HIV-positive man receives 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer

Sunday, May 18, 2008
An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, one day after being convicted of harassment of a public servant for spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas, Texas police officer in May 2006. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that no one has ever contracted HIV from saliva, and a gay-rights and AIDS advocacy group caRead More…

Researcher claims unmarked grave contains 1950 Lake Michigan plane crash victims

Sunday, September 14, 2008
The plane vanished somewhere over Lake MichiganA researcher from Holland, Michigan claims to have found an unmarked grave containing human remains from Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501. The airliner vanished over Lake Michigan in 1950 with 55 passengers and three crew.
Valerie van Heest says she has discovered that human remains washed ashore after the June 23 craRead More…

U.S. superbug expected to emerge in Canada

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Two Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, magnified 50,000 times.An infectious superbug spreading in the United States is to “emerge in force” in Canada, doctors fear. The bacteria have been reported popping up in day care centers and locker rooms across the U.S. Usually elderly or very ill hospital patients get the disease.
More than 2 million U.S. residents are infected evRead More…

Million Dollar Homepage is close to achieving million-dollar goal

Friday, December 30, 2005
The Million Dollar Homepage, as of 29 December 2005.Alex Tew, a student in England, has almost reached his target of one million dollars on his website: Million Dollar Homepage. He came up with the idea after jotting down ideas before he went to bed on how to become a millionaire before he went to university. Then he came up with the million-dollar idea: selling pixels Read More…

Messi passes from penalty for Suárez’s hat-trick as Barça beats Celta 6-1

Monday, February 15, 2016
Yesterday, Barcelona football star Lionel Messi made a risky pass from the penalty spot to Luis Suárez, setting up the completion of a Suárez hat-trick against Celta Vigo, and Barça defeated them 6–1 in a La Liga match at Camp Nou. Suárez climbed to the top spot for La Liga this season, scoring 23 goals, and FC Barcelona are unbeaten in their last 30 games in all Read More…

Philippine President calls for resignation of cabinet due to deflation of peso

Friday, July 8, 2005
Amid news of a drop of the Philippine peso for a sixth straight week, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday asked all members of the cabinet to resign, preparing the road for change in the administration.
In the past month the peso has fallen 3.1 percent due in part to accusations that Arroyo cheated in last year’s elections, as well as accusations that heRead More…

Category:Music

This is the category for Music. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 10 August 2022: Judith Durham, lead singer of The Seekers, dies at 79 8 February 2022: Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar dies at age 92 5 August 2021: DaBaby Levitating remix losing US radio audiences after the rapper’s comments on HIV/AIDS 11 June 2021: Taylor Swift’s Evermore records biggest sales week of the year aRead More…

At least 53 killed, over 90 injured in Shanghai apartment fire

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
China’s Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that at least 53 people were killed in Shanghai during a deadly fire. The blaze, which occurred on Monday at 2:15 p.m. CST (0615 UTC), consumed a 28-story high-rise apartment building in the city’s Jing’an District.
The building was being renovated at the time of the fire, and was home to over 150 families. At least 100 victims hRead More…

Four children among six Canadians killed in Israeli attack on Lebanon

Thursday, July 20, 2006
In the continued conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, six Canadians, including four children who were killed on Sunday by an Israeli missile hitting a house in south Lebanon have been identified. Saja Al-Akhrass (8), Zeinab Al-Akhrass (6), Ahmad Al-Akhrass (4), and Salam Al-Akhrass (11 months) were in Lebanon for a summer holiday, visiting their extended family. They Read More…