Monday, February 8, 2010 A man from the Naperville, Illinois, United States area has been accused of allegedly threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend via messages posted on her Facebook account. Nineteen-year-old Christopher J. Bensfield was arrested Jan. 28 at his home in unincorporated DuPage County near the far west-central part of…
Thursday, July 1, 2010 A court in England, UK has jailed a policeman for ten months after he was convicted of defrauding his car insurance company. Police Constable Simon Hood, 43, arranged for a friend who dealt in scrap metal to dispose of his Audi TT, then claimed it had been stolen. Hood had been…
Saturday, September 3, 2005 To help launch Cape Verde‘s first public university, the Brazilian government has made the promise to provide organizational advice and to train professors. According to Fernando Haddad, Brazilian Minister of Education, Brazil will send its professors to the small nation off the African coast to train them in lecturing, marking, and…
Saturday, February 3, 2007 Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, was assassinated Placards held in Dink’s funeral reading “We are all Hrant Dink” and “We are all Armenian” in Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian. These placards were later protested by MHP and CHP, two major Turkish political parties, as well as by a militant who hijacked a…
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Kasur Tashi Wangdi: “We are seeking a solution within the framework of the Chinese Constitution for a meaningful autonomy. Until we are able to achieve that goal, we effectively have a government in exile with a charter—a Constitution.”Image: David Shankbone. Kasur Tashi Wangdi was appointed Representative of the Dalai Lama to…
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 On Sunday, police stopped Istanbul Pride, a yearly LGBT march in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul. Police officials reportedly used rubber and plastic bullets and sprayed tear gas to prevent the participants from parading, after the Istanbul Governor’s office ordered them on Saturday not to conduct the march, asserting security reasons. This…
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Location of Michigan A Catholic school in Michigan, United States was evacuated today after several students became sick during a church service. Bloomfield Hills Public Safety Director Rick Matott said St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School evacuated its 860 students around 9 a.m. EDT today. At least three children had…
Friday, May 28, 2010 Gary Coleman in a promotional poster of Diff’rent Strokes. US actor Gary Coleman died Friday at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah, after complications from a brain hemorrhage. Coleman was admitted to the hospital on May 26 after falling and injuring his head. He went into a coma…
Thursday, September 20, 2007 “First clinical signs of bluetongue: rise in temperature, followed by hyperaemia of oral cavity and mucus membranes leading to oedema of the lips, tongue and face.” Image: Institute for Animal Health and DEFRA. A highly dynamic Bluetongue (or catarrhal fever) infection of sheep herds is underway in Germany. From August 2006…
Saturday, November 11, 2006 The International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a warning that the World faces an insecure, dirty and expensive future unless the rate of investment in energy supplies is increased substantially. In real terms, investment in oil and gas production has not increased significantly in the last five years, but demand has continued…