A SECOND World War bomb that was dredged from the sea bed off the Essex coast has been destroyed in a controlled explosion.
When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city's landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television or the radio for news, but to each other.
Blogs and social networking sites like Twitter and Flickr buzzed with eyewitness accounts from India's financial capital, providing some of the first photos of the besieged targets and serving as a forum for pleas for updates on friends and family.
Photos posted on Flickr just 90 minutes after the attacks had been viewed at least 110,000 times by Sunday.
Yes, Vanessa, there was a political revolution this month and it didn't affect only the presidency.
Unemployment in the U.S. has hit a 14-year high as companies cut back. That has sent masses of laid-off workers flocking to the Web in search of opportunities - - and job sites have been stepping up to meet the ...
Editor's Note: Barack Obama's presidential campaign utilized social networking technology in an unprecedented way, which might have been the key to his victory.
This year's display of dazzling Christmas lights at the Mesa Arizona Mormon Temple grounds was challenged by the flickering candles of gay rights activists lining the street in a vigil protesting the church's ...
While Dwain Lingenfelter plugs away as the only declared candidate in the NDP leadership race, rumblings of opposition to the former deputy premier are beginning to be felt in the party.
The mother of a girl who committed suicide at age 13 after being subjected to an Internet hoax says a woman's conviction in the case shows that people who bully others online will face consequences.
Want a job? Consider contacting your online friends. Professionals are increasingly turning to social networking Web sites like LinkedIn, Plaxo and Facebook to search for their next job.
As heavily armed militants rampaged through Mumbai, bloggers, citizen journalists and users of Twitter, the short-messaging service, provided riveting, if sometimes erroneous, accounts of the bloodshed in ...
Photo credit: Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
Education isn’t only about creating employees. It’s about empowering individuals to become individuals with the ability to manage effectively the increasingly faster transformations of a complex world like ours.
This is why, one should measure education by looking at how tangibly such goal is achieved rather than by measuring the number of tested and certified students the school system is capable of producing. True education, when successful, must essentially prepare its students for dealing with greater and more complex problems. But not those served in a neat and sanitized math test, but rather those emerging from the clash of the multidisciplinary realities we inhabit.
Learning how to handle uncertainty, as well as how to rapidly adapt to fast changing environments is the real blockbuster formula to an education approach that provides the mental tools to cope with whatever can come your way, rather than pre-emptying you with static notions and arid, reality-isolated formulas..
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It won't have the "wow" factor of an iPhone, but a Roth IRA or other money-minded gift may have more sizzle than you think this holiday season.
Got a ticket to the Inauguration but nowhere to stay? Your only hope may be local college students.
The weekend after Thanksgiving is a popular time for old friends to meet up at high school reunions.
Nov 28, 2008 8:00 am US/Pacific NEW YORK The reach of the Internet proved a reliable resource when madness took to the streets of Mumbai on Wednesday as new media allowed the world to look in on a city in ...
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