Category: World News
Barack Obama said he deserve re-election
US President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation’s economic troubles. Obama said in a pre-Super Bowl interview on NBC that his administration is creating more than 250,000 jobs a month, the most since 2005, and a reversal from the 750,000 jobs the economy was losing three years ago. The president said American [...]
Deadly soccer riot shakes Egypt
NEW violence erupted in Cairo last night in the wake of the football stadium riots which killed 74 people and injured hundreds. Last night police fired tear gas at protesters who tried to storm the Interior Ministry, a short distance from Tahrir Square. A crowd estimated at 10,000 gathered near Tahrir Square and many pushed [...]
Mitt Romney wins Florida in landslide
MITT Romney has won the Florida primary in an avalanche and appears to be on an unstoppable roll towards becoming the Republican Party’s nominee as 2012 presidential candidate. Mr Romney’s single vote matched his other three opponents, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, combined. With just under half the votes counted, Mr Romney has [...]
Car parking? Better leave it to the wife
WOMEN can take heart from a new study that reveals they are actually the better sex when it comes to parking. After decades of male taunts over the driving skills of the opposite sex, a review of CCTV footage from 700 British car parks and interviews with 2000 drivers found that when a range of [...]
Call to ‘lay down arms’ after PNG mutiny
PAPUA New Guinea’s police called for soldiers to “lay down their arms” and let a leadership tussle be decided lawfully today after arresting an ex-colonel over an attempted uprising. Yaura Sasa was arrested in Port Moresby on Saturday after leading a rebellion which saw the nation’s military chief, Francis Agwi, taken captive and Sasa declaring [...]
Cocaine mistakely sent to UN headquarters in New York
A 16-KILOGRAM consignment of cocaine that Mexican drug traffickers recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place – the United Nations in New York. Police and UN officials on Thursday described how two fake UN bags containing the drugs – which experts said had a street value of about $2 million – set off [...]
Sarkozy opponent pledges to make rich pay for crisis
PARIS: Francois Hollande, the left-wing front runner in the French presidential race, has vowed to make the rich pay the highest price to help drag France out of its economic crisis, while promising to pump more money into schools and state-assisted jobs. The Socialist rural MP, who has declared ”my real adversary in this campaign [...]
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