As William Kamkwamba was last week winding down his extraordinary, high profile US book tour to promote the publication of his newly released autobiography, co-authored with Bryan Mealer, a story bearing striking semblances to Kamkwamba’s genius was heating up in Malawi. Only this time, the story was uncovered because of an arrest and a jail […]
Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
EDT Last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover,replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company with a firm named Triple Canopy. The new $1 billion contract cemented Triple Canopy’s status as the pre-eminent provider of private security services in Iraq, with its heavily armed employees appearing side by side with senior State […]
Clean-up on illegal transports starts
The exceptional drive to free the city streets from the irritating traffic congestion officially started today with the deployment of six mobile courts five days after the government decision. The mobile courts are assigned to seize unfit, unlicensed and old vehicles plying on the city streets as part of the crackdown to drive out all […]
Doctor loses license in live birth abortion case
Doctor loses license in live birth abortion case. Arman:A doctor’s license was revoked Friday in the case of a teenager who planned to have an abortion but instead gave birth to a baby she says was killed when clinic staffers put it into a plastic bag and threw it in the trash. The doctor, Pierre […]
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, software that turns iPod into a phone Sun, Dec 7 03:15 PM London, Dec 7 (ANI): With a freeware application for the iPod Touch, your swanky music player can be turned into a virtual mobile phone, say the software’s creators. ‘Truphone’ uses wi-fi technology in an iPod Touch and enables phone users […]
Three Arrested in Connection with Turkish Girls’ Dormitory Collapse
Posted by Anne Szustek to findingDulcinea.com Three administrators of a girls’ dormitory near the central Turkish city of Konya are being held for “causing death through negligence” after the building’s collapse killed 18 residents. School headmaster Hüseyin Çömlek, deputy headmaster Mehmet Semerci, and Mehmet Göktas, the head of the foundation that built the dormitory, the Balcilar […]
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