In a murderous assault inside a reform home for juvenile offenders in the city, a 14-year-old boy died after he was beaten up by Home fellow inmates.
The boy, Mubarak Ali, had run away from his uncle’s house in Erisarampatti village near Pollachi last Friday. The police picked him up on “suspicion” while he was roaming [...]
Abousfian Abdelrazik, once labelled an al-Qaeda operative by Canada but now given “temporary safe haven†in the Khartoum embassy, filed a court action Wednesday in Ottawa seeking to force the government to fly him home from Sudan.
Mr. Abdelrazik wants the federal court to order the minister to bring him home, even if it means sending [...]
On the streets of Harare, sympathisers with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said they understood why Mr Tsvangirai had stayed away since voting in the first round of the election five weeks ago.
But now that he had been officially declared the winner, albeit by too small a margin to avoid a second [...]
Stay-at-home-mothers should be paid by the Government to raise their children, an influential think-tank says.
Parents of under-threes should be given up to ï¿¡60 a week per child to enable them to stay at home or to pay for child care of Home Delivery their choosing, according to the Policy Exchange.
Its report, Little Britons, criticised the [...]
Sales of new homes in the U.S. probably fell in February to the lowest level in almost 13 years, economists said ahead of a government report today.
Purchases declined to a 578,000 annual pace from 588,000 in January, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News survey. That would be the fewest since [...]
The Federal Home Loan Bank system won permission yesterday to double the amount of capital that it can spend to purchase mortgage bonds in an effort to boost home lending and revive the nation’s housing market.
The Federal Housing Finance Board approved a plan that would allow the 12 privately financed, government-sponsored Federal Home Loan Banks [...]
From leaner food boxes to longer waiting lists, local social service agencies are feeling the pinch. As the economy continues to tank and the cost of everything from groceries to gas keeps rising, more people are asking social service agencies for help.
But those same agencies are having trouble making ends meet, too.
“The needs are up [...]
The method involves introducing Gonatocerus ashmeadi, a microscopic parasitic wasp, into an ecosystem under siege from the glassy-winged sharpshooter. The tiny stingless wasp attacks glassy-winged sharpshooter eggs by drilling a tiny hole in the egg through which the parasite lays its own egg. The wasp larva that hatches from the egg then eats the [...]
Boy racer chaos on Christchurch streets
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Christchurchs Little Hagley and North Hagley Parks were yesterday littered with smashed glass and hundreds of discarded bottles after Harper Avenue was grid-locked by thousands of boy racers.
They were drawn to the city for the annual Fours and Rotary Autoshow at Westpac Stadium.
Boy-racer bans [...]
Christchurchs Little Hagley and North Hagley Parks were yesterday littered with smashed glass and hundreds of discarded bottles after Harper Avenue was grid-locked by thousands of boy racers.
They were drawn to the city for the annual Fours and Rotary Autoshow at Westpac Stadium.
Boy-racer bans on the Oxford Terrace Strip and several streets on the city [...]