A U.S. federal judge on Thursday postponed the trial for Allen Stanford because the accused U.S. financier is not competent for the trial. U.S. District Judge David Hittner made the ruling Thursday evening after hearing testimonies from psychiatrists who said Stanford took too many anti-anxiety and anti-depression drugs and is incompetent to stand the trial, […]

North-eastern Australia\’s worst flooding in decades is continuing to cause chaos across the region. Around 1,000 people in Queensland have been evacuated, including the entire population of the town of Theodore. The government has declared Theodore and two other towns in the region to be disaster zones, and forecasters say the floods have not yet […]

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has called for new six-party talks with North Korea. Mr Lee said there was no choice but to try to dismantle North Korea\’s nuclear programme through diplomacy. His comments follow a year of high tension, including exchanges of fire between North and South. The talks format involves the two Koreas, […]

Neanderthals cooked and ate plants and vegetables, a new study of Neanderthal remains reveals. Researchers in the US have found grains of cooked plant material in their teeth. The study is the first to confirm that the Neanderthal diet was not confined to meat and was more sophisticated than previously thought. The research has been […]

More than 300 manatees swam into the outflow of Tampa Electric\’s Big Bend Power Station in Florida on Tuesday. Manatees cope poorly with cold conditions, which can affect their immune systems and lead to death. \’Cold stress\’ killed large numbers of the gentle sea creatures in 2010. The waters of the Tampa Electric plant are […]

After nearly three years, again raise refinancing discount interest The central bank website 27th update shows, since December 26 date for financial institutions loan (raised interest rates, which one-year refinancing) raised 0.52 percentage point to 3.85%; Discount interest rate from 1.80% raised to 2.25%. Both 2008 the first increase since January. The central bank loans […]

Reflection 1, any time cannot benefit to the user for damage, even in a crisis. Reflection 2, we blindly only to take the user interests is right, but we compare the neglect of the interests, such peer could anger opponent, allowing make some extreme behavior, later to give consideration to the interests of the counterparts. […]

Hunan chenzhou former deputy secretary of municipal party committee and municipal of discipline CengJinChun executed Hunan higher people\’s court respectively on the party secretary chenzhou LiDaLun bribery and huge property\’s unclear source case and former deputy secretary of municipal party committee, chenzhou city of discipline CengJinChun bribery and huge property\’s unclear source case publicly sentence: […]

2011 macroeconomic continued yet fast development? Structure adjustment effect how? House prices is going up is reduced? These topics become recent expert discussions hotspot. The state information center chief economic normal sword flat, the world economy is expected to 2011 will not appear a recession, but positive growth is very weak. He worry 2011 domestic […]

December 2007 to June 2009, U.S. employment dropped sharply, the unemployment rate from May 2007 to 4.4%, 10.2% in 2009 soared to a peak. And since the economic bottom has been picked up and unemployment reduced the employment rate is very low. November unemployment rate rose slightly from 9.6% 9.8%, and average employment growth over […]