Israel rejects 48-hour ceasefire plan for Gaza

Israeli government is not in mode to stop bombardment and air strike therefore they rejected a french call for a 48 hours ceasefire. according the Israel attitude and as the Israel official said that the...

Iran Urges Arabs to Act on Gaza

Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad ask the Arab League to take action as possible as quickly against the Israeli aggression and attacks on Gaza. Mohmood Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran asked from the Arab...

30,000 new US troops in Afghanistan by mid-2009

"KABUL: The United States plans to send between 20,000 and 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said here Saturday. General...

Google's Android Gains More Powerful Followers

"Today is a dark day for Nokia and Microsoft: Telco Vodafone, equipment maker Ericsson and handset maker Sony Ericsson have joined Google’s camp in making rival cell-phone software. Today, Open...

1 in 3 Britons believe in virgin birth

" In the poll of over a thousand adults, undertaken for Theos by ComRes, 34% of people agreed that the statement "Jesus was born to a virgin called Mary" was historically accurate. Only 32% considered it fictional. Women are more likely to...

Pak agrees to 48-hour timetable to act against LeT

"Washington, Dec 06: Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour timetable set by India and the United States to formulate a plan to take action against Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) and to arrest at least three Pakistanis who Indian...

Blast in Assam market, 9 injured; 3 ULFA militants killed

"Nine persons, including two children, were injured in a powerful bomb blast in a market in central Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Saturday. Three ULFA militants were killed and another nabbed in two separate...

Bank of England slashes rates 1% to historic low

The Bank of England today slashed interest rates by a further 1%, bringing the interest rate to a historic low. The interest rate cuts in recent months have been among the fastest in Britain's history."The Bank of...

Microsoft's Black Friday and the Success of Xbox 360

"Microsoft announced today that on Black Friday its Xbox 360 game console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 at a 3 to 1 ratio. That record weekend of sales puts the 360 over 25 million systems sold worldwide, surpassing the sales of the original Xbox"Say what you will, but...

Bush: "I Was Unprepared For War," "I'm Sorry" For The Economic Crisis

Bush: "I Was Unprepared For War," "I'm Sorry" For The Economic Crisis stumble digg reddit ...

Social Networking Site Ning Goes Porn-Free

For a little over a year now, Ning.com, one of the first and most prolific niche-social networking sites, has built a reputation of being overrun with porn networks.  At one point earlier this year, it was...

1987 Stock Market Crash Shows How Short Selling In 2008 Is Crushing America

"The stock market crash of 1987 seemingly taught America how to protect its markets. We have forgotten. Laws were enacted to protect America from a recurrence of such an event, but the laws that protect us the most...

Sasha, Malia Will Attend Chelsea's Alma Mater

"Malia and Sasha Obama will enroll at Sidwell Friends School, the Quaker institution that educated Chelsea Clinton, Michelle Obama's spokeswoman said today. The girls visited both Sidwell and Georgetown Day School...

Church and police join forces to end binge drinking

A new campaign is being launched in Wales today with the aim of ending binge drinking. People are signing a pledge to stop the practice, which is very common in the UK."PEOPLE across Wales are today urged to pledge to stop binge drinking as an unprecedented coalition of...

New UK law to criminalise men who pay for sex with trafficked women

The UK government has unveiled new laws for cracking down on men who pay for sex. The new laws will apply specifically to trafficked women, or women who are being controlled and pay money to a pimp."New prostitution laws to be set out today will mean a plea of ignorance is no...

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