Oil Prices Top $120 A Barrel For First Time

The price of oil rose above $120 a barrel for the first time Monday. Prices gained more than $3 to go as high as $120.21 a barrel in New York trading. Read more

Water Supply And Storage Company to Pay $9 Million for Damages to Rocky Mountain National Park

Water Supply and Storage Company (WSSC), a mutual ditch company and the owner and operator of the Grand River Ditch, has agreed to pay $9 million for damages to natural resources within Rocky Mountain National Park caused by a May 30, 2003, breach of the Grand River Ditch, the Justice Department and National Park Service announced today. Read more

Australian Government to Implement Industry Report on Skilled Migration

The Rudd Government is moving quickly to implement the recommendations made by an External Reference Group (ERG) established to improve Australia’s temporary skilled migration program. The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, said on Monday the group of industry experts had made 16 recommendations in its final report. Read more

Reports Indicate Thet Moldova is Jamming Pridnestrovie TV And Radio From the Airwaves

Throughout the length of the Dniester river, Moldova has placed a series of jamming devices which interfere with the radio- and TV signals that broadcasters in Pridnestrovie distribute to their customers. The new jamming equipment was installed and turned on in the last week of April, Information and Telecommunications minister Vladimir Belyayev told Pridnestrovie’s President Igor Smirnov during an emergency meeting at the offices of the unrecognized country’s presidential administration in Tiraspol. Read more

Recovering Sex Addict Michael Leahy Tells His Personal Story And Seeks to Put a Warning Label on the Industry

It is accessible from anywhere. It has permeated our world, our campuses, our places of work, and even our homes. An estimated 40 million American adults regularly visit pornographic websites, and at $13.3 billion, the 2006 revenues of sex and the porn industry in the U.S. were bigger than the revenues of the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. Read more

Cameroon Commemorates Anniversary of Kenya Airways Crash

Several events were held Monday in Cameroon to commemorate the first anniversary of the Kenya Airways Boeing 737 crash near the Douala international airport, killing 114 people. Read more

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