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Friday, October 2, 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country’s unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The US Labor Department said on…
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Ed McMahon, the long time announcer of The Tonight Show, has died age 86. McMahon, who joined The Tonight Show in 1962, died at the Ronald…
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 Police in Napier, New Zealand were amused when a 45-year-old woman called to report the theft of her ” carefully nurtured” cannabis plants, that she had…
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Thursday, March 5, 2009 US stock markets dropped to twelve-year lows on Thursday, amidst falling confidence in the financial sector and worries over whether the US automobile manufacturer General Motors…
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Dr. Jerald Block is a psychiatrist based in Portland, Oregon, United States. Dr. Block has attracted some media attention due to one theory of his –…
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A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, March 7, 2007. The European Union has banned the 35 planes in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) 45 aircraft fleet from flying in…
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Monday, January 10, 2005 The following stories made international headlines Monday: Contents 1 Mahmoud Abbas wins Palestinian presidential election 2 Tsunami relief continues 3 Earth still ‘ringing’ from 9.0 quake…
Thursday, March 13, 2008 Members of Australia’s Health Services Union (HSU) will go on strike in Victoria next week in a dispute over stalled wage and career structure negotiations. Over…
Thursday, September 25, 2008 A man has abandoned his nine children at a hospital emergency room in Nebraska, but will not be prosecuted under Nebraska state law. The children, whose…