2007-07-12

Well-preserved remains of a baby mammoth has been found in the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia (Russia). The baby mammoth, named Lyuba, was a six-month-old female at the time of death, approximately 10,000 years ago.
Mammoths arose about five million years ago, in the Pliocene Epoch and are closely related to modern elephants. Unlike elephants mammoths had [...]

WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago announced yesterday that reporter Amy Jacobson was leaving her job after being videotaped in a bikini with her two sons at the home of Craig Stebic. Jacobson has been covering the story of Stebic’s wife Lisa, who has been missing since April 30.
Jacobson says that she he took her children on [...]

Co-hosts Indonesia have defeated Bahrain 2-1 in their opening 2007 AFC Asian Cup Group D fixture.
Cheered on by 60,000 predominantly-Indonesian fans at the Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia took the lead in the fourteenth minute through Budi Sudarsono.
Sudarsono recieved a lofted ball from midfield and pushed his first touch around the advancing Bahrain goalkeeper, [...]

Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) riders on the subway portions of the Red and Blue lines may see relief of the slow zone in the coming months. So-called “slow zones” are locations where trains travel at restricted speeds because of track work or deteriorating conditions.
The CTA is putting nearly US$15 millions towards renovation of the O’Hare [...]

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced a review into the ’social effects’ of gambling, throwing doubt over the Governments previous plans to grant a license for a 5,000 m� ’supercasino’.
The review, to take place in September, will look at “whether regeneration in the areas for the super-casinos maybe a better way of meeting their [...]

Noted Toronto resident and Canadian merchant and theater owner Ed Mirvish has died. On July 11, 2007, the Mirvish family released a statement confirming his passing earlier that morning at St. Michael�s Hospital, Toronto. “Honest Ed”, as he was known, was two weeks away from reaching his 93rd birthday.
“Mr. Mirvish did pass away this morning [...]

Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson, wife of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson, has died at her home in Austin, Texas. She was 94.
She died of natural causes about 4:18 p.m. CDT (UTC-5). Her family and friends surrounded her when she passed.
Bess Truman was the only other first lady to live past age 90. [...]

Results published on Tuesday which are part of the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study add to the evidence about an epidemiological link between cancer and a diet high in meat and dairy.
The study compared post-menopausal women living in Shanghai who ate a “meat-sweet” diet high in meat, dairy, and sweets to those who ate a diet [...]

Legia Warszawa have been kicked out of the 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup and have received a 1 year ban in a future season.
UEFA referee Mario Vlk of Slovakia abandoned the match at half time after hundreds of fans of Legia went onto the field and tried to pull down the goalposts and destroy advertising hoardings. [...]

The 24th Shin Kong Life Tower Run Up, the oldest building run up competition in Taiwan, organized by Shin Kong Life Insurance Co., Ltd., will be held on July 28, 2007 and promote “Bananas of Taiwan” as its main theme.
At noon of July 11, the main organizer held a pre-match conference and invited well-known Taiwanese [...]

The Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) staged a “naked” protest in White Plains, New York yesterday. The target of the protest was British fashion house, Burberry, and their fur practices.
Two “naked” female PETA members, wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and body paint held billboards with the slogan, “When plaid [...]

2007-07-11

Hundreds of legal, highly-skilled workers in the United States sent hundreds of flowers to the Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Emilio Gonzalez as part of a symbolic and peaceful protest over what they said was a “flip-flop” by the State Department and the USCIS on eliminating Green card processing delays.
Dr. [...]

On Friday, anonymous threats were sent to the evolutionary biology labs at the University of Colorado at Boulder by email and workers returned to their labs Monday morning to find threatening messages slipped under their doors. The threats mention a group affiliated with creationism, but police did not release the name of the group as [...]

Mr. Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy has completed a three day visit to Ghana.
During his visit, he met President John Kufuor at the Osu Castle. They highlighted the bonds between Ghana and Italy and past cooperation such as the building of the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam and AGIP’s involvement in Ghana’s petroleum business.
Napolitano also visited [...]

The FBI and Jackson County police have tracked down the people who videotaped a two year old girl, unsecured and unresponsive in the back seat floorboard of a moving van. In the video, it is suggested that the child had been given the drug ecstasy.
In the video which was taken off YouTube, the toddler was [...]

WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago announced yesterday that reporter Amy Jacobson was leaving her job after being videotaped in a bikini with her two sons at the home of Craig Stebic. Jacobson has been covering the story of Stebic’s wife Lisa, who has been missing since June.
Jacobson says that she he took her children on a [...]

Al-Qaeda’s No.2 Ayman al-Zawahiri warned in a 20-minute audio-taped message that the knighthood of Salman Rushdie was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor to the author of The Satanic Verses, which was deemed an insult to Islam.
Al-Zawahri said in the message that a “very precise response” is in preparation to retaliate against this [...]

The European Union’s Council of Ministers has approved the entry of Mediterranean islands Cyprus and Malta into the Eurozone. They will begin to use the euro from January 1, 2008.
European finance ministers (collectively known as Ecofin) set fixed rates of one euro to 0.585274 Cypriot pounds and 0.4293 to the Maltese lira. Slovenia was the [...]

The top two aides in United States presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign have resigned from their posts today.
The resignation of campaign manager Terry Nelson and long-standing chief strategist John Weaver was announced while McCain was on the floor of the Senate debating strategy in Iraq.
Nelson said, “It has been a tremendous honor to serve Senator [...]