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Bus collide killing 56 people in China.
At least 56 people have been killed in a series of road collisions in China including 35 mainly young people travelling on a bus. Chinese officials said the speeding bus hit a car on a motorway in northern China and rolled over throwing passengers onto the road. A further 10 people died in a 24-vehicle [...]
Barack Obama urges to pass American jobs.
BEIJING,Oct. 9 (Xinhuanet) – U.S. President Barack Obama Saturday urged the country’s lawmakers to pass the American Jobs Act to shore up the economy and business hiring. “This is not the time for the usual games or political gridlock in Washington. The challenges facing financial markets around the world could have very real effects on [...]
Protest on against Silvio Berlusconi.
In Rome, public service employees, families, school pupils and students took part in the demonstration organised by trade union CGIL under the motto: “Without the public (sector) you’re deprived of your rights.” The protests targeted the public sector job cuts that are part of austerity measures worth a total of 90 billion euros ($A124.74 billion), [...]
Google Doodle celebrates 76th birthday.
Recent Google Doodle‘s have offered up animation and video, but today’s doodle reverts back to a static image with good reason: it celebrates what would have been Roger Hargreaves’ 76th birthday. While the name may not be familiar to everyone, his creations most certainly will be. Hargreaves is the British author and illustrator behind both [...]
Car Insurance on a high.
These days, far more and additional persons are prepared to spend abnormal quantities of money for his or her auto insurance coverage. This really is due to the fact that many insurance firms and companies declare on providing the best Jacksonville car insurance quote when they’re not even near to becoming priced fairly. Accordingly, it [...]
Casey Anthony trial selection soon.
Casey Anthony’s trialgets underway today with jury selection, nearly three years after her toddler daughter, Caylee, disappeared. The trial was moved to a secret location and the judge did not reveal the site of the trial until early this morning. Jury selection will occur in Clearwater, Fla., instead of Anthony’s hometown of Orlando in an [...]
Riots Flare up in Cairo.
Hundreds of Christians and Muslims hurled stones at each other in downtown Cairo on Sunday, hours after Muslim mobs set fire to a church and a Christian-owned apartment building in a frenzy of violence that killed 12 people and injured more than 200. Muslim youths attacked a large crowd of Coptic Christian protesters marching from [...]
Phillippines: Storm kills 11 people.
Disaster officials warned villagers in the Philippines’ agricultural north to be on guard for landslides and flash floods Monday as tropical storm Aere carved a deadly path across the country. Aere has left 11 people dead since it slammed into eastern Catanduanes province early Sunday with winds of 85 kilometres per hour and gusts of [...]
Chess at Lake Wine Studio.
UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Lake County Wine Studio is continuing the weekly Thursday series of chess education and game playing. The games take place from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Grandmaster-trained chess expert Thomas Southerland is the guest educator at this series. Southerland has written articles for the prestigious European Chess Web site, www.chessdom.com, and [...]
PBS Kids Games For Kids.
This delightful personal computer animated sequence is a gem. There aren’t as a lot of episodes of Jakers! as some of the other exhibits on PBS, so some stations only carry it sometimes. Each episode begins with Grandpa Piggly Winks paying time with his grandchildren, telling them stories of his childhood. Then the audience is [...]