Cute as a button The Star | Babies and pre-teens never had it so good as Pumpkin Patch ups the ante on children's apparel. | IT'S Pumpkin Patch season all year round, but this has nothing to do with Halloween neither is there any orange vegetable in the offing. Rather, it's the name of a well-known children's label started b...
Safe haven for your cash? Germans call on Greece to sell off its islands The Times | A grumpy German politician, joined by a dozen others who can already smell the oleander bushes, has launched a thousand fantasies. | "What should a bankrupt person be doing?" asked Josef Schlarmann, a senior figure in Germany's governing Christian Democrat Party, on the eve of a visit by George Pa...
Murdoch's speech in full The Times | The Greatest Resource of All | Rupert Murdoch | Abu Dhabi Media Summit March 9, 2010 | Thank you, Ed, for those generous words. I am grateful for the invitation to be with you today. | Each time I visit this part of the world, I experience your fab...
eBay item: Xbox that brought down Baltimore mayor The News & Observer | BALTIMORE -- Prosecutors in former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's perjury case are putting the spoils of their efforts on eBay. | An Xbox 360 video game console seized during a raid on Dixon's home is for sale. As of Tuesday morning, the highest bi...
Pa. suit: Bank wrongly repossessed home, took bird The News & Observer | PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh-area woman is suing Bank of America, claiming it wrongfully repossessed her home and saying that a bank contractor trashed the house and took her parrot. | Forty-six-year-old Angela Iannelli sued Bank of America in Allegh...
Buried alive: Half of Earth's life may lie below land, sea The News & Observer | WASHINGTON - While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth. | Scientists estimate that nearly half the living material on our planet is hi...
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NZ assures support for fisheries Papua New Guinea Post | NEW Zealand Foreign Minister, Murray McCully has assured the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration, Sam Abal about developing the fishing industry in PNG. | He told...
Emirates to launch first airbus A380 services to China Samachaar Dubai: Emirates Airlines will launch the world\'s largest commercial plane, airbus A380, services between China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Aug 1, WAM news agency reported. ...
Publisher halts book about bombing of Hiroshima Houston Chronicle | NEW YORK - Publication has been halted for a disputed book about the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945, The Associated Press has learned. | Charles Pellegrino's "The Last Train fro...
Hollywood-style sign saying Wellywood to be erected in New Zealand The Daily Telegraph Australia | A GIANT sign inspired by the famous Hollywood landmark will soon welcome visitors to the home of Middle Earth and Pandora in New Zealand, The Dominion Post reports. | The sign in Wellington's Miramar peninsula will be 3.5 meters tall and 28m long a...
Much anticipated atom bomb book is a dud The Providence Journal | NEW YORK - Publication has been halted for a disputed book about the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945, The Associated Press has learned. | Charles Pellegrino's "The Last Train from Hiroshima" had received strong reviews and had been optioned for a p...
New Zealand woman sells souls to highest bidder The News & Observer | WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren't aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs. | Instead, two glass vials purportedly containing the ghosts of two dead people sold for...
Safe haven for your cash? Germans call on Greece to sell off its islands The Times | A grumpy German politician, joined by a dozen others who can already smell the oleander bushes, has launched a thousand fantasies. | "What should a bankrupt person be doing?" asked Josef Schlarmann, a senior figure in Germany's governing Christian Democrat Party, on the eve of a visit by George Papandreou, the Greek Prime Minister. "Selling every...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia requires some digital forensic skills – and a...
