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Posted by admin in World News on 10 27th, 2009 | 7 Comments
5 Best Roller Coasters in America
From tiered seating to a hydraulic launch, the built-in smarts of these coasters—even if they don’t stack up to the super-steep new Fahrenheit—make this America’s scariest handful of theme-park rides for cheap package holidays
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Cedar Point | Sandusky, Ohio
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Posted by admin in World News on 10 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Nicolas Cage Sells Castle
Nicolas Cage is selling his Bavarian castle, Schloss Neidstein, and he says it’s because of the economy.
“Due to the difficult economic situation, unfortunately, I was no longer able to keep it,” the actor told German celebrity weekly Bunte. “Even if Neidstein castle is no longer...
Posted by admin in World News on 09 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Amazing American Island Beach
JEKYLL ISLAND, GEORGIA
Jekyll Island is an island off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County; it is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia. The city of Brunswick, Georgia, the Marshes of Glynn, and several other islands, including the larger St. Simons Island,...
Posted by admin in World News on 09 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Fall colors fade in U.S. west as aspen trees die
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – The American West is losing its autumn colors as global warming begins to bite and there is far more at stake than iconic scenery.
Aspen, the white-barked trees with golden leaves that gave their name to the famed Colorado ski resort, have been dying off across the Rocky...
Posted by admin in World News on 09 5th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Lawsuit Filed to Block Pipeline Project
Less than two weeks after the State Department gave the go-ahead for a major new pipeline to carry Alberta oil sands crude into the United States, a network of environmental and Native American groups filed a lawsuit to stop it.
The suit, filed today in United States District Court in San Francisco,...
Posted by admin in World News on 09 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Anti-nuclear rally in Berlin becomes campaign issue
Thousands of people from across Germany, including farmers on tractors, are in Berlin this Saturday to protest against the nuclear energy industry and in support of a plan to shut down the country’s nuclear reactors.
The future of Germany’s 17 nuclear power plants, due to be shut down by...
Posted by admin in World News on 09 5th, 2009 | No Comments
New Protests Reported in Restive Chinese Region
BEIJING — Thousands of Han Chinese protesters swarmed around government buildings in the capital of the restive Xinjiang region on Thursday to demand a crackdown on Uighurs after rumors spread that they were sticking hundreds of Hans with H.I.V.-tainted hypodermic needles.
The fresh conflict in the...
Posted by admin in World News on 09 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Haunted Indian station reopens
A Indian railway station which was abandoned for 42 years because of fears that it was haunted has reopened in the eastern state of West Bengal.
Locals and railway workers say they lived in fear of a female phantom who frequented Begunkodor 260km (161 miles) from the state capital, Calcutta.
In 1967,...
Posted by admin in World News on 08 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Nepal villagers flock to worship malformed baby as Hindu god
Thousands of people have flocked to a remote Nepalese village 2,000 metres up in the Himalayas to worship a baby born with four arms and four legs, revering him as the reincarnation of a Hindu god.
Villagers in the district of Ramechhap have said six-month-old Risab, who has a headless “parasitic...