Friday, December 31, 2010

Flushing loos with lemonade in Northern Ireland

Flushing loos with lemonade in Northern Ireland

Flushing loos with lemonade in Northern Ireland

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With severe water shortage crippling Northern Island, families have resorted to flushing toilets with lemonade, a media report said. Engineers are struggling to restore water in many areas of the United Kingdom after melting ice left burst pipes. In Northern Ireland, 4,400 people were still without running water.


US missiles kill 6 in northwest Pakistan

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A US missile strike on a moving vehicle killed at least six people near the Afghan border Saturday, two Pakistani intelligence officials said.The officials said the slain men were traveling in the vehicle when missiles struck it in the Spin Wam area of the North Waziristan tribal region.


11 Indians arrested in South Africa for possessing false documents

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Eleven Indian nationals have been arrested for possession of illegal asylum documents after a raid on a house in the mainly Indian suburb of Fordsburg. The raid was conducted by officials of the Home Affairs Ministry together with the South African police as part of efforts to check false documents.


Two dead, 15 missing after ship sinks off China

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Two sailors died and 15 were missing after a North Korean-registered cargo ship sank in strong gales in the Yellow Sea off China on Saturday.Three of the crew members were rescued after the Kang Bong went under off Lianyungang Port, in east China's Jiangsu Province, the Xinhua news agency said, quoting the Rescue and Salvage Centre under the Ministry of Transport.


FBI in hunt for pro-WikiLeaks hackers: Report

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined the hunt for hackers who took down websites like PayPal, after they stopped processing payments to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, US media reports said. The Smoking Gun website published five pages of an FBI affidavit, detailing an operation that took US federal investigators to Europe, Canada and back to the United States as they hunted down the "Internet activists" who launched attacks "against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks."


Tornadoes strike US, six killed

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Tornadoes tore through parts of the US states of Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, killing at least six people and leaving damage and power outages in its wake, authorities said.


Soccer coach jailed on charges of domestic violence

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New Pittsburgh coach Mike Haywood was jailed on Friday on a domestic violence charge after an incident at his South Bend home. Assistant St. Joseph County Police Chief Bill Redman said Haywood was arrested about 3 pm on Friday after a custody issue developed with a woman with whom Haywood has a child.


Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's mass, 7 dead

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A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early Saturday, killing at least seven people, officials said. After the blast, enraged Christians emerging from the church clashed with police and stormed a nearby mosque, prompting fights and volleys of stone throwing with Muslims, police and witnesses said — a sign of the sectarian anger that has been arising with greater frequency in Egypt.


Student strips at US airport to protest pat-downs

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A 21-year-old man stripped down to his underwear and socks at an airport in Richmond, Virginia to protest the new security measures, including a pat down at American aerodromes, a media report said on Friday.


Benazir murder plot hatched at Pak brigadier's home: Report

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The plot behind the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto was hatched at the home of a Pakistani army brigadier, claimed a media report, which was dismissed as "totally concocted" by Interior Minister Rehman Malik.


2,000 vehicles caught in China traffic jam

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Nearly 2,000 vehicles were stuck in a massive traffic jam on a highway in China's Gansu province due to an ongoing road project and inclement weather, authorities said.


Lodding: The latest fad among singletons

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A new survey in Britain has revealed that the surge in Internet dating has given rise to the new phenomenon, known as lodding or long-distance dating.


Posted by Harshad at 11:30 PM

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