2012 President Obama State of the Union Barack Obama's State of the Union address 2012 Here is the Speech…. according to the New York Times…but not on….. are many other issues that effect the American People…yesterday, today & tomorrow ……that were not addressed in the speech at all…….as there are so many problems around us it is hard…
g smoke and dust, the flames and the steel-bending heat in the highest floors of the World Trade Centre. In many ways, the falling bodies from WTC are tragically the forgotten victims of September 11, 2001. Even now, nobody knows for certain who they were or exactly how many they numbered. Perhaps worst of all, surprisingly few even want to know. 9/11 Falling Man, the iconic picture of falling bo…
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Kirtana Vallabhaneni, a Merseyside student at West Kirby Grammar School has been named as the UK Young Scientist of the Year. Kirtana Vallabhaneni, 17, beat 360 other entrants to be awarded the prize at The Big Bang Fair at Birmingham’s NEC on Friday. The student was part of University of Liverpool’s research project aimed at identifying the harmful cells that cause pancreatic cancer….
and they consumed more calories a day than those given an egg for breakfast (the protein kept them full). Egg eaters also had significantly lower levels of ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite. 2. Having milk in your tea. Last year, Indian scientists found tea contains high levels of compounds, theaflavins and thearubigins, that help to reduce the amount of fat absorbed by the gut, and can…
ng – neck-deep in some parts of the city – forced the closure of offices and schools around the city. More than half the amount of rain normally seen in August has fallen in the capital in 24 hours, reports say. In the worst reported incident of casualties, nine members of one family died after a landslide hit shanty houses in Manila’s Quezon City. At least 16 people have died i…
…earing in the homes of the rich. This morning meal reached new levels of decadence in aristocratic circles in the 19th Century, with the fashion for hunting parties that lasted days, even weeks. Up to 24 dishes would be served for breakfast. The Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th Century regularized working hours, with laborers needing an early meal to sustain them at work. All classes started…
Scientists have been saying for 20 years that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural, and now more and more historians are backing them up. In the early 1990’s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects settled into a ver…
26-year-old Hunter Moore’s business plan was simple: he got rich by publishing indecent pictures of men and women without their permission. He would encourage visitors to his site to “submit noodz” (nudes) of their former girlfriends and boyfriends, as well as details about who the subject was and why they deserved to be featured. This information would be posted up in full on h…
Waves of bomb attacks and shootings in north of Baghdad have killed at least 82 people, say security and medical officials. Many of those killed were security forces – who appear to have been a prime target. One of the worst-hit places was Taji, a Sunni neighbourhood some 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, where at least 18 people were killed. At least 112 people were wounded on one of the…
…trength of political engagement came at the ballot box, where four out of five registered French voters cast a vote. Turnout was slightly down on the 84% who voted in the last presidential election in 2007, but given the poor showings in the regional and European elections in the last few years, there had been fears it would be a lot lower. And 80% far outstrips the turnout in the most recent nati…
From the moment Nicolas Sarkozy took office in 2007, no French president in modern times has been the object of such blatant dislike. It is an animosity quite distinct from opposition to his actual policies. All leaders expect hostility for the things they do. Few get it in such measure for the things they are. “There is an irrational hatred of Nicolas Sarkozy among much of the public, and…
…y fast overnight as people slept. “Massive flooding had been reported over the region, especially in Iligan City and Cagayan de Oro City,” Benito Ramos said. Rivers burst their banks after 25 mm of rain fell in 24 hours. More than 430 people have been killed and many more missing in recent flash floods triggered by typhoon Washi in the southern Philippines The Philippine National Red…
Cyclone Mahasen has stricken Bangladesh’s southern coast, as people packed into evacuation shelters. The storm hit Patuakhali district on Thursday with winds of up to 100 km/h (60 mph), and was heading for the ports of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar. Some two people have been killed, Bangladeshi officials say. Around one million people have been ordered to evacuate low-lying areas in Bang…
…in 400 people. The scientists, who came from the UK and US, then sequenced the IFITM3 genes of 53 patients who were in hospital with flu. Three were found to have the variant – a rate of one in 20. The researchers say these findings now need to be replicated in bigger studies. And they add it is probably only part of the genetic jigsaw that determines a person’s response to flu. A ge…
Dozens of people are missing and up to 15 killed in Guatemala after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the Pacific coast, President Otto Perez Molina has said. Otto Perez Molina has declared a national alert and advised people to evacuate tall buildings as a precaution. Officials said landslides had buried roads and it would take 24 hours to restore links to the quake-hit area. Frightened people…
A report of Alzheimer’s disease International (ADI) published in 2009, said there were 35.6 million people were with dementia and Alzheimer’s and it was expected that the number would increase to 65.7 million by 2030. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that is a collective name for progressive degenerative brain syndromes. They affect memory, thinking, behavior, intellect, perso…
A boat carrying about 200 Rohingya Muslims has capsized off western Burma, aid agencies say. The boat was evacuating people ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to hit the area later in the week. It sank off Pauktaw township in Rakhine state late on Monday, leaving an unknown number of people missing. Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are living in temporary camps in Rakhine after viol…
Western sentiment has been stoked further by caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published this week in the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo. France shut embassies and other missions in around 20 countries across the Muslim world on Friday. Protests were banned in France itself and in Tunisia, where France is the former colonial power, but there were widespread demonstrations elsewhere: •…
One of the boats was carrying more than 120 people to a fireworks display when it half-sank following the collision near Lamma Island. The search for survivors is continuing. The crash happened about 20:30 local time on Monday. Dozens of people were thrown into the waters as the pleasure boat sank within minutes of impact. The ferry was able to reach Lamma and disembark its passengers as it was t…
The online version of the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, People’s Daily, appears to have fallen for a Kim Jong-un spoof by the US satirical website, The Onion. The People’s Daily ran a 55-page photo spread of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after he was declared The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012. He is shown riding horses, holding children and greeting his tr…
…dog. The couple run a not-for-profit social enterprise Screenreader. The handset is powered by an Android operating system and uses existing Samsung handsets such as the Samsung XCover and Galaxy Ace 2. Georgie has a voice-assisted touchscreen and offers a variety of apps to help complete tasks such as catching a bus, reading printed text and pinpointing location “I was able to send my ver…
ires are common in Bangladesh’s large garment manufacturing sector. Lax safety standards, poor wiring and overcrowding are blamed for causing several deadly factory fires every year. In December 2010, a wiring problem led to a fire in another clothes factory in the same industrial zone, leaving at least 25 people dead. There are around 4,500 factories in Bangladesh, employing more than two m…
At least 50 people have been killed and more than 70 have been injured in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad. Provincial officials said at least Shia pilgrims died in a suicide attack near the city of Nasiriya. Earlier, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said at least 24 people were killed in blasts in Shia areas of Baghdad. The attacks come amid a rise in sectarian tensions aft…
…ading in the same location for over 100 years. The ABI has urged people affected by the riots in London and other parts of the country to contact their insurer as soon as possible. Many insurers run 24 hour help-lines and will be on hand to support people affected. The ABI has also written to business groups to let business owners know that many commercial insurance policies will cover them for…
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