Articles Archive for 12 June 2009
Tech & Science, USA »
Today marks the end of 60 years of analog television in the United States, as this morning TV stations accross the US started cutting their analog signals, the AP reports. But as millions of people are already getting a better picture from their digital TVs, more than a million Americans will be left without TV service today.
In addition to either a new television set or a digital scramble box, some people might also need new …
Tech & Science »
Microsoft will relesae the coming version of its Windows operating system – Windows 7 – without a web browser in Europe.
The move comes after European Union regulators said in January that including a browser in Microsoft’s Windows operating system likely breached European antitrust rules, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Given the pending legal proceeding, we’ve decided that instead of including Internet Explorer in Windows 7 in Europe, we will offer it separately and on an easy-to-install …
World »
A British man was badly attacked in an Andalucian mountain village of Competa – some youths threw him 25 feet of a balcony when the man was trying to protect his teenage sons.
49-year-old Stephen Mallon was set upon by a mob at a disco in Competa, which lies northeast from Velez-Malaga and northwest from Nerja. The Daily Mail reports that his two teenage sons had got into trouble with a gang of local youths and …
World »
Iran, where presidential election is taking place today, is according to a new report six years away from producing an ocean-leaping missile, capable of hitting the United States, Ynet reports.
“Iran has ambitious ballistic missile and space launch development programs and, with sufficient foreign assistance, Iran could develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the United States by 2015,” the US Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center report, released on Thursday, said.
The report …
UK »
A number of bloggers are reporting of the Telegraph story that former Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher has fell at her home and taken to a hospital. According to the report, 83-year-old Baroness lost her footing and fell. She was taken to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital by ambulance.
Doctors are carrying out x-rays after she suffered a painful injury to her upper arm, she was also badly shaken, the newspaper said.
According to The Times, she broke a …
World »
Italian Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner, who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident, The Times reports.
According to the report, Ganthaler had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31. The couple managed to pick up another flight from …
World Politics »
46 million Iranians have a chance to vote for country’s future today, as 45,000 polling stations in presidential election opened at 8AM local time (4:30 British Summer Time).
Iranians have the choice to either vote for hardliner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stay on power, or make a choice between three others. Ahmadinejad’s closest rival is pro-reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is more open to improving ties with America.
Challengers to Ahmadinejad’s presidency also include a conservative Mohsen …
World »
Serbian authorities have for long claimed that one of the world’s most wanted war criminals – Ratko Mladic – is out of their reach. Now pictures have emerged that prove that the war criminal is dancing right under their noses, but he’s still in liberty and Serbian authorities are doing absolutely nothing.
Daily Mail today published photos where Mladic celebrates with his friends at a family wedding, and in one shot he’s seen wearing a shellsuit. …
Idiots »
Unfortunately I was more than right when I called the nazi murderer, who opened fire in Washington’s Holocaust Museum and killed a security guard, a buddy of the BNP:
A white supremacist who shot dead a security guard at Washington’s Holocaust Museum had links to the British National Party.
Before launching the attack, 88-year-old James von Brunn sent out an email claiming: ‘It’s time to kill all the Jews.’
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Last night, it emerged that von Brunn had attended …
UK »
In an outrageous development it has emerged that migrants will get a British passport quicker if they stand on picket lines or knock on doors, asking people to vote for Labour, the Daily Mail reports.
The Home Office, which was up to only recently led by infamous money-waster Jacqui Smith, says that trade union activism and political canvassing should count towards the planned new system of ‘earned citizenship’, according to the newspaper.
Migrants who complete 50 hours …


















