Yearly Archives: 2006

North Korea’s declared nuclear test has blown the chances of a relaxing round of golf for South Korea’s military, officials said on Thursday. Officers and troops were ordered to stay off the links after Monday’s declared test. "The virtual ban on golfing is effective at all military golf courses across the country," a defence ministry spokesman said.

A jury in Florida has awarded a woman ,3-million in costs and damages after a former acquaintance accused her of being a crook, a con artist and a fraudster on an internet talkboard. The award, believed to be the largest verdict of it sort relating to individual postings on bulletin boards or blogs, was handed down by a jury in Broward County, Florida, against a woman from Louisiana.

Libya could become the first country to provide every school-age child with a laptop computer and internet connection under a scheme supported by the United Nations Development Programme. In a -million deal with One Laptop Per Child, a United States non-profit group, Libya will acquire 1,2-million computers with internet connectivity.

The death toll in Iraq following the United States-led invasion has topped 655 000 — one in 40 of the entire population — according to a major piece of research in one of the world’s leading medical journals. The study claims the total number of deaths is more than 10 times greater than any previously compiled estimate.

It may only have been a matter of minutes but for many New Yorkers it seemed so much longer — and so terribly reminiscent. A pall of thick black smoke hung over the Manhattan skyline. Bits of the tail wing of a plane lay scattered on the pavement. Two floors of a tower block were engulfed in an intense blaze.