Teen broadcasts suicide online

Sunday, November 23, 2008 A Pembroke Pines, Florida teenager killed himself Wednesday, November 19, while broadcasting on the live video site Justin.tv. After making suicide threats and being encouraged by Justin.tv viewers and Bodybuilding.com forum members, Abraham K. Biggs, 19, committed suicide by taking an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, which had been prescribed for...

Future High Speed Rail Fastener Industry Leading Trend Forecasting

See More About: Financial Planning By Frbiz Tian General Fasteners export some recovery, but profitability has not yet resumed. High Speed Rail fastener into the delivery of the second half of the peak, high-speed railway construction will delay delivery of warm down. Orders from the current view (in hand orders for nearly 20 million), the...

Ford’s US auto sales spike, surpassing GM

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Ford Motor Company said on Tuesday that its sales in the United States rose 43% in February compared to the same period last year, as the automaker outsold rivals Toyota and General Motors. The strength of our new products … are resonating with customers Ford said that total sales improved to...

Markets dragged down by credit crisis

Friday, August 10, 2007 Global stock markets fell today, in a mass sell-off stemming from the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded late in the day after falling more than 250 points, ending the day down about 31 points. The UK’s FTSE-100 index fell 232.90 points to 6038.30,...

Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to...

Is Lasik Eye Surgery What You Are Looking For?

See More About: Organic Beauty Products Online Submitted by: K Dunn Lasik eye surgery is a surgical procedure performed using laser technology in an outpatient setting. It is technically called Exciplex laser or sometimes called Excimer laser which uses ultraviolet laser technology. This was invented in 1970. It uses a combination of a noble gas...

Thomas Cecil Gray, pioneer in anesthesiology, dead at 94

Friday, January 25, 2008 Pioneer modern Anaesthetic techniques Thomas Cecil Gray, born 11 March 1913 in Liverpool, died peacefully 5 January 2008 at home in Formby. A requiem mass was held at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on 26 January 2008. Born in Liverpool in 1913, educated at Ampleforth College, he qualified in medicine at The University...

International team of scientists reports on Antarctic lead pollution

Monday, August 4, 2014 Researchers from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom, and the United States conducted lead concentration measurements of sixteen ice core samples, and found that industrial air pollution has persisted Antarctica since its arrival there in 1889 and remains significant in the current century. Their study was published in Scientific Reports on...

Neurovascular Stent Retriever Technology Market Research Report: Forecast Up To 2024

See More About: R&D Consultant According to WHO, there are 15 million people across the globe suffering from stroke each year. The incidence of obesity and diabetes has increased over the years and is responsible for the rising prevalence of strokes. Neurovascular stent retriever technology finds application in medical equipment used for the treatment of...

China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009...