You Voted for Them: Lib Dem's Students Fraudster

This story has been brought to our attention by a channel visitor and after a little digging we uncovered this story came to light last year when Sky News carried out an investigation and uncovered alleged fraud committed against students and their families by a Lib Dem politician, Dr Vincent McKee. Quoting Sky News: "A Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate has been suspended from the party following a Sky News investigation. Dr Vincent McKee has been implicated in defrauding students out...

Black college student admits to hanging nooses and making racial threats

Hate crime hoax. Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth had told TODAY'S TMJ4 the threats made towards African-American students at UW-Parkside were a hoax. The sheriff stressed that there was absolutely no danger to the students at UW-Parkside due to this threat. Through the investigation detectives were able to determine that there never was a threat of harm to students at UW-Parkside. An investigation led authorities to question a female student about the threats. The student allegedly told...

Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport Projects

Narendra Singru of ADB's Independent Evaluation Department discusses how carbon emissions could be quantified for transport sector projects in future as a step towards low carbon growth path.

Evaluation Study on ADBs Assistance for Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure Development

Henrike Feig of ADB's Independent Evaluation Department discusses the findings of an evaluation report on ADB's assistance for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development. Read the report at www.adb.org

Delft island in Srilanka

Abandon from mainland surrounded by shallow waters and beaches of coral chunks and sand, lays the biggest inhabitable islands of Sri Lanka, Delft as called by the Dutch also named as Ilha das Vacas by the Portuguese or Neduntivu as per locals. This is also the largest island in the Palk Strait, northern Sri Lanka estimated to be 4717 hectares, 8 km long and 6 km across. To reach for this scenic island you have to travel 46km from Jaffna to the Karaikattuvan jetty in Punkudutiv Island where...

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BIGGEST BABY IN THE WORLD NEW WORLD RECORD 15.5 POUND CHINESE BABY 2012

Chun Chun's mother, 29-year-old Wang Yujuan, remarked that had she sensed something was going to be a little different about Chun Chun, who arrived via cesarean section in China's Henan Province, even before he was born."I clearly felt that my body was more clumsy than when I had been pregnant with my daughter. My belly was bigger than it was then," Wang remarked to reporters. "I guessed the baby would be between 10 and 11 pounds. I never expected to hear that he weighs 15.5 pounds." The...

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A 157-year old steam engine owned by Southern Railway will soon enter the Guinness Book of World Records for its legacy and the number of eco-friendly trial runs, said railway officials after flagging-off the fourth trial run to mark its 157th anniversary. According to records, the EIR 21, built by Kitson Thompson and Hewitson Leeds in the United Kingdom, had arrived in a shipment to India in 1855. It served the erstwhile East Indian Railway for 55 years till 1909. After retirement from...

NEW WORLD RECORD 15.5 POUND CHINESE BABY 2012

Chun Chun's mother, 29-year-old Wang Yujuan, remarked that had she sensed something was going to be a little different about Chun Chun, who arrived via cesarean section in China's Henan Province, even before he was born."I clearly felt that my body was more clumsy than when I had been pregnant with my daughter. My belly was bigger than it was then," Wang remarked to reporters. "I guessed the baby would be between 10 and 11 pounds. I never expected to hear that he weighs 15.5 pounds." The...

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