STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden is investigating to see whether the U.S. embassy has committed any crime by carrying out surveillance measures, the prosecutor’s office said on Monday in a case similar to one that has blown up in neighboring Norway.
The Sri Lankan government is intensifying its struggle against an unlikely enemy but one which it says is very real – wheat.
Muggs Bass lives on Michigan’s remote Beaver Island. She has incurable cancer. But thanks to technology on this increasingly wired island she’s able to connect with a cancer support group on the mainland via video conference.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – A nation renowned for the art of queueing may be losing its patience, a survey has shown, with the average British adult able to stand in line for only 10 minutes and 42 seconds before tempers start to fray.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – They are already regular users of Twitter and YouTube — but now Britain’s royal family is setting up its own page on Internet social networking site Facebook.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – An ancient training center for gladiators collapsed early Saturday in the celebrated archeological site of Pompeii, sparking sharp debate over whether it could have been saved.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Thousands marched in Argentina’s Gay Pride parade on Saturday, celebrating the country’s status as the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage and vowing to campaign for new rights for transgender people.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Scientists excavating an Ice Age ecosystem in the resort town of Snowmass Village say they have found the first Jefferson’s ground sloth ever discovered in Colorado.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Los Angeles police have stopped and evacuated an Amtrak train in the San Fernando Valley when concerns were raised about a passenger, but officers found nothing suspicious.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Rescue brigades on Saturday recovered three more bodies of people who died in a huge mid-week mudslide triggered by heavy rain, raising the death toll to 23, the Costa Rican Red Cross said Saturday.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – A tanker truck transporting fuel collided with a passenger bus in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, killing 21 people, local officials said Saturday.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Five Somali men accused of firing assault rifles at a Navy ship off the coast of Africa are set to face the first U.S. piracy trial in more than 100 years.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has deployed unmanned Predator drones in Yemen to hunt for al-Qaida operatives who are becoming increasingly active in that Arab country, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Congress should act quickly, before new members take their seats, to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Olive Garden is seeking to capture students’ future aspirations and plans to achieve their goals as part of its 15th-annual Pasta Tales essay writing contest. This year, Olive Garden is asking students to: “Describe how furthering your education beyo