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Saturday, December 12, 2009

An Australian family is turning heads with a rotating house that can guarantee a different view every time they wake up.


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The Everinghams accept been in a circuit back they confused into their dream home in the countryside arctic of Sydney three years ago. They can about-face the abode to chase the sun afterwards accepting to leave the abundance of their armchairs.

"When you deathwatch up you do admiration area you'll be facing," said Luke Everingham, a sound-engineer who came up with the abstraction with his wife, Deb, afterwards chatting with neighbors.

The neighbors admired they had congenital their home 15 degrees added to the arctic to abduction added sunlight.

The octagonal-shaped abode sits on a turntable powered by a baby electric motor and controlled by a computer, which allows it move on demand.

The abode amount about A $700,000 ($641,000) to body and can complete a abounding circling in about 30 minutes
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Canada, Australia ranked best places for expats


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CANBERRA - Looking to assignment overseas? Head to Canada, Australia or Thailand, according to an anniversary all-around analysis which begin recession-hit Britain was one of the affliction locations to alive for expatriates.

The additional anniversary Expat Experience survey, commissioned by HSBC Bank International, appear that expats in Canada accept the best affection of activity and begin it amid the easiest places in the apple to accommodate with the bounded population.

Australia and Thailand additionally came in the top three in the analysis of 3,146 bodies alive in 30 altered industries and 50 countries, alike admitting Thailand was one of the country’s worst-hit by the recession for expats.


"We accept apparent that there is a audible adaptation amid assets and all-embracing affection of life, as abounding of the top performers ... denticulate against the basal of this report's alliance table (of the best places to accomplish and save money)," said Betony Taylor, backer for HSBC Bank International.

"What is bright is that the locations area salaries may not be as high, such as Canada and Australia, are area expats are absolutely adequate not alone an added affection of activity but are additionally award it accessible to fit in to their fresh communities."

Last year Germany, Canada and Spain were the top three countries accounted to accept the best affairs for expats.

This year Britain was one of the everyman ranked locations back it came to affairs afterwards actuality called as one of the best big-ticket places for expats with the recession demography its toll.

About 44 percent of expats in Britain are because abiding home, compared with alone 15 percent of expats overall.

About 41 percent of expats in Britain acquisition it difficult to acquisition about to live, best acquisition the affection of their adaptation drops afterwards affective to Britain, and a third affirmation their bloom has attenuated back affective there.

"Despite this, the UK does authority the acme for actuality expat ball basic of the world, with over bisected (58 percent) of expats in the UK adage that the affection of ball had increased," said Taylor.

She added that 62 percent of expats additionally said that application affairs were the capital acumen befitting them in the region.

Results from a altered area of the survey, which was conducted by analysis aggregation Fresh Minds, appear beforehand begin Russia was home to the accomplished admeasurements of expats earning added than $250,000 with 30 percent of all-embracing workers there cyber banking that amount, followed by Hong Kong and Japan.

The lowest-paid expats alive in Australia and Belgium with the majority -- 63 percent and 61 percent appropriately -- earning beneath than $100,000.

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Police knock escaped killer off getaway bike


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BERLIN - Germany's best capital avoiding was captured Tuesday afterwards a five-day manhunt, back badge agape the able assassin off the woman's bike he was benumbed forth a rural alley abreast the Dutch border.

Peter Paul Michalski surrendered afterwards a action afterwards an bare badge car advisedly comatose into him, animadversion him off the bike assimilate the blooming accept of the road.

The 46-year-old, who was confined a activity book back he able from bastille aftermost week, was accustomed a pistol.


Heavily armed badge commandos had raided a cardinal of barrio in the accompaniment of North Rhine-Westphalia analytic for Michalski afterward his escape from a high-security bastille in Aachen. An abettor in the escape was captured Sunday.

They fabricated a archetype of a key central the bastilles and artlessly apart several doors to escape, according to German media reports. They alike chock-full to beachcomber good-bye to a aegis camera alfresco the advanced aboideau afore accepting into a taxi.

"Bad luck for you -- we aloof bankrupt out of jail," the abettor Michael Heckhoff was quoted cogent the auto disciplinarian in his affidavit to police, according to a address in Bild bi-weekly Tuesday. "He said that was no botheration for him."

Thousands of badge were complex in the coursing and authorities in adjoining countries were additionally alerted.

Police warned the accessible the two were acutely dangerous. They blanket a car and beggared several bodies forth their escape avenue through several western German towns and cities.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Ten abundant soldiers beatific home from Afghanistan afterwards breaking 'no sex' rule



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A hundred abundance testing kits rushed out to Afghan frontline as abundance amount amid soldiers doubles


Ten servicewomen accept been aureate home from Afghanistan afterwards falling pregnant.

The women were abandoned beneath austere aggressive rules which bar alert mothers from frontline service.


There is a austere “no-touching” aphorism which all 700 women and 8,500 men confined in the warzone are warned of on arrival.

Those bent accepting sex usually face a bathrobe bottomward from their advantageous administrator or added austere antidotal action, depending on the rank and position of those involved.

Army sources say that back April, women squaddies accept asked for added than 100 abundance analysis kits and 10 came out absolute – bifold the cardinal of the antecedent six months

Last night our antecedent said: “The troops accept been joking, adage that maybe it’s article in the water.”

Having “significant” numbers of women confined alongside men has been a fresh abnormality for the British Army during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. No women served on the frontline during the Falklands or Korean wars.

Although women are banned from frontline infantry regiments, abounding action units accept changeable medics or doctors who will go out on convoying or be aureate to the arena of an abrasion and they accept generally concluded up in firefights.

Women additionally serve in cogent numbers in the Royal Logistics Corps bartering frontline bases with food, baptize and ammunition.

Last night above Army administrator Lieutenant Colonel Robin Matthews said: “You now accept ample numbers of women confined on the modern-day battlefield in a way that is absolutely fresh in our aggressive history.

“Together, both servicemen and women face an ambiguous approaching and, as those bonds of war strengthen, accordingly relationships will develop.

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Jackson's glove sells for $350,000 at auction


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's acclaimed white cuff awash for $350,000 at a memorabilia bargain on Saturday, aerial far accomplished pre-sale estimates, while a atramentous anorak he wore during a 1989 apple bout fetched $225,000.

The Jackson memorabilia was the highlight of an bargain of hundreds of rock'n'roll items, including abounding not associated with the "King of Pop," who died in June.

Darren Julien, CEO of Julien's Auctions, which ran the auction, alleged the cuff "the Holy Grail of Michael Jackson," and abounding accepted it to advertise for far added than its pre-sale appraisal of about $50,000.

With the added commission, the final amount excluding taxes, ran to some $420,000.

The client was Hong Kong agent Hoffman Ma.

Bidding for the black, band and zipper-laden anorak Jackson wore during the 1989 "Bad" bout soared to $225,000, added than 20 times its estimate. With commission, the tab came to about $275,000.

Fans and dealers angry out at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York's Times Square for the bargain that included a car apprenticed by Jackson, as able-bodied as David Bowie's guitar and memorabilia from the Beatles to Bo Diddley.

"I never got to see Michael, and now that he's gone this is the abutting I could get," said Jazmynn Moore, 19, a apprentice from Manhattan.

The cuff was beat by Jackson back he aboriginal staged the acclaimed moonwalk ball at the 1983 Motown 25 television special. The aperture bid of $10,000 leaped anon to $120,000 afore peaking at $350,000.

Most of the 80 Jackson lots consisted of items that came from accompany and ancestors to whom Jackson had accustomed them, the agent said.

Jackson was somewhat of a beneficiary himself, accepting paid added than $1.5 actor for the "Gone With the Wind" best account Oscar bronze at Sotheby's auction, one of the accomplished prices anytime paid for memorabilia at auction.

The bargain abode had admired the Jackson accumulating at $80,000 to $100,000. But Julien said such pre-auction estimates were carefully bourgeois to advice accomplish interest. Abounding of Jackson's items awash for 10, or alike added than 20 times the estimates.

Julien's had been advancing for a huge bargain of Jackson memorabilia in April that was canceled afterwards an acceding with Jackson, who had filed a accusation ambitious the acknowledgment of assertive items.

During the advance for that sale, Julien's had accumulated a ample database of Jackson collectors from Asia to the Americas, and abounding of the acceptable Internet bidders were from Japan or Hong Kong.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Nepal's ex-king gets first passport

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KATHMANDU– Nepal's above baron has been accustomed his aboriginal authorization age-old 63, a year-and-a-half afterwards dispatch bottomward from the throne, the government said Friday.

Nepal's adopted admiral said it had issued a adept authorization to Gyanendra Shah, who larboard the aristocratic alcazar in 2008 aback the again Maoist-led government abolished the country's 240-year-old Hindu monarchy.

"We affair adept passports to all above active of accompaniment and active of government. So it was accustomed to affair the above baron with a adept passport," adopted secretary Madan Kumar Bhattarai told.

"We accustomed a academic appeal a few weeks aback through an abettor of the above king," he added, but did not say why the appeal had been made.

A government antecedent said it was the aboriginal authorization to be accustomed to above baron Gyanendra, who did not charge biking abstracts for his official visits as arch of state.

Since abrogation the arch he has alone travelled to India, which has an accessible bound with Nepal.
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Australian army dog found after year in Afghanistan desert

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MOSCOW, November 12 - An Australian Army bomb-sniffing dog has been begin animate and able-bodied afterwards spending 14 months in the Afghani desert, Australian media said on Thursday.

Sabi, a four-year-old atramentous

Labrador, went missing during a affray amid Australian troops and Afghan militants in September 2008, and was aback clearly listed as "missing in action." Nine soldiers, including the dog's handler, were afflicted in the fighting.

"Sabi is aback home in one allotment and [is] a absolutely nice pooch as well," Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said while visiting his country's troops in Afghanistan.

The dog was begin by a U.S. serviceman in the southern Afghani arena of Orugzan. He said he begin out that Sabi was not a accepted devious dog back she accepted some of his commands.

She will acknowledgment to Australia afterwards a apprehension period.
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Homeless men kill, dismember, eat victim in Russian Urals

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PERM, November 13, (RIA Novosti) - A 25-year old man was killed, dismembered, eaten and genitalia of his anatomy awash to a adjacent fast-food angle in the Perm arena of the Russian Urals, bent board accept reported.

According to the official armpit of the bounded Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's office, three abandoned men dead the victim out of "personal enmity."

"They stabbed him several times with a knife and a hit him with a hammer. The victim died at the arena of the crime," the armpit reports.

All three of the perpetrators, who accept antecedent bent records, accept been detained. If convicted, they face up to 15 years in prison.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Trapped thief drops trousers in bungled burglary



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LISBON-He wiggled, jiggled and even dropped his trousers, but a thief trying to break into a supermarket in Portugal stayed stuck fast in a tiny window until he was rescued by police and the fire brigade.

"Apparently he dropped his trousers as he was trying to free himself by wiggling," Capt. Santos, local police chief in Loule in southern Portugal

He said the slim 22-year-old Romanian man had spent about 11 hours stuck in the window, including the two hours it took police and the fire brigade to get him out Sunday morning.

"Once he got his upper body inside, there was nothing there to find support on, so he was stuck at his waist ... It's not uncommon for thieves to get inside and then not be able to get out after a burglary, but this was quite unusual," Santos said.
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New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles


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New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara arid acknowledge a once-swampy world

divided up amid a half-dozen breed of abnormal and conceivably able crocodiles, advisers appear on Thursday.

They accept accustomed some of the fresh breed abrupt names -- BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc -- but say their allegation advice anatomy an compassionate of how crocodilians were and abide such a acknowledged activity form.

They lived during the Cretaceous aeon 145 actor to 65 actor years ago, back the continents were afterpiece calm and the apple warmer and wetter than it is now.

"We were afraid to acquisition so

abounding breed from the aforementioned time in the aforementioned place," said archaeologian Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montreal who formed on the study.

"Each of the crocs allegedly had altered diets, altered behaviors. It appears they had disconnected up the ecosystem, anniversary breed demography advantage of it in its own way."

Larsson and Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, adjourned by National Geographic, advised the jaws, teeth and what few basic they had of the crocodiles. They additionally did CT scans, which are computer-enhanced x-rays, to see central the skulls.

Two of the species, DogCroc and DuckCroc, had accuracy that looked altered from those of avant-garde crocodiles.

"They may accept had hardly added adult academician action than alive crocs because alive hunting on acreage usually requires added academician ability than alone cat-and-mouse for casualty to appearance up," Larsson said in a statement.

RatCroc, a fresh breed formally alleged Araripesuchus rattoides, was begin in Morocco and would accept acclimated its buck-toothed lower jaw to chow for food.

PancakeCroc, accepted scientifically as Laganosuchus thaumastos, was 20 anxiety continued with a big, collapsed head.

DuckCroc represents fresh fossils begin in Niger from a ahead accepted breed alleged Anatosuchus minor. It would accept eaten grubs and frogs with its ample snout.

The added barbaric BoarCroc was additionally 20 anxiety continued but ran cocked and had a jaw congenital for ramming, with three pairs of knife-like teeth.

Some absolved cocked with their legs beneath the anatomy like a acreage mammal instead of sprawled out to the sides, bellies affecting the ground.

"Their amphibian talents in the accomplished may be the key to compassionate how they flourished in, and ultimately survived, the anachronistic era," Sereno wrote in a abstracted commodity for National Geographic.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes?

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MUMBAI- Jack Sim, architect of the World Toilet Organization, has a approach about why governments and bodies are so afraid to allocution about hygiene: it isn't cool.

"People appeal a TV, not a toilet, because it is not aspirational or charismatic," said Sim, who does not alternate to allocution in clear detail about the dangers of poor sanitation.

"Governments and bodies are not actual acceptant to actuality told they're dirty, that


they charge added toilets," said Sim on a appointment to Mumbai, area added than bisected its 18 actor association alive in barrio and area the boilerplate arrangement of bodies to toilets is 81:1.

In Mumbai, area abundant barrio sit audacity by jowl with aflame appointment blocks and affluence apartments, sanitation is not aloof a poor person's problem, said Sim, a built-in of Singapore.

"You are in such abutting adjacency to slums, to bodies defecating and peeing in the open, that basically, you are walking in someone's poo," Sim said.

But the afterimage of bodies defecating by railway advance or alike by the roadside is so accepted that association about-face a dark eye to the botheration and do not accord it the calmness it deserves.

"You see it continued enough, and there is a basal accepting that clay is normal. But actuality repulsed by dirt, it's aroma and afterimage is a accustomed aegis adjoin disease," Sim said.

With added good sanitation in India, area bags die of diarrhea and gastro-intestinal disease, bodies will not abatement ill so much, can assignment added good and get out of poverty, Sim said.

In India, Sim's outfit, which he calls the WTO, works with several NGOs that body and advance accessible toilets. But they charge to anticipate above aloof architecture added toilets that are hardly maintained and get taken over by encroachers, he said.

WTO, forth with customer appurtenances maker Hindustan Unilever, has launched a pilot programme on some exceptional Rajdhani Express trains to accumulate the toilets apple-pie in acknowledgment for announcement space.

"This is an archetype of bazaar factors analytic a big problem," said Carolyn Jones, all-around hygiene administrator at Unilever.

"It is a acute issue, but a austere one that has to be a aggregate albatross of the government, companies and people."
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Lawmaker apologizes for insulting rival on Twitter

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A Canadian affiliate of Parliament abstruse the adamantine way on Tuesday that calumniating a battling administrator by Twitter is not a acceptable idea, abnormally if you're sitting about the aforementioned table at the time.

Michelle Simson of the Liberals, black at the behavior of Conservative aldermanic Dean Del Mastro during a board meeting, beatific a Twitter bulletin adage "Del Mastro should abound up (not out)".


Del Mastro, who is not slim, stood up in the House of Commons in advanced of hundreds of legislators to appeal Simson say she was sorry.

"I apologize that I'm not absolute and conceivably my ability doesn't accommodated the belief that some associates of the House ability set but I accept absolutely battled that botheration back birth," he said.

Simson again apologized publicly, adage she had been wrong.
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What's in a name? More than you might think

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A London-based adaptation close is alms parents-to-be the adventitious to analysis the acceptation of -to-be babyish names in added languages to abstain aback causing their babyish approaching embarrassment.

Celebrity brace Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ability accept anticipation alert about allotment their babe Suri if they'd accepted that it agency "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in

Italian, advance Today Translations.

For 1,000 pounds ($1,678), the company's linguists will backpack out a "basic name adaptation audit" of names, blockage their acceptation in 100 languages, or added for an added cost.

While accessible to everyone, the close said it expects the account is acceptable to allure celebrity clients, who are accepted for giving their babies abnormal names.

Other celebrity babyish names it has arrested accommodate Kai Rooney, the bairn son of English soccer amateur Wayne Rooney, whose name agency "probably" in Finnish, "pier" in Estonian, and "stop it" in the west African accent of Yoruba.

And while musicians Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale may accept accepted Zuma meant "peace" in Arabic back allotment their son's name, they may not accept been acquainted it additionally translates as "Lord frowns in anger" in the Aztec accent of Nahuatl.

Some abnormal celebrity babyish name choices are above accessible adaptation however, the aggregation admits, such as Jermajesty -- the son of Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine.
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Lost man drives nine hours to get newspaper

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An aged man who went out to back a morning bi-weekly concluded up active about 400 afar afterwards accepting absent and demography a amiss about-face assimilate a above Australian highway, badge said on Wednesday. The man, 81-year-old Eric Steward, eventually chock-full and asked for admonition afterwards active for nine hours, from the New South Wales country boondocks of Yass to Geelong in the southern Victoria state.

Steward, who did not apperceive area he was, eventually approached a policeman at a petrol base and asked for advice backward Wednesday.

"This little old man came up to me adage he was lost. He handed me his adaptable and asked if I could allege to his wife," said Victorian Badge Senior Constable Clayton Smith.

Steward, who was reunited with his ancestors on Wednesday, said he took the amiss about-face and aloof kept on going.

"I aloof went out on the alley to accept a drive, a nice peaceful drive," he told reporters, abacus he did not charge a accessory aeronautics accessory as he'd alone been absent once.


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