Tuesday, July 3, 2012 Logo of the Marussia F1 team. The Marussia F1 team’s test driver, Spaniard María de Villota, was taken to hospital by air ambulance today after a collision in testing at Duxford…
Read MoreThursday, December 31, 2009 Official portrait of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic Prime Minister. Image: Icelandic Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Security. The Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and her coalition government narrowly escaped a commitment…
Read MoreTuesday, August 13, 2013 News emerged yesterday that Boko Haram Islamists are suspected to have killed 44 worshippers during dawn prayers early Sunday morning in the small town of Konduga in Nigeria. The attacks were…
Read MoreSaturday, October 27, 2007 Talese at home: “You must have a human spirit unmatched since Billy Graham made his first speech! I mean you have to have a real conscience, social conscience, to care [about…
Read MoreWednesday, April 1, 2009 An act signed into law by Afghan President Hamid Karzai last month dramatically rolled back the rights of women in that country, according to human rights groups and a United Nations…
Read MoreMonday, December 11, 2006 On December 7, BBC News reported a story about Dr James Anderson, a teacher in the Computer Science department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. In the report…
Read MoreSaturday, October 17, 2015 Edmonton police have closed down an Edmonton, Alberta, Canada pizza restaurant for a single day for delivering alcoholic beverages despite not being licensed to do so. It is unclear when this…
Read MoreSaturday, June 6, 2009 The H1N1 swine flu virus has now spread to 66 different countries throughout the globe, with at least 19,273 confirmed cases and 117 deaths having been reported according to the latest…
Read MoreFriday, July 17, 2009Following similar threats by workers at New Fabris and Nortel, workers at JLG in Tonneins, France, threatened to blow up several platform cranes. The JLG factory announced in April 2009 that it…
Read MoreThursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week,…
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