May 19 2008
To strike back at narcotics traffickers suspected of ordering the assassination of Mexico’s top drug cop, President Felipe Calderon dispatched 2,000 army troops and federal police to the gang’s home base, the western state of Sinaloa. The...
May 18 2008
The 29-year-old man took a run up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4 metres.
May 17 2008
President Bush said with a straight face this week that he gave up golf in honor of the fallen soldiers in Iraq, claiming that he quit after the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad in August 2003:
May 17 2008
There is a new battle brewing in Taiwan and this time it is Asus that is bringing out the big guns against its rival Gigabyte: Gigabyte claimed in a recent presentation in front of journalists that Asus is lat-out lying about power savings and power...
May 16 2008
It’s a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women - will happily date ugly men. We see it on TV — in shows like King of Queens, though I would probably argue that Kevin James is kind of a stud, and really, that’s exactly...
May 16 2008
It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents of Texas, it is very much a reality: billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything...
May 16 2008
Although her countrymen can no longer afford the imported rice that has come to dominate their diet, Josiane Desjardin sees little hope of reviving the domestic crop that once grew abundantly in the fertile estuary of the Artibonite...
May 15 2008
Jamiel Shaw Sr. never gave much thought to the immigration status of gang members in his South Los Angeles neighborhood. With his military wife deployed to Iraq and two sons to raise, there were football practices to manage, shoes to buy, college...
May 14 2008
When you’re on the Riviera at this time of year, there are so many famous and beautiful faces around it’s hard to stand out from the crowd.
May 14 2008
The Fedora Project has released Fedora 9, a significant upgrade for the popular Linux distribution. Fedora 9 packs in a number of new features including an improved package management system, KDE 4 and more.