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 Barack Obama is the new president of the United States. This would be a normal thing for the Americans to hear every four years, but this year has made history. Obama is the first black president of the States which so much hated the color people. They’ve enslaved them and fought them, but finally chose them to be their leaders.And...
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Nigerians were jubilant Wednesday after Barack Obama was declared the 44th president of the United States of America.
Many Nigerians stayed glued to their television sets to monitor the election.
The moment Obama was announced to have won Ohio and Pennsylvania, cheering erupted in beer parlours and homes across Africa's most...
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 Residents in Norristown are now in danger of getting infected with the West Nile virus brought by the mosquitoes in the area. The virus is really brought by some birds but after these birds die, the mosquitoes collect their blood and then infect the people.The Montgomery County health department issued on Friday a report asking the...
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An ethnic Vietnamese US citizen whom authorities prevented from leaving Vietnam for three weeks for political reasons has been allowed to return to the United States, the Vietnamese government said Thursday.
Charlie Ly, a prominent member of the Vietnamese-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had been trying to leave...
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“The dying man who taught America how to live,” as The Independent of London called the university professor Randy Pausch, died earlier Friday at the age of 47. Pausch was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but it’s his “Last Lecture”...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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 The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the nation’s top cancer treatment hospital, according to the latest “best hospitals” list by U.S. News & World Report. According to U.S. News and World Report, the top three are Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical...
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 The Food and Drug Administration has been put under pressure
by the Congress to expand overseas inspections. As a response, the FDA said it
needed a $275 million supplementary fund to provide the safety of foods, drugs
and medical devices, as the Wall Street Journal informs.
The letter was sent by the Food and Drug Commissioner...
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 Two types of breakfast cereals infested with the same strain of salmonella sickened at least 21 people in 13 states, the Federal Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday. Reports contain the following numbers: 1 case in California, 1 in Colorado, 1 in Delaware, 3 in Maine, 2 in Massachusetts, 1 in Minnesota, 1 in North Dakota, 2 in...
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 A New
Zealand teenager was convicted on Tuesday
due to his major role in a global cyber crime ring that managed to infect
nearly 1.3 million computers worldwide and caused $20 million in losses. The
investigation was launched after an assault involving 50,000 computers crashed
the server at the University of Pennsylvania in the...
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 A new study in the journal Nature has highlighted that scientists use frequently brain-enhancing drugs. A total of 1,400 people from 60 countries responded to an online survey revealing that at least one in five use prescription drugs to improve their focus, concentration, or memory.The most used drug is methylphenidate, better known for...
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 Now it is easier to find out who your daddy or your baby is.
You can access the result online at your home computer in three or five days.
The new product of Meijer and Rite Aid stores is described
as the first over-the-counter DNA paternity test. How it works: the kit contains
cotton swabs for taking cells from inside the mouth of...
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 Eli Lilly, the drug maker, is charged of having concealed
the dangers the dangerous side effects of Zyprexa to protect sales of the
popular schizophrenia medicine.
If they put a warning on this product, their sales would
fall," Scott Allen, an attorney for Alaska said Wednesday, in the state’s
lawsuit against the drug...
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 Merck & Co Inc. on Wednesday voluntarily recalled about
1.2 million doses of its widely used children's vaccines after quality-control
checks found production equipment may not have been properly sterilized.
The vaccines protect against Hib disease (Haemophilus
influenzae type b), which used to be the leading cause of bacterial...
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 The New Zeeland police that was collaborating with FBI has inspected his house and interrogated an 18- year- old teenager who is believed to be the mastermind of the web scam that infected around 1.3 million computers all over the world.Police seized equipment from his house, but declared that he is not arrested. However, he will be...
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The congregation led by Grammy-nominated
singer Timothy Wright gathered at a memorial service in Brooklyn to morn the
loss of Betty Wright, 48, co-pastor of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center
Church of God in Christ in Brooklyn, who died from severe injuries in a Pennsylvania car crash.
Gospel singer Timothy Wright, founder...
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While Rev. Timothy Wright, a Grammy-nominated gospel singer,
remains hospitalized and fights for his own life, his family received a second
blow when they found out that the 14-year-old D. J. Wright, the pastor’s grandson,
died on Saturday night.
The congregation was mourning the loss of Betty Wright, 58,
the cleric’s spouse, who...
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 The co-star of MTV’s “Jackass” pleaded guilty Tuesday to cocaine possession. Hip-hop artist Steve-O, whose real name is Stephen Glover, will avoid a jail sentence as long as he completes a two-year drug rehab program, his attorney Barry Gerald Sands said. “If he’s clean and doesn’t mess up during 18 month, the case is completely...
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 If you’ve been wondering why the 73-year-old longtime anchor
of public television’s “NewsHour” was not seen for the past week, the answer is
that Jim Lehrer underwent a successful heart valve surgery and he is now
recovering. PBS announced on Wednesday that Lehrer was operated in Boston.
“Jim Lehrer has been absent from the...
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 Jordin Sparks, the last season’s winner of “American Idol,” appears
to have forced her voice in a way which led to her postponing her performances
for the rest of the month. Too bad, because she was meant to follow R&B
singer Alicia Keys on her tour. According to The Associated Press, her
representative said that Sparks
will...
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 Rikki Rockett, whose real name is Richard Ream was arrested
Monday near Los Angeles
International Airport
on a rape warrant. The 46-year-old man is the drummer and cofounder of the
glam-metal band, Poison. According to The Associated Press the artist was
booked at the Los Angeles County Jail and released early Tuesday, and was...
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 While taking part in a program for budding zookeepers, a student from the Frostburg State University has been bitten by a bear at a private zoo in Farmington, Pa., and also scratched the person that tried to help the student.The victim of the Maryland college was taking part in a behind-the-scenes tour, on Saturday, as part of a program...
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 As a cause to the record rise of freight and fuel costs, the
Christmas tree shoppers might see themselves forced to pay more for the joy of
children and the shelter for presents.
Another cause for the rising prices might be the extended
dry fall season, along with the growing demand and the weak dollar, which makes
the trees that...
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US presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain campaigned across Pennsylvania on Tuesday and continued battling for the public's confidence to nurse a sagging US economy back to health.
McCain vowed he would "fool the pundits" and capture Pennsylvania in next week's general election, as polls showed the Republican...
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 Nearly 2,500 people were forced to leave their homes after a toxic cloud took over the area. On Saturday, a tank from a chemical plant in Pennsylvania released a corrosive liquid which caused about three residents to have some serious respiratory problems. The liquid, called oleum, is similar to sulfuric acid and leaked from a tank at...
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Sarah Palin, the running mate of Republican White House hopeful John McCain, has erased some of the doubts over her fitness for the top job after a fast-paced and wide-reaching debate with Joe Biden, vice presidential pick of Democrat Barack Obama.
Coming into Thursday night's debate, Palin, a one-term governor of Alaska, had faced...
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The US Congress was moving closer to an agreement on the 700 billion-dollar financial rescue plan, lawmakers said Thursday, a day after a sombre US President George W Bush laid out the spectre of a "long and painful recession."
Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a senator from Arizona, said in broadcast remarks he...
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Nine days have passed since hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed the way to New York. Still, more than 820,000 people in Texas were cut off the power on Monday. The Center Power Energy Inc, which controls most of the Huston area’s electricity, had 767,000 customers in Texas without power. Yet, the number is small, remembering...
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The US presidential election campaign was put on ice Thursday out of respect for the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The nominees participated in some of the formal commemoration activities at the sites where 19 hijackers crashed passenger planes into the symbols of US financial and military might on that September...
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The seventh commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York began Thursday morning with a nationwide solemn moment of silence at 8:46 am, the time that one of four hijacked passenger planes smashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
Family members of the more than 2,500 who died in New...
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As a bagpiper played "Amazing Grace," family members and government leaders gathered Thursday at the Pentagon to dedicate a dramatic memorial to the 184 victims who died in the terrorist attack there seven years ago.
The kilt-clad musician wandered among the individual benches, each with a victim's name engraved onto the...
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Barack Obama stormed into the backstretch of his historic race for the White House on Thursday, painting a sweeping vision of his confidence in America's promise and reinforcing it with details of how he would restore America's image overseas and the economy at home.
Obama, 47, the first African-American major-party presidential...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
called on the United States to end its dependence on oil from the
Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years as part of a broad speech
laying out his energy plans on Monday. Obama, who celebrated
his 47th birthday Monday, said he would direct the 'full resources' of
government towards...
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 Yesterday, a Raytheon Hawker 800 small airplane crashed in Minnesota while it was preparing to land at the regional airport in the area. The crash killed all eight people who were on board. Among them, there were casino and construction executives.Officials who are investigating the crash believed there were nine people on board...
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 According to the police, the woman suspected of cutting open a pregnant teenager's uterus and stealing the baby has been charged with homicide and kidnapping.38-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus, of Wilkinsburg, is charged in the death of Kia Johnson, aged 18, of McKeesport. The teenager’s body was found Friday in the Curry-Demus’s apartment...
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 A woman will probably face six years in prison after admitting to using identity theft to finance exotic vacations and a luxurious lifestyle together. Her former boyfriend, Edward Anderton, 25, will face al least two years in prison after pleading guilty today to aggravated theft and other federal charges. Today, during the court...
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A nationwide alliance of immigrant rights and
community organizations on Thursday launched a new movement aimed at
registering more than one million Latino and Asian voters ahead of
November's presidential elections. The movement, called the
We Are America Alliance (WAAA), will reach out to voters in 13 states,
which also have the...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday took exception to the comments of retired general Wesley Clark, who suggested that McCain's long record of military service did not qualify him to be president.McCain, regarded as a war hero after being held captive and tortured for five years in Vietnam, called the remarks...
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 Petal, a 52-year-old female elephant, has lived in the
Philadelphia Zoo since she was one or two years old. Throughout this period she
has won the hearts of both the Zoo’s staff and the visitors’ ones. On Monday
morning Petal passed away. The causes of her death were not determined as yet. Tests
are being conducted in the attempt to...
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 Two people were killed by water this weekend in Connecticut. A
four-year-old boy drowned into a pool and a 56-year-old man was killed by the
waters of a river, one day after meteorologists announced a four-day heat wave.
Apparently, the boy, whose name was Aiden Wahlberg, died in
a backyard pool in Trumbull on Saturday afternoon...
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 Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has signed the
Great Lakes Water Compact into law Tuesday, a multistate agreement designed to
protect and restrict access to nearly 20 percent of the world's supply of fresh
water. Wisconsin is the fifth state to approve
the interstate compact aimed at protecting the Great Lakes.
He signed the agreement...
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 State senators ratified the Great Lakes Compact as a part of
an eight-state effort aimed at protecting the largest regional source of water.
“The federal law isn't strong enough. We need a new law and
that's the compact,” said Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Allouez.
A new local study compiled by a group at Michigan State
University...
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The state’s highest court suspended a Baltimore County Judge
Tuesday for making uncivil and profane comments from the bench. According to
the Court of Appeals, District Judge Bruce S. Lamdin violated the state’s
judicial code of conduct. It accepted a judicial commission’s recommendation
that the judge be suspended for 30 days...
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 Six Indian citizens were killed in a car crash in western Pennsylvania in the U.S., BBC News reports. According
to officials, the passengers, including two women, died when a minivan carrying
them spun out of control and crashed into another car on a highway.
The police were quoted by the Associated Press news agency
as saying...
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 The proposed United States Airlines Flight 93 memorial was
criticized by some opponents who said the design included Islamic symbols.
The temporary memorial is located on a hillside 500 yards from
the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked in the
September 11, 2001 attacks, in Stonycreek...
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 The Environmental Protection Agency was accused of
“foot-dragging” to avoid regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
More that 18 states sued the Bush administration for taking no action
concerning the issue of global warming.
In a petition signed Wednesday several states’ officials had
required the EPA...
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 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed
on Monday several remedies to raise the U.S. economy and ease the housing
crisis.
The New York
senator recommended bigger protection for lenders and said she would propose
legislation in order to provide mortgage companies with security against the
threat of lawsuit...
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 There were no surprises Tuesday in Mississippi’s Democratic primary as Senator Barack Obama recorded a commanding victory over Senator Hillary Clinton, his main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination to fight Republican John McCain for the White House seat. By wining the primary held in Mississippi, a state with plenty...
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 Hillary Rodham Clinton continued today to attack Barack Obama, her main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination for the United States presidency.During her speech held at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Clinton underlined the fact that Obama’s rhetoric is in a high contrast with his actions. The New York senator and...
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 Senator Barack Obama has moved a step closer to clinching the Democratic Party nomination after he won the Wyoming caucuses and gained seven more delegates. The contest is still very tight as Senator Clinton revived her campaign by wining the primaries held in Ohio and Texas. Obama welcomed the seven Wyoming delegates, a state which...
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 A hairstylist shot a client who complained about her new hairdo in a southwestern Pennsylvania town, police said according to The Associated Press. The victim is 28-year-old Lauren Newton. She was getting a new haircut at the home of Monique Reed, but the two women began arguing about the style and one thing led to another. "She...
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 Forget about the professional weather forecast, and be all
ears to Punxsutawney Phil, the animal expert, which predicted six more weeks of
winter, after seeing his shadow this morning, the Associated Press reports.
The rodent was taken out from his habitat by members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle,
top-hat- and...
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 California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger intensified his battle with
the Bush administration over environmental issues Thursday, announcing
that his state was suing the government to gain the right to enact its
own laws limiting auto emissions.
The maverick Republican politician and former movie star accused
the federal...
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 Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and...
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 The researches blustered all four sides of the water’s myth;
guzzling water leads to elimination of a bigger quantity of toxins, it improves
skin tone, it makes you less hungry, when used in diets and it reduces headache
frequency – these things were once said about the benefits of extra water
drinking.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and...
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 A new study reports the fact that
older adults nowadays are less likely to suffer from memory loss and dementia
due to the fact that they are better educated, wealthier and benefit from a
better health care for cardiovascular disease.
The study, which was published
online Wednesday, in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia,...
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 Researchers say that people who suffer from severe psoriasis
die younger than people who don't have the condition or who have mild forms of it;
however, the reasons are unclear.
Psoriasis is a common but incurable disorder that commonly
causes red scaly patches on the skin. It can also cause inflammation of the
joints, which is...
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 Although some are skeptical about it, new research reports
posted on the American Cancer Society's Web site late Tuesday suggest that a Florida man with no
medical training may have invented a machine that could lead to a cure for
cancer.
John Kanzius, 63, inventor of the machine is a former
broadcast executive from...
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 Ryan Gosling stepped out of the movie project “The Lovely
Bones” three days before the filming started. Although “The Notebook”
protagonist got engaged in preparing his role seriously, putting on 20 pounds
and growing a heavy beard, he invoked creative differences for leaving his
part.
Mark Wahlberg is taking his place in the...
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 NBA referee Tim Donaghy, involved in an FBI investigation into illegal gambling on games, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy in the United States District Court in Brooklyn. He confessed to using secret information on player injuries, officiating crews and other similar issues to provide betting picks. The most disappointed about...
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 US federal judge William K. Sessions III upheld Vermont's right to adopt tougher than federal rules on CO2 gases to help fight global warming, contrary to the claims of the auto industry, which alleges federal laws took precedence over state rules."History suggests," he said in his decision, "that the ingenuity of the...
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 According to Inter-American Development Bank’s latest report, less Mexican immigrants from the United States send money back home than last year. At least two million people in Mexico will not receive the financial help they had received in 2006 from their fellow countryman in the US. The percentage of workers who regularly sent money...
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 Former coach of the Boston Patriots and a long time NFL executive, Mike Holovak, died on Sunday at the age of 88.According to the Huston Chronicle, Holovak died at his home in Ruskin, Fla., as he suffered from complications from pneumonia.Holovak was a former All-America running back star for the legendary coach Frank Leahy and then...
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 New York Jets running back Curtis Martin, NFL's fourth all-time leading rusher, announced his retirement Thursday. Martin played his last official game 19 month ago in the 2005 season and made his last on-court appearance at the start of last season's training camp. He hasn’t been able to perform since then due to a bone-on-bone...
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 A team of
scientists discovered recently North America’s
oldest primate fossil! The newly found species seems to have been so small that
it fitted in the palm of a hand.
Called
Teilhardina magnoliana, the tiny animal is very, very old and scientists have
also realized that it was related to similarly aged fossils from Europe,...
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 According to a new study made
public in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, it seems that Americans are more likely to communicate with their TV
sets and personal computers, than with nature. A team of U.S. researchers discovered that since the 1980s outdoor activities have fallen by
more than...
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 The population of common birds in the US is sharply declining, according to a new report from Audubon Society.Audubon enlisted 20 species of birds in the US on its Common Birds in Decline list, among which the Northern Bobwhite (a chubby, robin-sized bird found in the Eastern United States), Evening Grosbeak (a rotund, robin-sized bird...
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 Michael Griffin, head of NASA, declared recently that global warming might not be such a big of a problem, intriguing both scientists and the media.Griffin said that he is not sure whether global warming is “a long-term concern or not”, despite heavy criticism from the media and the ecologists, who are accusing NASA’s policy of cutting...
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 Researchers stated on Wednesday that the commercials made to promote the fast food products are directly linked to the obese children. The research team proved that the forbiddance of such ads could reduce the number of overweight children with at least 18%.This banning also happened in countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland and the...
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 Contaminated dry dog food was the cause of an outbreak of
Salmonella infections affecting people in 19 states, public health officials
reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
These findings point out that although it is somehow
surprising, dry...
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 After a doctor has been accused of speeding a patient’s
death, in order to harvest his kidneys and liver, ethicists and organ
transplant experts have become deeply concerned.
According to a report in The New York Times, hearings for
Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh began Wednesday. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of
dependent adult...
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 According to a Pennsylvania study exercise is not a cure for
hot flashes, but it does help postmenopausal women cope with stress, anxiety
and depression.
The researchers had hoped to prove that exercise could be a
less risky alternative to hormone replacement therapy for women suffering from
hot flashes, said study author Deborah...
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention
officials are investigating blood infections linked to syringes made in Angier.
The company in Angier, Sierra Pre-Filled, made the
heparin-filled syringes where the bacteria, Serratia marcescens, was spotted in
a single batch. The supply company, also known as AM2PAT Inc.,...
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Although gastric bypass surgery may help obese people
improve their health by shedding weight, the procedure may have a darker side
when it comes to patients' risk of death from suicide and a continued risk of
heart disease.
According to a study published in the current issue of the
journal Archives of Surgery, this increased...
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 Exactly one year after discovering E.coli infected spinach,
health control tested a package of Dole lettuce positive for the same virus.
E.coli is one of many species of bacteria living in the
lower intestines of mammals, known as gut flora.
The lettuce package from Dole's Hearts Delight salad mix was
sold at a store in...
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