Yacht Jams Emergency Communications Channel for Over an Hour

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, CROSS Jobourg (France) and Guernsey Coastguard to handle emergency traffic. Read more

Pig Rescue Operation Yielding Success in Midwest

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 Ditch” levee in Oakville have been rescued and are today being transported to their new home at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York. Read more

Real Review - Wall-e

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 to clean up a super-polluted Earth while humanity blasts into space. Read more

South African President Thabo Mbeki Endorses Mugabe

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 to find a negotiated settlement to that country’s political crisis. Read more

Nomadic Cattle Breeding in the Capital of Uzbekistan

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 areas of Tashkent. Cows and sheep methodically devour whatever grass they can find, leaving dung behind. Read more

‘Indiana Jones And the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ Passes $300 Million Domestically $400 Million Overseas

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 mark domestically yesterday — and topped $400 million overseas last Friday. Read more

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