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Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority has ruled out the possibility of any of the contaminated American eggs being sold in the local markets here. The Authority also clarified VIMTO, a soft drink widely consumed by people in the emirate, is absolutely safe for consumption. The statement from the Authority came in response to rumors spread [...]

How would you like showing off your not – so – perfect naked bod to strangers?  I definitely don’t, neither would any of the other girls I was with when I did my first full monty in front of a perfect stranger.  Humiliating? This is an understatement.  Mortified.  That’s exactly how I felt when a [...]

Indonesia issued a red alert on Sunday after the Sinabung volcano on the island of Sumatra erupted, spewing smoke and ash 1,500 metres into the air and sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes. A thick blanket of acrid black smoke is shrouding the area, disaster officials said, although no casualties have yet been [...]

Anthrax has been confirmed in the samples collected from some villages of Bangladesh’s two northwestern districts where 127 people were infected with the disease in the past one week, said a senior health official Wednesday. Mahmudur Rahman, chief of Bangladesh’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) under the country’s Ministry of Health and [...]

After the flood, the District of Jafrabad is suffering from cholera & other contagious diseases. 8 more people are died along 2 children suffering with cholera disease. In the District Head Quarters of Jafrabad, Dera Al-Hayar & Gandakha, the water level is still rising although the Government has’nt took any step yet for the exclution of [...]

TACLOBAN CITY – As reported by the Department of Health (DOH) Tacloban the number of dengue in the city soars up high based on the new information and data they gathered all over the city public and private hospitals. According to the City Health Officer Doctor Jaime Opinion the cases all over the the Region [...]

Poverty as we all know has been one of the greatest issues is the Congo DRC especially in the   Greater Kinshasa area where the war and riots has been going on for years,since 1998 and 5.4 million people died and was one of the worst since WW2. But most did not die of the war the vast majority died [...]

Shuga drama made by MTV and backed by Unicef catches imagination of young Africans

Mass production planned for cash-strapped Californian city as small growers complain about ‘Mcdonalds-isation’

Chinese authorities launch clean-up operation to tackle 50 sq km slick following explosion of two crude oil pipelines in Dalian

Recovering heroin users jailed for child cruelty after using drug to soothe infant in the six months up to her death

Eighteen policemen undergoing anti-insurgency training were hurt after being hit by lightning in Cebu province Tuesday noon, a police official said. Five of the injured were in serious condition, according to Chief Superintendent Lani-o Nerez, regional director of Central Visayas Police. “Katatapos lang nila kumain ng lunch, pupunta sila sa isang lugar nang kumidlat. Yung [...]

The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), the UAE’s independent regulator for the nuclear sector, has issued two licences to the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec). The issued licences are titled: “Licence for Preparation of a Site for the Construction of a Nuclear Facility” and “Limited Licence for the Construction of a Nuclear Facility”. The [...]

The UAE has lifted a ban on import of living cows from Netherlands, France and Germany following a recommendation from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on import of living cows from countries or regions recognized as having a controlled Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease risk. Issued by H.E. Dr. Rashid [...]

Water weighs heavily on the minds of Los Angeles City Council members as they ponder alternatives to its water conservation program initiated in 2008. Under consideration is who should water and when.  Current rules have folks only being permitted to water on Mondays and Thursdays, but this residential sudden outburst of water may have triggered [...]

Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, is exposed to a high tremor risk due to the existing fault near the capital. The government of Bangladesh warned that an earthquake of 7.05 magnitude on the Richter scale will bring widespread devastation and may kill 90,000 people. “If a quake of that magnitude takes place at night the number [...]

June 16 this year. Orchard Road in Singapore. Flooded mainly because the drainage system couldn’t take care of all the water most people say. To be honest, it was a lot of water in a short period of time. But still… PUB is responsible for the drainage system in Singapore. We take a serious view [...]

To support the service of East Jakarta Administration Office of Prime Services, PT Aetra donated one unit of drinking water tap. Thus, people who want to administer their affair in that office located in Blok B2 of East Jakarta Mayoral office can directly drink the water produced from the tap. This facility was given by [...]

A two-year-old toddler in South Sumatra, Indonesia, has become addicted to cigarettes, smoking around forty a day. The parents of Aldi Rizal say their boy started smoking cigarettes at 18 months old when his father, Muhammad, introduced him to the habit. They say Rizal screams, slams his head against the floor and even gets sick [...]

Yesterday’s Severe Tropical Cyclone has weakened into a Tropical Cyclone and located at 24°N – 61°E about less than 80 Km from Gawadar and 400 Km from Karachi. The system is likely to weaken further before making landfall between Karachi and Pasni on Sunday (with maximum sustained winds 70 – 90 Km/hour gusting to 120 [...]