Entries Tagged as 'Human Interest'

May 12, 2008

Turkish Wives Shot By Husbands Part Of Culture That Denigrate Them

Emine Yaman lies in bed, her legs rigid, her feet prone to sores and swelling. Paralyzed by a bullet her husband fired into her chest, she is the face of domestic violence in a country still struggling to discard long-held cultural practices that denigrate women.
She wears diapers and reaches for a knotted sheet hanging [...]

May 1, 2008

Nelson Mandela On US Terrorist List

 Nelson Mandela still needs  special permission to visit the States all because the Nobel Peace Prize Winner is blacklisted on US terrorist watch lists.
18 years onwards since his release from prison, commom sense finally prevail when at a Senate hearing Tuesday 9th April,  US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “urged lawmakers…………..to make sure the legislation was passed” to remove [...]

April 25, 2008

Can Barbadian Biodiesel Company Save Us From Rising Energy Bills?

Barbadian entrepreneur Handel Callender is in the right place at the right time. With raising energy prices worldwide having a negative impact locally, the Barbadian who operates a biodiesel company, Native Sun NRG, have seen his vision to expand the one man operation taken off. Native Sun NRG is being bought over by a US [...]

April 19, 2008

Schoolgirls in Hospital After ‘Mass Hysteria’ Outbreak

More than 50 schoolgirls were taken to hospital after they succumbed to what education chiefs in Senegal are calling “collective hysteria” – fainting and screaming.
The girls’ bizarre behaviour caused firefighters to shut down the secondary school where the incident occurred yesterday.
All of the 53 girls, as well as two boys, who experienced the unexplained fit [...]

April 10, 2008

Admit Your Sins To The Lord, Priest Tells Gay Judge

Here’s is another interesting article in Sidney Morning Herald we came across to share with our readers.
A senior minister of a Sydney Anglican parish has made an extraordinary attack on the High Court judge Michael Kirby, warning he would face the wrath of God if he remained unrepentant as a gay man.
The rector of St [...]

April 9, 2008

To ABC News Team

Dear ABC ‘Talk Back’ News Team,
Thank you for your interest in Bajan Global Report and to share our thoughts “on Raul Castro’s lifting of some restrictions on Cuban citizens— including whether it has change your view on the communist island and what the future may hold for U.S.-Cuban relations.”
Unfortunately we will have to decline the [...]

April 7, 2008

The Anorexic Woman Who Dropped To Three Stone After Walking Up TO 12 Hours A Day

An anorexic woman who dropped to three-and-a-half stone after walking up to 12 hours a day has battled back to health. Lauren Bailey’s condition sent her weight plummeting to that of an average five-year-old and nearly killed her.
The 26-year-old, who would obsessively pace the streets from 6am to 6pm, spent 18 months [...]