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A British tabloid newspaper has labelled coffee giant Starbucks "the great drain robber'' for wasting one of the earth's most precious resources - water.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- The staggering economy has sent a ripple through the Arizona Diamondbacks' swimming pool....
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By Paul Sullivan Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said he doesn't know who broke a water pipe in the visitors' dugout after their Game 3 loss to Los Angeles on Saturday. And to borrow a phrase from outfielder Kosuke Fukudome,...
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Summit considers ways to improve water security
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The UK's existing water policy will fail to cope with future extreme weather events, a National Trust report warns.
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The 6th International Water Forum AQUA Ukraine-2008 opened in Kyiv on October 7, as reported
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The Alberta government is partnering with multinational conglomerate General Electric to improve water treatment and reuse in the province's oilsands projects, which consume enormous volumes of fresh water to produce oil.
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fears about the safety of drinking water across the country grew yesterday as a further 60 households were found to have "elevated levels" of lead in their supplies.
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a woman has been arrested in west Florida after pouring scalding hot water on her husband's groin. Manatee County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a 52-year-old woman on Wednesday on a charge of aggravated battery with great bodily harm....
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Though scientists pooh-pooh dowsing, water witches are very much in demand in drought-plagued rural California.
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These strands range from transparent to opaque, beige to reddish-brown. Striations and inclusions vary within each bead.
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WSJ says an alarming number of Americans owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.
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After a housing slump that has pushed values down 30% in some areas, roughly 12 million households owe more than their homes are worth.
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Sean Hannity's Sunday report, 'Obama and Friends: The History of Radicalism,' relied on innuendo and guilt by association to label the Illinois senator a dupe of the shadowy forces of the left. Now and then, Fox News makes a stab at living up to its "fair and balanced" tag line.
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With Wall Street under siege, venture capitalists are telling the companies they've invested in that now would be a good time to keep their money under lock and key.
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About 450 people fall ill in southern China after drinking water contaminated by a metal factory, state media report.
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Jacob Oram makes 75 not out as New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 75 runs in the second match of their one-day series.
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Moss agate is a multi-shade of green that resembles moss or trees from a distance. It is sometimes found with bands of brown agate and when this occurs it is called mocha stone.
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An exhibit at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University encourages viewers to think about the ways in which artists use and abuse documentary principles.
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Sri Lanka government is currently mulling to increase the standard fixed rate of water bills to mini..
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The programme of 11/12 October featured no less than 39 matches at three venues - Cardiff, Loughborough University and Walsall - making it easily the busiest weekend in National League history.Bristol Central won thrilling Division 1 games against Manchester and
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The world’s most famous golf course could crumble into the North Sea by the middle of this century, according to a climate change expert.
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Water supplies to more than 1,000 homes will be cut off during the next fortnight due to maintenance works.
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Musician Seth Lakeman's latest single is inspired by the 1981 Penlee lifeboat disaster in which 16 people died.
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The Family Research Council is out with a new spot running in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Michigan and the Washington DC market that goes after Barack Obama for "dangerous values" when it comes to abortion. The conservative group is spending $100,000 to air the spot, according to David Brody. "What would you do as president?" a female announcer asks in the spot. "Fix the economy? End the war? Restore our schools?" Then cut to video of Obama, who says, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom Of Choice Act." Back to the announcer: "Really. Obama's top priority as president will be a law to reinstate partial birth abortion? Eliminate parental notification? And force taxpayers to fund abortions?" She concludes: "Barack Obama: Dangerous values." The League Of Conservation Voters, meanwhile, is hitting John McCain for wanting "to take" what it characterizes as Colorado's scare water resources. The spot, designed to influence a tight race in the state, hits the Republican nominee for wantin ...
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The young American dramatist, Tarell Alvin McCraney, scored one of last year's biggest critical hits at the Young Vic with The Brothers Size, the first in a projected "Brothers/Sisters" trilogy. This is followed up now by the second of the plays, In the Brown and Red Water, an eloquent piece that shares many features with its predecessor. The main difference is that here the play is in danger of being upstaged by an aquatic production by Walter Meierjohann that is in some ways brilliant and in others a style-over-substance distraction.
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A prisoner sprays a district judge with water from a fire extinguisher at Londonderry Magistrates Court.
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A defendant sprays a district judge with water from a fire extinguisher at Londonderry Magistrates Court.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday threw cold water on a push by Democrats for another economic stimulus package, pointing to the financial rescue package as the antidote for the ailing U.S. economy.
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The Scottish Football Association have announced a £2m sponsorship deal for the Scottish Cup in a unique partnership with the Scottish Government and former Celtic director Willie Haughey.
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Playwright Lee Blessing chose an unusual approach to storytelling in his cryptic, interpretive drama "A Body of Water."
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Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants often found in tap water, according to a study released Wednesday by an environmental advocacy group....
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Lee Blessing’s “A Body of Water” is a sputtering drama about a man and a woman who wake up one day with matching cases of amnesia.
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The company plans to eliminate 3,300 jobs and close as many as six plants in an attempt to cut costs and refocus efforts on stabilizing its domestic beverage business.
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Northern Ireland Water is criticised for being the worst utility offender for repairing roads it has damaged.
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Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants, including cancer-linked chemicals, according to a study by an environmental advocacy group.
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Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants, including cancer-linked chemicals three times higher than California's health standard, according to a study released Wednesday by an environmental advocacy group.
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The Manitoba government has issued a high-water advisory for the Red River, warning that recent heavy rains will result in rising water levels over the next two weeks.
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Calgary homeowners can expect to hand over a little more cash to city hall in the new year.
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Screenwriter Jenny Lumet has a dishwasher geek in her family: her dad Sidney "RACHEL Getting Married," a new movie from director Jonathan Demme and starring Anne Hathaway, opened this month and quickly became a surprise hit. In the film, Hathaway plays a recovering drug addict who's released from rehab to join her sister's raucous Connecticut wedding.
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