Month: May 2010
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Transocean to Pay $1 Billion Dividend to Shareholders
11 dead, 17 injured and entire ecosystems and industries hang in the balance: Barely a month after the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers, the company announced at a meeting that it would pay its shareholders a total dividend of $1 billion this year. Last week, the company held a […]
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Muslim Miss USA
CNN on Miss USA: Muslim trailblazer? Or spy?
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Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore
Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore
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Sharks 'Finned Alive' to the Brink of Extinction
Sharks 'Finned Alive' to the Brink of Extinction Australian naturalist Steve Irwin would walk out of Chinese restaurants when he found out they served shark fin soup.
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Web 3.0
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Husband Tells Wife to Pick a Child to Kill, She Kills Him Instead
Bordering on Euripides: An abusive Australian husband wrote down the names of his four children and demanded his wife pick which one he would kill, a Brisbane jury has been told. Mrs Falls, 42, has pleaded not guilty to murdering her husband by lacing his dinner with crushed sleeping pills then firing two bullets into his […]