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Mayor's Question Time 15/10/2008 - City Hall 2008-10-15 09:04:00 This morning Boris Johnson faced a barrage of questions from the London Assembly at City Hall
, during the monthly mayors question time.The questioned ranged from the impact that the financial crisis is having on London to the shortening the length of time traffic lights stay on green!When faced with questions on the economy from John Biggs (Labour), Boris stated "40% of the FTSE 100 companies are Read more:Mayor
, Question
42 Days Detention Without Charge 2008-10-13 11:00:00 Today in the House of Lords, the new Terrorism bill was debated. The new terrorism bill, proposes to increase the time someone can be held by police without been charged.Currently the limit is set to 28 days, by the Terrorism Act 2006.Many politicians, police and the general public, believe that their is no reason to extend the time limit from 28 to 42 days.According to an article in the Guardian, Read more:Detention
The Crunch 2008-10-12 16:11:00 The credit crunch is said to have started in November 2007, however in recent weeks the financial crisis has begun to effect people throughout their everyday lives.Many people are trying to reduce their outgoings, whether this is through buying fewer brand named products at the supermarket, or cutting their spending on the high street.At the beginning of September 2008, many economists and financi Read more:Crunch
The Forgotten World 2008-10-11 09:35:00 Throughout recent months, most news organisation and journalists have become solely obsessed with the global financial crisis, obviously its a major story and needs to be covered throughout the media. However, what ever happened to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?With so little coverage of these conflicts, one tends to forget that there is still a conflict occurring. Several US and British armed Read more:Forgotten
, World
The Economy and London Zoo 2008-10-08 10:17:00 Today I went to London Zoo
, to discover whether the current global financial crisis was effecting the level of visitors and membership at the zoo.After speaking with Robert, the retail and admissions assistant I discovered that the Zoo is having quite a hard time at the moment.With a drop in visitors compared to this time last year and a £20 million aquarium project planned for the Olympics being
Credit Crunch Costing More Than Just $$$ 2008-10-07 13:05:00 American man Karthik Rajaram, aged 45 shot the five members of his family dead, and then committed suicide in the gated community of Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, USA, between Saturday night and Monday morning.According to a report from the big news network, the bodies of his victims; 39 year old wife Subasri, 70 year old mother-in-law Indra Ramaseshan and three sons Krishna, 19, a soph Read more:Crunch
, Credit Crunch
OAP Caught Smuggling Cocaine! 2008-10-06 14:09:00 A 77 year old grandmother from Birmingham was sentenced to 13 years in jail this morning after attempting to smuggle into the UK £1 million of cocaine from France.Ambrozine Heron and her daughter are said to have been on a European tour including a stop in Amsterdam and then returning to Dover with cocaine hidden inside cans of palm oil on the grandmothers mobility vehicle.Further investigations Read more:Caught
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Taxi To Germany? 2008-10-06 13:58:00 Read an amusing article today in the Metro, a man in Portsmouth got into a taxi and asked to be driven to Munich, for his friends stag do as he had missed his flight!The 740 miles took 17 hours and included a night in a hotel, the the total bill came to just under £2000, the taxi driver stated; 'it beats driving old pensioners around'.Click here for the link to the article at the Metro Read more:Germany
Human Rights 2008-10-05 16:16:00 The Secret Policeman's Ball Just watched the Secret Policeman's Ball as it does every year it highlights key human rights issues throughout the world. Whether its torture in CIA secret detention prisons or acts of violence by a government against its defenseless people.More needs to be done to publicize these issues, many people throughout the UK today know very little about what is going on in ce Read more:Rights
, Human Rights
Man Eaten By Crocodile! 2008-10-02 15:08:00 According to the Guardian, a British man aged 62, has been taken and eaten by a 18ft crocodile in North-Eastern Australia!The man, who is originally from Scotland moved to Brisbane for his retirement with wife Dorris, and were on holiday in the Cooktown region.This article has some comic value to it as, as you read on in the Guardian article you discover that in 2004 a grandmother called Alicia So Read more:Crocodile
Un-reported World 2008-10-01 04:07:00 I read an article today in the metro whilst on my massive commute this morning.It was an article which was in partnership with the red cross. Basically it was stating that many people in the UK today only think that there are two wars going on in the world at the moment, Iraq and Afghanistan!However, conflicts in:SudanSomaliaCentral Republic of Africamany people have no knowledge of these conflic Read more:World
, reported
MA in journalism assignment 2008-09-30 06:27:00 This morning I reviewed a section of video when the first plane struck the initial tower in New York. This is then a blogging exercise in terms of the structure of the article. As I am currently a student journalist.TWIN TOWERS COLLAPSE AFTER PLANE STRIKEPlanes have crashed into the twin towers in Manhattan, causing massive explosions and the eventual collapse of the towers. The initial plane stru Read more:journalism
2 Steps Forward...2 Steps Back 2008-11-06 08:44:00 Many states in the US were not merely voting for the next president of the US this week but also on many other controversial topics, from abortion to animal rights to assisted suicide to a ban on gay marriage.CaliforniaOn November 4 California voters were asked to vote “yes” or “no” on Proposition 8.Proposition 8 is a referendum that seeks to change the California constitution so that marr Read more:Forward
Obama's Landslide Victory 2008-11-05 07:00:00 After 22 months of campaigning and over a billion dollars spent by Obama
's campaign team, he has eventually secured his place in the White House.According to the BBC Obama took 349 of the electoral college votes with McCain taking just 162.Obama took key swing states early on, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Illinois and Pennsylvania all going to the democrats, compared to their republican past i Read more:Landslide
, Victory
Bali executions 'within hours' 2008-11-04 05:34:00 According to a report from Al Jazeera online, Al-Jazeera has learnt that the three men sentenced to die for their role in the Bali bombings will be executed in the coming hours. The twin bomb attacks occurred on the island in October 2002 killing 202 people, many of them British backpackers and tourists. Read more:executions
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Obama and McCain In Final Dash For Voters 2008-11-03 05:48:00 Obama and McCain
dash through swing states in the last few days before the US presidential election on Tuesday 4th November 2008.Throughout the weekend, with only a few days before the election Obama and McCain both participated on a USA tour of the swing states; Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana and Ohio to name just a few.McCain, who is still struggling behind Obama in the polls, hit out at t Read more:Obama
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, Voters
Multiple Bomb Blasts Rock India's Northeastern Regions 2008-10-31 07:05:00 According to reports from The Times Online; a dozen bombs exploded in quick succession around the northeastern India
n state of Assam yesterday, many of the bombs were located in busy marketplaces timed to strike daytime shoppers.The Los Angeles Times reported 76 people died and 300 were injured, this is the worst such attack in the region since independence in 1947.A survivor, S.K. Dutta told the Read more:Multiple
, Regions
Sucide Bombers Attack Targets in Somalia 2008-10-29 06:35:00 According to reports from Al-Jazeera five suspected suicide bombers have attacked targets in Puuntland and Somaliland regions in northern Somalia
, killing 25 people and leaving several dead.In Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, three suspected suicide bombings struck several targets including the presidential palace killing 19 people.Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow, reporting from Nairobi where regio Read more:Bombers
UN Prepares for DR Congo Evacuation 2008-10-28 08:34:00 According to reports from Al-Jazeera, UN peace keepers have begun evacuation plans for 50 foreign aid workers from a town in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, due to an onslaught of fighting by Tutsi anti-government fighters.The aid workers have been working in Rutshuru in North Kivu which lies around 100km north of the provincial capital Goma, are preparing to leave the town
US Forces kill eight in Syria 2008-10-27 07:35:00 According to reports from the Guardian, two US helicopters landed inside Syria
yesterday dropping Special Forces
, who killed eight people.The attack took place in Abu Kamal a town situated very close to the Iraqi and Syrian border.According to the Guardian witnesses reported that the victims were civilians who were working on the construction of a new building in Abu Kamal. Five out of the eight w
Flooding In Yemen 2008-10-25 08:59:00 According to reports from Al-Jazeera, flooding has swept through south-western Yemen
, following heavy rains throughout the region, claiming the lives of 49 people.The floods have been most severe in the provinces of Hadramaut and Mahara, which on Friday became declared disaster zones.Officials said that in the southern provinces of Tayez and Lahj four people were killed by lightening, including a Read more:Flooding
US Missiles Strike Pakistan School 2008-10-23 07:02:00 According to initial reports from the BBC, a missile suspected to belong to the US, struck a religious school in north-western Pakistan
this morning killing at least eight students.Locals who live near the school in North Waziristan told the BBC Urdu service that the school was closely situated to the home of a Taliban leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani.At least two missiles fired from pilot-less US dron Read more:School
Murder Trial At The Old Bailey 2008-10-22 10:01:00 Today Mark Malone, 30 was on trial at The Old Bailey
for the murder of Peter Ackers, 50.Mark Malone pleaded not guilty to the murder of Peter Ackers on the 19th of February 2008. The fatal stabbing took place in a block of public toilets in the Walton Bridge area, a popular place where men meet.Atkins died in hospital with the knife still embedded in his back, after suffering from a punctured lung Read more:Trial
Child Sex Trade Rockets In Cambodia 2008-10-21 08:33:00 An investigation conducted by Al-Jazeera has discovered that thousands of young girls are working in brothels in the Cambodia
n capital, Phnom Penh.Girls as young as 14 were secretly filmed working in the brothels which tend to attract a more local client's than the foreign visitors that visit Phnom Penh.One of the girls said "there were just a few foreign customers [at the brothel]...I never slept Read more:Trade
, Rockets
British Aid Worker Shot Dead in Kabul 2008-10-20 08:06:00 Gayle Williams 34, from London was shot dead this morning by two Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul
.Williams, who was brought up in South Africa before later moving to London took up a voluntary missionary position in Kandahar in 2006. Williams worked for a Christian charity called Serve Afghanistan, who are trying to help rebuild the war torn country.According to reports in the Lond Read more:British
, Worker
Courage In The Congo 2008-10-18 06:47:00 Zawadi, a young mother from the eastern region of the Congo, told her story to listeners of the today program this week.The young mother described how she was forced to hang her own baby after seeing her village butched by rebel soldiers. She lost her brother and two of her eldest children.During the first interview with Mike Thomson, Zawadi said, "If the world doesn't know what is happening here,
CIA Water-boarding 2008-10-16 11:48:00 Today an article in the Guardian disclosed that the White House gave explicit written approval for the use of water boarding as a form of torture, to be used by CIA interrogators.Two secret memos, which have now been leaked, suggest that the approval was issued at the request of George Tenet, then the CIA’s director. The approval was provided in 2003 and in 2004.According to the Guardian, one fo
Acid Throwing Taliban Arrested 2008-11-26 07:29:00 The Independent newspaper has reported that the Afghanistan authorities have arrested 10 Taliban
insurgents who threw acid in the faces of schoolgirls in southern Afghanistan, an official said today.President Hamid Karzai ordered the arrest of the accused and said they would be executed in public, after the attack on eight schoolgirls and four female teachers in the southern city of Kandahar this
Cholera Outbreak Brings Zimbabawe To The Brink Of Collapse 2008-11-25 08:29:00 As reported by the Guardian newspaper, the situation in Zimbabwe may soon "implode" as a cholera outbreak spreads causing basic services collapse, South African leaders and a group of international statesmen warned yesterday.On the eve of talks in South Africa between Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and opposition rivals, South African leaders sharply upgraded their crisis assessment and warned of Z Read more:Brink
North Korea Prepares To Shut Border With South 2008-11-24 06:32:00 According to reports by Jonathan Thatcher of Reuters:Secretive NorthKorea
said on Monday it would all but seal its border with the South
a week before heading to talks with its neighbor and other regional powers which are pressuring it to give up its nuclear weapons.Tension on the long divided Korean peninsula has escalated since conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in February. Myung Read more:Border
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