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Big surprise for Maori maestro

Musician Ruia Aperahama had a pleasant surprise waiting for him when he got off the plane at Auckland Airport after a 20-hour flight from Jamaica. A New Zealand Music Award for best Maori album. The...

New Jersey: Racially Charged Anti-Obama Fliers hit Roxbury

the League of American Patriots. The man behind that group is Alex Carmichael, an attorney who recently moved from Garfield to Butler and who declined an interview request Tuesday from behind a closed door at his apartment in a...

The case of the wandering cellphone

Q. I own a small business in Miami. AT&T is trying to charge me over $8,000 for cellphone calls made in Nicaragua and Mexico. The phone was never in Nicaragua or Mexico and, more importantly, AT&T's own bill shows the phone...

US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears

JAKARTA, Indonesia - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed...

Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. (NAT)-(NYSE:NAT) Letter to Shareholders from the Chairman and..

Hamilton, Bermuda, October 13th 2008 Dear Shareholder, In today's volatile situation in the international financial markets many shareholders are contacting us to learn more about the situation o.. - Read more

School isolation unit in 'Guantanamo' row

A secondary school has been likened to Guantanamo Bay for its policy of detaining unruly pupils in an isolation unit. Ridgewood school in Doncaster has a room divided by partitions into four cells, in which the offender faces a...

George and Ewan shaken but not stirred by quake

George Clooney and Ewan McGregor had the fright of their lives when an earthquake shook their film set. The stars were filming in Puerto Rico when the tremor - measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale - struck last night. It was the...

Lotto scam fueling Jamaica crime

More than 1,200 people have been killed in gang violence this year alone Police in Jamaica say a lotto scam targeting US citizens is contributing to gang violence in the country. Detectives say criminals are buying expensive...

Crisis leads to ecological crossroads

Society needs a paradigm shift to protect natural resources and prevent problems such as recent flooding in Haiti (Keystone) The current financial crisis presents an opportunity to re-examine the strain on natural resources,...

Hidden chains of slavery

Oct 13 2008 by Tony Henderson, The Journal THE results of an investigation into the extent of the North East’s links with slavery are revealed in a new book launched tonight. Historian John Charlton, from Forest Hall in North...