October, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Europe must not resile from multiculturalism

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

Europeans for most of the last hundred years have dominated much of mankind through colonialism and neo-colonialism, seeing it as their manifest destiny to civilise the rest of mankind. Of course, they did so, while […] […]

UK releases secret file on weapons scientist death

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

LONDON—Britain’s government says it’s taken the rare step of publishing autopsy reports into the 2003 death of a government weapons scientist at the center of controversy over the Iraq War. David Kelly was judged by […] […]

Human hearts with couples’ photos pinned to them found in Colma cemetery

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

COLMA — A maintenance worker’s macabre discovery has sparked a police investigation into the identities of two couples whose photos were found pinned to human hearts and buried at a cemetery. The worker was in […] […]

Teen Talk: Don’t let ex disrespect you

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

Question: I am a 16-year-old girl, and I have a problem. My ex-boyfriend (off and on) took a break with me over the summer because we thought it would be all right to be free […] […]

Court condemns Moscow gay pride bans

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

STRASBOURG, France—The European Court of Human Rights condemned Russia on Thursday for letting Moscow ban gay pride marches simply because the city’s then-mayor—who famously compared gays to the devil—and other officials disapproved of them. The […] […]

Briton who was kidnapped in Somalia flown to Kenya

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

NAIROBI, Kenya—Save the Children says a British aid worker released by his captors Wednesday in Somalia has been flown to Kenya and reunited with his family. Save the Children spokeswoman Anna Ford says Frans Barnard […] […]

7/7 survivor blinded by bomber’s shinbone

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

AN INVESTMENT banker was standing so close to London bomber Shehzad Tanweer that his left eye was struck by a fragment of the bomber’s shinbone when he detonated his explosive device. Philip Duckworth, 41, told […] […]

Crocodile caused plane crash: survivor

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

A PLANE crash that killed a British pilot and 19 others in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could have been caused by an escaped crocodile. The aircraft plummeted to the ground when the animal, […] […]

US investigates Glaxo’s Avandia diabetes pill

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

BRITISH drug maker GlaxoSmithKline reported today that its controversial diabetes drug Avandia is under investigation by federal and state law enforcement officials in the US. The announcement came less than a month after the Food […] […]

Haiti reports acute diarrhea outbreak, at least 135 dead

22nd October 2010 sandrea 0

ST. MARC, HAITI—An outbreak of severe diarrhea has killed at least 135 people in rural central Haiti and sickened hundreds more who overwhelmed a crowded hospital Thursday seeking treatment. Health workers suspected the disease is […] […]