Iraq’s first book fair in 20 years concluded on Thursday with organizers and attendees hailing it as a return to the global literary scene for the violence-wracked country.
The two-week exhibition featured more than 200 publishing houses from 32 countries displaying about 37,000 books at a massive conference hall in Mansur, west Baghdad, according to the event’s organisers.
In Hebei, China, a teenager named Lui Shi Ching, 16 years old, has carried his friend to school daily for the last 8 years. His friend Lu Shao has a congenital disorder which makes it difficult for him to walk.
Eight years ago on a rainy day, Lu shao was stuck at school when his mom didn’t come to pick him up. Lui Shi Ching, who was smaller than Lu Shao, decided to help and carried him home.
Since then, it’s been eight years of carrying Lu shao to and from school and even to restrooms.
(READ the story in the Int’l Herald Tribune)
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried careers since the payment is pure love,” wrote Mildred B. Vermont.
The emotions of motherhood are universal as well as the most unselfish in the world.
Mother’s Day celebrates that glorious ideal of love and sacrifice. Here are some things you can do to honor moms for Mother’s Day…
A new product from the British nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation aims to put a working computer into children’s hands — and it literally would fit in their hands — for the ultra-low cost of $25 per device.
Created by game developer David Braben of Rollercoaster Tycoon fame, the fully functional Linux PC has a 700 MHz processor with 128 megabytes of SDRAM.
A Canadian tourist missing in a remote wooded area of the US state of Nevada for seven weeks has been found alive near her stranded vehicle by hunters.
Rita Chretien, 56, told police her van had got stuck in mud in mid-March, and that her husband Albert, 59, had gone to get help on foot.
Police abandoned the search for the couple in April but have now resumed the hunt for Mr Chretien.
An outpouring of community support has raised $40,000 for a 20-year-old patient at Tampa General Hospital who will die without a lung transplant that his family couldn’t afford.
Enock Mezilas, the soft-spoken young man who last week completed his high school diploma as he was fighting for his life, now has enough money to be placed on the transplant waiting list at Tampa General Hospital.
A Rutgers football player, now confined to a wheelchair, hasn’t let his devastating injury slow him down.
Defensive tackle Eric LeGrand, who suffered a serious spinal injury on the field in October, joined broadcasters in the booth recently, finding new joy in the game he loves.
“Things happen for a reason,” he told reporters, and he doesn’t want anyone to feel sorry for him.
The first video production diary from The Hobbit, as posted by Peter Jackson on his facebook page.
The best way to make hydrogen fuel is thought to be photo electrochemical, a process for water splitting. When the sun hits, the solar energy is absorbed in a cell used for splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
Progress in the technology, however, has been limited by the lack of cheap catalysts. Platinum works, it’s just too expensive and rare.
An immigration judge in Newark on Friday suspended the deportation of a Venezuelan man who is married to an American man, responding to an unusual signal this week from the Obama administration that it is exploring legal avenues for recognizing same-sex marriages in immigration cases.
Einstein was right: There is a four-dimensional space-time vortex around Earth, and the spin of Earth does twist space-time.
That’s according to NASA, in an announcement made 52 years after scientists first imagined how to test Einstein’s theory on space-time – before the technology to test it had even been invented.
Scientists at Stanford have developed a battery that uses nanotechnology to create electricity from the difference in salt content between fresh water and sea water. The researchers hope to use the technology to create power plants at estuaries where fresh water rivers join the ocean.
A U.S. Green Building Council partnership released its third annual report listing the greenest colleges nationwide. The online-only guide, available as a free download, includes brief summaries of sustainability initiatives at each of the top 311 schools, as well a dozen or so data points on things like renewable power use, energy efficiency and waste disposal.
More than 16,000 low-income kids who faced losing their subsidized child care next year will get some good news from Mayor Bloomberg Friday.
The mayor plans to announce that he’s found $40 million to continue providing child care to all kids now receiving the subsidy their working parents depend.
The Tunisian fruit and vegetable seller who inspired uprisings across the Arab world when he set himself on fire — is now the subject of a movie.
Mohamed Bouazizi was trying to make a living amid desperate economic conditions in Tunisia when police found he didn’t have a license to trade and tried to stop him. He turned his despair into protest by setting himself on fire.
Tunisian movie producer Tarak Ben Ammar, who at the time was shooting his latest film — starring Antonio Banderas — was approached by the Bouazizi’s family after they were inundated by worldwide media.
The Tunisian fruit and vegetable seller who inspired uprisings across the Arab world when he set himself on fire — is now the subject of a movie.
Mohamed Bouazizi was trying to make a living amid desperate economic conditions in Tunisia when police found he didn’t have a license to trade and tried to stop him. He turned his despair into protest by setting himself on fire.
Tunisian movie producer Tarak Ben Ammar, who at the time was shooting his latest film — starring Antonio Banderas — was approached by the Bouazizi’s family after they were inundated by worldwide media.
Scientists announced they have achieved one of the “Holy Grails of science” by creating the world’s first practical photosynthesis device, an artificial leaf of playing-card-size that can be used to mimic the process that green plants use to convert sunlight and water into energy.
The photosynthetic gadget, unveiled at a March 27 American Chemical Society meeting, uses sunlight to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and is reputedly 10 times more efficient than a natural leaf. Described as a milestones in the drive for sustainable energy, researchers say it will revolutionize power storage, especially in remote areas that don’t currently have electricity.
Scientists announced they have achieved one of the “Holy Grails of science” by creating the world’s first practical photosynthesis device, an artificial leaf of playing-card-size that can be used to mimic the process that green plants use to convert sunlight and water into energy.
The photosynthetic gadget, unveiled at a March 27 American Chemical Society meeting, uses sunlight to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and is reputedly 10 times more efficient than a natural leaf. Described as a milestones in the drive for sustainable energy, researchers say it will revolutionize power storage, especially in remote areas that don’t currently have electricity.
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin is encouraging other agencies to follow the lead of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority that recently bought 53 hybrid buses and upgraded 10 trolleys to run on a hybrid system.
Langevin touted the agency’s investment during a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday saying that the new fleet will save about 20 percent on fuel usage.
If you want to understand what shaped our president, don’t look to his father’s disappearance. It was his unconventional mother who made him.
In 1960, before the Civil Rights Act, before the women’s movement, a smart, white 17-year-old arrived at college. Within weeks she became pregnant and dropped out of school to marry an African — at a time when doing so qualified as a felony in nearly half of America.
The startling part of her story was her conviction—as the child grew into a man—that her son was so gifted “that he can do anything he ever wants in the world, even be president of the United States.”
