22nd June 2009
A young Ballymoney woman has told how she screamed in horror at finding an 18-inch long snake in her cutlery drawer.Joanne Woods (20) came face to face with the black and yellow beast on Monday evening.Joanne and her boyfriend Aaron Moore (26) were watchi...
22nd June 2009
Some school principals in Ireland are being blackmailed into providing preparation for pupils planning to sit new grammar entrance tests, it was claimed today.Seamus Searson, regional organiser of the NASUWT and secretary of the Northern Ireland Teachers'...
22nd June 2009
A few weeks ago I set up a meeting for Friend B to see the product thinking it could be useful for his business. At the presentation of the product I looked at my Friend B to detect his reaction to the product but he gave me a blank expression that said: ...
22nd June 2009
"Good is the enemy of great. And that is why we have so few things that become truly great."These words became a source of fascination for me after hearing Jim Collins speak at a conference in America in 2003.He went on, "I want to challenge you to think ...
21st June 2009
After vigorous debate, and with a 13% minority dissenting, the National Assembly on June 18 approved the Government's proposal to expand the rights of overseas Vietnamese (Viet Kieu) to own homes in Vietnam.The amendments to the Land and Housing Laws open...
19th June 2009
When Christophe Bisciglia worked at Google, the 28-year-old computer scientist quickly became the company's top evangelist for cloud computing, teaching academia and industry how to churn through mountains of data to discover new insights by shifting heav...
19th June 2009
From the day it launched two years ago, Apple's iPhone has been a tornado of disruption ripping through the wireless phone market. With the release of the iPhone 3G S and, at least as important, a new version of the basic software for all iPhones, the uph...
19th June 2009
President Barack Obama's plan to increase oversight of U.S. banks and other financial institutions met with skepticism on Capitol Hill on Thursday, where senators sharply questioned whether it was enough to prevent another economic meltdown.The lack of a ...
18th June 2009
You probably began your day scanning your in-box to identify the messages demanding your attention. What compelled you to open the messages you did? Was it the generic subject line stamped URGENT? The red exclamation point? Of those e-mails you opened, wh...
18th June 2009
If General Motors Corp. (GM ) were any other company, its problems would have sorted themselves out a long time ago. Logic says that when your cash holdings exceed your entire valuation in the stock market, some Wall Street shark is going to swoop in, sna...
18th June 2009
This mountainous land is the smallest country in Central Asia but is the traditional on ramp to the Silk Road from China. Three primary caravan routes ran through Tajikistan's Tien-Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.Only around 7% of the land is arable, nearl...
