By, Uwe Paschen. Shibuya, the heart of the new Japan. Shibuya is in Tokyo, a district where over the past decade young and different minded Japanese have established them self, for one it is a cheaper area to...
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Somali piracy doubled in 2008, 60 ships attacked, $30 million paid in ransom. Sarkozy fights the pirates. The french announcement was made after the EU defence minister meeting at Deauville France VIDEO CNNPirate...
"Panchkula (Mera Chandigarh):-The three-day Pinjore Heritage Festival was inaugurated by Union Minister of Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni, in the Yadavindra Gardens on Friday."
" LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Metrolink engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into a freight train last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said...
" LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Metrolink engineer driving a commuter train sent a text message about 22 seconds before the train collided with a Union Pacific freight train last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday....
Stricter conditions should apply to the freedom of movement for the inhabitants of Turkey if the country joins the European Union, says the Dutch Labour party. The demand is included in Labour’s first...
Elections in the German region of Bavaria yesterday saw a major blow dealt to Germany's conservative party. The result was the party's worst result since 1954. The result is bad news for Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel."Bavaria's ruling conservatives, the Christian Social...
Today, Wednesday, the 17th day of September 2008, marks the 221st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution for the United States of America by the nation's founders, and with the hope of forming a more perfect...
It is NASA's golden anniversary! The NASA website informs that "The Life @ NASA Mission Guide, commemorating NASA's participation in the conference, will help you chart a course through the exciting world of...
Cases of human rights abuses are a growing problem. I would like to highlight the case of Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death in her home country. Kobra's crime ? Suffering domestic violence at the hands of her, late, heroin addict...
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"In economics the inevitable always happens, and while the Gulf States have definitely rejected the idea of unilateral revaluation by individual countries, there is now almost a universal sentiment that revaluation is going to be a natural part of the 2010 currency union. "
The National Union of Journalists in the UK has intervened after multiple complaints against Twice Magazine, a free independent lifestyle and entertainment publication headed by EiC Graham Gartside-Bernier and publisher Gary Greenwood."The main concern is a lack of payment...
"There are few radical left-wing organizations more obnoxious than the American Civil Liberties Union. That’s because the ACLU doesn’t just pack a tie-dyed Volkswagen full of leftover San Fransisco hippies and drive to your area to protest, they pack a private jet full...
The political crisis in Latin America has intensified, with Bolivian president Evo Morales accusing the United States of giving aid to the breakaway rebel region in the east. Morales expelled the American ambassador...
"(CNN) -- Aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin improperly obtained her former brother-in-law's state police personnel files and cited information from those records to raise complaints about the officer, the head of...