LISBON, Sep 4, 2010 A trial that dragged on for six years amidst public outrage ended Friday in Portugal with the unexpected sentencing of prominent personalities, found guilty in a child sex abuse scandal that shook the nation. The sex ring scandal involving the Casa Pía state-run children’s home in Lisbon broke in late 2002, [...]
The taxi driver of a mini-bus taxi has appeared in a South African court where he faces charges of culpable homocide. The driver a week ago crossed the solid line of a railway crossing, skipping the security booms at a level crossing, before his mini-bus was hit by an oncoming train. Reports said that 10 [...]
BUDAPEST – Six were killed and 13 injured in a Bratislava (formerly Hungarian Pozsony -ed) in a street shooting on Monday morning, according to Bratislava Ambulance officials, InfoRadio reported. The attacker, a 15-year-old drug addict according to locals, committed suicide. The victims, including a 3-year-old boy, have been taken to Bratislava Hospital, ambulance spokesperson Dominika [...]
South African white nonagenarian Anna de Jager, the 92-year-old Orange Free State great-grandmother, will be awarded her doctorate degree within weeks. This wouldn’t be such a news item if it weren’t for the fact that she started her studies some 40 years earlier. She claims that she had tried to complete her studies several times [...]
Women have been heavily neglected in the Republic of South Africa, especially black public servants, like nurses, teachers and essential service workers. Some 1.3 million protesters, mostly underpaid and overworked women public workers, downed tools to march on the parliament of South Africa on Tuesday (Aug 11, 2010) demanding higher salaries and housing benefits. Hundreds [...]
Some things just never cease to be in news headlines. One such item is the ongoing saga surrounding the alleged rape cases of film director Roman Polanski, who this time media headlines say went too far again. It is alleged that in 1974 Polanski and Jack Nicholson had befriended a former model called Edith Vogelhut [...]
The Pentagon recently reportedly admitted that an increasing number of American soldiers were committing suicide. Authorities suggested that perhaps more soldiers die of suicides and self-destructive behavior than in combat, these days. A 300 page US Army report, considered to be just the tip of the ice-berg, reveals that in one month more American soldiers [...]
Dr. Mamphela Ramphele is reportedly the first South African managing director of the World Bank. She allegedly made a name for herself after obtaining a medical degree in 1972 during the height of Apartheid, when she was also an anti-Apartheid activist and has been voted one of the top 100 Great South African, receiving the [...]
America is no longer the land of the free, it is the land of the free-to-do-as-you-like, according to legal experts who are defending three law abiding citizens in Florida. His clients are being sued by a convicted inmate Michael Dupree for some USD 500,000 in compensation for alleged disabilities and traumas he suffered after wanting [...]
In a global economy knowledge is the new international currency that businesses can’t afford to miss out on, according to experts at Discovery Invest, an authorized life investment services company, which has invited Rudy Giuliani, the charismatic leader and former Mayor of New York City as one of its key-note speakers at its leadership summit. [...]
South African Police have arrested three suspects in connection to the recent brutal murder of an entire family, involving a 28-year-old mother and her two daughters (8 months and 3 years old). The business woman was already a widow as her husband had allegedly been murdered some months earlier. Police believe that the motive could [...]
On August 6, 2010, the United States Customs and Border Protection agency announced the implementation of a $14 fee beginning September 8 for applications made through the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). This fee is based upon the costs incurred for administering the system and as established by the Travel Promotion Act of 2009. [...]
Some kids have lots f trouble getting up and catching the bus to school. That’s why their parents may be glad to hear that an Indianapolis speed-freak in the United States has developed a super-fast school bus with a top speed of almost 590 kph. He had to reinforce the entire framework, undercarriage and the [...]
Sounds just like the conditions in Hungary today. The Slovakian Government is reportedly dumping 20,000 public servants this year. That’s about 9% of the total 230,000 pen-pushers working for the central budget. It seems that the new Slovak Government is following the sober decision of the new center-right Hungarian Government, which reduced its ministries to [...]
Social networking sites like Facebook reportedly cause the British economy an annual GBP 14-billion loss. Allegedly at least 17 million (50% of all) of the United Kingdom’s some 34 million registered employees have admitted to being addicted to the social networking platforms. The majority of them do their chat, shopping, match-making, and businesses via these [...]
The Polish Parliament has inaugurated Bronislav Komorowski as Poland’s new president in Warsaw on Friday (August 6, 2010). His predecessor Lech Kaczynski passed away in a dodgy but tragic aircraft accident (with his wife and official government delegation) en route to a Polish commemorative event in Russia earlier this year. The early presidential election saw [...]
Unconfirmed sources say that the Republic of South Africa is to construct new state-of-the-art nuclear power stations (similar to that of its 1,800 MW Koeberg plant – pictured), based on, and involving, Russian and Chinese expertise and technologies. This is perhaps one of the reasons South African president Jacob Zuma and his 11 ministers, accompanies [...]
The capital city of the Russian Federation is covered in thick smog, based on reports from Moscow. The problem is reportedly causing several businesses and schools to close down due to health risks. Moscow has a population of some 10 million people, about the same as the entire population of Hungary. A thick blanket of [...]
The Dutch Government has announced that its NATO troops have started their withdrawal from Southern Afghanistan. This makes Holland the first NATO country to pull out of the mission there after spending an alleged USD 1.8 million of Dutch tax-payers money, wasting four years and at least 24 soldiers’ lives. Nevertheless this did not stop [...]
The worst Monsoon floods in the history of Pakistan have left some 3 million people homeless and almost 2,000 dead, UN reports said. The government has announced a state of emergency and appealed for international aid. The death toll will most probably increase as the rains continue. The military-wrecked North-western Swat Valley is said to [...]
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