Today’s opening ceremony of the lighting of the Olympic flame at Olympia, Greece for the xx1x Summer Olympic Games of Beijing will be followed by a torch relay expecting to last 130 days.
Covering a distance of 137,000km {85,000m} and passing through 5 continents, the torch will make its final stop in Beijing where it will [...]
The first authorised mobile phone call has been made during a commercial flight, meaning the sound of ringtones at high altitudes may become a feature of modern plane travel.
A passenger on an Emirates flight between Dubai and Casablanca made the historical call at 30,000 feet. The airline has said technology made by AeroMobile [...]
Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela have avoided war, but now two other Andean nations are gearing up for battle. This time the foe is the United Nations, and the cause is the right to chew coca, the raw material of cocaine.
It may not sound as important as the diplomatic row that shook the region earlier this [...]
This article was written on the 5th anniversity of the Iraq war which was Thursday 20th 2008.
An Ottawa telecom engineer invited by George W. Bush to join a group developing a post-invasion strategy to rebuild Iraq says he now believes the U.S. president never had any intention of heeding its advice.
“It was optics,” Ahmed Al-Hayderi [...]
A shoplifter looking to make a quick getaway from a Dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left police a crucial piece of evidence — his 12-year-old son. In his haste the 45-year-old thief made a solo dash to his car, batting away a supermarket worker who had flung himself on the vehicles’ bonnet [...]
