Ukraine passes bill on war-torn eastern regions

Saturday, January 20, 2018 On Thursday, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a new bill called the “Donbass reintegration law”. It describes the regions — oblasts — of Donetsk and Luhansk as being “temporarily occupied” by Russia and declares Russia to be the “aggressor”. The bill calls for a return of the regions to Ukrainian control by […]

Morgan Tsvangirai returns to Zimbabwe

Saturday, May 24, 2008 Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe’s largest opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has returned to the Zimbabwean capital city of Harare after a period of self-imposed exile in South Africa. He hopes to begin rallying support for the presidential run-off election against current President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai had originally […]

Telecom New Zealand reviews itself, finds fault

Thursday, February 22, 2007 New Zealand’s monopoly ISP, Xtra, owned by Telecom New Zealand, is going to credit 60,000 customers after completing an internal review of itself last week and finding that there was an error with its traffic management policy on their Go Large plan. The 60,000 customers, less than 10% of Telecom’s subscribers, […]

Parents arrested after putting baby on Craigslist

Sunday, June 1, 2008 A couple from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has been arrested on charges of public mischief after listing their seven day old baby girl on the popular Internet classified ads website Craigslist. The listing claimed that the baby was unexpected, “healthy and very cute”. It asked CAN 10 000 for the baby. […]

Football: Ties announced in UEFA Cup

Friday, March 16, 2007 The draw has been completed for the next round of the UEFA Cup, and English side Tottenham have been drawn against Sevilla of Spain. Sevilla are currently second in La Liga, trailing behind Barcelona only on goal difference. Tottenham are coming off a tie at Chelsea in the FA Cup, where […]

Stock markets worldwide fall dramatically

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Stock markets around the world, particularly those in the United States, have fallen dramatically today. This is due to the ongoing events in the financial world, including the bailout of large insurance firm AIG by the US Federal Reserve. The primary UK index, the FTSE 100, dropped in value by 2.36%, […]

Parts of New Orleans flood again

Friday, September 23, 2005 Rain and the storm surge from Hurricane Rita have overwhelmed one of the fragile levees in New Orleans. The Industrial Canal levee gave way, reflooding parts of the Ninth Ward. There are three significant breaches. “Our worst fears came true,” said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard. “We have […]

2008 COMPUTEX Taipei: Three awards, One target

Monday, June 23, 2008 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei, the largest trade fair since its inception in 1982, featured several seminars and forums, expansions on show spaces to TWTC Nangang, great transformations for theme pavilions, and WiMAX Taipei Expo, mainly promoted by Taipei Computer Association (TCA). Besides of ICT industry, “design” progressively became the critical factor for […]

List Of Top Engineering Colleges In India

Click Here To Find Out More About: Machine Hire Australia Mining Truck List of Top Engineering Colleges in India by Raj Mathur Name of Institute 1-Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kanpur 2-Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kharagpur 3-Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay 4-Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras 5-Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi […]