Shelly - Instablogs
Oct 30 2009
Militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local officials and witnesses in Mogadishu. “Just today, Al-Shabaab dispatched men with...
Sep 5 2009
A man who told authorities “My whole family’s dead!” in a frantic 911 call was charged Friday with killing the eight people attacked in his family’s mobile home in coastal Georgia. Guy Heinze Jr., 22, was arrested Friday on...
Aug 29 2009
Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, will face 29 felony counts after being accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was 11 and keeping her in their backyard since 1991, the district attorney of El Dorado County, California, said Friday.
Oct 14 2008
It is a classic road rally, 600 miles from the liberal embrace of Berkeley to the anything-goes lights of Las Vegas. No speeding is allowed, or in some cases even possible. And if you stop to refuel, it had better be in someone’s trash.
Oct 11 2008
The good news is that the freelance American journalists who went missing in Lebanon earlier this month have been found... in a Syrian jail. Yesterday, just a day after the US Embassy in Lebanon announced that Talyor Luck and Holli Chmela had...
Oct 3 2008
Earlier this year, a close aide to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin investigated whether emails from private accounts belonging to state officials could be obtained by prosecutors or state investigators. She forwarded her findings to Palin and Palin’s...
Oct 3 2008
OK, while the nerdy sci-fi fan in Greenbang loves the idea of a Jetson’s style future where we all get round by jetpack or hop into our personal space vehicles for a short inter-galactic holiday,
Oct 2 2008
The claim was reportedly contained in court papers obtained by a celebrity website following Ms Stone’s unsuccessful custody battle with her former husband Phil Bronstein.
Oct 2 2008
In a keynote speech at the Broadband World Forum, John McMahon, President of Sony Pictures Television asked ISPs to join their battle against piracy. McMahon further said that DRM is one of the major causes of piracy, but says Sony doesn’t have any...
Sep 22 2008
A team of scientists led by researchers from the Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in identifying naphthalene, one of the most complex molecules yet discovered in the interstellar medium. The detection of this molecule suggests that...