07/15/11 MELBOURNE (Reuters Life!) - Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, is a vibrant metropolis packed with cultural attractions, historical sites and charming back lane cafes.
07/15/11 BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, has agreed to buy US shale gas producer Petrohawk Energy for $12.1bn (?7.5bn) the group's largest-ever acquisition.
07/14/11 Keppel Offshore & Marine has appointed Chow Yew Yuen as managing director. Based in Singapore, he will assist the CEO in all aspects of Keppel O&M and will continue in his role as the president of the Americas, in which he oversees the group's business covering the US, Mexico, and Brazil.
07/13/11 Three years ago, Raph?el de Sousa was being hailed as the great hope for the future of Swiss golf, having seemed almost certain to make the step up to The European Tour.
07/08/11 Special Events Philadelphia Animal Care & Control Team's Kitten Ice Cream Social Enjoy free ice cream and learn more about providing foster care for kittens. Philadelphia Animal Care & Control Shelter, 111 West Hunting Park Ave. loveaphillycat.com. 7/9. Noon-3 pm.
07/05/11 The Peninsula College Fund, an organization dedicated to helping local minority students succeed in college, held its sixth annual awards ceremony honoring 15 scholarship recipients from East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park and Redwood City from June 18 at Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton.
07/02/11 Like Jim Farber ("Stop being so sensitive" column June 26), I have long been fed up with the sheer volume of the overly sensitive at best and passive-aggressive at worst, wave of weepy, self-absorbed catharsis sweeping the indie rock scene. But while Far.
06/30/11 Truffles, foie gras, flowering teas, wok fire flashes, live noodle pullers and a floor-to-ceiling wall of small monitors showing Chinese cooking shows on loop? It's not some sort of culinary Disneyland; it's Martin Yan '...
06/30/11 This is a partial list of service calls reported June 23-29 to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Questions about a specific event should be directed to the department at (813) 247-8200.
06/29/11 Residential transactions in Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, San Francisco and southern Alameda County, published June 25, 2011.
06/26/11 YARDLEY BOROUGH - The Yardley Borough Recreation Board wants to remind residents about a few road closures on the morning of Sunday, June 26 due to the Yardley 5K.
06/24/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press DOVER, Del. Delaware State Police say a man arrested in Florida and charged with attempted murder in Dover has been returned to Delaware. Twenty-five-year-old Paul E. Delerme of Dover was extradited from Florida to Dover on Thursday. He is being held on $130,000 cash bond. Police say Delerme was involved in an altercation with another man on May 21 in ...
06/14/11 East Timor's Council of Ministers has approved revisions to the Petroleum Fund Law that will see one of the smallest countries in the world move its money out of the world's biggest economy, the United States.
06/14/11 Richard I. Kadet, the 67-year-old Redwood City cyclist who, on May 29, fell in a reported solo bike accident on eastbound Woodside Road near the intersection with Northgate Drive in Woodside, has died of his injuries, relatives said. He "passed away peacefully" on June 9, they said.
06/13/11 Talented baseball player Dillan Pak and softball standout Megan Brading would have liked for their Saratoga High School teams to fare better this spring, but the two senior leaders had to be happy about their personal results. Pak and Brading sparkled on the Saratoga diamonds, capping their high school careers with award-winning performances. Both earned team Most Valuable Player trophies and ...
06/10/11 The Kitan field in permit JPDA 06-105 in the Timor Sea is 500 km off the Australian coast and 170 km off the Timor-Leste coast, northwest of the existing Bayu Undan gas condensate field. Eni announced it had made an oil discovery there in March 2008.
06/09/11 Soon-to-be Kecoughtan graduate Jake Cave, drafted in the sixth round by the New York Yankees on Tuesday, has joined the Peninsula Pilots and is expected to start at first base Thursday night at Edenton.
06/08/11 Delaware State Police in Kent County have arrested one suspect and are looking for another wanted in connection with the alleged abuse of an elderly Marydel man.
06/02/11 The CIF state championships are Friday and Saturday at Buchanan High School in Clovis (Fresno County). Selected qualifiers (top mark from sectionals and Metro Area qualifiers by statewide rank). BOYS 100 meters -1....
05/25/11 The City of Fredericton has changed its employee pension plan, eliminating overtime in the calculation of pensionable income and capping annual cost-of-living adjustments at 1.5 per cent. |