NEW YORK (AFP) – International scientists nudged back the minute hand of the symbolic Doomsday clock Thursday, as they praised President Barack Obama for helping to pull the world back from nuclear or environmental catastrophe. “It is six minutes to midnight,” the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS), which created the Doomsday clock in 1947 as [...]
As a massive human tragedy unfolds in Haiti, relief organizations are soliciting credit-card donations through their hotlines and websites. About 97 percent of these donations will actually make it to the designated organizations — but the other 3 percent will be skimmed off by banks and credit card companies to cover their “transaction costs.” Thanks [...]
Watch the news video clip here Witnesses have described their horror at seeing a tourist being eaten by a “gigantic” shark in South Africa’s most popular holiday destination. Lloyd Skinner was pulled under the surf and dragged out to sea by the shark, believed to be a great white, off Fish Hoek beach in Cape [...]
Michelle Obama takes London! The dresses, the jewels, AND what she wore to meet the Queen. (Anyone noticed how dwarf-like the Queen looked in between these two skyscrappers? Cute!) Barack Obama and his wife departed for the UK earlier this week, and, while the president is tending to serious business– the G20 economic summit in [...]
President John F. Kennedy once quipped that he was merely “the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.” This week, Barack Obama might find out how he felt. The first couple’s trip to Europe Tuesday takes Michelle Obama to a land that likes her husband but seems positively fascinated by her. The British press in [...]
PRAGUE (AFP) – The fall of the Czech Republic’s centre-right government cast new doubts Wednesday on the future of the EU’s Lisbon reform treaty and overshadowed the country’s EU presidency. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek rushed back to Prague from the European parliament after seeking to reassure EU members his political battle would have “no impact” [...]
Pressly also co-star as a longtime couple who bicker incessantly. (It is fun, though, to see Favreau play the arrogant jerk for a change and not the needy mensch.) “I Love You, Man” didn’t need all that obvious, crass stuff. Its sensitive side was far more attractive. “I Love You, Man,” a DreamWorks Pictures release, [...]
by Romy LeClaire Loran, FindtheRightSchool.com Choosing a career path can be challenging. Half of all college students change their majors at least once as they travel the sometimes bumpy road that will lead right degree. If you want to follow your dreams as well as provide for a certain future, take heart. As long as [...]
