Dublin artist opens shredded billion euro house to public |
- Dublin artist opens shredded billion euro house to public
- Language barriers for Chinese-educated
- Cheap, safe device helps avoid premature birth
- Java rocked by 6.0 quake
- VIDEO: Egypt candidates banned from poll
- VIDEO: Tornado warning across US Midwest
- VIDEO: Unlikely bond in lifeboat eight
- Tourists flock to S. Korea surgeons seeking celebrity looks
- Cult cartoonist Crumb gets museum honours
- Syria forces pound Homs ahead of UN team's arrival: monitors
- Stalemate remains in maritime dispute: Philippines
- Handle information responsibly: social media convention
- Govt will not interfere in appointment of new Proton management
- Strong quake hits northern Sumatra
- U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages
- U.N. to send monitors to Syria on Sunday as fighting rages
- Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military
- Beyond monitors, world deeply divided on Syria
- North Korea’s Kim lauds military in ‘push to victory’
- Militants attack Pakistan jail, over 300 escape
| Dublin artist opens shredded billion euro house to public Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:46 AM PDT (Ireland-AFP) - An artist is welcoming tourists to his Dublin home -- made from 1.4 billion euros ($1.8 billion) of shredded bank notes -- to stimulate debate about Ireland's ailing economy. Images and Soundbites shot on February 2. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.
This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Language barriers for Chinese-educated Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:46 AM PDT A widely-held belief among Malaysians is that Chinese-educated students are academically superior to those in the national education system. This generalisation hides a shocking fact: one in every four Chinese-educated students drop out of school at age 16.
| ||
| Cheap, safe device helps avoid premature birth Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:34 AM PDT A simple low-cost silicon ring can slash the risk of premature birth, a major cause of death in newborns and health problems in adult life, according to a trial reported on Tuesday by The Lancet.
This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:32 AM PDT An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked Ujung Kulon in the Banten province of Java, at 2.26am this morning but did not trigger a tsunami.
| ||
| VIDEO: Egypt candidates banned from poll Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:29 AM PDT The Egyptian Electoral Commission has disqualified 10 of the 23 candidates standing in the presidential elections, including several of the favourites.
| ||
| VIDEO: Tornado warning across US Midwest Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:15 AM PDT Severe storms are threatening to bring more tornadoes to a large part of the US Midwest, forecasters are warning.
| ||
| VIDEO: Unlikely bond in lifeboat eight Posted: 14 Apr 2012 04:11 AM PDT The families of two Titanic survivors have met for the first time, 100 years after the ship sank.
| ||
| Tourists flock to S. Korea surgeons seeking celebrity looks Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT It was in the mid-2000s when South Korean plastic surgeon Joo Kwon noticed a trickle of Chinese women walking into his clinic, even though he hadn't advertised overseas.
This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Cult cartoonist Crumb gets museum honours Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:26 AM PDT His LSD-inspired heroes, rampant sex and frontal assaults on political correctness made comic artist Robert Crumb an icon of US counter-culture, but why on earth, he wonders, put his work on show in a museum?
This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Syria forces pound Homs ahead of UN team's arrival: monitors Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:25 AM PDT Syrian regime forces heavily shelled the rebel Khaldiyeh neighbourhood of the central city of Homs on Sunday, hours before the arrival in Damascus of an advance team of UN military observers, monitors said.
This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Stalemate remains in maritime dispute: Philippines Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:25 AM PDT The Philippines said Sunday it remained locked in a stalemate with China over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
| ||
| Handle information responsibly: social media convention Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:23 AM PDT The state level 1Malaysia Social Media Convention at Universiti Teknologi Mara, Merbok in Kedah yesterday sought to create awareness among cyber media practitioners to disseminate and receive information responsibly via the new medium which is becoming increasingly popular nowadays.
| ||
| Govt will not interfere in appointment of new Proton management Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:23 AM PDT The government will not interfere in any way with DRB-HICOM's decision on appointments within the new Proton management, said Second Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah.
| ||
| Strong quake hits northern Sumatra Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:22 AM PDT A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck at 1.57pm today, in west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, the Malaysian Meteorological Department reported.
| ||
| U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:54 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed. 
| ||
| U.N. to send monitors to Syria on Sunday as fighting rages Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:45 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed. 
| ||
| Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:18 PM PDT PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korea's new leader delivered his first major public speech on Sunday as the impoverished state celebrated the centenary of its founder's birth, calling for a push to "final victory" despite a failed rocket launch two days ago. 
| ||
| Beyond monitors, world deeply divided on Syria Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:54 PM PDT WASHINGTON, April 15 — With a cease-fire barely holding and the deployment of unarmed foreign observers expected to ease but not end months of violence, world powers are still struggling to find a longer-term strategy for Syria. After heavy diplomatic wrangling, the United Nations Security Council yesterday finally approved the deployment of what ... 
| ||
| North Korea’s Kim lauds military in ‘push to victory’ Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:43 PM PDT PYONGYANG, April 15 — North Korea's new leader delivered his first major public speech today as the impoverished state celebrated the centenary of its founder's birth, and called for a push to "final victory" at a mass military parade in the country's capital. A jowly Kim Jong-un, clad in black and the third Kim to rule North Korea, read ... 
| ||
| Militants attack Pakistan jail, over 300 escape Posted: 14 Apr 2012 07:22 PM PDT DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, April 15 — More than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early today after it was attacked by Islamist militants armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior police official told Reuters. Some of those who escaped from the jail in the town of Bannu were militants, an intelligence official ... 
|
| You are subscribed to email updates from "World" via xBlog® in Google Reader To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment