BCCI refuses to give 100 crore donation to CWG Indian Express | Grappling with allegations of widescale corruption, the Commonwealth Games suffered another blow on Saturday with the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) refusing to give a Rs 100 crore donation sought by the Oraganising Committee. | After a meeting of its Working Committee at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai...
PRC calls for blood donations Malaya | THE Philippine Red Cross yesterday asked for blood donations as part of preparations for the possibility of a repeat of the 1998 dengue outbreak in the whole Southeast Asian region. | Sen. Richard Gordon, PRC chairman, said the public should realize that a simple blood donation could be the key to...
Debris in relief well sets back work on gusher Denver Post | NEW ORLEANS—Tropical Storm Bonnie left crews working to plug the Gulf oil gusher a little memento that is expected to push their work back about a day. | Crews found debris in the bottom of the relief well that ultimately will be used to plug...
Church should aid police in solving crimes Chicago Sun-Times | While gang members and corrupt cops might operate under a code of silence, the average person, when threatened by violence, just wants to survive. | These are not apathetic or uncaring people. These are scared people. » | After all, the most ...
Vegetable patches turn into vital teaching aids for kids Inquirer | AGRIPINA D. BRILLO, 61, has spent more than half of her lifetime educating children in Nueva Ecija's public schools. | As principal of Kaliwanagan Elementary School in San Jose City, she has never seen school-based vegetable gardens stir up any int...
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More than a third of dogs are obese, a charity warns BBC News More than a third of dogs in the UK are overweight, veterinary charity PDSA has warned. | The charity conducted an assessment of almost 30,000 dogs across the UK over the past four...
Crude oil prices slip further despite storm relief Daily Star Lebanon | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | - Powered by | LONDON: World oil prices retreated on Monday, in line with weaker stock markets, as investor worries subsi...
BP to place last pipe in relief well in next week-US govt Newsvine | HOUSTON July 25 (Reuters) - BP Plc will finish placing the last bit of pipe into a relief well intended to help kill its Gulf of Mexico oil leak "sometime in the next week," the ...
Aid Group Suspends Work Due to South Sudan Attacks The New York Times | Filed at 11:09 a.m. ET | CAIRO (AP) -- Aid group Doctors Without Borders said it has been forced to suspend work in a volatile part of South Sudan because of attacks against his staff, as violence between rival tribes surges in the area. | The grou...
UN's Ban Ki-moon asks Kashmir leaders to address problems peacefully DNA India | United Nations: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has appealed to all concerned parties in Kashmir to exercise utmost restraint and address problems peacefully. | "In relation to recent developments in Kashmir, the secretary-general is concerned over the prevailing security situation there over the past month," Farhan Haq, Ban's spok...
