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Sunday evening a yacht in the English Channel unknowingly broadcast continuously on VHF Channel 16 effectively jamming all emergency communications in mid Channel and affecting the ability of Portland Coastguard, Brixham Coastguard, Solent Coastguard,...
Amid myriad challenges, hard work is beginning to pay off for animal rescue teams that have spent the past three days on water and land operations in the Iowa floodwaters. As of now, 15 pigs which were stranded on and around the “Big Ditchâ€...
Pixar does it again. I wish that magic could be bottled and shipped to other studios. With absolute efficiency of storytelling, coupled with warmth and humor, they once again unleash an instant classic. WALL-E is a trash compacting robot, left behind...
South African President Thabo Mbeki said Monday that his country would recognise Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who was inaugurated on Sunday for a further five-year term, as the winner of the one-man election race held on Friday — in a bid...
These days, cattle are grazing in the streets of the Uzbek capital. Like Kyrgyz cattle breeders who drive their stock to the jailoo or mountainous pastures, their Tashkent colleagues have cattle outdoors – virtually everywhere except in some central...
Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd.’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy, crossed the $300 million...
South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday there was an “overwhelming case†for Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to be tried at the International Criminal Court in the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Multiple vaccinations have not been a cause of ill health in UK service personnel deployed to Iraq, finds a study published on bmj.com today. The report from researchers at Kings College London says “recall bias” is to blame, when people link...
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) consistently fearmongers that “Democrats…want to raise your taxes…I want to lower your taxes” and threatens that under Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) tax plan, “Americans of every background would...