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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  15 hours ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  4 days ago

• Africa Needs Over $90b a Year for Infrastructure Development

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Africa requires annually $93 billion to undertake various infrastructure works, according to a report presented Thursday at the extraordinary African Finance ministers conference taking place in Addis Ababa. The report said the money is required to undertake new infrastructure, rehabilitation and maintenance works in ...
  6 days ago

• Euthanasia—the right to end one’s Life

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 117
  Shanbaug , a 61 year old woman , who suffered a brutal rape 36 years ago and has been lying in a vegetative state since last 36 years wants to culminate her pain and misery, her life. Her “Next Friend ” describes her as ‘‘Her bones are brittle. Her skin is like ‘papier mache’ stretched over a skeleton. ...
  6 days ago

• Latest Death Rumor: Nelson Mandela Dead

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  New York, Dec 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The latest celebrity who has died is Nelson Mandela, according to the rumormongers. The legendary political leader who is the supreme anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela has reportedly died, according to the rumormongers.Apparently US President George ...
  1 week ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• Fiji Signs Trade And Development Agreement with the European Union

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Fiji has signed an interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU. The agreement focuses on trade in goods and provides duty free – quota free access for all products from Fiji to the EU market. It also aims to deepen cooperation in areas such as animal and plant health as well as technical standards. The ...
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• Today 10th December is Human Rights Day

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Washington DC, Dec 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Today 10th December is Human Rights Day. This particular date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is the first global enunciation of human rights. This ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rwanda to Host the International African Agricultural Conference

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Rwanda will play host to the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) stake holders’ meeting slated for December 7-8. The conference is expected to attract over 300 agricultural experts, policy makers, donors and members of civil society from around the world. According to a statement from ...
  2 weeks ago

• African Development Bank to Support Establishment of Nigerian Micro Finance Bank

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Resident Representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Country Office, Mr Herve Assan, says the bank will offer a $1 million grant to establish the AB Micro Finance Bank of Nigeria (ABN). Assan told journalists on Wednesday in Abuja that the grant was in line with the bank’s effort to empower the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  3 weeks ago

• Patna witnesses rally by specially-abled kids

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Patna, Dec.3 (ANI): Hundreds joined a rally on Wednesday in Patna city to assert the rights of children with disabilities.The ‘Handicapped Vigilant Rally’ was held on the eve of International Day of Persons with Disabilities.Organised by the Indian Institute of Health Education and Research, the rally was a part ...
  3 weeks ago

• World Bank Says Africa Needs One Trillion Dollars for Infrastructure Development

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The world Bank has said that Africa had the weakest infrastructure in the world and would need more than one trillion dollars in the next decade to resuscitate its poor state of infrastructure. A world bank report, entitled, “Africa’s Infrastructure : A Time for Transformation’’, made available in Abuja said ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 weeks ago

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