"Ace Indian pro Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles scored a comfortable straight sets win to advance to the second round of the US Open. Meanwhile Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani team-mate Aisam-ul-Haq-Qureshi crashed out of the men’s doubles event."
Bruce Ivins, the researcher who committed suicide, is implicated in the 2001 anthrax attacks New Jersey. Following a breifing for family members of the victims, the info was made public by the FBI."The Justice Department released hundreds of pages of documents related to the...
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THOMAS Beatie, the first transgender male to give birth, has revealed photos of his newborn daughter. " THESE are the first pictures of Thomas Beatie, the first transgender male to give birth, and his newborn...
"The matriarch of one of Hong Kong's richest corporate dynasties sat down with the city's most notorious crime bosses and negotiated the payment of a HK$600 million ransom for the release of her eldest son, The...
Proposals for the British government to spy on all its citizens by recording all their telephone calls and every minute that they are on the internet have been dubbed a 'step too far'. This won't really improve...
There will be no more privacy then... " Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail,...
The world's most famous polar bear, who provoked fierce debates on animal rights, and also appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, is now involved in another battle, this time over who will get all his money! I'm...
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"Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe are attempting rapprochement after months of sniping that threatened billions of dollars in trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis.Latin America's top U.S. opponent and closest U.S. ally will set aside their on-and-off...
America is officially 232 years old today, and she's looking good for her age.Americans across the country are celebrating today with fireworks, concerts, parades and contests and this a round up of the various...
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"Protesters made it hard to hear President Bush Friday as he welcomed new citizens and marked Independence Day at the home of Thomas Jefferson. As is the tradition each Fourth of July, a naturalization ceremony was held at Monticello in Charlottesville, Va. This year, 76...
"(CNN) -- How would the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin feel about the way the United States has turned out 232 years after declaring its independence? ...
This American had best of both genders. Initially born as female and then became man but again became female to deliver a baby."An American man who was born female but underwent gender realignment surgery, has given...
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High Court Says Current Lethal Injection method is Constitutional Over the last year many NowPublic Contributers have been writing articles on America's current lethal injection method. The Supreme...
A few years ago the owner of a bridal shop got very excited and annoyed when I took some photographs of her shop window. At the time she claimed that her window display was projected by copyright ... I now wonder if that was the real reason."A BRIDAL shop which won a...
" WASHINGTON, May 27, 2008 – When Army Col. Thomas J. McGrath arrived in Kandahar, Afghanistan, last year as the commander of the Afghan Regional Security Integration Command, he stopped in on a police checkpoint. Of the 25 Afghan police manning the point,...