posted by CalGal at 01:59am
posted by Carene Lydia at 12:01pm
posted by CalGal at 06:44pm
Traffic authorities were still struggling to cope with days-long congestion on a major national expressway, nine days after traffic slowed to a snail's pace, and nearby residents are profiting on the latest traffic snarl by overcharging drivers for food.Since August 14, thousands of Beijing-bound trucks have jammed the expressway again, and traffic has stretched for more than 100 kilometers between Beijing and Huai'an in Heibei Province, and Jining in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China National Radio (CNR) reported Sunday.
Continue reading And you thought the traffic was bad here...
posted by pepper at 10:08pm
"Hey! This one's still kicking!"
posted by CalGal at 09:45pm
Empty seats were common last month at the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis, where attendance was about half that of 2007
posted by CalGal at 11:22am
Continue reading Files leaked to Wikileaks give new insight to war
posted by CalGal at 10:33amIt is 5:50 in the morning, and dark shadows scurry through narrow alleys to the mosque, as the call to prayer echoes from a minaret in Kaifeng. This city in central China's Henan province has an Islamic enclave, where Muslims have lived for more than 1,000 years.
In an alleyway called Wangjia hutong, women go to their own mosque, where Yao Baoxia leads prayers. For 14 years, Yao has been a female imam, or ahong as they are called here, a word derived from Persian.
posted by TAFKA at 09:26pm
No, it's not M Claw.....
posted by pepper at 07:43pm
News reports estimate it was about 5.0. No reported injuries, thankfully.
posted by Aradiaseven at 04:11pm
posted by CalGal at 11:52am
Israel claimed it was defending itself, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) saying the soldiers' lives were in danger after they were attacked with "severe physical violence, including live fire, weapons, knives and clubs."
The Free Gaza Movement, one of the organizers of the aid, said that Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto the deck of one of the ships and "immediately opened fire on unarmed civilians."
Continue reading 9 dead as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid convoy
posted by Ase at 12:10pm
posted by CalGal at 11:13am
(okay, only five paintings, but "technical reasons" cracked me up)
The paintings, including Picasso's 1912 oil painting, Le pigeon aux petits pois (Dove with Green Peas), estimated to be worth €23m, and Henri Matisse's Pastorale (Pastoral, 1906), valued at €15m, appeared to have been carefully removed from disassembled frames, rather than sliced out.
posted by kalika at 12:39am
After a 210-day journey of a lifetime, the 16-year-old from Queensland's Sunshine Coast has become the youngest person to sail around the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
posted by caitlen at 01:00am
Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was attempting to fly to Dubai from JFK....police said (the bomb) could have produced "a significant fireball" and sprayed shrapnel with enough force to kill pedestrians and knock out windows.
posted by theDiva at 06:33am
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