Saturday, April 16, 2005 A Paris fire in a hotel killed 22 people, 10 of whom were children, while injuring 53 — 11 seriously. The hotel was an overcrowded, budget accommodation type of housing. Most of the inhabitants were African, many housed by social services, according to an Associated Press Read more…
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Elizabeth May has been elected leader of the Green Party of Canada today, winning the position with 2,145 votes or 65.34 per cent of ballot cast. She beat her nearest rival, environmental consultant and Green deputy leader David Chernushenko by a margin of almost 2 to Read more…
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 A Polish-Belarusian journalist accused of defaming Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been banned from leaving Belarus due to a suspended court sentence given to him earlier this year. The Polish activist and journalist Andrzej Poczobut was convicted in July for alleged defamation in the Polish Press, Read more…
Here’s An Opinion On: Mining Equipment Hire The Results Of Metal Recycling Sacramento Firms To The Surroundings by Allan Ryckman The time any product, appliance, or equipment is expected to last almost exclusively depends on the quality of the material used to produce it. Materials that have good properties make Read more…
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 The incident took place in the Gulf of Aden Image: NOAA. According to East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme Kenyan chapter head, Andrew Mwangura, the Greek freighter MV Captain Stephanos and all its 19 crew, consisting of 17 Filipinos, one Chinese and a Ukrainian, had been released Read more…
Friday, March 30, 2007 Nasdaq image over Times Square Dell Inc., a global leader in computer hardware manufacturing and sales, announced yesterday that it will delay filing of its annual performance report, the Form 10-K, required for compliance with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Nasdaq listing rules. In Read more…
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE), one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, announced Tuesday that it is in talks with a consortium of Canadian pension funds to explore the possible sale of the company. If successful in their bid, the consortium would take the publicly-traded company private, which Read more…
Here’s An Opinion On: Buying Aboriginal Sculpture Online By Clint Leung Toronto is home to many events and festivals. One such event is the Canadian Aboriginal Festival, the largest of its kind in Canada which I attended recently. It is usually held late November or early December. It was my Read more…
Friday, January 20, 2006 Map highlighting Iran. Iran, has decided to pull its finances out of European banks and into different foreign banks. A senior Iranian official stated that this is an attempt to pre-empt possible U.N. sanctions over its resumption of nuclear fuel enrichment activities. Comments by Iran’s central Read more…
Sunday, January 16, 2022 London head office of GlaxoSmithKline on July 30, 2007. Image: Ian Wilson. United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) confirmed January 15 it had rejected three “unsolicited, conditional and non-binding proposals” by Unilever to acquire its Consumer Healthcare division, including one bid of GBP50 billion in value Read more…