A 13-storey residential building under construction in Shanghai collapsed on Saturday, killing one worker and highlighting the dangers of shoddy building in fast-urbanising China. The building, in the outskirts of the city, collapsed at around 6 a.m. (2200 GMT), with one construction worker killed, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The block of high-rise residential flats was shown toppled... 

Honduras is now torn between two presidents: one legally recognized by world bodies after he was deposed and forced from the country by his own soldiers, and another supported by the Central American nation’s congress, courts and military. Presidents from around Latin America were gathering in Nicaragua for meetings Monday to resolve the first military overthrow of a Central American government... 

Throughout the history of Europe,  the Socialists creates problems, bringing more immigration and raising taxes on the poor people native people and exploiting the race issues to stay in power. If the SPD ever win the elections,it would be a catastrophe for low income earning Germans. Conservative leaders voted unanimously on Sunday, June 28, in favor of a program of moderate tax cuts and income... 

Turks showing they gratitude for Obama, with black painted face, as he promote the idea of an Islamic Turkey joining the EU. Translation below: “Welcome Mr Obama. You made us happy with your speech in in Ankara with your open attitude and and good will. However, we have some anxiety. Until now USA has always demanded and gotten what it wants [from Turkey] but now we have a request. “There... 

Michael Jackson was taking a devastating cocktail of drugs in the weeks before his sudden death, it has emerged. The singer was said to be taking three powerful painkillers all at the same time, when more than could be potentially fatal, and was also consuming vast quantities of other pills every day. It is claimed Jackson, 50, was injected with the powerful painkiller Demerol – a synthetic... 

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British citizenship has rocketed almost 500 per cent under Labour The number of British passports given to migrants is set to hit a record 220,000 this year. In the first three months of 2009, 54,615 citizenship applications were approved – up 57 per cent on the same period in 2008. At that rate, the number receiving passports – and with them the right to full benefits – this year... 

Gaza’s hospitals are used to treating victims of rocket attacks and gunfire. But now their waiting rooms are increasingly filled with severely malnourished children. Since Israel imposed a blockade on the strip following the Hamas takeover a year ago, families have been struggling to feed their children. Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports from Gaza.  Read More »

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Press leak: Zambian President Rupiah Banda is startled after the monkey urinates on him during a press conference, but sees the funny side A monkey urinated on Zambian President Rupiah Banda as he spoke to journalists at a news conference in the capital Lusaka yesterday. Banda shouted: ‘You (monkey) have urinated on my jacket,’ and paused as he looked up to see the animal playing in a tree... 

Former Black singer Michael Jackson is believed to have suffered a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles this afternoon. Reports say that Jackson, 50, went into cardiac arrest and has been rushed to hospital. He was taken into an ambulance around 2pm (US Central time) and taken to a nearby hospital, says US gossip website TMZ. Paramedics were seen performing CPR on the singer, according to the website, Jackson’s... 

A 35,000-year-old flute made of vulture bone found in a cave in southwestern Germany is the world’s oldest known musical instrument. The artifact suggests music may have been one advantage our ancestors had over their cousins, the now-extinct Neanderthals, according to a report published in the journal Nature. The five-holed flute, which is fully intact and made from a griffon vulture’s radius... 

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise after the virulent reaction it was seen on July 2006, Sony’s pulled the plug on their “PSP White is coming” ad campaign in the Netherlands, which depicted, well, you know… a threatening empowered white woman dressed in white, holding a scared black woman dressed in black by her jaw. We’re not gonna call it an admission of guilt... 

German Defense Minister Jung has insisted that Germany is not fighting a war in Afghanistan, rejecting calls for such an admission after three German soldiers died in the country this week. The parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, Reinhold Robbe, on Wednesday called on the German government to recognize it was fighting a war in Afghanistan. “It is still being publicly denied that...