An explosion at an abandoned plastics factory in Nanjing city in eastern China killed 12 people and left another 15 seriously injured, China Central Television said. One hundred and twenty people were hospitalized after the blast at 10:15 a.m. local time today, caused by a gas leak from a pipeline running through the plant,...
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Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, creating an environmental tragedy experts call “the Amazon Chernobyl.” This systematic contamination has left tens of thousands of local indigenous people and campesinos suffering an epidemic of cancer, miscarriages,...
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Organisers of the Love Parade festival are at least partly to blame for a crush that killed 21 people, including an Australian, according to a preliminary assessment cited in a southern German newspaper. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung said organisers dismissed fears over safety flaws for the rave, during which more than 500 were injured amid...
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The Song: Releasing the second single off their mixtape, HELLO, Metermaids, brings another indie rock remix that reworks the original with DJ Rob Swift and producer, Matt Stine. Taking Grizzly Bear‘s hit, “Two Weeks“, Swell and Sentence of Metermaids again add their own twist, crafting an original concept, new lyrics, and a new melody...
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WANT TO BE A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR??? LEGENDARY MANAGER JIM HALSEY PROVIDES THE ROADMAP TO SUCCESS IN DYNAMIC NEW BOOK “STARMARKER!” THE JUDDS, OAK RIDGE BOYS, LEE GREENWOOD, CLINT BLACK, REBA McENTIRE AMONG HIS CAREER SUCCESSES Nashville, TN– Long before “American Idol” captured America’s collective heart, iconic music manager and talent impresario Jim Halsey...
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MILWAUKEE — NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was in serious but stable condition after walking away from a plane crash in Wisconsin on Tuesday night. “There are injuries. Possible surgery,” Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith said in a text message to The Associated Press. “But he walked out of the plane.” Smith confirmed...
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PHILADELPHIA – In an unlikely pairing, former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice joined forces with veteran singer Aretha Franklin Tuesday to perform a rare duet at a charitable gig in Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center. For an estimated crowd of 8,000, Rice, who is a classically trained pianist, took to the stage and accompanied...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina —Diego Maradona was removed as coach of Argentina’s national team on Tuesday, ending an erratic 21-month stint that mirrored his own long history of unpredictable behavior and culminated in a humiliating exit in the World Cup quarterfinals. The Argentine Football Association, following a unanimous vote of its executive committee, said that...
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WASHINGTON – Democrats are planning to link the tea party and Republicans, overlapping the two groups to paint the GOP as a party of extremists and the grassroots activists as tools of the establishment. Democratic National Committee sources say the party’s strategy is to pose the November midterm elections as a contest between Democrats...
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WASHINGTON – Several U.S. government agencies are preparing a criminal probe of at least three companies involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, though it could take more than a year before any charges are filed, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. BP Plc, Transocean Ltd and Halliburton Co are...
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