Looks like worries of an epidemic of Spinal Tap style spontaneous human combustions is out of the question for Californians. A shocking report is released by journal Environmental Science &...
"By Fatos Bytyci KLINA, Kosovo (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kosovar Albanians gather on Sundays to attend religious services in a still unfinished red-brick church in the Kosovo town of Klina. Turning away from the majority Muslim faith imposed by the Ottoman Turks centuries ago,...
A British energy watchdog has released a new report showing that at least 5 million homes in the UK are living in fuel poverty - that is they spend more than 10% of their income on fuel. This number is up a full million from last year's numbers. At least 2.75 million of those...
Bill Hitchcock reports on the current real estate market trends for coastal North Carolina as of September 23, 2008. Timely, current-Information not available anywhere else. This is a television news style accounting...
"For Eight Days Hurricane Ike churned through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico carving out a path of destruction along the way and claiming the life's of those who crossed it's path. The AP's Mark Carlson takes a...
"Last Monday, a report released by ForeclosureS.com showed that the number of foreclosures is still rising based on the August data. Most of the homes in trouble were primarily located in three states: Florida,...
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UK is facing an extreme space crunch and now houses are becoming smaller and smaller. London has the smallest house in the Europe and to end this woes London Mayor Boris Johnson has threatned to make a law about minimum space standards on all council flat houses. The Mayor...
With housing prices at record highs in North America and the U.K. you may want to consider buying a home in Italy instead. The mayor of Salemi, a small town less than half an hour outside of Palermo in Sicily, has...
Mining business in China is always fraught with risk and it has highest number of casualties. Most of the victims are the poor miners. A muslide in northern China has killed more than 34 people killed after a warehouse wall collapsed. The warehouse was stored with mine waste....
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Hurricane Ike hit Haiti with torrential rains and sent floodwaters flowing into homes killiing at least 58 people. Reports also state that the flooding has also caused a bridge to collapse that was the last land...
"Not many Indians would have known where Kandhamal is on the country's map or even that it is a part of the state of Orissa. But Kandhamal is burning and the world has sat up to take note.For nearly two weeks, Dalit...
After the worst flooding to his Northumberland in 50 years, a massive cleanup effort has begun in North England."More than 1,000 properties were affected, with Morpeth being hardest hit as about 400 people were moved...
There is speculation tonight that killer Hurricane Ike - ten people drowned in the low-lying islands of Turks and Caicos so far - could be whistling in a straight line towards Havana, as Cuba battens down...
A rockslide fell from a cliff overlooking a township outside Cairo earlier today, killing at least 18 people. The slide is blamed by residents on work carried out on the cliffs above."At least eight boulders, some...
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