Indonesia shuts down 4 airlines and grounds 5 others over safety concerns

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Indonesia has shut down four airlines and grounded five others with the potential of similar licence revocations for failing to meet safety standards.
The largest company to lose its licence is Jatayu Gelang Sejahtera. The other companies are all small airlines operating only aircraft with a passenger capacity of fewer than thirty, and are Aviasi Upataraksa, Alfa Trans DiRead More…

Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Two 16-year-old British girls were arrested in Accra, Ghana earlier this month for apparently attempting to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags.
Yasemin Vatansever, of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya of Nigerian descent were arrested as they attempted to board a British Airways flight from the Kotoka International Airport on July 2, 2007. The arrest was byRead More…

20 Creative Topics For Thesis Writing For Uk College Students}

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A few lucky graduate students find their thesis topics early in their graduate years, but some search for the right ones for long and fail to settle on one. Some wait until the time comes to write the thesis. You may fall into the last two categories, and you are eager about knowing how to come up with good tRead More…

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not a statistically significant sample. If this surgical Read More…

British military secrets leaked on social networking sites

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted sixteen instances of sensitive information being leaked on social networking websites in the past eighteen months. Ten employees have been disciplined for misuse of the sites. The revelations follow a Freedom of Information request by Lewis PR and computer security company F-Secure.
The MoD would not comment on what disciRead More…

Brazilian football referee admits he frauduently refereed games

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Brazilian football referee Edílson Pereira de Carvalho was detained by the Brazilian Federal Police on Saturday in Jacareí, a city 78 kilometers from São Paulo. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he refereed games in a partial manner so that only predetermined teams could win.
The businessman Nagib Fayad was also detained in São Paulo. Both are suspeRead More…

Everything To Consider When Buying Mulch

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There is more to buying mulch in San Diego, CA then just buying the cheapest available mulch. There are other things to consider such as the landscaping needs, soil type and whether to go with organic or inorganic mulch. Price should only be considered after these other considerations have been taken.
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Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Two 16-year-old British girls were arrested in Accra, Ghana earlier this month for apparently attempting to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags.
Yasemin Vatansever, of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya of Nigerian descent were arrested as they attempted to board a British Airways flight from the Kotoka International Airport on July 2, 2007. The arrest was byRead More…

46 illegal Afghan immigrants suffocate in truck in Pakistan

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
 Correction — Nov 1, 2013 The article below claims each passenger paid 4000 to 8000 USD. Each paid 30,000 Rupees, equivilent at the time to about US$375. 
The bodies of 46 Afghan illegal immigrants who suffocated to death in a container truck Saturday near Quetta, Pakistan, returned home Tuesday.
The Edhi Foundation placed the victim’s bodies into coffins to transportRead More…