Coalition pours scorn on Gillard's Gonski warning
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-19 11:47:34 -0700 | disasters-news
The Federal Government has been criticised over its attempt to break the Gonski school funding stalemate with the states and territories. The Prime Minister wants a national agreement on the changes by the end of June, but so far only...
Manhattan Hate-Crime Murder Suspect Held Without Bail
Source: NY1
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 11:39:20 -0700 | disasters-news
A Manhattan man is being held without bail on murder charges, after authorities say he committed a hate-crime shooting in Greenwich Village last week. Elliot Morales, 33, seen above center, was arraigned on charges of second-degree murder as a hate...
A fire, a body, a murder trial in Kingman after more than two years
Source: Wichita Eagle
Wichita :: KS :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 11:38:15 -0700 | disasters-news
On Monday, two years and 20 days after Vashti Forrest Seacat's body was found in the charred remains of her Kingman home, attorneys will start picking jurors who will be asked to decide between two arguments already raised in court:...
Man in serious condition after stabbing near Warkworth (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
California City :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 11:11:18 -0700 | disasters-news
Man in serious condition after stabbing near Warkworth Adam Walker, Newstalk ZB May 20, 2013, 5:46 am Police are investigating a stabbing near Warkworth, north of Auckland. A man in his late 30s had to be airlifted to Auckland Hospital...
Emergency Belly-Landing at Newark Airport
Posted by: turebige
Tbilisi :: Georgia | updated 2013-05-19 10:46:02 -0700 | disasters-news
A commuter plane with 31 passengers aboard was forced to make an emergency belly landing in Newark, N.J., early Saturday morning when the aircraft's landing gear failed to fully deploy. more
Assad refuses, John Kerry request.
Posted by: TaufanTasch
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-19 10:59:56 -0700 | disasters-news
Assad refuses, John Kerry request. Buenos Aires: President Bashar al-Assad, believes if he retreated means escape. That he said to the newspaper "Clarin", from Argentina, when answering the question, whether he would consider stepping down as called by U.S. Secretary...
Beware the hyena in your house
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-19 10:21:06 -0700 | disasters-news
Rating In Summary Sometimes we make excuses for the people we love in the hope that they will one day change. A long time ago in the land of Many Goats, there lived a thieving hyena who terrorised the community...
Nazi enthusiasts defy ban on SS uniforms at World War Two-themed celebration of Dambusters raid
Source: Mail Online UK
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-19 10:20:40 -0700 | disasters-news
The 1940s weekend is an annual Second World War-themed event that has been running for 18 years Bronte Society Chairman Sally McDonald said: 'It is regrettable if they have attended in those sort of costumes. It is a tremendous weekend...
Oxford sex child abuse ring: 'Nobody can feel sorry for them unless they're sorry themselves': ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Oxford :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-19 10:20:37 -0700 | disasters-news
19 May 2013 The mother of two brothers who formed part of the Oxford sex grooming gang has blamed her sons' victims for the abuse they suffered. A group of seven men were found guilty at the Old Bailey last...
Israel fears the Syrian and Russian missile (U.S. Protests?).
Posted by: TaufanTasch
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-19 12:14:33 -0700 | disasters-news
Israel fears the Syrian and Russian missile (U.S. Protests?). Jerusalem: Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Army Radio said that the guns can get to the other parties in Syria over Lebanon and used against Israel. Tzipi Livni, found in...
Israel is world's largest exporter of drones, study finds
Source: War In Context
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 10:05:02 -0700 | disasters-news
Over the last eight years Israel has exported $4.6 billion worth of unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a study by the business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. UAVs, or drones, constitute nearly 10 percent of Israel's total military exports. Unmanned...
Palestine splits Arab street and state
Source: War In Context
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2013-05-19 10:05:01 -0700 | disasters-news
Several incidents in Egypt indicate how government and popular street sentiment are likely to behave differently on Israel-Palestine than did the previous Mubarak regime. Now Jordan vividly captures the complexities and nuances of the consequences of more representative Arab governance...
New Yorker launches tool by Aaron Swartz to protect leaks
Source: War In Context
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 10:04:59 -0700 | disasters-news
The revelation that the Justice Department had been spying on AP reporters' phone records, although it came as no surprise to those attuned to this government's attitude to First Amendment protections, reinforced the importance of enabling the unsurveilled free-flow of...
Assad says: Syria's future to be determined by nation not by Kerry
Posted by: saleh1966
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-19 11:55:15 -0700 | disasters-news
In an interview with Argentina's Clarin newspaper and Telam news agency, Syrian President al-Assad welcomed the new agreement between the United States and Russia to to find a political solution for the ongoing Syrian civil war, which has already killed...
UK: the Financial Times website hacked
Posted by: Fury60
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-19 08:37:30 -0700 | disasters-news
The British Financial Times website was hacked on Friday and the operation was claimed on behalf of the "Syrian Electronic Army", who says he is acting on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad. The article title has been replaced by the...
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