Archive for April, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jardine Enterprises is recalling about 96,000 cribs, the third encage recall the company has issued in a year. The slats onward the recalled cribs can break, leaving a gap where mean children can get trapped or strangled. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says it has received 31 reports of broken slats and couple reports ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States must do more to help Afghanistan engagement the adulteration undermining critical programs to rebuild the war-torn country, a excel government watchdog reported Thursday. Corruption relics a significant problem in the compass of key government ministries in Afghanistan even as more U.S. tax dollars perpetuate to flow into the population, uttered the inspector ...

Newcastle University campus A total of eight people have now been confirmed through the venom. The Department of Health said: "There have been three more confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK - pair in London and one in the North East. "The preparations we have in place and are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 100 anti-torture activists are marching solemnly from the U.S. Capitol to the White House. Protesters gathered at the Capitol on Thursday morning. They assert they are protesting detention policies in the United States and what they call the commonwealth'sitting negation to prosecute torture. The marchers are wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Google Inc. has been getting more frugal with its employees and other expenses as the recession crimps its growth, but the Internet search leader isn't skimping on political lobbying, according to a late discovery form. The Mountain View, Calif.-based gathering spent $880,000 put on lobbying for the period of the first quarter, a 42 percent ...