Gload’s hit lifts Phillies over Braves
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ross Gload rounded first base and stopped before a mob of teammates swarmed him. Gload has struggled lately, so the playful punches were most welcome. Gload hit a pinch RBI single with one out in the bottom…
Hockey chief vows to rebuild
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian ice hockey team decimated by a plane crash will be rebuilt in time to take part in this year’s Kontinental Hockey League season. All but one of the 28 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players traveling to Belarus…
Can Green Bay defend their crown?
It was touch and go, whether this day would come. After one of the most controversial summers which threatened to wreck havoc to the forth coming season, American Football has finally kicked off. Last year’s winners Green Bay faced New…
“Oh. He’s an American.”
If sometimes, weighed down with the complexities of their empire now we British have given it up or had it taken away (by the Americans), I wonder if America could be freedom’s fading star? However, the nation is so young…
Kids with Bush on 9/11 saw change sweep over him
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The 16 children who shared modern America’s darkest moment with President George W. Bush are high school seniors now — football players, ROTC members, track athletes, wrestlers and singers. They remember going over an eight-paragraph story…
Bon Jovi in 9/11 encore sings for NY firefighters
NEW YORK (AP) — Rocker Jon Bon Jovi returned to a Manhattan fire house Wednesday to pay tribute to firefighters marking the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The New Jersey native was filmed singing “America The Beautiful”…
Classic handbags
On Wednesday 25th April 2007 the UK supermarket chain “Sainsbury’s” sold 20,000 “I’m not a plastic bag” Anya Hindmarch (the Queen of Bagland) totes for 5 pounds (sterling) each. Within one hour all the unbleached cotton bags were sold out….
Anne – Part 42
We continue our serialisation of Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson “…..but for a girl like Anne? No.” She bore the fault-findings cheerfully, promising to do better another time. For they all found fault with her, the boys loudly, Tita quietly,…
STI’s (Sexually Transmitted Infections)
Dr Lynn Dawber is a South African national with the International Medical Group from New Zealand where she has been practicing for a number of years. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea are increasingly prevalent among young…