Bangkok hit with further New Year bomb blasts

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Monday, January 1, 2007 More bombs went off just after midnight (0500 GMT) on New Year’s Day in Bangkok, injuring eight people near a shopping mall where hours before a New Year’s Eve countdown was cancelled due to a string of six bombings earlier in the evening. The first bomb exploded at a seafood restaurant on the Saen Saeb Canal near Pratunam Pier just seconds after midnight. Three foreigners and two Thais were injured. OneContinue reading

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How To Choose A Digital Camera

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Here’s An Opinion On: Cycle Counting By Adriana Notton Today, there are a wide range of digital cameras on the market. As well, every year many more new cameras are introduced. Each camera promotes a variety of features such as: design, file formats, resolution, usability, and much more. It can be very difficult trying to pick the best digital camera that meets your needs. Because there is not one single digital camera that can beContinue reading

Sleep Apnea Or Sleep Apnoea? Which Is It?!!

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Here’s An Opinion On: Pension Boost Submitted by: John Arthur If you’re in the business of getting people to stop snoring or if you are one of the 250,000 Australians that have already been diagnosed with OSA, then you’d presumably be pretty familiar with the word …but do you know how to spell it? Although there have been many creative, erroneous variations in spelling these two words, (probably attempted by many who need a snoringContinue reading

Immigration Detainees on Hunger Strike in Oxford UK

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Thursday, June 15, 2006 One hundred and twenty detainees at an immigration removal centre in Oxford, UK, are on hunger strike. The protest started when some detainees refused breakfast on Wednesday 14th June 2006. A letter from the hunger strikers explaining why they are seeking to draw attention to their plight in this way has been reproduced in full below. Those detained at the centre are mostly men who have sought asylum in the UKContinue reading

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U.S. classifies record number of documents in 2004

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Monday, September 5, 2005 OpenTheGovernment.Org, a coalition of conservative and liberal nonprofit groups, released a 2005 report (PDF, 12 pages) saying that all branches of the U.S. Federal Government are being significantly more secretive, and spending significantly more money on document secrecy. In 2004, federal officials classified 15.6 million new documents, which is 81 percent more than in 2001. Over the same period, the cost of classifying those new documents rose from $4.7 billion toContinue reading

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Details emerge on Norway Rock Festival deaths as Motörhead hold minute’s silence

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Monday, July 14, 2008 Further details have emerged on the deaths of two people at the annual Norway Rock Festival in Kvinesdal. Eight other people were rescued unconscious from a bus at the site. Meanwhile, it has been reported that British heavy metal band Motörhead opened their performance at the festival with a minute’s silence for the deceased. The names of those killed have now been released. They are Terje Brueland, 32, and Anita Wathne,Continue reading

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How To Resolve The Cost Of 3 Beadroom Apartments

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Here’s An Opinion On: Best Hotel In Gosford How To Resolve The Cost Of 3 Beadroom Apartments by Tina Hines When you go on holidays, your accommodation is an important part of your enjoyment. Many people who are on a budget try to save by squishing into a one bedroom place but this is a mistake. 3 beadroom apartments are not that much more expensive and you can spread out a bit and enjoy yourContinue reading

Augusten Burroughs on addiction, writing, his family and his new book

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Friday, October 12, 2007 I had an unofficial phone call from Gay Talese last Tuesday. He had just flown back from Colombia and he was cranky. “I’m happy to do an interview with you,” he said, “but what the hell could you ask me that’s not already out there? Have you even bothered to look?!” “Jeez, Mr. Talese, lots of things,” was my response. I lied. The truth is that when I call people toContinue reading

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U.S. Coast Guard investigation finds ‘poor safety culture’ contributed to Deepwater Horizon disaster

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 An investigation by the United States Coast Guard has concluded the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry was partly the result of a “poor safety culture” aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The April 2010 explosion aboard the rig, which is located in the Gulf of Mexico, triggered a disaster that led to widespread environmental damage. The report squarely blames Transocean, which managed the Deepwater Horizon, forContinue reading

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