Robert Novak, one of the best known journalists in the United States, died at the age of 78 on Tuesday, BNO News reports.
Richard Newcombe, President of Creators Syndicate, said that Novak passed away on Tuesday morning.
Novak wrote opinion columns for Creators Syndicate, despite being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2008.
“I worked with Robert Novak during the past 25 years. He was a tireless reporter who absolutely loved his work,” Newcombe told BNO News.
Novak was born …

Israeli-American activist, Dr Orly Taitz says that US President Barack Obama’s policies pose a “clear and present danger to Israel”.
Taitz, who is a driving force behind the “birther” movement – the campaign to prove that Obama was not born in the US, told the Ha’aretz newspaper that Obama signed an executive order shortly after taking office that funneled 900 million dollars to Gaza.
“During the campaign, Obama was telling American Jews that he is for Israel… …

A pregnant woman rushed to a hospital in Manchester after starting to have contractions, but the hospital sent her home, saying she wasn’t ready; she gave birth just three hours later on her bathroom floor with the help of the husband.
33-year-old Rebecca Molloy and her husband, 44-year-old Tony Molloy were staying in Wilmslow, Cheshire, when she started having contractions, the Daily Mail reports. They rushed to St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester, but Rebecca was told she wasn’t …

A man charged with trying to buy arms and explosives for the dissident Irish republican organisation the Real IRA has gone on trial in Lithuania, the BBC reports.
Michael Campbell was arrested in Lithuania after allegedly trying to buy weapons from an intelligence officer posing as an international arms dealer.
His brother, Liam, is believed to be a senior Real IRA member, which opposes British rule in Northern Ireland.
The Real IRA has claimed responsibility for a number …

Last year’s presidential hopeful and a likely front-runner to Republican nomination in 2012, Mike Huckabee, visited today the city of Maaleh Adumim near Jerusalem and was astonished to the demands by Arabs and the Obama administration to stop the growth of so-called “settlements”.
Expressing strong support for Israelis’ right to live where they want without having to receive American permission, Huckabee expressed incredulity that either the Arabs or the Americans would expect the tens of thousands …

A 62-year-old ex-soldier Stefan Gatward has been fixing missed apostrophes on grammatically incorrect street signs in Tunbrigde Wells, the Daily Mail reports.
Thanks to his dedication, St Johns Close has become St John’s Close, and supermarkets which have a “five items or less” queue have been blacklisted by him until they provide a queue for people with “five items or fewer”.
However, the man has been branded a vandal and a graffiti artist for his efforts by …

In the morning of day 2 we were still in England, but there was an ancient masterpiece that needed to be seen and for some reasons it does not mark the border of England and Scotland any more, as it’s no longer the border of the Roman Empire.
But as a landmark, Hadrian’s Wall is still a must-see masterpiece that once used to run from Carlisle to Newcastle – from west coast to east cost. Roman …

Russian authorities say that Estonian, Latvian and Russian men were behind the hijacking of the ship Arctic Sea that disappeared in the English Channel and was recovered west of Senegal.
Russia’s Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that eight armed men stormed the Arctic Sea in Swedish waters and took control of the vessel, according to The Times.
Serdyukov said that the eight hijackers were still on board with the 15-man crew when the Russian navy and air …

Apple and Blackberry are the most used mobile phone models among the readers of The Empire Chronicles, it emerged from the recent poll.
34% or 226 people voted they use Apple’s mobile phones, and 23% – 152 people – use Blackberry.
Nokia came in third with 21% – 139 votes, and Palm was fourth with 10% of the vote – 68 people prefer it.
Only 5% of the voters – 36 people – use my current mobile phone …

A soldier on guard duty entered Israeli Defence Forces’ Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi’s office, stole his credit card numbers, and gave them to an Israeli Arab he happened to own money to. While he was at it, he stole a souvenir pistol given to Ashkenazi as a gift by an American general, OneJerusalem.com reports.
The soldier had also stolen two M16 rifles in the past, one from a soldier who was attacked on guard duty …

American market research company Pear Analytics discovered in their recent research that 40.55% of total tweets are pointless babble.
Pear Analytics took 2,000 tweets from the public timeline (in English and in the US) over a two-week period from 11:00AM to 5:00PM (American Central Standard Time, GMT-6, BST-7) and captured tweets in half-hour increments. Then they categorized them into 6 buckets: News, Spam, Self-Promotion, Pointless Babble, Conversational and Pass-Along Value.
Pointless Babble won with 40.55% of the …

Whether and how to negotiate peace with the Taliban has become the one issue that no candidate in the Afghan presidential election can avoid taking a stand on, the New York Times reports.
Although President Hamid Karzai has often talked about negotiating with the Taliban, little concrete has happened. The government’s reconciliation program for Taliban fighters is barely functioning. A Saudi mediation effort has stalled. Last-minute efforts to engage the Taliban in order to allow elections …

A 17-year-old Brazilian teenager has confessed to murdering thirty men since she was 15.
She told detectives she wanted to confess before she turned 18 and could be tried as an adult, The Sun reports.
The girl said she began targeting men in her home city of Sao Paulo, Brazil “for money, revenge and to bring justice”.
She even smiled as she reeled off her list of victims – which is feared to make her the world’s most …

The city of Chicago has shut down all “non-essential” public services for a for a day in an attempt to claw back a $300m (£184m) budget deficit, the Daily Telegraph reports.
In the first of three Reduced Service days, rubbish collections were suspended and libraries and health centres were closed. Workers have been asked to take an enforced unpaid holiday in a move the authorities hope will save $8.3m.
Two more Reduced Service days are planned on November …

A Florida man has been accused of stealing information about 130 million credit and debt cards from customers of 7-Eleven and other retail giants in the biggest identify theft case ever uncovered in America, The Times reports.
Prosecutors from the Department of Justice said that Albert Gonzales, a 28-year-old from Miami, Florida, hacked into the computer systems of companies including Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processing business, Hannaford Brothers, the supermarket group, and 7-Eleven, the convenience …

Six million are out of work and claiming benefits, according to research which lays bare the true scale of joblessness under Labour.
The figure dwarfs the official rate of unemployment, which this month hit 2.4million, and is four times the number claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, the Daily Mail reports.
It is expected to soar to 6.4 million by the end of the year and 6.8 million by the end of 2010, prompting fears that Labour has created a …