Thursday, June 14, 2007 A school burns in 2005. Image: Brian Carter. In an apparent coordinated attack, 13 schools were set ablaze late yesterday in southern Thailand, an escalation of violence that authorities are blaming on Muslim insurgents. The 13 schools were burned in Pattani and Yala, two of the three restive, Muslim-majority Thai provinces …
Thursday, June 29, 2006 The United States Federal Reserve has announced an increase of 25 basis points (0.25%) in the federal funds rate bringing it to 5.25 percent. It also announced its approval of a 25 basis point increase in the discount rate to 6.25 percent. The federal funds rate is the interest rate at …
Thursday, March 4, 2010 Pichilemu, Chile — Last Saturday, Chile was hit by a 8.8 earthquake. Many coastal towns were also hit by a tsunami, and Pichilemu was one of them. Its inhabitants were surprised by the giant waves that destroyed the most of the costanera and that reached the city square. Pichilemu, that means …
Thursday, January 1, 2009 2009 has been designated as the Year of the Earth Ox (?) (by the Chinese calendar). A Thai inferno greeted the world and the Year of the earth Ox (?) after a pyrotechnic display started a blaze which ripped through Santika, a three-story Bangkok nightclub, in Ekkamai Soi 9 (Sukhumvit 63), …
Read An Opinion On: Hair Loss Treatment New York By Hannah Munson Pacemakers also known as pacers are devices that are designed to avoid the heart from going too slowly and to function properly. This device help control abnormal heart rhythms. As well as the rate at which it beats. It may be used temporarily, …
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 The 36th Street Northbound Platform. Image: Harrison Leong. The 25th Street Southbound Platform. Image: Adam Moss. Tuesday, at around 8:30 a.m. New York Time (1230 UTC) a mass shooting took place on a train between the 25th Street Station and the 36th Street Station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of …
Sunday, June 20, 2010 Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War But has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No!—Charles de Gaulle broadcast Nicolas Sarkozy visited the UK today to celebrate the 70th anniversary since Charles de Gaulle made his war broadcast. The French president and the Prince of …
Friday, September 28, 2007 Natasha Khan at the Bowery Ballroom.photo: David Shankbone Lizzy Carey Caroline Weeks. Abi Fry Bat for Lashes is the doppelgänger band ego of one of the leading millennial lights in British music, Natasha Khan. Caroline Weeks, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey comprise the aurora borealis that backs this haunting, shimmering zither …
Read An Opinion On: Mad4 Heli Site What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Artificial Intelligence is the skill of machines to apparently think for themselves. AI is established when a task, previously performed by a human and assumed of as needful the capability to learn, reason and solve difficulties, can now be complete by a machine. …
Sunday, April 24, 2005 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by NASDAQ, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group. …