City Talk: Recent headlines highlight art in city
Savannah Morning News
On Saturday, London's "The Guardian" newspaper published "High Notes in America's Deep South," (www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/21/savannah-music-festival-georgia ) a glowing and lengthy feature about the Savannah Music Festival. Reviewe...
Clive Hawkswood Balks at Gov Request of Bookies
Gambling 911
The government has proposed the creation of a fund that would lead to bookmakers handing over millions of pounds to Sport England for reinvestment in grassroots sport as part of a new voluntary code, according to a report in the Guardian ne...
War Redux: Britain Launches a New Iraq Inquiry
Time
The liberal Guardian newspaper said the inquiry has the potential to "heal the wounds of war." "The primary aim of the probe," the paper's editorial page declared Monday, "must be to promote the reconciliation of the public with a political...
Guardian leads the way with UK record online
Media Week Online
The UK's national newspaper websites continue to grow in popularity, with the top three again attracting more than 30m unique users in October, and three other sites achieving double-digit growth month on month.
Local News
u.tv
Another reminder that things - newspaper things - are different in Japan. Circulations are holding up. Some 51.5m papers are sold every day, about one for every household in the country
The shameful case of Caster Semenya
YAHOO!
It’s not so easy,” she recently told the Guardian newspaper. “The university is OK but there is not many other places I can go. People want to stare at me now. They want to touch me. I’m supposed to be famous. “I don’t think I like it so .....
Guardian leads the way with UK record online
Media Week Online
The UK's national newspaper websites continue to grow in popularity, with the top three again attracting more than 30m unique users in October, and three other sites achieving double-digit growth month on month. Guardian News & Media's webs...
Shell calls for governments to intervene in CO2 markets
Bellona Foundation
BRUSSELS – Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell has called for governments to intervene in CO2 markets in order to promote greener energy initiatives such as CO2 capture and storage (CCS). Shell chief executive officer Peter Voser expl...
Bomb may have caused Russian train wreck
UPI
MOSCOW, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A bomb may have caused a Russian luxury express train to derail Friday evening, killing at least 25 people and injuring 87, officials said.
E-mail leak turns up heat on global warming advocates
Boston Herald
It does look incriminating on the surface,” Bob Ward, a climate change expert at the London School of Economics, told Britain’s Guardian newspaper, though he said it may not be so sinister. “Scientists say ‘trick’ not just to mean deception...
John Mayer buys a Ferrari due to sadness
AZCentral.com
He told Britain's Guardian newspaper: "I bought a Ferrari and drove it to Las Vegas on the day I bought it. What's more ridiculous - putting 600 miles on a black-on-black 599 Ferrari the day you get it, or having somebody call your best fri...
Afghan government would fall if NATO withdraws: UK minister
Reuters Canada
... minutes, 24 hours or seven days -- but the insurgent forces will overrun those forces that are prepared to put up resistance and we would be back to square one," he told the Guardian newspaper. At the end of a visit to Kabul for the ina...
One crisis that can’t be ignored any longer
Taipei Times
During the last week alone, the Taipei Times reported on dead fish in the Tamsui River (淡水河), overfishing by Taiwanese-owned fishing fleets and disappearing coral reefs and expanding jellyfish numbers because of storm damage, global warming...
