Four bombs in mainly Shi’ite Muslim areas in Baghdad killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens of others on Thursday, police and hospital sources said. Nearly nine years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, Iraq is still plagued by a deadly Sunni Muslim insurgency and Shi’ite militias From the Kadhimiya blasts killed16 and 36 wounded and […]
South Korea reached out to rival North Korea on Thursday, around three weeks after the death of the North’s dictator Kim Jong-il, saying it wanted to reopen dialogue despite the North’s rancorous outbursts. “We are open to dialogue with North Korea,” Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan told reporters. The outside world knows little about the secluded North, and both […]
Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australia waters, a potential sign the carnivores were adapting to the climate change. The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was a unique discovery, said lead researcher Jess Morgan from the University of Queensland. He further added […]
Mexican government officials are predicting a surge of visitors to the five southern states that comprise the country’s Maya region. The end of the world, it turns out, is marked by an economic boom. “Given the amount of interest we’re seeing from around the world, it’s generating global excitement as well,” said Yanick Dalhouse, the […]
Harry Burkhart observed as his mother was arrested last week, Dec. 28 on a provisional arrest warrant from their native land of Germany. Two days after his mother’s arrest he began a series of arsons that terrorized Los Angeles, police said. Burkhart lived with his mother above Elady’s shop on Sunset Boulevard. Elady said he […]
Minka Disbrow lived up to 100 years, long enough to meet the daughter she gave up for adoption after being raped at age 16. On a summer day in 1928 while picnicking with girls from a sewing class, Disbrow and her friend Elizabeth were jumped by three men as they went for a walk in their long […]
China is planning to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years. According to a plan released it shows the country’s space program is gathering momentum. Its eventual goals are to have a space station and put an astronaut on the moon. It has made methodical development with its striving […]
Lena Paahlsson, a Swedish woman who lost her white gold wedding ring was shocked when she found it again after 16 years, just around a carrot growing in her garden. In 1995, she had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas while baking session with her daughters, who live on a farm in northern Sweden, but the ring, had […]
At present, most registered nurses have two-year associate’s degrees. No state requires a four-year degree for initial licensing or afterward. Under a bill, lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, even as the health care industry faces staffing shortages. New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor’s degrees within 10 years […]
For the tiny South Pacific Island nation December 30, Friday has been skipped this year as it ditched a time-zone alliance with the United States and moved its time zone 24 hours ahead to catch up with Asia, New Zealand and Australia. In a move to make it easier for Samoa to trade with key […]
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