Monday, July 2, 2012

US school puts itself up for sale on eBay

US school puts itself up for sale on eBay


US school puts itself up for sale on eBay

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:07 PM PDT

Forget magazine drives and candy sales. A cash-strapped high school near Philadelphia hopes to raise money by auctioning itself on eBay.


Revelation signals a shift in views of homosexuality

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 09:59 PM PDT

For one of America's best-known television news anchors to be identified as gay was, until very recently, seen as a potential career-killer.


US court orders Twitter to hand over Occupy tweets

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 09:12 PM PDT

A New York judge ordered Twitter to turn over data on one of its users involved in the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, in a case watched closely as a test of online freedom of speech.


Iran drafts bill to block Hormuz for Gulf oil tankers

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:40 PM PDT

Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has drafted a bill calling for Iran to try to stop oil tankers from shipping crude through the Strait of Hormuz to countries that support sanction...


At least 22 dead after US storms cut power in East

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:13 PM PDT

Nearly 1.8 million people in the eastern US faced a third sweltering day without power on Monday as the death toll from weekend summer storms rose to 22, and utility officials said power likely would ...


US, Pakistan expected to strike deal soon on Afghan supply routes

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:12 PM PDT

The United States and Pakistan are expected to soon reach an agreement to reopen ground routes key for supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan, a Pakistani official said on Monday, in a move that could e...


Airbus is about to get a Green Card

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Plans to build a $600 million plant in Mobile, Alabama to produce A320 passenger planes will give Europe's jet maker a strategic foothold on US soil while breathing life into American manufacturing.


CNN's Anderson Cooper says "the fact is, I'm gay"

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:07 PM PDT

CNN's Anderson Cooper said in a public statement on Monday that he is gay, adding that while privacy is important for journalists, he did not want to give the impression he was hiding something and wa...


Loose kangaroo startles drivers

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Startled drivers weren't seeing things - it really was a kangaroo hopping down the highway in Washington state.


UN designates Western Ghats as world heritage site

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:45 AM PDT

India's 1600-km long Western Ghats mountain chain, which has forests older than the Himalaya mountains, has been added to list of world heritage sites by the United Nations. The Western Ghats mountain...


Three British Soldiers Shot Dead In Afghanistan

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 07:35 AM PDT

A man wearing Afghan police uniform shot dead three British soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan on Sunday, Britain's Defence Ministry said on Monday. The soldiers were serving with an Afghan polic...


Clerics in north Pakistan ask NGOs to pack up

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:42 AM PDT

Clerics in the Kohistan region of northern Pakistan have issued a "final edict" against NGOs operating in the area, describing their activities as 'haram' and demanding that authorities immediately re...


Revolt in Japan ruling party, government keeps majority

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:54 AM PDT

Japanese political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa, one of the key figures behind the ruling party's rise to power, led dozens of lawmakers out of the party on Monday, but the government will retain its majo...


Power slowly returns as US heat wave drags on

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:36 AM PDT

Utility crews made slow progress on Monday in restoring electricity to millions of households amid a record-setting heat wave in the eastern United States that showed no sign of abating soon.


Stung by recession, young voters shed image as Obama brigade

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 11:40 PM PDT

Maria Verdugo, a 20-year-old graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, barely remembers the presidential election of 2008 - the one that spawned a youth movement that was singular in its s...


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