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Canada’s House of Commons has passed bill C-232, which requires that justices of the Supreme Court of Canada understand both English and French without the assistance of an interpreter. This will become law unless vetoed by the Senate or denied royal assent by the Governor General (which is exceedingly unlikely). Amazingly, the bill is a [...]
NEW YORK — New York police closed off part of Times Square in Midtown Manhattan for a short time on Friday to investigate a suspicious package that turned out to be an abandoned lunch box. A failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on Saturday had heightened security in the most populous [...]
By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP WASHINGTON — Ingredients used by Johnson & Johnson in some of the 40 varieties of children’s cold medicines recalled last week were contaminated with bacteria, according to a report by the Food and Drug Administration. Agency officials said Tuesday none of the company’s finished products tested positive for the contaminants, though [...]
By Audrey Morrison SandyPopEater.com’s “Naughty But Nice” column dropped a bomb on us today. Sandra Bullock may never appear in a movie again. Say it ain’t so! To most, it was no surprise that Sandra called it quits with her alleged cheater of a husband Jesse James. Her next move, packing up and shipping out [...]
E. coli sickens 19 in OH, NY, MI WASHINGTON — An E. coli outbreak possibly linked to tainted lettuce has sickened at least 19 people in Ohio, New York and Michigan, including students on three college campuses, prompting a recall throughout much of the country. Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said it was recalling romaine [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been urged to investigate a prominent politician who claims he was abducted by Aliens, reports The Sun. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the country’s southern region of Kalymkia, told a primetime television show he was taken on a spaceship sent to Earth and met extra-terrestrials wearing yellow spacesuits. Now a [...]
Beleaguered Lalit Modi on Thursday got into fresh problems with BCCI issuing a showcause notice to him after the English cricket board accused him of inciting counties to overpower their governing body and the players to revolt if not allowed to play in IPL. The five-page BCCI showcause notice, a copy of which is available [...]
The police would soon question Priyabhanshu Ranjan, the fiance of Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her home in Koderma district last week in suspected honour killing, and her other friends. “We have sent three teams to Mumbai, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to interrogate Pathak’s friends including Ranjan,” Koderma [...]
With the financial crisis practically over, organisations have opened doors for recruitment. Among those looking for fresh talent is the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the old and faithful enemy to India, reports Mid Day. The Pakistan-based terror outfit has appointed a new group of people allegedly to carry out Mumbai-like attacks in various parts of India. While the [...]
Pakistan Army tonight said Faisal Shahzad, arrested by the FBI for the failed bombing in New York’s Times Square, is the son of a retired Air Vice Marshal. “He comes from a well to do family and his father is a former Air Force officer,” chief military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told NDTV. He [...]
