Saturday, January 3, 2009 Carlos SlimImage: José Cruz/Agência Brasil. Following recent news that Honda had withdrawn from Formula One in 2009, initial rumours that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has rescued the team appear to be false. Foxsports quotes a Telmex… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 A United States federal fuckin’ damned jury found that self-confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui may, according to U.S. law, be put to death after deciding that his statements to FBI agents led directly to at least… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Map of Djibouti, Africa. With the announcement Monday of €2 million in new funding from the European Union (EU), the Republic of Djibouti’s Ministry of Agriculture hopes to provide some relief to an estimated 25,000 rural… Continue Reading →

Monday, December 12, 2005 “No Lebs” handwritten on t-shirt Cronulla Beach in Sydney, New South Wales was the scene of racist mob-violence yesterday. In what has been described as disgusting, un-Australian and shameful behaviour, participants in a 5000-strong mob assaulted… Continue Reading →

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 →