Police say 1,000 high-school students broke away from a demonstration in Berlin demanding better training and occupied a building of the capital's Humboldt University.
The students threw toilet paper and newspaper from the windows during the short-lived …
THE Carmarthen NightLight street support scheme has been sendingvolunteers from local churches and chapels onto the streets ofCarmarthen every Saturday night for the past year. The scheme waslaunched in last January with the aim of helping late-nightrevellers stay safe.
To celebrate its first anniversary, Carmarthen mayor, the Rev TomDefis, went out on the streets with the team.
The project is run by the Carmarthen branch of CYTUN (ChurchesTogether in Wales) and currently has 23 volunteers from ninechurches and chapels of different denominations. There are sixvolunteers -- three on the streets and three back at the base -- whowork every Saturday night …
LAURENS, S.C. - A former elementary school teacher pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with an 11-year-old student and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a prosecutor said.
Wendie Ann Schweikert, 37, was arrested in May 2006 and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act on a minor. The case inflamed racial tensions because the student is black, and some black residents had argued that the teacher was getting lenient treatment by the courts.
She pleaded guilty and read a three-page apology to the victim, his family, E.B. Morse Elementary School and the community, Laurens County prosecutor Jerry Peace said.
Peace said that he …
The starting grid for Sunday's Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the 5.412 kilometer (3.362-mile) Sakhir circuit:
1. Jarno Trulli, Italy, Toyota.
2. Timo Glock, Germany, Toyota.
3. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Red Bull.
4. Jenson Button, Britain, Brawn GP.
5. Lewis Hamilton, Britain, McLaren.
6. Rubens Barrichello, Brazil, Brawn GP.
7. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Renault.
8. Felipe Massa, Brazil, Ferrari.
9. Nico Rosberg, Germany, Williams.
10. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari.
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"Rita Moreno, please."
"One moment."
I am prepared, as I always am, for an interminable wait. I willbe transferred at least three times and told, finally, that "MissMoreno may need to reschedule the interview." This is the way it iswith the "big" stars. They have earned the right to keep youwaiting.
"Hi! This is Rita."
Add one more attribute to the list for the perky, diminutivesing-er/actress: accessibility.
Moreno will appear at Centre East, 7701 N. Lincoln in Skokie,for one show only tomorrow at 8 p.m.
It's a long way from Puerto Rico to the stage of sold-out showsin Las Vegas, Atlantic City and …
Christopher Ng has a dream: Help alleviate a major global health problem by bringing toilets to the world's poor _ at a tidy profit.
Ng, managing director at Singapore-based Rigel Technology, hopes to sell his state-of-the-art portable, fertilizer-making, toilets for as low as $30 beginning next year, tapping into a multibillion dollar market for proper sanitation in developing countries.
It is among the exhibits at the annual World Toilet Summit in Singapore, which brings together industry players to generate awareness of the world's sanitation problems.
Experts estimate about 2.5 billion people lack functioning, hygienic toilets and instead excrete in the open, a habit that can contaminate water supplies and spread diseases such as E. coli bacteria and other viruses.
Ng said his company's toilets separate liquid and solid waste, a feature that should reduce unpleasant smells and create fertilizer.
"A farmer could sell this recycled fertilizer," Ng said while pulling out a compartment on the bottom of a prototype. "It's good to sell something that's useful and make a minimum profit."
Jack Sim, who founded in 2001 the nonprofit World Toilet Organization, one of the organizers of the three-day conference, estimated the market for sanitation in developing countries is worth $1 trillion.
Health advocates have sought to entice companies like Rigel to invest in affordable, portable toilets after efforts by international aid organizations and donations by rich countries fell short, he said.
Donated portable toilets would sometimes end up in storage, as the units were poorly distributed and villagers were not taught how to use and maintain them, Sim said.
"We've seen that the donor model doesn't work," Sim said. "Now people are taking the marketplace as the solution, because it works fastest when you have a profit motive."
"Selling to the poor need not be exploitative," he said.
Sim said the World Toilet Organization will help advertise Rigel's toilets through its contacts with non-governmental organizations and humanitarian groups.
K.E. Seetharam, director of the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, estimated that just 22 percent of India's rural population and 29 percent of China's have access to working toilets.
"People aren't aware of the cost of open defecation in terms of lost work and school days from disease," Seetharam said.
He said many children in poor areas are malnourished "not because of a lack of food but because of worms in their intestines that they got from unsanitary conditions."
Rigel's Ng, who estimates poor countries need 500 million toilets, said he expects to sell 10,000 units per month beginning in February in countries such as China, India and Sri Lanka.
"The market for this is very big," Ng said. "I hope other companies will follow our lead."
Sri Lanka is to play two test matches against India in Mumbai and Ahmadabad in November, a year after England pulled out of playing in the two western cities following the terror attacks in Mumbai.
More than 170 people were killed in the attacks in November 2008, which led to England pulling out of the last two matches of a limited-overs series. The team later returned to play test matches in the southern city of Chennai and the northern town of Mohali.
Kanpur will also host a test match against Sri Lanka, the Indian cricket board said, adding that details of the tour would be finalized later. Five one-day games will be played in Cuttack, Rajkot, Vishakhapatnam, Calcutta and New Delhi, while Mohali and Nagpur will each host a Twenty20 match.
