After 12ins of rainfall fell in matter of hours, the residents of both Cockermouth and Workington in Cumbria have grit their teeth and pulled together as communities in the aftermath of regional river flooding.
The Rivers Derwent and Cocker had last Thursday and Friday submerged the rural town centres of these two places in more than 3ft of water.
Home owners and traders have equally had their properties infiltrated by this unexpected deluge, around 1300 homes are affected in Workington whi... Read Full Story
Away to the orient on a state visit, President Barack Obama’s iternary for official engagements will probably be as tightly compartmentalized for brief bilateral discussions with the region’s political leaders, as probably his own suitcase may be for the trip ahead. Having already met with the Japan’s new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in the middle of last week, very consolidatary ... Read Full Story
Descending into and ascending out from most of the globe’s international airports, a fleeting glimpse of a hybridizd lark might be witnessed soon enough in the skies of our individual states. The merging of BA with Iberia will herald the coming of a host of welcomed changes for air travellers, some of the planned benefits spoken about have included gaining a wider variety of options for travelling long-haul towar... Read Full Story
History has never hit back so hard on a violent perpetrator as it has done on John Allen Muhammad. Known as the Washington sniper, Mr Muhammad shot 10 people dead at random locations within Maryland, Washington and Virginia in October 2002. He was executed this week by lethal injection after he and lawyers lost a last ditch appeal plea for clemency. The execution took place at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia. Af... Read Full Story
History has never hit back so hard on a violent perpetrator as it has done on John Allen Muhammad. Known as the Washington sniper, Mr Muhammad shot 10 people dead at random locations within Maryland, Washington and Virginia in October 2002.
He was executed this week by lethal injection after he and lawyers lost a last ditch appeal plea for clemency. The execution took place at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia. After having had the injections administered, he was then... Read Full Story
Hearing about self-orchestrated shootings happening in America are becoming increasingly more common. The firearm assault carried out last Thursday at Fort Hood Military Base by Major Nidal Malik Hassan came as bolt out of the blue for the small and commandeering community there.
With 13 loosing the lives in the incident, and over a score wounded; the US Federal Authorities quite possibly have a dilemma on their hands relating as this does to the sprouting up of home-grown terrorism.
The en... Read Full Story
Positioned so menacingly between the borders of East and West Berlin, the wall built there from the 13th August 1961 until its eventual collapse on the 9th of November 1989 presented itself so visibly as an all-encompassing symbol of division. During the reign of Communism in the East of the city, underpinned as it was by a cavalcade of ”prima facie” Soviet-style expressions, hundreds of people risked their lives in attempting to climb the... Read Full Story
Since the Han Chinese/Uighur Muslim riots happened back in July this year, China has now in recent days executed 9 people (8 whom belonged to the Uighur ethnic minority and one Han) found guilty and sentenced for their part in individual acts of violence, murder and vandalism in the Xinjiang province city of Urumqi. The Chinese authorities convicted 21 people overall, while these first 9 were killed in the past f... Read Full Story
We are now at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. We are also nearing the 18th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union itself.This is more than simply a moment for reflection — it is a moment to consider the current state of the region and of Russia versus that whose passing we are now commemorating. To do that, we must re-examine why the Soviet empire collapsed, and the current status of th... Read Full Story
Positioned so menacingly between the borders of East and West Berlin, the wall built there from the 13th August 1961 until its eventual collapse on the 9th of November 1989 presented itself so visibly as an all-encompassing symbol of division.
During the reign of Communism in the East of the city, underpinned as it was by a cavalcade of ”prima facie” Soviet-style expressions, hundreds of people risked their lives in attempting to climb the wall, while many were killed as result o... Read Full Story
