Monday, August 6, 2007 Thai police officers are being punished by being forced to wear large, bright pink Hello Kitty armbands. The armband, which features […]
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Thursday, December 6, 2018 On Tuesday, the United Kingdom Parliament started five days of debates ahead of a vote over Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal […]
Read MoreCanada’s Don Valley West (Ward 26) city council candidates speak
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Read MoreStanford physicists print smallest-ever letters ‘SU’ at subatomic level of 1.5 nanometres tall
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 A new historic physics record has been set by scientists for exceedingly small writing, opening a new door to computing‘s future. […]
Read MoreRail tunnel collapses at Gerrards Cross, UK
Friday, July 1, 2005 A section of the rail tunnel outside Gerrards Cross Station in Buckinghamshire collapsed at around 8 p.m. last night. No-one was […]
Read MoreFinnish terrestrial analogue TV network shut down
Saturday, September 1, 2007 The terrestrial analogue television broadcasts in Finland ended in September 1, 2007, at 04:00 local time, marking the transition to the […]
Read MoreFormer US Senator Ted Stevens among five killed in Alaska plane crash
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Former US Senator Ted Stevens, 86, and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe, 54, were on an airplane that crashed in southwest […]
Read MoreOne year on: Egyptians mark anniversary of protests that toppled Mubarak
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Across Egypt hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets for the day, marking exactly one year since the outbreak of […]
Read MoreChina’s consumer prices rise to a three-year high in June as food prices soar 14.4 percent
Monday, July 11, 2011 China’s National Bureau of Statistics released data Saturday showing that the consumer price index (CPI) for June climbed 6.4% from a […]
Read MoreUS unemployment rate reaches 9.8%
Friday, October 2, 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country’s unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The […]
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