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Nobel for Excellence 2008-10-07 20:19:00 Alfred Nobel
, the Swedish Scholar and Inventor, had a vision and so in his will articulated the need for creation of Nobel Prize, to be founded out of his fortune.In the honour of “ those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.”.And so got instituted the Nobel Prizes in the late memory of the noted scholar and inventor of dynamite in 1895. The N Read more:Excellence
Officer nearly hit by a flying Telephone pole 2008-10-07 16:38:00 In what appears to be an incident out of nowhere an officer attending an accident site miraculously escaped unhurt after a telephone came flying around him much to the surprise of all those present at the site.
Raw video: Woman dangles from the ride 2008-10-06 18:41:00 A mother was forced to drop her child from 30 feet above the ground after they were left stranded during their ride, the fairgoers caught the child below, the accident happened at a central Florida carnival.
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Five New Twitter tools to tweet 2008-10-05 21:44:00 The five tools about twitter that you should know post comprises of tools that you can use to make very best out of the Twitter
. The tools are 1.Tweet Wheel2.who should I follow3.twerpscan4.Summize5.twitturlyThese are the tools which can be used to prefer which way you want to connect users on twitter.Complete details of how these tools work can be found at Five New
Twitter tools that you should
Disabled friendly public transport systems 2008-10-05 17:58:00 ICT ResultsIn an ideal world, all buses would be wheelchair friendly and train timetables would be available as audio recordings for the visually impaired. Reality has yet to catch up with that vision, so instead European researchers have developed a personal navigation aid to help disabled people make use of public transport
.By letting disabled people know in advance which bus routes, subway line Read more:Disabled
, public transport
Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation 2008-10-04 16:19:00 ICT ResultsWhen people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows independent, ad hoc, secure networking
anywhere.The power and reach of the internet in today’s world is such that people have, in a short space of time, become over-reliant on it for many tasks
A spate of incidents on the Interstate Highway 2008-10-03 15:05:00 A driver of a truck is supposed to be a suspect according to the investigations into a spate of accidents, collisions, injuries, including that of a trooper on the Interstate highway.
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Spotlight: Digg 2008-10-02 23:51:00 An interview with the founder of Digg
Kevin Rose digs deeper into the issues related with how the user driven site such as Digg operates itself.
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Houses perched up in the Trees 2008-10-01 20:47:00 A Japanese artist known for his site-specific sculptural innovations has provided a park in NYC with tree houses perched high up in the trees.
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More 31 products found tainted with Chemical Melamine 2008-10-01 07:08:00 Tainted Milk products has taken a magnanimous proportions in China after another 31 products are found to be tainted with Melamine. This is something like mixing poison with food products and this has happened for quite a long time, with so many widespread cases reported across the mainland China, so far according to a CNN report1.4 children died,2.Kidney ailments among 54000 children reported3.13
Teenager Wins Lottery 2008-09-30 16:18:00 A UK teenager wins the lottery only to be bitten by her dog on the backside.
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, Lottery
The Show Biz Minute 2008-09-30 16:14:00 Janet Jackson hospitalized, pair charged in Shia LaBeouf crash, more than 52 million tuned in to first presidential debate.
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Wall-Street Financial Crisis: An Overview 2008-09-30 15:02:00 The American Financial
Institutions repeatedly opposed calls for greater transparency as to how they carry about their International Financial Transactions, this was the widespread view of the G8 members headed by Germany.The Economic crisis at the Wall-Street
has spiraled and has cast a shadow on markets around the world from Europe to Asia, things are never going to be the same again. The bail o Read more:Crisis
, Overview
The new Home-less in US 2008-09-30 14:17:00 Ever since the US sub-prime(real estate) credit crisis started, life has never been the same for many of the America's middle class, the rot is so deep and contagious that it has begun to show up in the streets. The news story which I went through highlights some of these stories which are increasingly taking place across the America's once vibrant middle class. Jobs have been lost and in the cour
What Led to Financial Crisis ? 2008-09-28 19:20:00 The Financial
debacle at the Wall street has taken the world by surprise, President George W. Bush offered a bunch of explanations but held Washington completely blameless.
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Rescuers Free Whale From Net 2008-09-28 07:42:00 Rescuers have freed a whale that has been tangled in a shark net for more than a week
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Half a billion dollar art sale 2008-09-27 19:42:00 Expected to fetch at least 300 million euro (almost half a billion
dollars), an art collection amassed over four decades by late fashion king Yves Saint Laurent and his companion Pierre Berge goes up for sale next February. Details of the sale were announced on Friday.
LA Train Collision: Freight Brakeman Sues 2008-09-27 19:34:00 An attorney for the brakeman who survived the deadly train collision near Los Angeles says his client is seeking unspecified damages against the commuter rail service and the companies that provided its engineers.
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, Freight
In memory of those who lost their lives and in affection of those who are still alive and in need of help. 2008-09-27 13:45:00 It makes me wonder why these sorts of incidents happen, a series of violent actions. Firstly in Finland the guy in question Matti Sarri from Finland causing the bloodshed. In the other incident a Swedish student is said to have made a video involving violent actions using guns, the timely Police action is said to have unearthed some real motives behind the events that includes a video of threateni
Swiss Man Flies Over Channel on Jet Wing 2008-09-26 13:34:00 A Swiss
rocket man crossed the English Channel
strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing, aiming for a field near the white cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.
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*Warning* Parental G over 18 : Motorway madness by two sisters 2008-09-26 09:05:00 The twin sisters throw themselves onto the motorway resulting in casualties, the newsmen described the behaviour of the Swedish women as deranged and has to be restrained by atleast six men, read the full story hereThis is a raw footage from the BBC.
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Raw Video: Woman pushed out of moving car 2008-09-25 17:17:00 What appears to be a deliberate assault, a woman is pushed out of the car at very high speeds in this video and the police is on the look out for the suspect. The incident is reported to have happened in Dallas.
Another Suspected Shooting Threats after Finland shootings 2008-09-25 09:03:00 Coming close on the heels of the class-room shootings in Finland
where many students died including the shooter, a School in Sweden discovered similar threats which led to the schools closure for the day. Police is said to have arrested a student in Västerås , a Swedish city some 100 KM west of Stockholm for making a YouTube video of a threatening nature involving guns, police said to AFP accord
Canada declares bisphenol A as hazardous, thus limiting its further use in baby bottles 2008-10-18 22:57:00 Following its announcement of April 18th 2008, Canadian government has declared Bisphenol A (BPA) a hazardous chemical two days back, thus preventing its further use as a plastic bottle container of baby foods halting any further imports of the chemical.Canada
's Health Minister Mr Tony Clement, earlier this year announced Canada was considering banning the chemical BPA from use in baby bottles.The
Swedish Study: Drinking Coffee can result in smaller breast size in Women 2008-10-18 21:53:00 It appears to be a clear fact finding case linking coffee drinking, which is a very normal daily beverage, to Women
's Breast size. In a latest news report published in TheLocal website, a researcher from Lund university in South Sweden, Ms Helena Jernström has found that coffee drinking has a major effect. "Drinking
coffee can have a major effect on breast size " said Ms Helena a lectur Read more:Swedish
, Study
, Coffee
McCain, Obama Get Tough, Personal in Last Debate 2008-10-16 08:22:00 In one of the last debates of the 2008 Presidential Campaign, the candidates John McCain
for the Republican Party and Barack Obama
for the Democrats sparred against each other for one last time at the New York's Hofstra University before going for the ballots.
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, Personal
, Debate