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mclobster mcdonalds

McDonald’s original restaurant in San Bernardino, California served only hamburgers, milkshakes, and french fries. While still based on hamburgers, today’s menu includes numerous other items that have been added through the years. Below are listed the basic items sold by the company. Read more…

Pakistan government minister shot dead

Assailants purportedly sent by al-Qaida and the Taliban killed the only Christian member of Pakistan’s federal Cabinet Wednesday, spraying his car with bullets outside his mother’s home. It was the second assassination in two months of a high-profile opponent of blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam.
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Muhammad Yunus

Bangladeshi microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has been removed from the helm of Grameen Bank, the institution he founded, by the country’s central bank, in the apparent culmination of an acrimonious government campaign against him.
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jody Weis to Walk Police Superintendant

Police Superintendent Jody Weis is leaving the Chicago Police Department Tuesday and his replacement will be Terry Hillard, a former CPD superintendent.

Hillard will replace Weis on a temporary basis, according to Alderman Anthony Beale, a member of the city councils’ police and fire committee. Beale said Hillard is “just going to be there to keep things status quo.” Read more…

Oman protests Police killed one protester

”Fresh protests break out in Oman”

Demonstrators blocked roads to a main port in northern Oman and looted a nearby supermarket yesterday, part of protests to demand more jobs and political reform that have spread to the sultanate’s capital.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information to the media.

Police killed one protester in Sohar on Saturday. Hundreds have rallied at the town’s main roundabout, demanding higher salaries, jobs for unemployed youth and the dismissal of some government ministers.
Protesters have also been camped out for three days in the city’s main Read more…

indian budget Pranab Mukherjee has failed

”India increases social spending in pro-poor budget”

The general budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has failed to address the core concerns of the people and will hurt households, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said Monday.
While the urban middle class gets some relief by way of an increase in income tax exemption levels, a slew of initiatives have also been announced for the populace in rural markets.
The country has carried for long enough the burden of hunger and malnutrition,” Mukherjee told parliament, saying the money earmarked for social spending would amount to 36 percent of the total budget. Read more…

Shuttle Discovery

The U.S. Discovery shuttle has successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA said on Saturday.

Discovery Commander Steve Lindsey performed the maneuver at 2:14 p.m. EST, while the two spacecraft were orbiting 220 miles above western Australia. Read more…

launch of space shuttle Discovery

”Discovery Successfully Embarks On Its Final Voyage”

In less than two hours, NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to make its last trip into low Earth orbit.
After all, Coats was the pilot for the shuttle Discovery’s very first mission the STS 41D flight that marked the beginning of the shuttle’s 27 year spaceflying career, which will end in retirement after
this trip to and from the International Space Station.
The closure of the shuttle program will leave a gaping hole in the American space mission,
forcing astronauts to rely on the Russian Soyuz space capsule for transport to the orbiting International Space Station.
Mission managers waited until the five minute mark, then went to hold. With only a brief window in order to meet up two days from now with Read more…

earthquake hawaii Honolulu

”Earthquake Shakes Hawaii ”

Honolulu has felt a minor earthquake centered 22 miles east-southeast of the capital of Hawaii.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 3.6 temblor struck at 2:12 p.m. on Thursday in between the islands of Oahu and Molokai.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The Honolulu Star Advertiser is reporting the initial reporting discrepancy may be due to the scarcity of seismic recording instruments on Oahu. The cause of the quake may have been set off by the ocean floor flexing under the island’s weight.
Now if you are a nervous Nellie, you might add Hawaii as a place not to go with your family. If you’re totally paranoid about natural disasters that is. But really, nowhere is totally safe. There are tsunamis, Read more…

north korea protests

”South Korea drops leaflets into North about Egypt, Libya”

South Korea’s military has dropped leaflets on North Korea that tell of pro-democracy revolts in the Middle East with the intention of provoking a movement against Kim Jong Il’s regime, a South Korean lawmaker said.
The campaign was aimed at encouraging North Koreans to think about change, conservative South Korean parliament member Song Young-sun said.
Hundreds of people clashed with security forces in the North Korean town of Sinuiju on the border with China on Friday, a source in the Stalinist country said Wednesday. The military was deployed to quell Read more…