May 22 began as just another work day for Mark Lindquist. A social worker in Joplin, Missouri, Lindquist was making his rounds at client group homes, about to check up on three adult men with Down syndrome. Then came the tornado.
There`s an old English saying `where there`s muck, there`s brass`, and Russia`s Gazprom is discovering how true it is. The company has entered into a new partnership with Gasunie of the Netherlands to develop gas from organic waste.
VTB Capital creates the world biggest fund to develop agriculture.
With Ukraine`s medical infrastructure and legislation making vital transplant organs hard to come by, the illegal trade in human organs is thriving as desperate people turn to the black market.
Vladimir Putin`s All-Russian Popular Front has published its program agenda, proposing that Russians, if they wish to, increase their pension age, that a new Penal Code be developed and a system of public control of television be introduced.
Researchers at the University of Missouri say that college kids, specifically young women, are skipping dinner in droves in favor of downing alcoholic drinks and getting drunk quicker. So much so, that it’s becoming an epidemic.
Specialists from the Gromov Flight Research Institute have completed a series of tests to establish the likely causes of the Yak-42 disaster with the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team on board. The investigation found one of the pilots was at fault.
For each job opening in the country, around 4.6 unemployed Americans remain without work, reveals statistics just published from the Department of Labor.
Bathing suit shots posted to Facebook are earning bans to users of the site, who says some images constitute "inappropriate sexual conduct," even if nudity isn`t in the picture.
The 7th Muslim Film Festival that took place in the Russian city of Kazan in September has ended in a sex scandal. The issue related to a former porn actress who was awarded at the festival.
The EU has extended sanctions against Belarus, which include the freezing of their European assets and a travel ban for 192 Belarusian officials. On Monday, sixteen names have been added to the blacklist.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has agreed with criticism about the Russian political system and promised that there will be changes. However, he stressed that any changes should be "evolutionary".
Russia`s economic development strategy until 2020, drafted on the orders of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, does not correspond with modern realities, according to the Audit Chamber.
California Governor Jerry Brown is forcing foreskin fanatics to take their penis protests everywhere.
Public services in Greece have been disrupted as civil servants and public utility workers have declared a 24-hour strike against pay cuts. All flights to and from Greece are grounded as strike is in full swing in Athens on Wednesday.
Local people are blaming a `fireball` for causing mayhem on the edge of Buenos Aires, wrecking several buildings, killing a woman and injuring many others. The cause of the powerful blast has not been identified and remains enveloped in mystery.
Coca Cola has flagged an estimated $3 billion in investment into Russia, over the next 5 years, at the opening of a $120 million plant in Rostov.
To serve and to protect and to shoot down airplanes. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department now has the means of taking an aircraft out of a sky, revealed NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly in an interview this week.
The Russian Defense Ministry has decided not to procure the AK-74 assault rifle, saying it is outdated. The producer, Izhmash, says a new version of the firearm is almost ready to be shown to the public.
President Medvedev has signed a decree on Kudrin`s resignation after the finance minister was offered to resign. It is the first piece of fallout from the planned switch at the top of Russian politics ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
As spending cuts in the UK force a growing number of people out of work, the few vacancies that are left are mostly going to immigrants.
City officials in Los Angeles are asking the LA Fire Department to explain themselves after it`s become clear that porno films were produced with departmental fire engines serving as a substantial prop in at least two skin flicks.
A sum of some $373 million will be allocated by the state for the festivities and events marking the 250th jubilee of St. PetersburgÜs Hermitage Museum. One of RussiaÜs main museums - the State Hermitage is celebrating its anniversary in 2014.
Swiss banks will have to provide some information about their Russian clients` accounts after Bern and Moscow sign a disclosure agreement by the end of this week, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
A two-meter long mackerel shark has been caught by fishermen not far from a children`s holiday camp in Russia`s Far East. The catch follows a number of shark attacks in the region earlier that resulted in serious injuries.