Mbabane, Swaziland (IRIN) – Swaziland’s only university has reopened a month late for the new academic year, but the nearly 6,000 students are boycotting classes over cuts in their allowances, which the government says will only be paid in a few months time. The deepening economic crisis, which has led neighboring South Africa to agree [...]
Tera Burbank and her husband, John Clark, are construction workers who have been out of work for more than a year. The Henderson residents live off unemployment and student loans. View full post on All Stories
IRIN Staff – IRIN IRIN Staff COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (IRIN) – As the Sri Lankan government launches a cash-for-work program in areas hit by recent flooding, following similar schemes in the former conflict areas in the north, experts warn of potential pitfalls of such schemes. The new program will be operating in 12 northern and [...]
THE former finance chief of Anglo Irish Bank, Willie McAteer, ringfenced his family home and pension in case he stopped paying back his director’s loans, according to the bank’s disgraced former boss. View full post on All Stories
WASHINGTON: Is marriage becoming obsolete in America? Nearly one in three American children is living with a parent who is divorced, separated or never-married. More people are accepting the view that wedding bells aren’t needed to have a family. A study by the Pew Research Center highlights rapidly changing notions of the American family. And [...]
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Tata Motors today said it is expecting over a 50 per cent jump in the sale of its Ace family light commercial vehicles (LCV) in the current fiscal, on account of robust demand. View full post on All Stories
Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Jakarta, Indonesia (AHN) – A 23-year-old Indonesian maid is being treated in a hospital in Saudi Arabia after her employers cut off part of her lips, burned her body with a hot iron, fractured her finger and beat her legs to the point that she could hardly walk. [...]
Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Yonkers, NY, United States (AHN) – A new Consumer Reports holiday shopping poll has found that the average American expects to spend about 42 hours buying, wrapping, and returning gifts, as well as partying and traveling to visit family and friends during the 2010 holiday season. “When you [...]
John Nestor – AHN Sports Correspondent Seattle, WA, United States (AHN) – Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame broadcaster Dave Niehaus died of a heart attack Wednesday at his family home in Bellevue, Wash. The 75-year-old Niehaus was the team’s lead radio and television broadcaster since the Mariners’ inception in 1977. Niehaus was beloved by fans [...]
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