Jas - Instablogs
Nov 4 2009
As millions of Muslims begin arriving in Mecca for this year’s pilgrimage, Saudi officials face a unique challenge: how to prevent this sacred rite from becoming an inadvertent incubator and global transmitter of swine flu. The conditions that will...
Nov 2 2009
The Spanish daily newspaper El Pais carried a harsh critique of Tony Blair’s candidature written by Emilio Menéndez del Valle, a former diplomat and socialist member of the EU parliament.
Oct 29 2009
Listen to mayor Dorothy Thornhill. Her council has just banned parents from watching their own children at two council play areas in Watford. Quoted in the Watford Observer this evidently simple-minded woman says, “Sadly, in today’s climate,...
Oct 24 2009
With painful honesty, Katie Piper, the former TV presenter tells why she has finally waived her right to anonymity – and reveals the awful events that changed her life for ever However much she would like to forget them, the details of how she...
Sep 3 2009
Every week, around a thousand people chance the hazardous journey across the Mediterranean hoping to escape violence and persecution at home and start a new life in Europe. Many don’t make it — just a fortnight ago, 73 Eritreans perished on a...
Aug 10 2009
Down on his knees as his attackers’ feet fly in, this man’s face was left a bloodied mess. It was just one of the sickening scenes photographed when a riot erupted in a city centre after Right-wing protesters clashed with anti-fascist...
Aug 8 2009
It’s an odd week for fuel sources. On the heels of a Mountain Dew powered engine, UK supermarket Tesco is getting flack for turning meat into energy–yah, you read that right. The food chain is burning 5,000 tons of inedible meat for fuel. The...
Jul 25 2009
Three convicted armed robbers including one of the most violent men in Europe have escaped from prison in a hijacked helicopter. It flew into a jail near Bruges, Belgium, picking up repeated offenders Ashraf Sekkaki, Mohammed Johry and Abdel Had...
Jul 7 2009
White mum Carla Nurse, 27, and her black husband Cornel, 31, were not surprised when their first child Jermaine was born with a mixed race complexion. But they were amazed when daughter Tanisha arrived with an Afro-Caribbean appearance -and their...
Jul 7 2009
Hundreds of children under the age of 12 were sent on rehab last year for addiction to drink and drugs. The primary school age drug addicts, alcoholics and glue sniffers received taxpayer-funded NHS treatment to encourage them to give up their...