A West African court has found Niger’s government guilty of failing to protect a woman from slavery in a landmark case for the region. The court found in favour of Hadijatou Mani, who says she was sold aged 12 and made to work for 10 years. A judge Read more

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US man chews belly-busting, giant burger - Times of India
CLEARFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA: A chef at a western Pennsylvania Italian restaurant ate a 15-pound (6.8-kilogram) burger with 5.2 pounds (2.3 kilograms) of toppings in 4 hours and 39 minutes. Brad Sciullo, of Uniontown, is the first person to successfully

SOUTH SIOUX CITY — South Sioux City Attorney Duane Boyd told the City Council Monday he is working on a new “dangerous dog” ordinance to replace the outdated law now on the books. He said he wasn’t ready to present any proposal until he has found a Read more

TOKYO/SYDNEY, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Japan, Australia and India plied money markets with cash on Tuesday as central banks across Asia-Pacific moved to prevent the upheaval on Wall Street from clogging the pipes of the global financial system. The Bank Read more

IT SEEMED, AT THE TIME, like such a good thing for the planet. In the winter of 2005, I turned in my red, gas-hungry Jeep Wrangler for a near-new, diesel-burning Volkswagen Beetle. Inspired by a number of pioneering friends, I would fill my little Read more

Pam Foster, who works for Henderson County Department of Health Nutrition, has been recognized with a 2007-08 Ralph W. Ketner Employee Productivity Award from the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners for implementing Open Access Read more

The Telegraph’s opinion writers, among them Simon Heffer and Jeff Randall, inform and entertain with their analysis and comment on the news that matters: British politics, the conduct of our leaders, such as Gordon Brown and David Cameron, our Read more

LOS ANGELES (AP) - From World War II hero to dancer and award-winning actor, Charles Durning has lived a storied life. The 85-year-old added to that resume Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to one for his idol, James Cagney Read more

January February March April May June July August September October November December 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 (08-02) 16:25 PDT — I chiro Suzuki reached 3,000 hits Tuesday - 1,722 in the majors and 1,278 Read more

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MIAMI: Some four million people were without power across southern Florida on Tuesday after reactors went down at a Read more

Twenty national athletics clubs have confirmed their participation in this month s clubs tournament scheduled to take place at Kicukiro grounds over the weekend. The local athletics body, RAF has confirmed that the twenty clubs who have Read more

Most of my columns don t have happy endings. Often, if a problem is solved and it s unlikely to happen again to anyone else reading my column, I won t write about it. But not today. Because, even though Thomas Begora s problem was solved with Read more

Federal legislation passed in 2006 has turned many former procrastinators into pre-planners. The Deficit Reduction Act, signed into law by President Bush in February 2006, extends Medicaid’s “look-back” period from three years to five. “Look-back” is Read more

LOS ANGELES, July 17 /PRNewswire/ — Choosing your new baby’s name is a task fraught with tension for most expectant parents. Will the name be too common in popularity, or too rare? Will it tie negative associations to the child? (There’s a reason Read more

State health officials say state and local vital records offices will start using new security paper this month for long-form birth certificates. The Department of Health and Environmental Control says the paper will be used starting July 14 for the Read more

The Mississippi Spelling Bee is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Mississippi Public Broadcasting Auditorium in Jackson. The winner will represent Mississippi at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., on May 28. The winner will receive a Read more

TOWNSEND — The new garage given to the town’s Highway Department by Sterilite Corp. is nearly ready for occupancy, according to Town Administrator Gregory Barnes. “In the next few weeks, they’ll move into the garage,” Barnes said. Selectmen Chairman Read more

A developer and a council have met in the Pretoria High Court in a dispute over a valuable piece of land. At stake is the certificate the developer Rean Booysen needs from the council so that municipal services can be provided to the houses he is Read more

Keen gardeners have a couple of weeks to prepare their entries for this year’s Borough in Bloom competition. The floral displays are judged in 12 different categories, including front gardens, flats, schools and pubs, and can win a merit award of Read more

The Tonys will be broadcast from Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m. next Sunday on KIRO (tape-delayed on the West Coast). It’s Tony Awards time again. And once more the “fabulous invalid,” as Broadway has been called for eons, has mustered the strength Read more

BANGALORE (Thomson Financial) - Moody’s Investors Service said it has placed the bank financial strength and long-term deposit ratings of Banco Prosper S.A. under review for possible downgrade The ratings agency said it has a ‘D-’ for bank financial Read more

For the tens of thousands of people who descended on M&T Bank Stadium for Kenny Chesney’s Poets and Pirates Tour, the highlight of the full day came when Chesney emerged from beneath the stage about 9 p.m., unleashing an uninhibited roar of cheers Read more

Rock star Pete Doherty has walked free from Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London. The singer, who has fought a long and public battle with drug addiction, served just 29 days of a 14-week sentence for breaching his probation. Dressed in a suit and Read more

Linda Medlock holds the flag that was given to her at the funeral for her husband, Raymond Medlock, who was a Vietnam veteran, in her home in Bloomfield on Monday. Medlock’s husband died in February and she still has not received his death Read more

April 28 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court gave Republicans an election-year victory, ruling in an Indiana case that states can require photo identification from voters to combat fraud. The court, voting 6-3, rejected Democratic contentions that Read more

Miami Herald - Rodriguez will move to Park City, Utah, in May to train, after her internship ends in NBC-6’s sports department (she received a certificate from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and hopes to break into the business eventually) Read more

ZDNet Blogs - The problem with the wireless LAN EAP authentication is that there is no natural and intuitive way to match the name on the digital certificate to the SSID name. More specifically, the subject field (AKA CN Common Name or DN Read more

San Francisco Gate - It was just the latest on a long list of impressive achievements for Wiggins, who started her Stanford career becoming the first freshman to win the conference’s player of the year award in 2005. Read more

Lanka Business Online - The post event schemes are more entertaining than the award ceremony or the ads the industry creates. These ad folks have a fantastic history; they never can get together and do anything constructive. Read more

Hamilton Mountain News - It needs to be clean and I would assume that the province has made sure that all the safeguards and all the controls and all the (certificate of approvals) are going to be put in place to ensure we have no addition to promoting any kind of negative Read more

Carthage Press - Ann s Catholic School to product the art that graced the Volunteer Service Award certificates presented by the Carthage Area United Way. Inspired by the many times he and father Carl took the canoe out on Kellogg Lake to fish, Alan painted a water Read more

Free Lance-Star - On behalf of Samaritan’s Purse, I thank Fredericksburg Christian Schools for providing a location for gift collection, Chick-fil-A at Southpoint and Celebrate Virginia for providing award certificates, District Manager Mark Ball and Dollar General Read more

MSN MoneyCentral - Overland’s award-winning products include NEO SERIES(R) and ARCvault(TM) tape libraries, REO SERIES(R) disk-based appliances with Virtual Tape Library (VTL) capabilities and ULTAMUS(TM) RAID high-performance, high-density storage. Overland sells Read more

McKeesport Daily News - The school let those students know it appreciated that accomplishment by giving them award certificates. Educators hope the ceremony inspires future test-takers. More than half the audience was third-graders, who’ll have their first brush with the Read more

Idaho State Journal - Principal Stephen Brady said the State Board plans to give Grace School District its award certificate at 3 p.m. Also in Southeast Idaho, Harold B. Lee Elementary School in the West Side School District was among the seven Distinguished School Read more

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin - The agent and agency staff achieved this honor when they successfully completed a special customer experience course. A Good Hands Promise Award certificate is being presented to the Michael Butler Insurance Agency for consistently delivering and Read more

Cumberland County Sentinel - Nov. 9 at Ridge Hall. Sen. Pat Vance will award certificates to Green Ridge veterans who served in WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam. Shippensburg On Monday, Nov. 12, the Joint Veterans Council of Shippensburg will host a Veterans Day parade, scheduled Read more

IranMania News - set to exhibit a number of Vaziri Moqaddam sculptures over the same period of time. Mohsen Vaziri Moqaddam is one of the pioneers of Iran’s avant-garde art movement. He has received numerous domestic and international awards including a Certificate Read more

Tulsa World - MUSKOGEE — Former Marble City School Superintendent Larry Couch, who is facing an embezzlement charge, is appealing the State Board of Education s order revoking his teaching certificate. The order also revoked his administrative certificate Read more

KOTV - MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) _ A former eastern Oklahoma school superintendent who is charged with embezzlement is appealing the State Board of Education’s order revoking his teaching certificate and administrative certificate. Former Marble City School Read more

Guardian Unlimited - In February, the New York Post interviewed makeup artists at the Academy Awards and ran a list of stars who panicked when they found their interviews would be shown in the format. Penelope Cruz and Peter O’Toole, the newspaper told a breathless Read more

Chicago Sun-Times - The award from the Private Eye Writers of America — the group that gives out the prestigious Shamus Awards — guaranteed publication by St. Martin’s Press for the manuscript, then titled Unrobed. Wiley’s first novel is loaded with action, starting Read more

Finance Asia - By The Editors | 10 December 2007 Today we announce the defining deals of 2007 from each country. They can be an equity offering, an M&A transaction or a bond. In some cases, we have taken the opportunity to select a transaction that did not receive Read more

FortWayne.com - and 16 offices available for lease have committed tenants from the academy s educational partners, which include Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Anthis Career Center, among others, offering instruction in degree and certificate Read more

KDKA - She has also received a National Gabriel Award Certificate of Merit, a Matrix Award, the Golden Quill and the Senator John Heinz Community Advocate Award. She also received Regional Emmy Award Nominations for her coverage of the Memorial to the Read more

Sri Lanka Sunday Times - He ignores his true name and his sole belonging is a map of an island from the book ‘The Island of Black Mor’s, the hideout of a famous pirate to whom he would like to resemble.The film won Adult’s Jury Award - Certificate of Merit at Chicago Read more

Denver Channel - Sunday, the Cunningham Fire Protection District gave Adin an award certificate, a medal, a cake, and the opportunity to try on some firefighter’s gear and climb into a fire truck. Turns out, Adin wanted to become a firefighter anyway — even before Read more

Idaho State Journal - Principal Stephen Brady said the State Board plans to give Grace School District its award certificate at 3 p.m. Also in Southeast Idaho, Harold B. Lee Elementary School in the West Side School District was among the seven Distinguished School Read more

Lincoln Courier - Newingham received an award certificate and more than $400 in professional resources. The award is given to those who have who have been recognized for their potential to serve in a variety of possible ministry areas including children’s ministry Read more

Reuters UK - Three years ago, the company admitted that it urged its workers to achieve the highest customer survey results so that SCE could get higher financial incentive awards, which are funded by ratepayers. The survey regarded a rate incentive mechanism in Read more

Worldnews.com - LOS ANGELES — Ryan Seacrest of “American Idol” is hosting next month’s Emmy ceremony, but viewers still won’t be able to call in and pick the winners. Seacrest’s appeal is expected to be a “magnet” that pulls viewers, especially younger ones Read more