Posted on 29 May 2009
USA has been hit by yet another case of teacher-student relationship after a Queens middle school teacher was charged with rape of one of her 14-year-old students. The mother of the 14-year-old searched through the student’s cellphone and found multiple calls and SMS text messages from Melissa Weber, 27.
Ms. Weber lives in West Babylon, Long [...]
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Posted on 17 May 2009
The war in Sri Lanka has now come to an end after the Tamil Tiger rebels have finally surrendered. Today, the Sri Lankan rebels announced that they silenced their guns, and that they only feel sorry for the lives of the ones they lost in the battle. The war with the government ended after the [...]
Posted on 15 May 2009
Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker, has accused the CIA of misleading her on the issue of water-boarding, a torture technique that the Bush Administration is reported to have used against certain detainees.
Nancy vehemently said that it was clear that the CIA had mentioned in 2002 that water-boarding had not been used, whereas now it [...]
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Posted on 03 May 2009
In Mexico, the epicenter of the Swine flu outbreak, the highest point has already been reached and officials are now considering the flu on the downside part of the hill.
Mexican health minister Jose Angel Cordova considers that the Swine flu peaked between 23-29 April, and his words were: “The evolution of the epidemic is [...]
Posted on 30 April 2009
It seems that the Swine flu is generating reactions even in the highest political areas. On “Today”, at NBC , vice president of the USA Joe Biden declared:
” I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, [...]
Posted on 30 April 2009
Although there were no earthquake and explosions, a building has collapsed on a construction site in Manhattan earlier today. The five-story building was vacant therefore nobody was injured. The emergency crews came at the scene almost immediately and they also had a dog which sniffed through the rubble, but thankfully there were no injured humans [...]
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Posted on 30 April 2009
Everybody already knows about the swine flu pandemic from Mexic and the US which is spreading all over the world. The World Health Organization have declared it a state of emergency, and has raised the pandemic alert level to 5. It is clear now that we are facing with a big problem especially after the [...]
Posted on 30 April 2009
We’ve witnessed something really interesting yesterday. It wasn’t surprising, but we didn’t expect that just now. Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter decided to dump the Republican Party in favor of the Democratic Party. He was welcomed into his new party by Barack Obama and VP Joe Biden, both whom didn’t expect this move.
Many Republicans said [...]
Posted on 03 March 2009
Underage girls have a hard time in Saudi Arabia. This is very sad, however, it has been like this for centuries. Driven by poor financial conditions, Saudi families are “offering” their daughters to older rich men from the kingdom. According to a minister from the Saudi Government, Saudi Arabia could soon ban marriage for girls [...]