Four Israeli settlers were shot as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made plans to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders prior to Thursday’s peace negations. The attack of 2 men and 2 women, one of whom was pregnant, on the highway near Hebron, was labelled by the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas as an attack on [...]
Two Iowa egg farms neglected to follow their own safety plans likely contributing to the recent salmonella outbreak across the country, U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors found. Open rodent holes and manure tracked by uncaged hens were found by inspectors as well as maggots, both alive and dead, at both Hillandale Farms and Wright [...]
Hurricane Earl is on its way to the U.S. eastern seaboard, after lashing the northeast Caribbean islands, and is expected to strike in the next two days. Earl is the second major hurricane in 2010 to date, sustaining winds of 135 mph and is continuing to strengthen. Moving west-northwest on a curved track, the National [...]
A senior advisor for intelligence to the State Department has been indicted for disclosing national defence information to the media and for lying to the F.B.I., the Justice Department reported Friday. Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, 43, is alleged to have given classified information to a news organization, believed to be Fox News. He pleaded not guilty [...]
Damaged buildings were the result of two car bombs which exploded in northern Mexico Friday. These were the second and third such blasts in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the Gulf state of Tamaulipas, and the same area where 72 bodies were found by marines, and thought to be casualties of the country’s drug war. [...]
If 30 per cent of the driving population used electric cars by 2050 it would reduce oil demand and reliance on imported sources more effectively than a nation-wide mandate on the use of wind or solar energy. The Baker Institute of Rice University said it was ‘the single most effective way” to reduce carbon emissions [...]
Vanuatu has had a bad week. Only Tuesday, residents were panicked by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, and Wednesday, faced yet another earthquake, estimated at magnitude 6, to be followed shortly by a tsunami, which caused residents to run for higher ground. The US Geological survey estimated the quakes sizes and indicated that although buildings shook [...]
Service was suspended for more than an hour due to a power problem on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. The issue occurred between Perryville, Maryland and Washington, but the cause was unknown. Power was restored by 9:01 a.m. Karina Romero, Amtrak spokeswoman, reported “Some trains totally lost power, including lights and air conditioning, and service to those [...]
After gushing 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, killing 11 workers and injuring 17, the Macondo well is apparently well and truly sealed. The well was cemented at the top and the bottom by what some analysts suggested was overkill, since the mud had pushed the oil back [...]
A visit to the West Rim by Maverick helicopters stops below the look out and well above the Colorado River. Just high enough, the flight and view from the break area you can easily see the white rim from the river recession. One would think from films of the past, the Colorado River is beautiful [...]