A Mississippi snapping turtle caught in a British lake might at first seem just a strange story worth no further comment but the introduction of such alien species into the environment can have disasterous...
It looks like UK transport secretary Ruth Kelly has decided to jump from what she sees as a sinking ship. Despite UK prime minister Gordon Brown's defiant speech at the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Kelly had...
"Indian one-day and Twenty20 captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has come out in support of Test skipper Anil Kumble amid talks of the Test captaincy be also handed over to him. In Vadodara for the Irani Cup tie between Ranji champions Delhi and Rest of India, Dhoni revealed that he...
A piece from George F. Will in Newsweek that explores the interelatedness of things, services, jobs, economies that bring about the production of something with no overall controller, no 'pencil Czar' for instance in...
"McCain on FCS: Flip-flop or fib? By Bradley Peniston - Staff writer Posted : Saturday Sep 13, 2008 6:58:20 EDT Has Sen. John McCain renounced his longtime antagonism toward the Army’s Future Combat Systems?On Sept. 8, the Republican presidential candidate told a...
"HELSTON, Cornwall, UK (CNN) -- A huge cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008. It was the largest recorded disaster in that country, killing more than 130,000 people and leaving millions homeless. ...
"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...
The world's largest hotel chain has fallen victim to a hacker, amd as a result as many as eight million people's identity information could be at risk."Up to eight million people are at risk of ID fraud after a...
Cracked have surfaced in the ruling Pakistani establishment after Asif Zardari, widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has thrown his hat into Presidential race. Asif Zardari has been a controversial figure during his wife's tenure as Pakistani Prime minister. With...
"A schoolboy photographer is baffled after spotting a ghostly apparition hovering in the disco lights in a picture he had snapped of a newlywed couple.Wedding guest Jordan Martin, 12, took a whole series of...
"The fiery mushroom cloud that rose over downtown Toronto last week must have been pretty scary to everyone who saw it. The explosion of a propane storage facility killed two people and forced 12,000 people to...
"Investors have pulled funds out of Russia at the fastest rate since the country's 1998 debt crisis, in the wake of the conflict with Georgia, official figures have shown.Official figures from the Central Bank of Russia showed yesterday that the country's foreign exchange...
"Stress shown to Shrink your Brain Feeling stressed? Well here is another good reason not to be so. It has now been discovered by scientists that if you experience long term...
An explosive siege is occuring in Scarborough, UK, in which a man has taken a six-year-old girl hostage. He could be heard last night by observers shouting to police officers, "I'm going to die tonight." The standoff has now entered its third day, and police are still...