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Jun 16 2009
When South Korean authorities announced in 2006 that they had found the bodies of two newborns in the home freezer of a French expatriate couple, the first reaction among friends and family was disbelief. Véronique Courjault, 41, on the surface a...
May 22 2009
The number of hungry people in southern Africa rose over the past year largely due to the crisis in Zimbabwe, despite a lower regional cereal deficit, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday. The region’s maize surplus...
May 20 2009
Michael Martin has told MPs he intends to stand down, so becoming the first Commons Speaker to be effectively forced out of office for 300 years. In a brief statement, he said he would step down on 21 June, with a successor set to be elected by MPs...
Oct 29 2008
In recent years Moore’s Law, the idea the computing power will double every eighteen months, has seem less an amazing sign of progress and more an immense brick wall we’re speeding towards - with recent advances like one-atom transistors,...
Oct 23 2008
Many scientists had theorized that dinosaurs had been the first great migrators, and beat out all other contenders for distance travelled. Theories put them as travelling nine times further than the mule deer and four times that of the wildebeest.
Oct 22 2008
The rise to the top of the global league table follows the construction of a new wind farm off the coast of Skegness, Lincolnshire, which increases the UK’s total electricity generation from offshore wind sources to 590 megawatts (MW), enough to power...
Oct 21 2008
1894: “Give little, give seldom and above all, give grudgingly.” “ONCE in bed, the wife should turn off all the lights and make no sound to guide her husband in her direction, lest he take this as a sign of encouragement. “
Oct 18 2008
Would extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) mean the end of religion on Earth? While many non-religious people tend to think this is the case, religious believers seem to welcome such an encounter and see little threat to their beliefs according to a new...
Oct 17 2008
On a website devoted to Ramadhan, the Muslim Brotherhood posted a series of articles by Dr. Ahmad ‘Abd Al-Khaleq about Al-Walaa Wa’l-Baraa, an Islamic doctrine which, in its fundamentalist interpretation, stipulates absolute allegiance to...
Oct 13 2008
Restaurants and bars would also be required to serve wine in glasses with clear marks to show the volumes being consumed. Happy hour promotions could be curbed and some cocktails may have to be renamed.