Topic: NEWS english - on November 15, 2004 at 1:01:00 PM CET
Titanic damaged by visits
Robert Ballard the man who almost two decades ago discovered the site of the Titanic complained yesterday about the damage being caused to the wreck by visitors and souvenir hunters.
Mr Ballard said there are numerous cases of submarines hitting the wreck and leaving oval shapes and dents on it.
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 15, 2004 at 12:56:00 PM CET
Bin Laden launches new perfume
Bin Laden's not so well known half-brother Yeslam is to launch a new perfume in Europe and perhaps the USA.
"My scent is more flowery. It reminds me of memories of my childhood in Saudi Arabia," said Mr Laden when speaking to a Swiss magazine last week.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 17, 2004 at 10:55:00 AM CEST
Churches Installing Cell Phone Jammers
It was the reporters who noticed first. Unable to call their editors while covering the weddings of the rich and famous, they asked the priest why their cell phones never worked at Sacred Heart. His reply: Israeli counterintelligence.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 11, 2004 at 8:53:00 AM CEST
Bullets With ID Tags?
A new chapter in the battle over the American's right to bear arms is beginning in California as pending legislature would require every handgun bullet sold in the state to carry an ID tag.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 7, 2004 at 8:36:00 PM CEST
All-Women's College Fights To Keep Out Men
Students at the all-women Wells College in Aurora, NY staged a protest against officials' decision to include men for the first time. Wells College has been all-women for 136 years.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 4, 2004 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
Oktoberfest Not Quite As Festive This Year
Bad weather has slowed the party at this year's Oktoberfest.
Organizers blame two weeks of cold, rainy weather for a dip in attendance at the beer-fueled event in Munich, Germany. It attracted about 400,000 fewer participants than last year.
Still, nearly 6 million people downed about 5.5 million liters of beer.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 4, 2004 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
Philippine slum stream turns into gold rush site
Hundreds of people have flocked to a polluted stream in an overcrowded slum in the Philippine capital after some residents found gold nuggets, witnesses say. A village chief said it was a puzzle as to how the nuggets got into the trash-strewn and heavily silted channel.
"It is puzzle. All we got from this before was trash," he said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 4, 2004 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Theater showing 'Anacondas' hunts for movie-going snake
No, it's not a 3-D creature feature: A Houston movie theater — one that was showing Anacondas among other films — has shut down while workers hunt for an 8-foot snake.
A maintenance worker said he saw a snake about a week ago that was thick as a man's arm slithering along a wall, said Terrell Falk, a spokeswoman for Cinemark USA Inc.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 2, 2004 at 11:28:00 AM CEST
Sweden to save 'sinking' town
The town of Kiruna in remote northern Sweden is seeking a new home before the earth swallows it up. Its centre is in danger of sliding down a hole left by the iron ore mines which put this Arctic outpost on the map a century ago.
Kiruna's railway station and its new highway will be relocated first, officials told BBC News Online.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 2, 2004 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
Fire-Alarm Dog Saves Family
There's only a hollow of a house left, but the Singleton family is thankful for what they do have.
It was Teddy the poodle who insistently barked at a fire hidden in a wall early Sunday, alerting the family of five to the danger - and enabling them to get safely out of the house.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 2, 2004 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
No More Unabomber Stamps, For Now
The U.S. Postal Service has canceled an experiment that allowed people to make postage stamps using images of their dogs, babies and even, it turned out, outlaws such as the Unabomber.
Stamps.com, based in Santa Monica, said this week that its PhotoStamps program has ended for now while the U.S. Postal Service re-evaluates the program.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 1, 2004 at 1:50:00 PM CEST
Judge Orders FBI to Release Lennon Files
The FBI must turn over the remaining secret files on Beatle John Lennon to a professor who has waged a more than 20-year legal battle to get the documents, a judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi rejected government arguments Tuesday that releasing the last 10 pages would pose a national security risk because a foreign government secretly provided the information. The government was not publicly identified.
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