Posts Tagged ‘cnn’
CNN Hero of the Year 2009
CNN Hero of the Year Efren Peñaflorida has been conferred the Order of Lakandula, with a rank of komandante (commander) by President Arroyo.
In a simple ceremony at Malacañang’s Reception Hall, [...]
Asteroid passes close to Earth
An asteroid (inside circle) passed within 38,000 miles of Earth on Monday.
(CNN) — You had a close encounter with a 40-yard-wide asteroid this week, but the astronomer who first spotted [...]
Undersea bombs threaten marine life
(CNN) — Beyond the golden beaches and beneath the blue waters of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques is a site that resembles more of a munitions graveyard than a [...]
RBS $34 billion loss
LONDON, England (CNN) — Part-nationalized British banking group RBS announced massive losses for 2008, totaling £24.1 billion ($34.7 billion) on Thursday. The results are the worst in British corporate history.
RBS’s [...]
30 Years Old Meresamun, 3,000 years before seen
The mummy known as Meresamun was entombed nearly 3,000 years ago.
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — The beautiful singer was about 30 years old when the world forgot about her. [...]
Vaccines didn’t cause autism
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A special court ruled Thursday that evidence presented in three cases by parents of children with autism did not prove a link between autism and certain early [...]
Second Swiss bank loses billions
(CNN) — Switzerland’s Credit Suisse has joined the list of banks revealing disastrous results for 2008 after it reported losses of $7.1 billion (8.2 billion Swiss francs).
The country’s second largest [...]
Pirates release ship carrying tanks
(CNN) — Somali pirates released a Ukrainian ship Thursday carrying tanks, ammunition and crew after receiving a ransom of $3.2 million, a spokesman for the ship’s owner said.
Mikhail Voitenko [...]
Smaller stimulus
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Tens of billions smaller and more precisely targeted.
That’s the kind of economic recovery package a bipartisan group of moderate senators has been trying to craft for [...]
1,800 year old marble head
The figurine is small — about 6 centimeters high by 4 centimeters wide — but very detailed, archaeologists say.
(CNN) — Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe is the [...]
Dutch financial giant cutting up to 7,000 workers
(CNN) — The Dutch-based finance and insurance group ING is cutting up to 7,000 staff in an effort to help save $1.4 billion.
It also announced Monday that CEO, Michel Tilmant, [...]
STDs still on the rise
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — In spite of prevention efforts, new cases of some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are going up, according to a new report from the [...]
Best alternative medicine for children
(CNN) — Nursing is supposed to be a calming, tranquil time for a newborn, but when Deb Kruse-Field put her son, Luke Field, to her breast, instead of cuddling up [...]
True love can last a lifetime
(CNN) — Love’s first blush fading? Lost that loving feeling? Love is not all around?
Sick of cliches?
Take heart, scientists have discovered that people can have a love that lasts a [...]
5 small changes to lose weight
(CNN) — Tim Kassouf lost 45 pounds, and it all started when he got really mad at his girlfriend.
Kassouf, a 24-year-old marketing manager in Baltimore, Maryland, was moaning to his [...]
