communist regime. After the fall of the...
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"Illegible words on church headstones could be read once more thanks to a scan technology developed in the US.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are making high resolution 3D scans of tombstones to reveal the carved patterns in the stone.
A computer matches the...
"For all the talk over the years of robots in our homes to take the chore out of everyday life, only one has been able to pull it off in any form - the Roomba.
The robotic vacuum cleaner from US company iRobot meanders around your house sucking up dirt and dust, negotiating...
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