THE ordeal of a 22-year-old female Pentecostal trainee-pastor began on the evening of June 9th in Situbondo, a town in east Java. Aprilia Dyah Kusumaningrum was set upon by three men after leaving a church service. The details of what she then suffered are disputed. But she was abducted in a car, ending up hundreds [...]
Pop star sensation Meeghan Henry will turn heads with more than her voice when she walks down the runway in 2011’s Miss Asia USA Pageant as the Indonesian delegate. Meeghan Henry has caught the eyes of many influential names in the music industry since the tender age of fifteen years old, such as Ronnie King. [...]
Getting a song on the pop charts takes big money. Def Jam started paying for Rihanna‘s recent single, “Man Down,” more than a year ago. In March of 2010, the label held a writing camp in L.A. to create the songs for Rihanna’s album, Loud. At a writing camp, a record label hires the best music writers [...]
It looks like they’re going to have to change some promotional materials down in Louisiana, where the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway has long claimed to be the world’s longest bridge over open water. At nearly 24 miles, the causeway is plenty long. But today, the 26.3-mile long Jiaozhou Bay bridge opened in China. It links the “eastern port [...]
Washington– The political and legal future of the sweeping health care reform bill received a big boost Wednesday after a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled in favor of the Obama administration andCongress, concluding a key provision in the landmark legislation was constitutional. The “individual mandate” requiring nearly all Americans to purchase health insurance by [...]
RIYADH: The Kingdom on Wednesday said it will no longer hire Indonesian and Filipino domestic workers, citing strict requirements and “unfair” regulatory provisions imposed by the two Southeast Asian countries. “The Ministry of Labor will stop issuing work visas for domestic workers for the Philippine and Indonesia from Saturday (July 2),” said Hattab Bin Saleh [...]
Avoiding foreclosure is always a smart move, but now there are incentives that make it an even better one. Real Estate short sales are more valuable to homeowners than ever! Short sales and deeds-in-lieu are dignified solutions to foreclosure, and now the government is making them easier and quicker through the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives [...]
The plunge in U.S. home prices showed signs of leveling off in April, but worries about unemployment pushed consumer confidence to a seven-month low in June. House prices were helped by the start of the spring selling season, data showed on Tuesday. Nonetheless, economists warned prices will likely crawl along at low levels as a [...]
Kabul, Afghanistan– Six Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Kabul’s Hotel Inter-Continental in a brazen, carefully orchestrated operation that began Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday, ending with their deaths some six hours after it began. “All six attackers have been killed, and the situation is secure,” Interior Minister Bismullah Khan said Wednesday morning. By [...]
Nearly two years after the official end of the recession, Americans still remain unconvinced. Consumer confidence has hit an eight-month low, according to a Conference Board report released Tuesday. The group studies how Americans feel about business conditions and the job market. It turns out consumers aren’t feeling so hot about the prospects for the [...]
Politicians in Washington hardly let a few minutes go by without mentioning how broke the government is. So, it’s a little surprising that they’ve created a stash of more than $1 billion that almost no one wants. Unused one-dollar coins havse been quietly piling up in Federal Reserve vaults in breathtaking numbers, thanks to a [...]
Paul K. Tanaka, who joined the Department in 1982, was appointed as Undersheriff in June 2011 by Sheriff Lee Baca. As second-in-command, Undersheriff Tanaka will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Sheriff’s Department. Undersheriff Tanaka began his law enforcement career with the El Segundo Police Department in June 1980. Two years later, Mr. [...]
Dozens of ugly dogs took to the stage at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, but only one could be crowned the ugliest Print PDF This post was submitted by CNN /IM.
Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and human rights activist, was released from prison late Wednesday night, and told western reporters, “In legal terms, I’m — how do you say? — on bail. So I cannot give any interviews. But I’m fine.” The state news agency says Mr. Ai was released after 80 days “because of [...]
The American Dream lures people from all over the world, and it’s because of this possibility: If you come here and work hard, your kids will have a better life than you. What if that weren’t true anymore? Record debt, persistent joblessness, millions of underwater mortgages and a stock market that hasn’t gone anywhere in [...]
The housing market is still languishing this summer, leading some economists to believe prices won’t begin to recover until 2014. Even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake says the market may be worse than most people thought. This is due in large part to something economists call the shadow inventory — or the number of houses [...]
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