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August 7, 2009

Racing to Retreat: An Island’s Extremes

By Susan Carpenter Los Angeles Times ISLE OF MAN ~ If I had been able to sleep on the 10-hour – Read More...
August 7, 2009

Somali Pirates Free Malaysian, German Ships

NAIROBI ~ Somali pirates freed a Malaysian tugboat and a German container ship with a total of 35 seamen after – Read More...
August 7, 2009

Indonesian Tribe to Use Korean Alphabet

SEOUL ~ A small Indonesian tribe which has no written version of its language has decided to adopt the Korean – Read More...
August 7, 2009

A Few Foot Notes

By Chris Erskine Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES ~ I was thinking the other day, while I was getting my – Read More...
August 7, 2009

West Guarded as Ahmadinejad Starts Second Term

Western powers backed opponents of Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he took power for a second term but shied – Read More...
August 7, 2009

Australia Red-faced over ‘Terror Target’ Security Gaffe

SYDNEY ~ Australia defended security arrangements at its military bases on Thursday after two journalists infiltrated a Sydney barracks allegedly – Read More...
August 7, 2009

Starbucks Goes Undercover with Local Cafe

SEATTLE ~ From Hong Kong to Paris to Miami to Seattle, if you have visited one Starbucks, you have visited – Read More...
August 7, 2009

On Cigarette Packets, More Than Words Dupe Smokers: Study

Something as simple as the colour of a cigarette packet can dupe smokers into thinking the cigarettes it contains are – Read More...
August 7, 2009

Malaria Jumped from Chimps to Humans, Scientists Find

WASHINGTON ~ Malaria, which affects some 500 million people a year worldwide, was first transmitted to humans by chimpanzees, according – Read More...
August 7, 2009

Child’s Pay

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s announcement this week in his speech on the 2010 state budget that civil servants would see – Read More...