Six reefs in disputed Spratlys turned into islets by China
From Want China Times China’s proactive campaign to assert its territorial claims over most of the South China Sea has taken another step after satellite images revealed that six reefs in the disputed Spratly Islands have been effectively turned into…
Hotter under the water:
Hotter under the water: a look at the world’s most interesting underwater hotels By: Financialist Staff Photo courtesy of Deep Ocean Technology (Discus 1) Dubai already boasts a bevy of architectural wonders. It’s got the world’s tallest building—the 2,722-foot Burj…
Beauty, brains and business
By Michelle Martin From The Voice One woman’s dream to reinvent the beauty pageant to include all ages, shapes and sizes IN AMERICA, the pageant industry is big business. Actresses like Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams and media mogul Oprah Winfrey…
Terror aid claims reinstated against U.K. bank
By Mark Hamblett, From New York Law Journal U.S. nationals who were victims of terrorist attacks in Israel have another chance to pursue claims that the National Westminster Bank supported Hamas by handling money for the Palestine Relief & Development…
Former Cayman Islands Chief Magistrate sworn in as Chief Justice of TCI
From Jamaica Observer Daughter of eminent Jamaican lawyer Ian Ramsay sworn in as chief justice of Turks & Caicos PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands (CMC) – Jamaican-born Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale was Monday sworn in as the first female chief justice…
NASA has determined where the mysterious jelly-doughnut rock on Mars came from
By Dina Spector NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ./Business Insider Attached image shows Pinnacle Island in the lower left corner and where the piece of rock had been before it appeared in front of the rover. Scientists have confirmed that a strange-looking…
Apple’s iPod: is the end nigh?
By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News Analysts do not expect there to be significant improvements made to the iPod range Few pieces of technology can genuinely claim to be iconic. But Apple’s iPod, first launched in 2001, arguably fits…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…