Friday, August 21, 2009 Stock indexes worldwide rose on Friday, after US bank chief Ben Bernanke said that the US economy was starting to recover from the recession. Addressing a conference in Wyoming, the bank chief said that “the prospects for a return to growth in the near term appear good.” He added, however, that “the economic recovery is likely […]
Sprint Nextel customer service rep. harasses client; Sprint cancels his account
Sunday, July 22, 2007 Virginia – Joshua Brady, a former Sprint Nextel customer, has had his cellular phone account shut off, but not because he wasn’t paying the phone bill, or even because he was late on payments, but because a customer service representative who assisted him, began to call him outside of her job, and make death threats to […]
News briefs:May 07, 2010
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Be Prepared For The Worse This Christmas Party Season
Click Here To Know More About: Air Cooled Chillers Be prepared for the worse this Christmas Party season by Ian Pullen The Christmas period is here and with it comes the party season; people celebrating the festivities. For caters and event s organisers it is a busy time, maybe even the busiest, therefore, it is essential that you are prepared […]
Category:May 16, 2010
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Ziff Davis sells 1UP to UGO Networks/Hearst, closes Electronic Gaming Monthly
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Electronic Gaming Monthly is now dead. EGM was one issue away from its 20th anniversary in February 2009. An internal email leaked to industry website Gamasutra on Tuesday revealed that EGM was to be closed following the acquisition of the online element of the 1UP network by competitor Hearst Corporation‘s UGO Entertainment and that the January […]
Football: Paris Saint-Germain pays world record €222m to sign Neymar
Friday, August 4, 2017 Yesterday, French capital football club Paris Saint-Germain triggered a €222 million (about US$263m, £198m) buyout clause of Brazilian winger Neymar to sign him from FC Barcelona, making him the most expensive footballer of all time by breaking the previous fee record of Paul Pogba’s transfer from Juventus FC to Manchester United. Neymar signed a five year […]
Earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant triggers evacuation
Friday, March 11, 2011 File:Fukushima-1.JPG Japan’s government has declared its first ever “nuclear emergency” after pressure rises in the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, combined with a minor radiation leak, caused a 10 km radius around the plant to be evacuated. An attempt to relieve the pressure inside the containment vessels of the plant has been […]
Polish Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper sacked
Tuesday, July 10, 2007File:Andrzej Lepper.jpg Andrzej Lepper, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, was sacked on Monday over a corruption investigation. Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski, the current Prime Minister, explained the reasons of dismissal in an interview for public television channel TVP1: There are serious reasons to believe they [members […]
Category:June 1, 2010
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