If you’re looking for the top rated private companies in the UK you might turn to The Sunday Times Fast Track 100. If you’re also engrossed in the world of golf you might be interested to know that Your Golf Travel.com has been listed for a third consecutive year. They are one of only twelve [...]
Pope Benedict XVI delivered words of encouragement to over 1.5 million young people Sunday, who were urged to become missionaries for the faith, during the conclusion of the church youth festival. He also announced the venue of the 2012 youth festival, Rio de Janeiro. The World Youth Day pilgrims, who were hosted at a Madrid [...]
An extremely rare shark attack in the Sea of Japan’s northwestern part has left a young man with chewed off arms. “A 25-year-old man was brought in in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows,” reported the Interfax news agency Wednesday, quoting a source in a hospital in the Khasan district. [...]
Investment Company Kingdom Holding Co., which is headed by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, is set to make a new whole record by completing the tallest tower in the world in over a five-year period. The company did not however say when it intends to start working on the project. The Kingdom Tower project, [...]
News reports show the discovery of a massive space rock in northwest China’s remote and mountainous region. Reports show it could be one of the largest meteorites ever recovered. The Sky and Telescope Magazine reported that the rock, which was huge and shaped oddly, was found in the Altai Mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur province [...]
Israeli archaeologists showed Sunday a 2000-year old tiny golden bell which was pulled from an ancient sewer beneath Jerusalem’s old city. The half-an-inch-diameter bell, which the archaeologists said was a rare find, seemed to be a clothing ornament for the city’s wealthy residents two millennia ago as indicated by the small loop on the bell. [...]
Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are so common in most western countries and even in developing countries that it is difficult to imagine there are places in the world where people find the ATM challenging because they are either semi-literate or illiterate. ATMs usually come with a display monitor but cash register manufacturer NCR Corporation will [...]
The California tour of royal couple Prince William and wife Catherine included a trip to the Santa Barbara County for a sun-filled day at the polo fields and a diamond-studded night. William’s four goals wowed the crowd at the charity polo match. “My father, the Prince of Wales, and my brother, Harry, were as green [...]
The week-long San Fermin bull-running festival in Spain is usually marked by gorings but none of those were seen during the festival’s first day. It used to be just a local pageant until Nobel-prize winner Ernest Hemingway popularized it all over the world after he visited Pamplona in 1923. Hemingway’s visit paved the way for [...]
Phase one of the “second chance” sales round, which closed at 18:00 BST Sunday, has made available over 750,000 tickets for the London Olympics next year to 150,000 people who did not receive tickets during the first round sale early this year. This has resulted to the disappointment of 15,000 people who originally though they [...]
