Chechen leader killed by Russian Special Forces

Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Aslan Maskhadov, the leader of the separatist movement in Chechnya, is reported to have been killed by Russian special forces. FSB head Nikolay Patrushev announced that special forces attached to the FSB (the successor to the KGB) had “today carried out an operation in the settlement of Tolstoy-Yurt, as a result …

Three dead in murder-suicide shooting at Southern California fast food restaurant

Sunday, June 20, 2010 A 6-year-old boy and his father were shot and killed Saturday afternoon while eating inside a busy Del Taco fast food restaurant in San Bernadino, California, before the shooter turned a gun on himself. According to the San Bernadino Police Department, 56-year-old Jimmy Schlager arrived at the Del Taco at 1:15pm …

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. …

Bolivia’s Evo Morales wins referendum on a new leftist constitution

Monday, January 26, 2009 File:Schafik handal con fidel.jpg The Bolivian President, Evo Morales, 49, has claimed victory after voters ratified a new leftist constitution, granting more power to the country’s indigenous majority. “The indigenous farmers, the most marginalized sector throughout the history of the republic, are now recognized as people with the same rights as …

Sarcastic Political T Shirts Let Activists Make Their Point

Click Here To Know More About: Financial Planners Sydney Best Financial Advisor Balmain By Stacy Fox Jake Greer and his girlfriend Katelyn Mosley are both wearing sarcastic political t shirts. His says ‘Obama Wants My Change – No New Taxes’ while hers reads ‘Vote For Social Security Reform – McCain’s going to need it.’ The …

Java creator criticizes .Net

Saturday, February 5, 2005 Australia –James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, said last week that he believes Microsoft is wrong in its decision to support C and C++ programming languages in the common language runtime in Microsoft .NET. According to him, this decision may lead to severe security flaws in .NET. Gosling …

Charlie the smoking chimpanzee dies aged 52

Thursday, October 7, 2010 Charlie, a Chimpanzee in a South African zoo who became addicted to cigarettes, has died at the age of 52, exceeding the average lifespan of a captive chimpanzee by twelve years. After a video of Charlie puffing on cigarettes discarded by visitors appeared on the Internet, the animal and the zoo …

What Are The Benefits Of Video Sewer Inspection For Victorville?

Click Here To Know More About: Kitchen Cabinet Makers Sydney Adp Vanity Units byAlma Abell Did you know that the word “sewer” has more than one meaning? Pronounced with the emphasis on the “sew” part and the needle and thread connection becomes obvious. Change the pronunciation and drainage systems come to mind. However, the same …

John Reed on Orwell, God, self-destruction and the future of writing

Thursday, October 18, 2007 It can be difficult to be John Reed. Christopher Hitchens called him a “Bin Ladenist” and Cathy Young editorialized in The Boston Globe that he “blames the victims of terrorism” when he puts out a novel like Snowball’s Chance, a biting send-up of George Orwell‘s Animal Farm which he was inspired …