Saturday, November 9, 2013 File photo of Jackie Speier (D-CA), Member of the United States House of Representatives Image: United States Congress. With the 2014 Winter Paralympics set for March, …
Monday, November 26, 2007 In the 18 months since Andrea Muizelaar was crowned winner of the reality TV series Canada’s Next Top Model, her life has been a complete whirlwind. …
Saturday, March 26, 2005 Beijing’s city legislature has approved a bill, one year in the making, to safeguard the historical and cultural heritage of old Beijing. The new 41-article set …
Sunday, May 18, 2014 Mark Carney in 2010. Image: World Economic Forum. The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that the state of the housing market …
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 A new law to govern how New Zealand political parties spend money in the run up to an election has just been passed in Parliament. The …
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 In France, voting has traditionally been a low-tech experience: voters isolate themselves in a booth, put a pre-printed sheet of paper indicating their candidate of choice …
Saturday, March 5, 2005Simply massaging low birth weight babies with sunflower seed oil can protect them from potentially fatal infections. Infections and complications from preterm birth cause more than half …
Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial …
Friday, February 4, 2005 New York, New York — Five same-sex couples won a major victory Friday as a New York State court ruled that gay couples must be allowed …
Saturday, April 23, 2005Queensland Australia’s Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen, a controversial figure who served as the State’s Premier for 19 years and reigned over the government that later became the …