Archive for styczeń, 2009

Obama attacks ‘outrageous’ $18bn Wall Street bonuses

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

BARACK Obama, the US president, last night said it was outrageous that Wall Street employees received more than £12.5 billion in Christmas bonuses last year.

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Al-Qaeda holding British hostage

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

A NORTH African offshoot of al-Qaeda is most likely holding four European tourists, including a Briton, who were kidnapped in Mali last week, a senior military source said.

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Galileo statue scrapped – does Vatican still resent man who said Earth goes round the Sun?

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

VATICAN officials have scrapped plans for a statue of Galileo Galilei, the astronomer who was convicted of heresy 400 years ago.

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Man stabs ex-lover for breast implants

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

CALIFORNIA prosecutors said a spurned lover ambushed his former girlfriend and tried to cut out the breast implants he had paid for by stabbing her.

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‘Children of the Khmer’: Fêted in Scotland … bulldozed back home

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

SIX months ago they were being fêted in Edinburgh, cheered by crowds in the Festival parade and winning four-star reviews for their show of traditional monkey and peacock dan

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Google Earth search turns up cannabis plantation

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

SWISS police yesterday said they stumbled across a large cannabis plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company’s satellite mapping software.

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Illinois governor convicted over ’selling’ Senate seat

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

THE governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, was convicted of impeachment charges and removed from office last night, eight weeks after he was arrested on charges of trying to

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Mother of drug-death toddler closer to extradition

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

THE mother of a toddler who died after ingesting drugs on holiday yesterday moved a step closer to being extradited to Spain to stand trial for allegedly killing him.

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Wartime Polish PM died of crash injuries

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

FORENSIC tests have failed to find any evidence of foul play in the death of Poland’s exiled Second World War leader, experts said yesterday.

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Rival calls Sarkozy a ‘greedy little boy in a cowboy outfit’

piątek, styczeń 30th, 2009

FRENCH president Nicolas Sarkozy has been branded a greedy little boy in a cowboy outfit in a personal attack by his socialist rival.

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