Jul 15 2008
OMAR Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, was yesterday charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, his country’s western province.
Jul 15 2008
The Taliban insurgents who attacked a remote American-run outpost near the Pakistan border on Sunday numbered nearly 200 fighters, almost three times the size of the allied force, and some breached the NATO compound in a coordinated assault that took...
Jul 14 2008
THEIR deaths were portrayed as a Romeo and Juliet-style suicide pact. But Harry Horse, the acclaimed children’s author and illustrator, killed his terminally ill wife in a frenzied knife attack that left her with more than 30 wounds, it has...
Jul 14 2008
THE Catholic Church is “out of touch” with young people, according to a survey released to coincide with the Pope’s arrival in Australia for World Youth Day. An online survey conducted by social networking site MySpace appears to show...
Jul 14 2008
A YOUNG reveller nearly died in a frenzied knife attack at Scotland’s flagship music festival yesterday – in a weekend that saw no let-up in the current wave of knife crime. Police described the attack at T in the Park as “horrific”...
Jul 13 2008
Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work. (Wikipedia) Plagiarism is the bane of any writer. Quite simply, the very act of...
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Jul 9 2008
A Nevada brothel is trying to stimulate business by offering free petrol.
Jul 8 2008
AN Australian soldier has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan. Defence chief Angus Houston today said Signaller Sean McCarthy, 25, was from the Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) and had been on his second tour of...
Jul 6 2008
Last year I had my cardiac muscle dropped from a great height onto a city sidewalk. It’s taken me most of this time to scrape up the mush off the ground and weave it back together. I thought it was fixed, renewed and unproblematic until I...
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Jul 4 2008
I am revisiting this book. I was describing it to a friend yesterday and I felt compelled to share here the first three paragraphs of the book (essentially - the first page). I was hooked after the first page. It’s a beautiful effort and...
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