May, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Pakistani court orders end to Facebook ban

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

A PAKISTANI court has ordered authorities to restore access to Facebook, nearly two weeks after the popular social networking website was blocked nationwide in a row over blasphemy. Justice Ejaz Chaudhry of the Lahore High […] […]

Dispute over ‘Ark of the Covenant’ find

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

Tudor Parfitt has spent years chasing a theory that a lost tribe of Jews wound up in southern Africa. But his latest leap has landed him in a minefield. His theory is the remains of […] […]

Adoption approved, despite wrongful removal at birth

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

THE NSW government’s welfare agency seized a baby girl from her Chinese immigrant parents and, against their wishes, adopted her out to an Australian-born couple, prompting a judge to observe that the infant may have […] […]

UK politics may change forever

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

VOLCANOES have consequences, and I’m not just thinking of the chaos caused to air travel by the eruption from Iceland’s unpronounceable peak (known to the Pentagon as E-15). In 1783, a volcano in Iceland spewed […] […]

‘Islamic terrorism’ has been ended

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

By Marty Peretz IT’S official now. You cannot use “Muslim extremism” or “Islamic terrorism”. Not because the words don’t describe a real phenomenon in the world. An ugly phenomenon. And, alas, an abundant phenomenon. But […] […]

Dinosaur makes debut

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

A new species of dinosaur, standing 1.8m tall, weighing up to 4.5 tonnes and wielding the longest horns yet found, has been unearthed. The 72-million-year-old herbivore, now named Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna, has two large horns above […] […]

Israeli ships ‘attack aid flotilla’ in Gaza Strip

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

ISRAELI warships attacked at least one of the six ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists and aid for blockaded Gaza, killing at least two and wounding an unknown number of people on board. An Arabic satellite service […] […]

Brick kiln slaves are freed in police raid in China

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

CHINESE police have freed 33 slave labourers who were held in a brickworks and tortured with electric shocks when they disobeyed their masters. The brutal conditions at the kiln – the latest to be exposed […] […]

How “Dudus” stayed ahead of police

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

THE alleged drug lord whose supporters have reduced the Jamaican capital to a war zone used improvised bombs, closed-circuit TV and cross-dressing mercenaries to defend his stronghold, police said yesterday. As the manhunt for Christopher […] […]

Tropical storm kills 83 in Central America

31st May 2010 sandrea 0

GUATEMALA CITY—Central American authorities say at least 83 people have been killed in flooding and landslides associated with the region’s first tropical storm of the year. Guatemala’s disaster relief spokesman says 73 people have been […] […]