Tweet MANILA (Reuters) – Their canvas is a stretch of dingy concrete wall along Manila‘s main highway, where millions of vehicles stream past every day, belching exhaust that helps to create a noxious, unhealthy smog. But the murals now blooming under the hands of street artists along Epifanio delos Santos [...]
Tweet (AP/Paul Sakuma)A family living in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park was shocked to discover their monthly electric bill was more expensive than most families make in an entire year: $107, 625.16. Kathy and David Rajter had used 2,236 kilowatt hours the previous month and received a bill for [...]
Tweet NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some U.S. pawnbrokers are taking liquid assets – literally. Along with family jewels and fine art they will accept wines as collateral for loans to help ease cash shortages of businesses and people on all rungs of the economic ladder. “You’d be amazed by how [...]
Tweet CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio church is offering a drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners who might be pressed for time. The Rev. Patricia Anderson Cook of Mt. Healthy United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati plans to provide the service for people of all faiths and services beginning around [...]
Tweet Charlie Chaplin died in 1977 3:20pm UK, Friday February 17, 2012 The mystery over Charlie Chaplin’s country of birth has deepened after newly-released files shed fresh light on MI5′s investigations into his alleged communist sympathies. British intelligence officers could find no documents confirming the iconic film star was born [...]
Tweet To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. 6:26pm UK, Wednesday February 22, 2012 Brazil’s Sao Paulo carnival parade contest ended in riots after a man stole and destroyed the judges’ results. As crowds waited to [...]
Tweet KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — He has never worked outside the home or seen a doctor, and until Wednesday, he had never left his remote mountain village in western Nepal. So 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi only recently learned he might be the world’s shortest man. Dangi says he’s only 22 [...]
Tweet (Reuters) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stood out from the crowd during a G20 group photo in which she was the only participant not dressed in a white button-down shirt. Instead, Clinton arrived wearing one of her signature pantsuits, this one a shade of chartreuse green. The photo-op was [...]
Tweet MANILA (Reuters) – Their canvas is a stretch of dingy concrete wall along Manila‘s main highway, where millions of vehicles stream past every day, belching exhaust that helps to create a noxious, unhealthy smog. But the murals now blooming under the hands of street artists along Epifanio delos Santos [...]Tweet (AP/Paul Sakuma)A family living in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park was shocked to discover their monthly electric bill was more expensive than most families make in an entire year: $107, 625.16. Kathy and David Rajter had used 2,236 kilowatt hours the previous month and received a bill for [...]Tweet NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some U.S. pawnbrokers are taking liquid assets – literally. Along with family jewels and fine art they will accept wines as collateral for loans to help ease cash shortages of businesses and people on all rungs of the economic ladder. “You’d be amazed by how [...]Tweet CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio church is offering a drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners who might be pressed for time. The Rev. Patricia Anderson Cook of Mt. Healthy United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati plans to provide the service for people of all faiths and services beginning around [...]Tweet Charlie Chaplin died in 1977 3:20pm UK, Friday February 17, 2012 The mystery over Charlie Chaplin’s country of birth has deepened after newly-released files shed fresh light on MI5′s investigations into his alleged communist sympathies. British intelligence officers could find no documents confirming the iconic film star was born [...]Tweet To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. 6:26pm UK, Wednesday February 22, 2012 Brazil’s Sao Paulo carnival parade contest ended in riots after a man stole and destroyed the judges’ results. As crowds waited to [...]Tweet KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — He has never worked outside the home or seen a doctor, and until Wednesday, he had never left his remote mountain village in western Nepal. So 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi only recently learned he might be the world’s shortest man. Dangi says he’s only 22 [...]Tweet We have 118 guests and no members online Article source: http://www.oddnews.org/77-odd-news/633-hillary-clinton-must-not-have-gotten-the-white-shirt-memo-the-sideshow.html TweetTweet We have 117 guests and no members online Article source: http://www.oddnews.org/77-odd-news/633-hillary-clinton-must-not-have-gotten-the-white-shirt-memo-the-sideshow.html TweetTweet (Reuters) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stood out from the crowd during a G20 group photo in which she was the only participant not dressed in a white button-down shirt. Instead, Clinton arrived wearing one of her signature pantsuits, this one a shade of chartreuse green. The photo-op was [...]
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