Wall Street Mayham
| September 15th, 2008 |  (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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Credit noose tightened around big Walstreet banks - Lehman brothers and Merril Lynch are the latest victims
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200809151644DOWJONESDJONLINE000722_FORTUNE5.htm
2008 Olympics gets underway in Beijing, China : 08-08-08
| August 8th, 2008 | (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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With an impressive opening ceremony, China puts on a great show and plays host to the Olympics of 2008.
As an added touch the date 8-8-8 is considered very lucky in Chinese culture
Official Olympic site : http://en.beijing2008.cn/
Barrack O’Bama becomes Democratic presidential candidate
| June 4th, 2008 | (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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It has been a historic race for Democratic party presidential nomination. A woman (Hillary Clinton) and an African-American (B arrack Obama) were seeking the nomination. After long, long campaign Obama secured the nomination.
Even though, this is American politics, this election with a woman and an african-american candidates, drew world attention.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7434753.stm
Devastating earth quake in China
| May 13th, 2008 | (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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A strong earth quake, measuring 7.8 wrecked China’s Sichauan province!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/asia_pacific/2008/china_quake/default.stm
Benazir Bhutto is killed in Pakistan
| December 27th, 2007 | (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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BBC news story
Wikipedia story
Hollywood writers go on Strike
| November 5th, 2007 | (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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New York times story here.
BBC story.
Last strike was in 1988
Protests in Burma
| October 5th, 2007 | (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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BBC story.
Monks are spearheading protests.
Canadian Dollar equals US Dollar, in 31 years
| September 20th, 2007 | (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
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Canadian dollar is no longer the ‘underdog’. Today CA$ traded at the same value as US$
See here : http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-09-20-canada-parity_N.htm
Barry Bonds breaks home run record : 756
| August 7th, 2007 |  (1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ... |
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bond set the record for most career home runs in Baseball history. Previous record was held by Hank Aaron since 1974
San Francisco Chronicle Article
BBC link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/baseball/6936213.stm
Isreal troops pull out of Gaza
| September 11th, 2005 | (1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ... |
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BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/11/newsid_4954000/4954594.stm
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