BOSTON, MA – In 2009, the BRICI countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia — had some 610 million Internet users, and this number is growing at a blistering pace: it will nearly double by 2015, hitting around 1.2 billion users, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, [...]
LOS ANGELES – A 15-year-old has been shot dead and a stray bullet struck an 11-year-old girl in the Lincoln Park area. Police are now seeking public help in locating whoever shot Miguel Machuca dead with a hand gun. “On August 28, 2010, at around 7:30 p.m., Hollenbeck officers responded to a radio call of [...]
SACRAMENTO – The anti-Islamic crusade continues in the United States fanned by the New York mosque controversy. Several incidents of vandalism have been reported and the Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) today called on law enforcement authorities to initiate a hate crime investigation of an incident in which a mock [...]
MEXICO CITY -Bankrupt Mexicana Airlines operated by Nuevo Grupo Aeronáutico, S.A. de C.V. (“Grupo Mexicana”) says it has grounded all its flight as of 12:00 p.m. Saturday. Capitalization failures led the group to ground flights of three airlines including Mexicana Airlines, MexicanaClick and MexicanaLink. “Grupo Mexicana’s fragile financial situation, which has deteriorated further over the [...]
SANTA ANA, CA – A man suspected of being an international serial rapist is in custody in Orange County after being extradited from Austria following a DNA match through INTERPOL. The suspect was featured on the Orange County District Attorney’s (OCDA) Ten Most Wanted list. Ali Achekzai, 32, formerly of Ladera Ranch, will be arrived [...]
NEW YORK – Desperate efforts are underway to help 17 million people affected by Pakistan floods that have ravaged territory equal to the size of England, Bangladesh or Cuba. An area of more than 160,000 square kilometres – greater than the entire size of England, Bangladesh or Cuba – has now been ravaged by floods [...]
NEW YORK – The U.N. Security Council has met to consider options to counter the unending menace of piracy of commercial vessels off the coast of Somalia. The council was told that there have been 139 piracy related incidents with the pirates succeeding in commandeering 30 ships of which 17 are still held along with [...]
CHICAGO – TransUnion’s quarterly analysis of trends in the credit card industry revealed that the national credit card delinquency rate (the ratio of bankcard borrowers 90 days or more delinquent on one or more of their credit cards) decreased to 0.92 percent in the second quarter of 2010, down 17.1 percent over the previous quarter. [...]
ALEXIS CREEK, B.C. – An American woman touring B.C. has died after falling 15-feet off a bridge into shallow water running below. RCMP said the deadly plunge on Saturday occurred near the Tsylos Provincial Park area which is a 2.5-hour drive from Alexis Creek. She was with a companion at the time but police believe [...]
NEW YORK – A United Nations human rights team has confirmed that members of two armed groups in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) raped more than 150 women during an attack on a village in North Kivu province last month, a UN spokesperson said today. Victims of the attack, which [...]
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