Thursday January 08, 2009

News Archive

US immigration crackdown tears families apart

15/06/2007
MARIA DE LA LUZ Bocanegra Velasquez, 33, was leaving for work when the United States immigration agents surrounded her...


Tourist spacecraft by 2012

15/06/2007
GETTING a closer look at the stars may soon stop being the privilege of a few select billionaires, with the space arm...


Southern Afghan women brave threats to study

15/06/2007
YESTERDAY she received ten threatening phone calls. From ten different numbers. "Some say, 'Where are you going?...


Space, the funeral frontier

15/06/2007
PIONEERING and poetic — or borderline macabre, according to your view — burials in space seem set for a...


Besson promotes last film before retirement

15/06/2007
FRENCH film-maker, writer and producer Luc Besson is in Japan to promote his latest film Arthur and the Minimoys. He...


Singer Armatrading finally No 1

15/06/2007
IT HAS taken more than three decades but singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading has finally made it to No 1 at age 56,...


Rough-riding on Brunei beach

15/06/2007
THERE are no sand dunes in this part of the world to conquer on a Sand-X, but there is definitely fun to be had on a...


Rough-riding on Brunei beach

15/06/2007
THERE are no sand dunes in this part of the world to conquer on a Sand-X, but there is definitely fun to be had on a...


Raising ocean awareness through photography

15/06/2007
DIVING in the Seychelles is an amazing experience and photographing the marine life in the paradise islands is wildly...


Miniature oases green havens in New York skyline

15/06/2007
I'VE never really loved miniature worlds because the real thing always seemed so much more compelling. Why put little...