steckzwiebel - 19.06.11 10:50 More than 2 million people have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in China's eastern province of Zhejiang, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

Torrential rains have left huge areas of the relatively wealthy province underwater, with 42,254 acres of farmland inundated, according to Xinhua.

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Apache - 02.03.11 23:39
The Army on Wednesday filed 22 additional charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of illegally downloading tens of thousands of classified U.S. military and State Department documents that were then publ

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geologe1 - 13.02.11 14:50
Women rallied across Italy on Sunday, incensed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal which they say has hurt their dignity and reinforced outdated gender stereotypes.

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KMR - 01.12.10 19:52
The website of WikiLeaks, the organization that just released a trove of sensitive U.S. State Department documents, appears to have lost or left its main Web host, Amazon.com.


The main website and a sub-site devoted to the diplomatic documents were unavailable from the U.S.

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KMR - 12.09.10 06:43
Next time you're sitting at an airport bar and hear two businesspeople debate whether Apple is a technology or design company, chime in: "Nope. What Steve Jobs sells is pricing." Pricing? You bet. Jobs is a master of using pricing decoys, reference prices, bundling and obscurity to make you think his shiny aluminum toys are a good...

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KMR - 22.08.10 11:04
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically-built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies. Speaking to a group of officials Ahmadinejad said, "The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies...

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KMR - 21.08.10 13:00
STOCKHOLM — A Swedish tabloid reported Saturday that an arrest warrant has been issued for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of rape, and officials said they could confirm "media reports." Assange addressed the report on WikiLeaks Twitter page, saying "the charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is...

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antitwitter - 06.03.10 17:30
Das Erdbeben der Stärke 8.8, das vor einer Woche Chiles Pazifikküste erschütterte, hat nach Ansicht des Nasa-Wissenschaftlers Richard Gross die Erdachse um 8 cm verschoben und die Tage um 1.26 Mikrosekunden verkürzt. Weil das Beben näher am Äquator stattfand, sind die Auswirkungen auf Rotation und Lage der Erde größer als beim Beben auf Sumatra...

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KMR - 18.01.10 17:33
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Guatemala's Pacific coast near the border with El Salvador on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.


It said the quake, 64.2 miles deep, was centered 60 miles southeast of Guatemala City.


The temblor was strongly felt in the capital, according to Spanish-language network Telemundo, although there...

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supersonic88 - 12.11.09 02:44 Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company.

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