Friday, February 22, 2008 Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TDC) will require makers of the sleeping pill, Zolpidem (marketed as Stilnox in Australia) to provide a warning about its “bizarre” and “potentially dangerous” side effects. The warning follows a decision by the National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee (NDPSC) not to …
This is the category for Software. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 23 May 2018: Software giant Adobe Systems to acquire Magento Commerce for US$1.68 billion 9 April 2018: US Republicans query Linux Foundation about open-source security 14 August 2017: Mozilla, Creative Commons, Wikimedia Foundation announce Bassel Khartabil …
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Methane gas was blamed for the explosion deaths of 8 miners in southern Polish‘s Halemba coal mine Tuesday, November 21. Officials say at least 15 are missing. Rescue efforts were halted because dangerously high levels of methane gas returned, according to Zbigniew Madej, spokesman for state-owned …
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 Animal rights activists have demanded that the largest coffee chain in the United Kingdom pull a new advertising campaign because they fear that it will encourage viewers to buy monkeys as pets. The demands are likely to irritate Costa Coffee, who are determined to turn over …
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Frank Walker, the chief minister of Jersey, a United Kingdom Crown dependency off the coast of Normandy, France, denies that there was a cover up after a child’s remains were found. The allegations of a cover-up stem from statements by Stuart Syvret. Syvret, the former Minister …
Saturday, October 15, 2005 Dogs are normally resistant to most flu strains. Since about 2000, a new strain of dog flu has been spreading in America, and there’s no vaccine to prevent it. To limit exposure to the flu, some dog owners are avoiding public places like dog shows and …
Thursday, February 17, 2005Two sets of remains, one a near complete set, the other just a skull, found in Ethiopia forty years ago, have been dated using potassium-argon dating, as the oldest human remains yet discovered at 195,000 years old. Remains from Herto, Ethiopia held the previous record of 160,000 …
Saturday, October 27, 2007 Gay Talese wants to go to Iraq. “It so happens there is someone that’s working on such a thing right now for me,” the 75-year-old legendary journalist and author told David Shankbone. “Even if I was on Al-Jazeera with a gun to my head, I wouldn’t …
This is the category for poetry. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 9 February 2018: Poet, lyricist, and digital activist John Perry Barlow dies, aged 70 21 November 2015: Saudi Arabian court convicts poet of apostasy, sentences to death 8 April 2014: Scottish artist Alan Davie dies at …