By Melissa Wishart Twenty-two year old Australian woman, Erin Langworthy is lucky to be alive after plunging headfirst into the Zambezi River in Africa when her bungee cord snapped on New Year’s Eve. Miraculously, Erin […]
The death of Kim Jong-Il is a major development in North Korea and potentially for the wider Asian region. The Korean peninsula is among the world’s most heavily armed regions, and a potential flashpoint. North […]
British police have raided the home of a climate sceptic blogger and seized his computers, in the wake of the Climategate 2.0 scandal that broke late last month. The story has been confirmed by US-based […]
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa, for Climate Depot DURBAN, South Africa — “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN […]
A National-led Government would see New Zealand continue to pursue an independent and respected foreign policy, contributing to global and regional stability and creating successful trading arrangements. Foreign Affairs spokesman Murray McCully released the National […]
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia, Nov. 4 (UPI) — Russian police said they arrested a 45-year-old man who allegedly had the mummified remains of 27 women in his apartment. The government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported the man […]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash., Nov. 5 (UPI) — A U.S. Army staff sergeant admitted Friday he took body parts from slain Afghans as trophies, but he denied he deliberately killed civilians. Calvin Gibbs testified at […]
MOSCOW, Nov. 2 (UPI) — A Russian lawmaker wants judges to be allowed to impose surgical castration of pedophiles if chemical castration is deemed insufficient to prevent sex offenses. RIA Novosti reported Anton Belyakov, a […]
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 31 (UPI) — The baby bringing the world population to 7 billion enters a world of contradiction, with luxury and extreme poverty, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. Seven billion will clearly be […]
Hanoi (dpa) – Vietnamese customs agents seized more than 1,000 kilograms of elephant tusks en route to China, officials said Monday. Agents caught a Chinese man smuggling more than 220 tusks Saturday in a boat […]
Hong Kong (dpa) – A Hong Kong veteran who threatened to give his ex-girlfriend a lethal injection with a syringe used to put down animals was Monday jailed for two years. Tsoi Sheung-ki, 37, kept […]
Tirana/Belgrade (dpa) – At least three people died and five have gone missing after a cargo ship collided with a ferry and sank off the Albanian Adriatic coast, port authorities in Durres said Thursday. Two […]
Wellington (dpa) – A woman who headed the first Chinese bid to buy into the New Zealand dairy industry, the country’s biggest export earner, has been charged in Hong Kong with corruption and money laundering, […]
Hanoi (dpa) – A circus elephant killed an 11-year-old girl in northern Vietnam as a group of children teased the animal, a police official said Monday. The incident occurred Sunday when the girl and other […]
Taipei (dpa) – A hospital administrator in Taiwan has accepted responsibility for a mix-up that led to five transplant patients receiving HIV-infected organs, a news report said Thursday. Ko Wen-che, head of transplants at National […]
New Delhi (dpa) – Protests against a nuclear power plant in southern India intensified Thursday with villagers stopping more than 700 scientists from reaching the facility, news reports said. Villagers located near the Kudankulum nuclear […]
Santiago del Chile (dpa) – A year ago, Chilean miner Jose Ojeda, one of 33 men trapped 700 meters underground, sent the world an optimistic sign of life: “We are well in the refuge – […]
As speculated earlier at InvestigateDaily, it now appears certain that the 47,000 tonne container vessel Rena is in the process of cracking up, and will sink. TVNZ has obtained a video still from a fly […]
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Rio de Janeiro is about to throw a bigparty to celebrate the 80th birthday of its Christ the Redeemerstatue, an icon of the city and of all of Brazil. Wednesday’s […]
Jakarta (dpa) – One person was killed and several injured Monday when police opened fire on striking workers at a metals mine in Indonesia’s Papua province, a union official and the company said. Thousands of […]
ZARAGOZA, Spain, Oct. 8 (UPI) — A Spanish matador was recovering from 5 hours of surgery after being maimed by a 1,120-pound bull during a fight in Zaragoza, a hospital spokesman said. The bull’s left […]
LONDON, Oct. 8 (UPI) — One of two Tibetan teens who set themselves on fire Friday near a monastery in China to protest Chinese rule has died, activists said. Free Tibet, based in the United […]
First there was the Climategate scandal, and then the UN IPCC errors over disappearing glaciers that weren’t disappearing, now it turns out a well-known lobby group supporting the UN’s call for swift action on climate […]
Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley pioneer Steve Jobs dies at 56 By Bruce Newman San Jose Mercury News (MCT) Steve Jobs, who sparked a revolution in the technology industry and then presided over it as […]
Athens (dpa) – Greece’s largest unions launched a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, crippling transport and public services to protest the government’s austerity measures. In the first nationwide strike since the summer, government offices and public […]
London, 4 October – The Global Warming Policy Foundation has welcomed the promise by Chancellor George Osborne that the government will no longer be bound by unilateral targets that cut CO2 emissions in Britain faster […]
Tokyo (dpa) – Hormonal and other irregularities were detected in the thyroid glands of 10 out of 130 children evacuated from areas near the damaged nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan, news reports said Tuesday. […]
Analysis and Commentary from UN Watch in Geneva Oct. 3, 2011 Issue 315 In September 2010 the United Nations Human Rights Council lashed out at UN Watch for exposing the failure of its flotilla inquiry […]
FACEBOOK 4EVA IS SOCIAL NETWORKING THE ULTIMATE BIG BROTHER TOOL? When Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria used Facebook to spring her cheating husband of three years, Tony Parker, just before Christmas, she was using social networking […]
BY GARRICK CORNELIUS, INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE All around the world, the use of Gardasil has set in motion a storm of stories about serious reactions. As far as the medical systems worldwide are concerned, these stories […]
By Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times (MCT) JOHANNESBURG _ In South Africa, they call him “Dr. Death.” Wouter Basson, who ran the apartheid government’s secret germ and chemical warfare program, Project Coast, once was accused […]
Escaped killer is caught after 41 years By Tina Susman Los Angeles Times (MCT) NEW YORK A convicted killer who escaped prison in 1970 and then joined with other members of a militant group in […]
Andre Stahl, Fiona Smith, Mike Swanson Dublin/Brussels (dpa) – European Union finance ministers agreed Sunday on an 85 billion euros (112 billion dollars) rescue package to help Ireland overcome its debt crisis. An urgently called […]
By Laura King Los Angeles Times KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban scoffed Sunday at NATO plans to hand over most security responsibilities to Afghan forces in the coming three years while retaining an option to […]
Dublin (dpa) – An aid package for Ireland has been approved by European Union authorities, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen confirmed Sunday. Eurozone finance ministers had confirmed the request for funding to help resolve Ireland’s […]
By John Byrne Chicago Tribune CHICAGO – Former President George W. Bush, in town to promote his memoir, said he worries that the 9/11 attacks will become a “distant memory.” “One of the things that’s […]
Ramallah (dpa) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he would hold United States President Barack Obama to his declaration at the United Nations in September, when he expressed hope that the state of Palestine […]
By Tom Lasseter McClatchy Newspapers SEOUL, South Korea – The Obama administration suffered a major setback Thursday with the announcement that it couldn’t break the impasse over a long-anticipated U.S.-South Korean trade accord, continuing a […]
By Nadeem Sarwar dpa ISLAMABAD – Two U.S. drone strikes on Sunday killed at least 13 militants in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near Afghanistan, intelligence officials said. The attacks, about an hour apart, took place […]
By Russ Britt MarketWatch LOS ANGELES – Roughly half the candidates endorsed by Sarah Palin during the 2010 election season ended up winning their races, but a closer look at the contests indicates the former […]
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