Friday, June 27, 2008 After 33 years of managing software giant Microsoft, founder Bill Gates will retire from day-to-day management today. Gates will retain the title of Chairman but without executive functions and will only report for work once a week. The man who took a gut feeling of seeing personal computers in every household, […]
Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi assaulted
Sunday, December 13, 2009 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in San Raffaele Hospital overnight in Milan following an assault during an autograph session at the end of a rally. The 73 year-old media mogul received a punch in the face from an assailant who police named as 42 year-old Massimo Tartaglia, a local man […]
Formula One set to see standardised engines
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Formula One looks set to enter an era of standardised engines. The FIA is meeting with teams in Monte Carlo and is expected to approve the use by some teams of a standardised power unit provided by Cosworth, an automotive engineering company, from 2010 onwards. The move to a standard engine, […]
Pirates seize tourist yacht near Seychelles, troops deployed
Thursday, April 2, 2009 According to officials, Somali pirates have seized a luxury boat named the Ocean Explorer off the coast of the Seychelles archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Seven Seychellois crew members are believed to be on board. The boat is thought to be headed for Somalia. Patrick Pillay, the Foreign Affairs Minister, said […]
4 Steps To A Good Credit Score
By Alana Johnson In the olden days, our credit worthiness was based on a method of ‘good faith’ and a handshake. Those days are long gone. The ‘good faith’/handshake method has been replaced by an elusive 3-digit code known as our FICO score. Our FICO score is determined by various factors and depending on where […]
Iranian news agency reproduces The Onion article
Saturday, September 29, 2012 The Fars News Agency (FNA), an Iranian news agency, yesterday reported an article from US satirical news website The Onion as fact. The article reports “a Gallup poll” suggesting “the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans” would prefer to vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, as opposed to US […]
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Canadian jail inmates used nail clippers to escape, report finds
Friday, March 13, 2009 According to a government report released on Tuesday, six inmates of a Regina, Saskatchewan jail managed to escape last summer after spending four months using nail clippers and other makeshift instruments to break out. We didn’t think we would get away with it The report stated that no fewer than 87 […]
More Than 35,000 Worldwide Secular Events In United Coalition Of Reason’s Free, Global Reaching Secu
Read An Opinion On: Cst Tax International Tax Advisor Los Angeles More than 35,000 Worldwide Secular Events in United Coalition of Reason’s Free, Global-Reaching Secu by prpingWashington, DC, USA, December 23, 2017 /PressReleasePing/ – The United Coalition of Reason (UnitedCoR)”headquartered in Washington, DC”is excited to announce that its completely free mobile app that was designed […]
India seeks web crackdown after failed talks with industry
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Indian authorities today declared an intent to force web companies to screen content for “offensive” and “blasphemous material”. The move follows failed talks yesterday with Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Communications Minister Kapil Sibal says “My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded”, and that web firms “will have to […]