Britain to replace Trident nuclear missile system

Friday, November 24, 2006 The British Cabinet decided that Britain will retain its nuclear deterrent by replacing the Trident missile system carried on submarines, in its first meeting on the subject yesterday. The case for considering land-based and airborne systems made by former Defence Minister Geoff Hoon was rejected. The Cabinet agreed that three or four new submarines should be […]

Gamespy, IGN award Galactic Civilizations II expansion Editors’ Choice

Thursday, February 15, 2007 Plymouth, Michigan, United States – This week, independent software developer Stardock released Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, an expansion to their PC turn-based strategy game Dread Lords. Industry websites IGN and GameSpy responded with Editors’ Choice awards, while UGO gave it an A. The expansion had previously been named as one of GameSpy’s Most Wanted Games […]

Celebrate Durga Puja With Traditional Silk Sarees

Read More About: Crochet Knitting Yarns Celebrate Durga Puja with Traditional Silk Sarees by ronniemj The most important festival of people belonging to the eastern part of India, especially West Bengal, Durga Puja is known for its grandeur. Durga Puja extends over 3-4 days and calls for much revelry and merriment. While during the morning men and women get dressed […]

US unemployment rate reaches 9.8%

Friday, October 2, 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country’s unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The US Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 263,000 jobs in September, with companies in the service industries — including banks, restaurants and retailers — hit especially hard. This is the 21st consecutive month […]

Sadr City suicide bomber uses fruit truck to kill 66 on market day

Sunday, July 2, 2006 A suicide bomber exploded a truck bomb in the crowded Al-Ula market in Sadr City in Baghdad on Saturday, killing 66 people and injuring over a 100. ‘At the beginning of this market, the criminal blew up his dynamite-packed truck after trying to go over the pavement,’ said Iraq’s Deputy Health Minister Sabah al-Hussein. The explosion […]

Researchers create rat kidneys in a laboratory

Monday, April 15, 2013 Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital have created laboratory-grown rat kidneys that function when transplanted into rats according to a study published online yesterday in the medical journal Nature Medicine. The kidneys were capable of urine production and excretion without blood clots in both the laboratory and inside living rats. The researchers were able to create […]

Exporting Technology To Africa To Save Lives

Read More About: Cycle Counting Exporting Technology to Africa to Save Lives by Chris Cowper A chance phone call from the Clinton Foundation in Mozambique has changed ours and their lives dramatically. It shows the power of creating appropriate and well constructed websites describing a company’s services and products. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhoYLp8CtXI[/youtube] What was the problem and then the solution: Delayed test […]

US President Obama authorizes airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq

Friday, August 8, 2014 United States President Barack Obama appeared in the State Dining Room at the White House Thursday night saying he was authorizing two operations in Iraq against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgency. They were launched to help religious minorities who are trapped on a mountain without food and water that are “facing […]