According to China’s state media Xinhua News Agency, the country’s top legislature has set stricter construction standards for schools to protect students from earthquakes. In May last year, thousands of poorly built classrooms collapsed in the destruct
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Barack Obama’s victory in the U.S. presidential election was voted the top news story of 2008 by news editors and directors in the U.S. Obama became the first African-American president in American history. His story received 100 first-place votes out of
As world carbon dioxide emissions have grown faster than scientists’ worst-case scenarios and scientists are increasingly anxious, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama spoke up and vowed to curb global warming.
Last Friday, the talk show queen Oprah Winfrey confirmed that she is not going to work for Barack Obama’s administration. She had worked hard on his presidential election campaign. Her “Oprah” talk show, which began 22 years ago, played an important ro
Last Wednesday, the oldest person in the world, Edna Parker, died. Parker, who lived in Indiana, U.S., became the world’s oldest person more than a year ago. She passed away at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years and 220 days old.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said in a recent radio address that he will create more jobs by January of 2011 in an attempt to revive the sluggish economy. His economic plan will create or save 2.5 million jobs by spending billions of dollars to rebui
A new survey shows that unhappy people tend to watch TV more. Researchers in the U.S. studied nearly 30,000 American adults between 1975 and 2006 as part of the General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS is a survey used to collect data on demographic character
Nations across Europe rejoiced over Barack Obama’s victory, seeing it as a triumph for American democracy..
Last Friday, a rare reptile with descent dating back to the prehistoric age was found in New Zealand for the first time in about 200 years. The country’s conservation manager, Rouen Epson, said that four white eggs from an indigenous tuatara were found a
The Hong Kong government said in a statement last Saturday that excessive levels of melamine have been found in Chinese eggs. It found 4.7 parts per million of the industrial chemical in the eggs produced by a Chinese enterprise group based in the northea
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