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From The Australian : A Russian space transport ship failed to fully raise the orbit of the International Space Station in preparation for ...

(Facts largely Cross-posted from The Command Post ) The UN hasn't always had the Great and Glorious reputation (AHEM!) that it has to...

From The Australian : Mark Latham has again clashed with rebel frontbencher Stephen Conroy, less than 24 hours after the deputy Senate lead...

Especially not Grandpa's razor-sharp gardening shears. But three-year-olds are wont to snatch things up as soon as you put them down....

One SF story I read a long time ago was "The Gostak and the Doshes". Basically, the protagonist finds himself in a "universe ...

I knew I'd seen Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell 's style before. Here. (From November 1939 issue of Die Sturmer , Goebbels propagand...

From The Australian : Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham will put his leadership to the test next week when he pushes for a senior Labor...

I'd say Mark Latham's days as leader of the Australian Labor Party are numbered - and may not be in double digits. They probably are...

From the BBC : The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has sent a team of investigators into refugee camps in west Africa followi...

Seen via Normblog , this piece from the Guardian : Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz concentration camp, spent his...

Now is the time that Americans in the US engage in certain religious ceremonies, involving the consumption of native American avians, usuall...

Catapult, anyway. Seen at Voyage to Arcturus , a game where you design your own Trebuchet . Separate contests for distance, accuracy and pow...

It hasn't made much of a splash in the papers, but one of the lesser budget items passed by the US congress recently has been George W. ...

From The Australian : Mark Latham has blamed Labor premiers for contributing to the ALP's devastating federal election loss, stunning c...

I'm a founder member of the " Strengthen the Good " Network of Bloggers, as mentioned in the New York Times . This month...

Seen via The Eternal Golden Braid (and indispendable read), an article on Spaceflight Avionics software development on the Pathfinder miss...

One thing the European Union does more thoroughly than anyone else in the world is... Corruption. Someone who escaped prosecution for a m...

From Zeyad's Healing Iraq , one of the better Iraqi blogs. (And isn't it wonderful that we have a choice of so many now?) : One can...

You could do worse than just go to Chrenkoff , and read "Around The World In 54 Blogs" .

Following on from a previous article , from the AFP : London - A British schoolteacher, attempting to motivate her pupils into making the m...