Archive for April, 2010
11:24 PM: I just spent the afternoon and evening in and around Venice, Louisiana, the town at the end of the Mississippi River and the staging area for many of the protection efforts going on. Venice is the epicenter for workers and volunteers going out in boats laying booms to [ READ MORE ]
VENICE, La. — An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes. The spill was bigger than imagined – five [ READ MORE ]
Belgium became the first European country to impose a full ban on wearing a burka last night. Its parliament approved a draft law which states women can be jailed for hiding their faces in public. The bill - which must be rubber-stamped by the Belgian senate - is set to become law by July. Centre-Right [ READ MORE ]
A drunken charity shop worker rang 999 for an ambulance - because she was only wearing a ‘little cardigan’ and felt cold. Elizabeth Adams, 46, had been drinking lager and vodka before making the call in the early hours of the morning from outside a Manchester nightclub. An ambulance duly turned up and [ READ MORE ]
A mature criminology student who claimed she could barely walk was caught on camera by benefit fraud officers carrying a heavy recycling bin to the end of her garden. Swindler Angela Panquill, 46, was caught out after a team of undercover surveillance officers were tipped off that her claim for disability benefits was bogus. She was captured [ READ MORE ]
A teenage girl was ‘brainwashed’ into having sex with her father after social services repeatedly missed signs she was being abused, a court has heard. The 14-year-old was groomed to take part in perverted acts with her parents even though the family were investigated seven times. Her parents, who cannot be named, were yesterday jailed for a [ READ MORE ]
El presidente del Atlético de Madrid tenía plena confianza en sus jugadores: “Ha sido un partido muy intenso, muy duro ante un campo con 50.000 espectadores que no han parado de animar un segundo. También se ha notado el apoyo de nuestro público y ellos nos han levantado en los peores [ READ MORE ]
El entrenador del Liverpool, Rafael Benítez, lamentó la eliminación de su equipo frente al Atlético y consideró “una lástima” no aprovechar que habían remontado la eliminatoria y conceder el gol de Forlán que les apeó de la final del 12 de mayo en Hamburgo. “Hemos ido por delante casi todo el rato. Es [ READ MORE ]
Diego Forlán, el autor del gol que dio el pase a la final de la Europa League, comentó que “ha sido una emoción enorme, por todo lo que venimos luchando. Estar en dos finales es increíble”. El uruguayo comentó que “esto es el trabajo y el mantener el mismo planel de tres años [ READ MORE ]
Quique Sánchez Flores, técnico del Atlético, estaba exultante tras la clasificación del equipo rojiblanco para la final de Hamburgo: “Estoy muy feliz, no lo puedo dismular y soy muy afortunado por entrenar a estos jugadores”. “Son momentos en los que no se debe olvidar a anteriores entrenadores como Aguirre o Abel y [ READ MORE ]