2016-03-19 18:53
Hollywood studios, facing intense pressure from the Apple Computer CEO and others eager to put movies online, are stealing a march on the high-tech companies and will offer consumers the opp… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
The Games of the Nineteenth Olympiad were the highest and most controversial ever held.Staged at 7,349 feet above sea level where the thin air was a major concern to many competing countries… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It is long past time we stopped giving a free pass to organizations that refuse to be guided by reason and would force their unreason on the entire society. A first step would be to stop cal… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of a string of bank robberies in Canada.Police in Vancouver arrested the three teenagers following the robberies"Within the… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
A prisoner wrapped himself in a large parcel and posted himself to freedom from a jail in Austria.Bosnian Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36, was serving a seven-year sentence for robbery in the Karla… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
A cyclist travelled 335,500 miles on the same bike - only for it to be stolen as soon as he arrived in Britain.German-born Heinz Stucke bought his bike in 1962 to embark on his endless voyag… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Florida grandmother was attacked by a 5ft alligator - and fought it off with a hosepipe.Connie Gittles, 74, thought it was just a snake when something bit her leg as she watered plants in he… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Jared Guinther is 18. Tall and lanky, he will graduate from high school in June. Girls think he's cute, until they try to talk to him and he stammers or just stands there -- silent.Diagnosed… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Welsh couple had a run of three lucky lottery wins in one week, ending in a £2.5 million jackpot.First, deputy headteacher Jenny Cooper won £10 and used it to buy lucky dip lotte… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
A granny has won over thirteen million dollars on a five cent slot machine.Josephine Crawford was down to her last few coins when she hit the jackpot at Harrah's casino in New Jersey.Accordi… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
The Beerbelly - a secret strap-on beer holder that disguises itself as a bulging beer belly - is being marketed in the US.It was the brainchild of three middle-aged men who wanted a way of s… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
A Croatian man found the skeleton of a Nazi soldier while sifting through a bag of soil for his new garden.Bruno Marincic had bought the soil from construction workers who had helped build a… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Britain's international intelligence service is advertising for new real life James Bonds.MI6 chiefs are placing ads in The Times newspaper and The Economist magazine this week.The ads featu… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a force of Irishmen under arms estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500 men and women attempted to seize Dublin, with the ultimate intention of destroying British… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Say hello to our most bizarre ancestor — a part crocodile, part seal-like fish that was able to take the first baby steps on to land roughly 380 million years ago.The discovery, 1,400… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Even in his heyday, Gene Pitney never looked like anything other than a successful young executive, a product of Wall Street or Madison Avenue rather than Carnaby Street or the King's Road… Read More
2010-04-28 08:59
Is this a rock or is this a rock?An Australian man has been arrested for drink-driving after he asked police the way to Uluru - just 100 metres from the 1,115ft high rock.Police say the 44-y… Read More
2010-04-28 08:55
Alvie Booth recently passed away at the grand age of 98.Alvie was a wonderful woman who never missed an opportunity to campaign for peace, women's rights and issues of social justice, she wa… Read More
2010-04-28 08:55
Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig or Lá 'le PádraigPronunciation: law ay-leh paw-rig or law leh paw-rig: Naomh PádraigWord: MarchIrish: MártaPronuncia… Read More
2010-04-28 08:55
Anne McAllister (you'll hear her this Friday morning) sent along a document called the Republican Lexicon : Definitions for deciphering speeches and news reports On closer perusal I see tha… Read More
2010-04-28 08:55
Well we're in for a top show this friday morning. I'm bringing in the Big Guns - well one big gun at any rate - Anne McAllister.We start with Glen, our resident historian (Ourstorian)a proud… Read More
2010-04-28 08:55
Mimi and I have settled down into a chat mode now. She's a great talker and would probably have no trouble under water. Her experience in her own country, her knowledge of her own country ar… Read More
2010-04-28 08:55
Heavens above! I haven't posted in the blog!The second show went well with John Tully and his answer to Howard's "history victory". Thanks John and thanks to the Listener Read More
2006-03-14 22:09
Ron Walker's nice little earner, otherwise known as the Commonwealth Games, begins in Melbourne today.Walker is the big end of town entrepreneur who stole the Grand Prix from Adelaide during… Read More
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