By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-17 | News and society Most outstanding news during the last 24 hours include drought and violence rage in Somalia's largest city, Chinese hungry ghost festival, Deopokhari festival and 34th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-06-16 | News and society The lunar eclipse is seen at the ancient Colosseum in Rome, Italy on June 15, 2011. A fire occurring at the Tabernacle of Praise church in Muncie Indiana causes the roof to collapse and one firefighter dead. Syrian government is now calling for the return of about 8,500 Syrians temporarily camping in neighboring Turkey due to raising violence in Syria. All of the outstanding news pieces strongly attract attention of the world community. read more
By: Jason Ford | 2011-05-23 | Technology Apple proposing smaller SIM Card for iPhone 4 and iPad 3G models or Sharp debuting the world's first 85-inch Super Hi-Vision TV is among weekly focal tech news from May 16 to 22, 2011. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-09-03 | News and society The outstanding news pieces in pictures on September 1, 2011 include the 68th Venice Film Festival in Venice, the “September 11: Rememberance and Reflection” exhibition in Washington DC, the food distribution to refugees at Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab and the banned anti-Kremlin protest in St Petersburg. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-05-18 | News and society May 16, 2011 witnessed a series of events around the world. Besides the Machindranath chariot festival in Nepal, the 39th Coming of Age Day Ceremony in South Korea, the demonstrations against a youth unemployment rate by university students and youth groups in Spain and the monster truck competition called Monster Jam in California, there are many other news that draw much attention of the world press on the day such as the demonstrations to mark the Nakba in Palestine, the demonstration against Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the flood in the United States and so on. read more
By: Nicholas Santiago | 2011-04-01 | Day trading The S&P 500 e-mini futures(ES M1) are trading higher this morning by 7.75 to 1328.75 per contract. The futures started to ramp up higher around 2:00 am EST as the Shanghai Index(China) rallied sharply higher last night. The stock market rally continues to live on and no one should be surprised as the markets have shot straight up since the March 16, 2011 correction low. The Department of Labor reported a gain of 216,000 jobs for the month of March. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-07-19 | News and society Two kingfishers fighting while perching on a barbed wire fence, or a two-headed albino California Kingsnake bing displayed at the Skazka zoo in the Crimean city, is among impressive weekly animal pictures on July 16, 2011. read more
By: Russel Mori | 2011-02-02 | Investing Investment market volatility and currency exchange remains a challenge. Things are still very volatile and we are in unique global influencing territory. In conjunction with investment returns, currency exchange continues to concern many expats with UK Pensions, QROPS and now QNUPS. read more
By: John Stevens | 2011-01-17 | Photography The first two weeks of the first month of 2011 has just passed out marking a series of notable events around the world. A new year has just come featuring with lots of big changes, and new challenges in various fields of life including culture, economics, politics, sports, and so on. The students' sitting around the fire lit to keep themselves warm in cold days in Jammu, India; French First Lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy's trip to a child care center at Le Lamentin, Guadeloupe, France; soaked-in-water houses in history-making flood in Brisbane, Australia are among the most remarkable spotlights of the week on January 2011. Let's take a review on the most striking weekly events on January 2011 via the following stunning images. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-05-23 | News and society A rash of exploded watermelons hits farmers in eastern China after being sprayed with much growth-accelerating chemicals. Logos of some famous brands are printed on roses exhibited at Tehran's International flower and plant fair. The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Almost 70,000 bees cover the whole body of a retired professor without causing a single sting. The IMF former head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is blamed to rape a Sofitel hotel maid, which destroyed his hope to become next French president, and forced to resign from his current position. All of them are among weekly focal news in pictures from May 16 to 22. read more
By: jion smith | 2011-09-14 | Cars If the United States to sell Taiwan F-16C/D, is a step on the red Sino-US relations, bilateral relations will be the biggest setback since the new century. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-07 | News and society The outstanding news pieces on Sunday, August 7, 2011 include the 16th Gay Pride parade in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the 66th anniversary of the atomic attack in Hiroshima, Japan. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-31 | News and society Airports resuming service in the northeastern United States after Hurricane Irene, a normal life returning to the Libyan capital Tripoli, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin riding motorbike during the 16th annual motorbike festival, are among the outstanding news in pictures on August 29, 2011. read more
By: tourism | 2010-11-28 | Cars The 2011 BMW 1-Series ranks 3 out of 6 Upscale Small Cars. This ranking is based on our analysis of 47 published reviews and test drives of the BMW 1-Series, and our analysis of reliability and safety data. The 2011 BMW 1-Series leads the upscale small car class when it comes to performance. Unfortunately, once you start adding options and features, it also leads the class when it comes to price. read more