A small plane carrying a British family has crashed on the east coast of Ireland, killing everyone on board. The plane is thought to have gone down on Saturday in a remote area, but rescuers were unable to fund it...
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More drama from the Labour Party conference in the UK, as Gordon Brown tries to save his job and David Milliband tries to convince the media that he is not gunning for it. Embarassingly, Milliband was overheard...
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The pre-coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The same groups arrive every four years to both Conventions. This year The Anarchists, Planned Parent-hood, and pro-life groups collided. ...
Coventry successfuly defended her title at the 2008 Olympics. I managed to catch this on CBC's olympic coverage last night on the only channel i have. this woman's face was so composed the entire time i was completely impressed. "With the wider world waiting for Michael...
Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton, alongside directors Mark Cousins and Joel Cohen, has founded the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams -- a truly enigmatic, creative, and amazing creation that also happens to be...
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In a shock resignation, the leader of the Liberal Democrat party in Scotland, Nicol Stephen, resigned last night. He said he was doing so to "spend more time with his family." Stephen was just elected leader of the...
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Each morning I check the garden hoping for signs of life in the vegetable patch. For weeks all our seeds in the cold damp soil decided that this spring is nothing more than winter in disguise. It was a struggling...
So Brown will blame low social mobilty on Thatcher which is maybe a bad move - true or not - as many will see him trying to shift the blame - true or not - for the drowing gap between poorest to richest on...
Margaret Truman, Eliot Roosevelt, Steve Allen - mystery writers? Didthey really take the time out of their celebrity-hood to craft, write and rewrite those mystery novels you see on the bookshelf?
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Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables, was published a century ago in 1908. Another Canadian legend, Margaret Atwood wrote about Lucy Maud Montgomery's redhead Anne in a recent Guardian piece below.The...
Senior Clinton Staffer Linked to Mortgage Crisis As Clinton Talks Housing Crisis, Campaign Manager Serves on Board of Bankrupt Lender" WASHINGTON – While Hillary Clinton campaigns for the Democratic...
TimesOnLine.co.uk–January 27, 2008
Pelle Neroth
MARGARET THATCHER ordered the Royal Navy to land Special Boat Service
(SBS) frogmen on the coast of Sweden from British submarines pretending
to be Soviet vessels,...
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"Freedom Rider: White America is Crazy for Obama
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
"Obama supporters want him to be their man, even when he tells them that he isn't."
ObamaShirtsleeveNHjpg Barack Obama drives white people crazy, some because of love and...
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"US Senator Hillary Clinton has narrowly beaten global television celebrity Oprah Winfrey in an annual poll to choose the woman Americans admire most.
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed Thursday in Pakistan, made it onto the list for the first...
Viscount David Linley, the oldest child of Queen Elizabeth's sister Princess Margaret (deceased) was named as the Royal who accused blackmailers Strachan and McGuigan were targeting for money in a Sex and Drugs...