What happens when a television channel starts looking around for the highest bidder? The Weather Channel did just that at the beginning of the year saying they could bring someone at least $5 billion in sales.
When the story broke on the New York Times that the Weather Channel and its website weather.com were out looking [...]
As the victims of Myanmar’s tragic cyclone wait for help, the U.N. has halted aid. Over 38 tons of biscuits that had been sent into the country were seized by Myanmar’s junta. Those biscuits could be providing relief to as many as 95,000 people.
“All of the food aid and equipment that we managed to get [...]
The BBC is the latest to face an attack in Iraq. The BBC’s bureau in Baghdad was hit Friday with a rocket. The details of the hit are very minimal with no one claiming responsibility for the attack.
The rocket hit the building that houses the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Baghdad bureau. There is damage to the [...]
As the day was about to end Wednesday at Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute a sixteen-year-old boy was stabbed in the abdomen in a basement hallway of the school. The result was a lock-down of the school that lasted over an hour in the Toronto school.
The school located near Greenwood and Danforth Avenues was quickly being [...]
Police in Toronto are warning parents of young boys living in the east end to be aware of a potential sex offender. A man has been reported approaching young boys and following them.
Two boys, 10 and 11, told police that while they were riding their bikes in the Leslie St. and Gerrard Street East area [...]
In the face of sorrow from Cyclone Nargis comes new life. Than Win lost seven of her 10 children in the Cyclone. On Wednesday she gave birth to her eleventh child in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta where over 10,000 are now dead. The 41-year-old mother gave birth to Chit Oo Mg which translated means “First Love” [...]
Within weeks teens under the age of 16 will have to get their Mum or Dad to sign off if they want to get a piercing in New South Wales.
The ban on young teenagers is going in effect because of the health risks that can come from the fashion trend. Nipple and genital piercings for [...]
Hackers that tapped into the Epilepsy Foundation’s website with hundreds of rapidly changing flashing pictures have shown that these criminals can be motivated by not just greed but malice also.
The breach on the site has caused some viewers to experience severe migraines and near-seizure reactions when they viewed the images. People who have photosensitive epilepsy [...]
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