The Chinese government has halted all exports of a toy found to have been coated with a toxic chemical, China’s official Xinhua news agency says. The move comes after the authorities in the United States, Australia and a number of other countries removed the Bindeez and Aqua Dots toys from sale. Seven more children in the […]
Tallest US Man Is 7-Foot-8 Va. Deputy
To all those people who blurt out "Wow, you’re tall!" as they stare up at George Bell: He knows. And now, the world will know, too. The lanky, 7-foot-8 Norfolk sheriff’s deputy is being recognized Thursday by Guinness World Records as the Tallest Man in the United States. That makes him 2 inches taller […]
Pollution Causes Birth Defects to Soar in China
BIRTH defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 per cent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China‘s worsening environmental degradation. The rate of defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, affecting nearly one in 10 families, China’s National Population and Family […]
Terrorist attacks on Benazir Bhutto widely condemned
The world has strongly condemned the dreaded terrorist attacks on The Caravan of Democracy in Karachi last night. The blasts occurred at midnight when the Caravan led by Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto was on its way to the Mazar-e-Qaed. Mohtarama Benazir survived the attack but nearly 150 people killed and 300 injured. Secretary General […]
Predicting The Worldwide Effects of The Genocide In Darfur
In order to come up with a prediction of the worldwide effects of the Darfur conflict, one must know what sparked the conflict in the first place. One must know about the conflict and crisis in Darfur to further understand it and to come up with a viable prediction. Of all of Sudan, the conflict […]
health and virtual world
A recent story in the Hindu Business line about a Chinese dying after a three day marathon in cyber cafe. really shook me. According to a Chinese daily newspaper about 14 per cent of china’s estimated internet users are addicted to cyber games. close at home In India in colleges the youth spent most of […]
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