“Killing in the Name” by American band Rage Against the Machine is this year’s UK Christmas Number One. Following Joe McElderry’s win on this year’s UK X Factor series – the show which had produced the Christmas Number One single every year since 2005 – he was installed as the early favourite to make it [...]
UPDATE Christmas Number One 2009 Revealed Here! The UK pop music charts for the much fought over “Christmas Number One” title for 2009 are revealed this evening, following one of the most publicised battles of recent years. The UK Christmas Number One for 2009 is very close. Despite the Xmas Number 1 title being claimed [...]
With a first innings total of 418 set by South Africa, visitors England looked in real danger of getting nothing from this first test match at Centurian as they lost eight wickets for 242. However, Graeme Swann, who was an injury worry before this opening test match, and is better known for his bowling, put [...]
In 2001, twelve Caribbean countries signed a treaty to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice. Despite this, only Guyana and Barbados have adopted the CCJ as their court of appeal with several countries still sending appeal cases to the UK’s privy council. Privy Councillor, Lord Phillips, has attacked the amount of time British Justices have [...]
The Danish Government has created a special Masters scolarship in lue of gifts to delegates at the Copenhagen conference. Travel and living expenses plus tuition will be paid for students attending Danish Universities to do climate studies under the COP15 Climate Scholarships. The list of recipients is as follows: Rafael Tabase Ghana AU Biosystems engineering [...]
The British Olympic Association has just announced the 33 winners of the Athlete of the Year Awards – awarded to British athletes each year in every discipline. The award was introduced in 2005, to mark the BOA’s Centenary Year and the success of London being awarded the 2012 Olympic Games. There are a number of [...]
In a move which The Age newspaper have called “pushing the country towards being like repressive regimes such as China and Iran”, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Steven Conroy, yesterday announced plans to introduce legislation before the next General Election which would force ISPs in Australia to block black-listed websites which [...]
Skirmishes in Yemen over the weekend between Saudi forces and Yemeni rebels have left a number of civilians dead. Meanwhile the Saudi Prince, Sultan bin Abdulaziz, took time out to visit soldiers injured in the fighting with between Houthi Shia rebels and the Yemeni & Saudi forces. The violence is centred on the Sadaa region [...]
For a number of hours this afternoon, a Facebook ‘bug’ shut down the “RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE FOR CHRISTMAS NO.1″ Group that has been making headlines all month. The Facebook Group, which implores its members to buy Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” rather than X Factor winner, Joe McElderry‘s track “The Climb” [...]
Kent off spinner James Tredwell has been called up to the England squad ahead of Wednesday’s opening test in South Africa as backup for Graeme Swann, who is currently recovering from an injury. Swann is expected to be fit for the test, according to England coach Andy Flower who said “Graeme’s injury is improving and [...]
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