The rise in popularity of blogging has inspired new writers and creators to share their voices with the world, <i>Pewsearch.org</i> reported recently. A national phone survey of bloggers in the United States found that most are describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers.
At least 33 people have been killed in a series of explosions that ripped through London’s transport system on Thurday morning, and more fatalities are expected to be announced as the situation develops. Russell Smith of the London ambulance service confirmed the deaths in a coordinated series of attacks on tube trains and a bus that left many more people wounded and plunged the capital.
John Gonzalez, the founder of ManNotIncluded.com — a United Kingdom-based website that links sperm donors with potential parents — has launched a new venture involving human eggs. Gonzalez (41) set up the sperm donor site in June 2002 — and it has so far resulted in six births.
No image available
/ 12 December 2003
Beatrice Mtetwa, a fearless Zimbabwean lawyer who has defended those arrested by President Robert Mugabe’s government, including a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, was named Human Rights Lawyer of the Year this week.
Kurdish fighters and US forces today swept into Iraq’s third city, Mosul, after Saddam Hussein loyalists abandoned one of the last strongholds of his dying regime.
Three decades of iron rule by Saddam Hussein appeared to be collapsing in Baghdad today as US troops mopping up fading resistance were met by jubilant Iraqis and looting broke out unhindered.
No image available
/ 14 February 2003
The UN’s chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, today cast doubt on the significance of some intelligence offered by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, in last week’s speech on Iraq’s weapons.
Tension mounts in the Middle East as the Israeli Cabinet approves retaliation measures for the latest suicide bombing