The United States has frozen on arms sales to Taiwan following concerns expressed by China, top US military commander in Asia Admiral Timothy Keating said Wednesday.
He said Washington made the decision… Continue reading
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Bumblebees lose a bit of their buzz when ill, and like humans, have a tougher time doing daily tasks until they recover, British researchers said on Wednesday.
Honeybees with activated immune systems… Continue reading
Cannabis could be used to treat many forms of cancer, new research suggests.
The drug contains an ingredient which slows tumour growth and prevents the reproduction of cancer cells, doctors say.
Its effects are seen… Continue reading
Students returning to any of the four Osseo school district high schools this fall can expect to be greeted by drug dogs. The dogs will be taken through the school parking… Continue reading
Jul 16
Big Brother database recording all our calls, texts and e-mails will ‘ruin British way of life’
Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’.
In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to… Continue reading
The agency that regulates Mississippi’s casinos got pillows, stoves, dinnerware and other items meant for Hurricane Katrina victims, according to state records obtained by CNN.
The Mississippi Gaming Commission was among 11 state agencies… Continue reading
Jul 15
Losing Private Dwyer
The photo below captures everything that Americans wanted to believe about the Iraq war in the earliest days of the invasion in 2003. Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, an Army medic whose unit… Continue reading
ibnlive
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a rape victim’s testimony in a court about the crime needs no corroboration to convict the accused.
A bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice P… Continue reading
A £500,000 biometric fingerprint entry security system is to be installed at the Busy Bees children’s nurseries chain.
The system from UK Biometrics will allow parents and carers easy access to the nurseries while ensuring unauthorised… Continue reading
BBC
The United Nations is pulling back some non-essential staff deployed in Sudan’s restive Darfur region.
It says the decision comes after recent violence and as a precaution after an international prosecutor accused Sudan’s president of… Continue reading
AUSTIN — The state institutions for people with disabilities are failing to find community-based homes for many patients who want them, and have hired 10 state school employees who should’ve been ineligible because of previous… Continue reading
FRANTIC police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll.
The embarrassing mistake, made in regional… Continue reading
Doctors need to make a living just like everyone else, but there are a number of practices and procedures that are obscenely profitable to perform. So profitable, in fact, that at some… Continue reading
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it will suspend its dividend, sell off $4 billion to $7 billion worth of assets and cut 20% worth of salaried cash costs in an overall… Continue reading
A Denton pizza restaurant employee surprised by a robbery says she was even more surprised by who the robbers were.
As Stephanie Martinez was getting money out of a cash drawer, another… Continue reading
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — In what seems to be a perverse reaction to high gas prices, some cities are cutting back on public transit - at a time when their citizens need… Continue reading
The Guardian
Having the TV on in the background reduces the quality and quantity of play in young children and may slow their development, according to researchers who studied children playing with and without background… Continue reading
A Twinsburg K-9 officer was shot four times in the head during a traffic stop on Sunday.
A preliminary autopsy was done Monday on Officer Joshua Miktarian, 33. He had pulled a car over… Continue reading
Scientific American
Beginning next month, consumers will be able to check an online list of stores that sold or stocked recalled meat. U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA secretary Ed Shafer said the move is designed… Continue reading
It seems that a unique moment in human history is at last coming to an end. Just a few short years ago, anyone who dared talk about the Council on Foreign Relations, the… Continue reading
GULFPORT — A federal appeals court says it will not hold a former Gulf Coast sheriff liable for an honest mistake in destroying plants that resembled marijuana but were found to be deer bait.
The 5th… Continue reading
LAKE COUNTY – In only the first week of summer operations to eradicate illegal marijuana, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and other local and state agencies have seized in the county more than… Continue reading
Whether you love it, hate it, or have never thought about it, chances are some politician wants to ban it. “Welcome to the Nanny State Nation,” says reason.tv host Drew Carey. “Where the… Continue reading
Metro police had banned the use of Tasers for a time, they still used a controversial method to subdue unruly people, according to an I-Team report. Related Links… Continue reading
A woman hid her dead newborn baby in the boot of her car to keep an affair and resulting pregnancy secret from her partner.
Marketing… Continue reading
A ‘vulnerable’ man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after being ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers, police believe.
David Phyall’s severed head was found beside… Continue reading
The Bush administration willfully pushed fictional portrayals of Pat Tillman’s death in Afghanistan and Jessica Lynch’s capture in Iraq to create “compelling public narratives” at times when public opinion was starting… Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Xinhua) — Nearly 70 percent of U.S. residents who get water from community water systems now receive fluoridated water, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Continue reading
HARRISBURG – A new law signed this month by Gov. Edward G. Rendell will help to improve the health of newborns in Pennsylvania, according to the state Health Department.
By amending the Newborn Child… Continue reading
The late U.S. president Ronald Reagan once remarked that “facts are stupid things.” While Reagan’s comment was an inadvertent slip of the tongue… Continue reading