An Australian investigation into why a Chinese-registered cargo ship ran aground and badly damaged the Great Barrier Reef blamed a tired chief mate on Thursday .
The coal carrier Shen Neng 1 -- two football fields long -- foundered on April 3 last year, leaking tonnes of heavy fuel oil and threatening a major ecological disaster.
Sweet Micky" Martellyin a landslide, defeating former first lady Mirlande Manigat, according to preliminary election results. While the infusion of fresh blood into the beleaguered Haitian political system was both needed and celebrated, we were taken by the fact that much of the media coverage focused on the bald-headed, 50-year-old Martelly's former career as a musician.
The Miami Herald cut straight to the chase, to Martelly as a "controversial carnival singer." The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blogthat he was "known for his ribald lyrics and outrageous performances." In a piece subtitled, "From Pop Star to President," MSNBCto Martelly as an "iconoclastic entertainer" and went on to specify that he was "a star of Haiti's Konpa carnival music blending African and Latin rhythms," stopping short of fully defining "Konpa."
Very tight braiding or weaving may be linked to a permanent type of hair loss that affects many African American women, according to a U.S. study.
Prolonged pulling at the hair strands may cause inflammation of the hair follicle, which has been showed to lead to scarring.
For lovers of Italian art, it's as close as you can come to ascending a stairway to heaven and looking angels in the eye.
For the first time after a major restoration, the scaffolding that has shrouded the 850 sq m (9,150 sq ft) of frescoes of the Capella Maggiore in Florence's famed Santa Croce Basilica will not be dismantled immediately.
a pioneering technology repair service for Apple hand-helds such as the iPhone and iPod as well as Apple desktop computer systems – continues offering repair services for the newiPad 2, available to residents throughout America due to their highly efficient mail-order system
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was not in attendance on Wednesday as his trial on charges of buying sex from an underage nightclub dancer and abuse of power opened in Milan after a dramatic build-up that has dented his popularity.
The billionaire tycoon is no stranger to the dock after years of investigations and trials linked to his business interests but this will be the first time that his tumultuous personal life is exposed in a courtroom.
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Why quizzes, polls, surveys?Quizzes, polls and surveys are a proven method for engaging customers and prospects and generating customer leads:people love to participate, voice their opinion and share their results with their networks.A personal quiz result is eleven (11) times more likely to be shared than a static webpage. With SnapApp companies can now leverage the power of quizzes to achieve their marketing objectives.
17, offering affordable treatments from spas throughout the country to the masses. The concept is simple; Spa Week offers treatments that normally cost $100 - $200 for just $50 making spas more inclusive rather than exclusive for that special week.
Spa treatments should not be affordable only one week a year which is the reason why Massage Envy does not partake in the Spa Week promotion. Instead, Massage Envy proudly offers affordable spa treatments every day of the year.
A strong new earthquake rattled Japan's northeast Monday as the government urged more people living near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant to leave, citing concerns about long-term health risks from radiation.
The magnitude 7.0 aftershock, which trapped some people in collapsed homes, came just hours after residents bowed their heads and wept in ceremonies to mark a month since a massive earthquake and tsunami killed up to 25,000 people and set off radiation leaks at the nuclear plant by knocking out its cooling systems.
s the first major upgrade to the web browser since 2009.
The company said IE9 offers "performance improvements" and a safer browsing experience, made possible in part by drawing on capabilities from Windows 7. The newest IE does not support Windows XP, which some surveys estimate is still the OS version on more than 60 percent of all Windows machines. It does offer extensive support for HTML5, Scalable Vector Graphics, Cascading Style Sheets Level 3, ECMAScript 5, and DOM.
Nigerians voted in large numbers Saturday in the first of a series of key elections in Africa's most populous nation, but deadly bomb blasts cast a shadow over the country's bid to hold credible polls.
Blasts hit an electoral office in central Nigeria on Friday night, a polling place as parliamentary voting was under way in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Saturday and a vote collating centre in the same city Saturday evening.
Stocks are ending the day with small losses after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Japan.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell as many as 96 points in morning trading, but recovered most of its losses after a tsunami warning was lifted.
Fast-food chain McDonald's Corp announced a one-day spring hiring spree aimed at fighting the use of the term "McJob" as shorthand for describing low-wage, dead-end work.
The global restaurant chain said it plans to hire as many as 50,000 new U.S. employees -- ranging from restaurant crew to managers -- on April 19. The move would increase the hamburger company's U.S. workforce by 7.7 percent to 700,000, but such hiring is typical in the lead up to the busy summer months.
We are proud to have met the high standards set by the BBB,” says company President and CEO Matt Zemon. “We value our customers and employees, and they can be confident they are working with a company that maintains ethical business practices.”
The BBB requires accredited companies to meet its “Standards of Trust,” a comprehensive set of policies, best practices and procedures that ensure trustworthiness in the marketplace. The BBB accreditation process is intended to give consumers peace of mind that they are dealing with an honest organization that is accountable to its clients.
The biggest earthquake on record to hit Japan rocked its northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-meter tsunami that killed hundreds of people and swept away everything in its path.
Thousands of residents near a nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, were told to evacuate as a precaution after the 8.9 magnitude quake, but the government said no radiation was leaking.
A war of words intensified between South Africa and Zimbabwe on Monday as President Jacob Zuma's office responded indignantly to an attack slamming his recent decisions on Africa.
The diplomatic scuffle between the two key southern African players began Friday, when President Robert Mugabe rejected regional pressure to rein in a wave of political violence sweeping Zimbabwe ahead of elections expected later this year.
U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Thursday before data on the labor market and same-store sales, which could offer clues about the outlook for U.S. consumer spending.
The S&P 500 closed Wednesday above a key technical level and its ability to hold above 1,333.58 will be tested. The level is double the cycle low hit in March 2009 and is near a recent 2-1/2 year high of about 1,344, which could also provide technical resistance.
With his tweets, his manic interviews, his insurgent campaign against the entertainment world, Sheen is giving America exactly what it wants out of a modern celebrity. In this week’s Newsweek, Bret Easton Ellis explains how you are completely missing the point if you think Sheen’s meltdown is about drugs.
“Drugs” is the first word Charlie Sheen utters in his only scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a cinematic relic from 1986. It takes place in a police station where Jeannie Bueller (Jennifer Grey), waiting to get bailed out by her mom and fuming about brother Ferris’s charmingly anarchic ways (he breaks all the rules and is happy; she follows all the rules and is unhappy), realizes she’s sitting next to a gorgeous (he was!) sullen-eyed dude in a leather jacket who looks like he’s been up for days on a drug binge. But he’s not manic, just tired and sexily calm, his face so pale it’s almost violet-hued. Annoyed, Jeannie asks, “Why are y
LeBron James acquired a minority stake in Liverpool soccer club on Wednesday after the two-time NBA most valuable player's sports marketing firm entered into a partnership with Fenway Sports Group (FSG).
FSG, owners of Liverpool FC, the Boston Red Sox, New England Sports Network (NESN) and 50 percent of NASCAR's Roush Fenway Racing, will partner with James's sports-marketing firm LRMR Branding & Marketing to become the exclusive world-wide representative for the Miami Heat All-Star.
South Carolina lawmakers are taking a stand in favor of states' lights.
With incandescent bulbs being phased out under federal law in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents, legislators want to exempt South Carolina from the measure, saying Washington has no business telling the state how to light its closets and countertops.
