US Presidential candidates offer condolences to family of Benazir Bhutto

Thursday, December 27, 2007
The United States Presidential candidates offered condolences to Benazir Bhutto’s family and to the country of Pakistan today. Multiple candidates offered up messages about this former foreign leader.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack as she was leaving a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi. At least 20 people died in the attaRead More…

Mc Intyre Still Optimistic About Bitcoin

Read An Opinion On: Best Ux Design Course Sydney Submitted by: Jamie McIntyre
The website of major Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is offline amid reports it suffered a debilitating theft of the virtual currency.
The URL of the Tokyo-based Mt. Gox was on Tuesday returning a blank page.
The disappearance of the site follows the resignation on Sunday of Mt. Gox from the board of the Bitcoin FoundaRead More…

Afghan women’s rights official shot dead

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Safia Ahmed-jan, the director of the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs for the Khandahar province and an advocate of women’s rights and a strong critic of the Taliban’s repression of those rights, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside her home in Khandahar city in southern Afghanistan on Monday. Safia Ama-jan, as she was known locally, is the first woman offiRead More…

SpaceX delays Falcon 1 launch again

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
SpaceX Corporation has postponed the launch of the maiden flight of their Falcon 1 rocket again at their Kwajalein launch facility. Although not as damaging as the previous delay on November 11, this is certainly a significant set back for Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX.
A full engine test was conducted on the rocket, and the launch pad equipment which holdsRead More…

Fertilizing To Create More Blossoms On Your Flowers, Flowering Shrubs And Trees

Read An Opinion On: Trex Price Sunshine Coast By Michael McGroarty
The secret to making your flowering trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials bloom more is in the numbers. All fertilizers have analysis numbers on the package. These numbers represent the percentage of each chemical the fertilizer contains. For example, 12-12-12 is a typical garden fertilizer that would contain 12% nitrogeRead More…

Leaked cables cause Australian concern

Friday, December 10, 2010
Leaked diplomatic cables between Australia and the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, have raised controversy in the Australian community. The documents were released by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. The cables between the then prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, and the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, revealed that China may need to be forcedRead More…

Bat for Lashes plays the Bowery Ballroom: an Interview with Natasha Khan

Friday, September 28, 2007
Bat for Lashes is the doppelgänger band ego of one of the leading millennial lights in British music, Natasha Khan. Caroline Weeks, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey comprise the aurora borealis that backs this haunting, shimmering zither and glockenspiel peacock, and the only complaint coming from the audience at the Bowery Ballroom last Tuesday was that they could not camp oRead More…

Australian opposition minister gives speech on poverty

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Australian shadow minister for work, family, youth, and community, Tanya Plibersek, gave a speech today on poverty as part of Anti-Poverty Week 2005. During the speech she criticised the government in a number of areas, including not committing to the UN Millennium Development Goals, the proposed industrial relations legislation, and the governments funding of servicesRead More…

Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer dies at age 58

Sunday, March 18, 2007
Bob Woolmer, Pakistan’s cricket coach died at a university hospital in Kingston, Jamaica earlier today. Woolmer was found unconscious in his room at the Pegasus Hotel at 10:45 Sunday morning, only hours after Pakistan’s Cricket World Cup exit at the hands of Ireland.
After being found by hotel workers in his room, he was rushed to the emergency department at the UniversityRead More…