Thursday, August 5, 2010 File:Google Wave.jpg Technology company Google has decided to flip the switch on the Google Wave social-networking service. Image: Dshedai.(Image missing from Commons: image; log) Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one… Continue Reading →

A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, May 7, 2007. Existing and planned gas pipelines in Europe A 30 meter section of a gas pipeline in Luka (near Kiev) in Ukraine has been destroyed by an explosion. Although supplies to… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, November 9, 2005 The Dover, Pennsylvania school board became the first to mandate inclusion of Intelligent Design in a public school biology curriculum. For this year’s November 8 election, Republicans fielded a pro-Intelligent Design slate of candidates including some… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Rising steam from the explosionImage: Arvind Grover. A pipe has burst in New York City, the largest city in the United States, causing a generator to explode. The explosion occurred in Midtown Manhattan near Grand Central… Continue Reading →

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 While nearly all cover of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third party candidates. These parties represent a variety of… Continue Reading →

Monday, November 23, 2009 A similar aircraft with the US Air Force A transport aircraft belonging to the Italian Air Force has crashed near Pisa. All five on board the C-130 Hercules were killed. The aircraft was on a training… Continue Reading →

Monday, May 6, 2019 The second International Student Olympiad in Neurosurgery for the prize of the Governor of Tyumen Oblast, Russia took place in the first week of April at the Federal Center for Neurosurgery in Tyumen. The competition was… Continue Reading →

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 A Sheriff in Aberdeen yesterday jailed gamekeeper George Mutch for crimes against birds of prey. It is believed to be the first time anybody has been imprisoned for raptor persecution in Scotland. Wildlife criminals must expect… Continue Reading →

A popular MG model: The TF. Friday, July 22, 2005 Administrators PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC) have announced that the British car company MG Rover and its engine manufacturer Powertrain Ltd has been sold to Chinese company Nanjing Automobile for an unknown sum… Continue Reading →

Saturday, August 23, 2008 London, Ontario is the latest in a string of Canadian cities to have acted on increasing public demand to ban bottled water. On Monday, the decision to eliminate bottled water sales in city-run facilities was passed… Continue Reading →