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English Cricket Board Attacks BBC for Failing to Bid for Television Rights
So what’s the real reason behind the English Cricket Board moaning about the BBC’s refusal to bid for terrestrial TV cricket rights? Perhaps it’s because both Channel 4 and Setanta also refused to place bids, which resulted in both Channel...
Kent Kitchen Fitter, Lincoln McLean, Jailed for Failure to Finish
A Kent-based kitchen fitter who took nearly £30,000 in deposits from customers but failed to complete their kitchens has been jailed for bankruptcy offenses after prosecution by the Department for Business.
Baluchi Journalist/Activist Executed In Iran
Iran has executed a journalist who had been convicted and sentenced to death on terrorism charges. Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said Yaqub Mehrnehad was hanged on August 4 in the southeastern city of Zahedan after being sentenced to death earlier...
France-based Aid Agency Apologizes to Liberian Government For Falsifying Report
The head of mission of the Paris-based Action Contre La Faim (ACF) Madam Berengere Penanster has admitted that the report posted on the NGO’s website that 226,000 children and pregnant women are malnourished in the country is not true.
California Removed From Russian Maps
Officials in Russia’s north-western region of Nizhny Novgorod are wiping California off the map. ITAR-TASS reported that the decision to eliminate the tiny village of California was due to its lack of inhabitants.
Head of the Iranian Labor News Agency Jailed for Three Months for Spreading Lies
A Tehran court has sentenced the former head of the Iranian Labor News Agency to three months in prison and fined him 1.5 million rials ($167) after he was convicted of “spreading lies,” the ISNA news agency reported.
Lesotho Suspends Private Radio Station for 3 Months
Accused of broadcasting defamatory remarks, Lesotho’s popular but controversial Harvest FM radio station based in the Lesotho capital of Maseru has been suspended for three months, APA learned on Tuesday.
Dog Fancy Magazine Names Colorado Springs, Colorado, ‘DogTown USA(R) 2008′
Dog Fancy, the world’s most widely read dog magazine, has named Colorado Springs, Colo., the 2008 winner of DogTown USA — the national competition in which Dog Fancy readers nominate America’s most dog-friendly city.
