Sunday, January 10, 2010
Chinese officials have said that their country's exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world's biggest exporter.
The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 total Chinese exports reached US$1.2 trillion,...
1 2 3 Map of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and of Sevastopol, Ukraine. Image: PANONIAN.
People in Ukraine protesting against Russia's intervention "Crimea is Ukraine". Image: ?? ???????. A Crimean self-defense group with shields painted as the flag of the autonomous republic. Image: E. Arrott. Wednesday, March 5, 2014
In the past few days, tension has been increasing due to conflict between...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Umaru Yar'AduaA result is expected today on the possibility of an election re-run in Nigeria. Opposition parties claim that current President Umaru Yar'Adua's People's Democratic Party (PDP) fixed the results of the 2007 election in his favour and are calling to have the result annulled. So far, the tribunal has rejected one out of the two petitions calling for the...
Saturday, January 5, 2008 Former Indonesian President Suharto, 86, is in a Jakarta hospital in critical condition. Doctors say he is suffering heart problems. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta.
The former president was admitted to a hospital on Friday with swelling throughout his body. Doctors say Mr. Suharto's heart has become too weak to pump blood properly, and his kidneys are...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The iconic revolving sign. Image: ChrisO.The Metropolitan Police — the police force for the Greater London area — has announced they may sell their headquarters, New Scotland Yard, in order to cut costs.
They are trying to reduce their £3.6 billion annual budget by £500 million, following cuts by the coalition government. If the sale of New Scotland Yard goes...
Friday, November 13, 2009
Cudicini while he was playing for ChelseaItalian goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in London. The player, who plays for Tottenham Hotspurs, was involved in a collision with a car at 10:30 GMT. The football club reported that he has fractured his wrists and injured his pelvis. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police released...
Monday, March 31, 2014
Docudays UA 2014 Awards Ceremony. Image: Antanana.The Eleventh International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA, in Kyiv, Ukraine, ended on Friday.
The Awards Ceremony was held in the Red Hall of the Kyiv Cinema House. There were 36 documentary films competing for prizes in three festival programs: DOCU/Short, DOCU/Right, DOCU/Life. There were also special...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
An English lawyer has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice. He faked a legal judgment and sent it to a father who was pleading in Taunton family court to be able to remain involved in his child's upbringing. The lawyer, London barrister Bruce Hyman, now awaits his sentence. The judge indicated that he could receive a prison sentence. Bruce Hyman is...
Tuesday, March 29, 2005A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend's birthday party.
The boy was today awake and smiling, still in some pain but in good...
Wednesday, March 9, 2005File:Plastic bag stock sized.jpg
The ubiquitous plastic bag(Image missing from Commons: image; log)They are cheap, useful, and very plentiful, and that is exactly the problem, according to researchers. A report issued on Feb. 23 by a cadre of environment and economics researchers suggested that Kenya should ban the common plastic bag that one gets at the checkout counter...