China Protests Milk Import Bans at WTO Meeting More Milk Scandal

With another recall in the melamine contaminated milk scandal coming today, one that found unacceptable levels of melamine in chocolate candies, you would think that the Chinese officials would be offering abject...

Blackberry picking is a dying art

One of the problems for environmentalists is getting kids at an early age to engage with nature. Many city children know very little about nature or plants as was revealed earlier in the year when a survey of British...

Mbeki loyalists to form new South African party: report

The political landscape in South Africa continues to be volatile, as reports are coming in today that ousted president Thabo Mbeki and his loyalists are regrouping to retake power."Disgruntled members of South...

DVD copying software gets pulled

Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Warner Bros. These are the studios that filed a law suit against Realnetworks."Software which claimed to be a legal way of copying DVDs...

Clergyman apologises over call to tattoo gay people

An Anglican clergyman who advocated that homosexuals be tattooed with labels calling them sodomites has apologized for his remarks. Such language is extreemly unusual in the Church of England."A Church of England clergyman who wrote that gay men should be forced to have...

European Commision: Broadband to be "Universal"

"Brussels is considering making broadband access available for all. The fast growth of broadband has led the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect. Current...

Banned books celebration promotes freedom of expression

"By Cynthia Henry Inquirer Staff Writer Friday will feature some unusual story times at local libraries, when passages from once-verboten...

10 fastest-dying cities in U.S.

Forbes has listed the 10 fastest-dying cities in America.  The cities on the list all face fleeing populations, painful unemployment waves and slow growing economies.  " The article says old manufacturing...

Turning Bacteria into Plastic Factories

Energy and cost efficient, and environmentally friendly. Instead of fighting wars and torturing to control oil drilling and distribution in the middle east, and causing environmental threats, pollution and...

Python kills careless student zookeeper in Caracas

A true killer, wrapping the prey and crushing the prey to death and swallow its dead human prey from head to toe." The university biology student had broken the park's rules by entering the cage holding the snake,...

Human Jet prepares to cross Channel

A man is going to attempt to fly across the English Channel today using a single jet-propelled wing. If he is sucesful, he will set a world record for the flight. If you're there to witness this sight in the UK or in...

PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

"WATERBURY, Vt. -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a...

Aussie 'free hugs guy' to donate kidney to stranger

In this self centred world at the time when we are witnessing so much of violence, hatred and being carpet-bombed daily with messages of fear and disconnection.Everyone is running for their own life but Juan Mann is...

US will welcome its small cars

"A top Ford Motor Co. executive says market research shows the company's coming line of global small cars will be well received in the U.S. Derrick Kuzak, group vice president of global product development, says the European-designed Fiesta subcompact and Focus compact...

Miliband: I toned down conference speech to avoid 'Heseltine moment'

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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