Archive for the 'International News' Category



Monday, February 6th, 2006

Ultimate Face Lift

Isabelle Dinoire© Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

The world’s first partial face transplant took place in France. The total time to perform the surgery was 15 hours, using tissues, muscles, arteries and veins from a woman who has committed suicide.
Isabelle Dinoire had been disfigured by her dog when she was passed out from taking medicines to calm [...]


Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Angelina Jolie Calls For Help

The UN ambassador of goodwill Angelina Jolie urge the world to speed up the assistance to earthquake torn Pakistan before the deathly winter cold hits. Jolie makes an appealed to the donor nations to quickly make good on the pledges they make earlier in the week.
The pledges need to materialize soon.
Because from what I’m understanding, [...]


Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Louis Vuitton Class In Session

The favorite fashion designer Louis Vuitton or better known as simply LV is going to school. They will be offering a social science class at the Keio University in Japan.
The company will pay the cost of the one-year course, beginning in 2007, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Monday.
Louis Vuitton and Keio have signed a contract [...]


Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Bird Flu Spreads To England

The avian flu has spread to England now. It’s a matter of time before it rest the United States.
The British government said Sunday that a strain of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly H5N1 strain that has plagued Asia and recently spread to Europe.
Scientists determined that the parrot, imported [...]


Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Terrorists New Tool

An unexpected new tools the terrorists of the future will sure be using is the great Google product known as Google Earth. I would also agree that it can possibly be used for bad terroristic things but I can’t imagine not using it. I have been using it to check out all those fun places, [...]


Friday, October 7th, 2005

Al Qaeda Job Post

The international terrorist group know as Al Qaeda has put up a job ad on one of their internet site. The job is for someone to write the web statements and video editor. I bet the job seeker will also have to do other things that’s not very nice.
…al Qaeda had “vacant positions” for video [...]


Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Mickey Mouse Goes China

Disney’s newest theme park is about to open it’s door to the public this Monday in Hong Kong. The park will be 30 minutes from central Hong Kong, which was constructed at a cost of $3.5 billion dollars and encompass a total of 298 acres. Also located at the theme park is two resort hotels.
The [...]


Friday, August 12th, 2005

Siberia Melts Cause Greenhouse Effect

The atmosphere is heating up, with the fastest warm up occurring in Western Siberia. According to Russian researchers the world’s largest frozen peat bog is melting. There is an estimated 70 billion tons of methanes under the frozen peat bog. The peat bog is larger than France and Germany combined and the amount of meathane [...]


Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

When Computer Games Kill

When you are playing a computer game for over 50 hours you know something bad is going to happen. A Korean man dies from playing a computer game for 50 hours.
The man, identified by his family name, Lee, started playing Starcraft on 3 August. He only paused playing to go to the toilet and for [...]


Monday, August 8th, 2005

ABS News Anchor Dies at 67

Canadian born news anchor Peter Jenning dies from lung cancer at the age of 67. Jenning was a natural news anchor given that he never finished high school or college. Jennings was part of a the three iconic news anchor of NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CBS’s Dan Rather. The death of Jennings comes a [...]


Saturday, August 6th, 2005

60th Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the U.S. military towards the close of World War II. The first atomic bomb ever used was detonated over the Hiroshima on the 6th of August, 1945. The second bomb was dropped three days later at Nagasaki. The bombing and its aftermath [...]


Friday, August 5th, 2005

Jailed for Molesting Sleeping Woman

A business executive was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman seated next to him on a Delta Air Lines flight from Dallas to Boston.
Deepak Jahagirdar, 55, laid a blanket over the 22-year-old woman who was returning from a vacation, unfastened her seat belt, unbuttoned her pants and [...]




Licenses To Kill

An international group of police chiefs recently expanded its guidelines for use of deadly force, instructing officers to shoot suspected suicide bombers in the head. Details were printed in Thursday’s Washington Post.
According to the newspaper, the guide recommends that if lethal force is needed to stop someone who fits a certain behavioral profile, the officer [...]


 
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