Month: August 2010

AN emerald so big it’s being compared with the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great has been found on a US farm. The nearly 65-carat emerald was pulled from a pit on a […] […]

Mygripe LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi has stumbled into controversy during a visit to Italy by saying Europe should convert to islam. Mr Gaddafi made the comments during a lecture to a group of 500 young […] […]

Mygripe THE chief of US intelligence has warned spy agencies against “blabbing secrets” to the media, saying operatives should be “seen, but not heard.” In a blunt memo, James Clapper, the new director of national […] […]

News BRATISLAVA: A gunman shot himself dead after killing at least six people and wounding 14 in a rampage on a street of the Slovakian capital yesterday. The attack on a reportedly Roma household by […] […]

News – A BUS plunged into a ravine in central Ecuador, killing at least 38 people in the Andean nation’s worst road accident of the year. The bus driver and four children were among those […] […]

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.—A judge removed a juror from a trial in suburban Detroit after the young woman wrote on Facebook that the defendant was guilty. The problem? The trial wasn’t over. Hadley Jons, of Warren […] […]

Mygripe HAVANA—Fidel Castro has given new details of just how sick he was when he was forced to give up power four years ago, saying in a rare interview that he was weak, dangerously thin […] […]