China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 total Chinese exports reached US$1.2 […]

Militants in Pakistan torch NATO, US military vehicles

Sunday, December 7, 2008 Peshawar District (highlighted in yellow) is in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier ProvinceImage: Pahari Sahib. Pakistani officials have reported that vehicles supplying NATO forces in Afghanistan have been set on fire by suspected militants. The attack occurred in the northwestern city of Peshawar which lies on Pakistan’s North-Western frontier at 0230 local time. Sources claim that more than […]

Italian police charge homeless local with murder of US exchange student

Friday, July 8, 2016 Map showing locations pertaining to the robbery of Beau Solomon. Image: OpenStreetMap. Map showing scene and bar locations pertaining to the robbery of Beau Solomon. Image: OpenStreetMap. On Tuesday, Italian police charged homeless forty-year-old Massimo Galioto with the aggravated murder of Beau Solomon, a college student from Wisconsin, US. The police arrested the man after finding […]

At least 53 killed, over 90 injured in Shanghai apartment fire

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 China’s Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that at least 53 people were killed in Shanghai during a deadly fire. The blaze, which occurred on Monday at 2:15 p.m. CST (0615 UTC), consumed a 28-story high-rise apartment building in the city’s Jing’an District. The building was being renovated at the time of the fire, and was home […]

U.S. superbug expected to emerge in Canada

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Two Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, magnified 50,000 times. An infectious superbug spreading in the United States is to “emerge in force” in Canada, doctors fear. The bacteria have been reported popping up in day care centers and locker rooms across the U.S. Usually elderly or very ill hospital patients get the disease. More than 2 million U.S. […]

AEK Athens fans damage ferry-boat in Greece

Thursday, May 11, 2006 Angry fans of the AEK Athens football team damaged the ferry “Ierapetra” during the route from Heraklio, Crete, to the port of Rafina in Attica. About 700 AEK supporters boarded the ferry after the end of the Greek football cup final between Olympiacos and AEK which took place in Crete. The victory of Olympiacos over AEK, […]