Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 22, 2009 at 3:15:00 PM CET
Atheist ads 'not breaking code'
An atheist UK bus campaign which uses the slogan "There's probably no God" does not breach the advertising code, a watchdog has ruled.
The Advertising Standards Authority said it had assessed 326 complaints. Some claimed the wording was offensive to people who followed a religion.
... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2009 at 3:13:00 PM CET
Obama unveils new ethics rules for White House staff - video
President Barack Obama announced new ethics rules for White House staff and froze pay for staffers making over $100,000.
... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2009 at 3:08:00 PM CET
Obama Inauguration Newspaper Headlines
... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2009 at 3:04:00 PM CET
The Inauguration of President Barack Obama
On January 20th, 2009, Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America - the first African-American ever to hold the office of U.S. Commander-in-Chief. The event was witnessed by well over one million attendees in chilly Washington D.C., and by many millions more through coverage on television and the Internet. Collected here are photographs of the event, the participants, and some of the witnesses around the world. (48 photos total)
... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 22, 2009 at 3:01:00 PM CET
First Federal Courtroom Webcast Postponed
The nation's first live steaming webcast of federal trial court action -- a pretrial hearing in a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing copyright case -– has been postponed.
... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: Space - on January 22, 2009 at 2:34:00 PM CET
Russia says no more space tourists after 2009
Russia's space agency chief said there's no more room for space tourists in the International Space Station after this year because of plans to double the full-time crew at the orbiting outpost
Roskosmos top brass Anatoly Perminov told the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta in an interview published today that the last commercial flights will be made by Vladimir Gruzdev, a cosmonaut from the ex-Soviet republic sometime in Fall 2009, and by US software designer Charles Simonyi in March.
... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
