27 Dec, 2009, Gainesville
Until the Saturday night, everyone thought that the Urban Meyer would be the head football coach at Florida for a long time. But then came the shocking news that Meyer was stepping down as the Florida’s coach after the Friday’s Sugar Bowl. He cited some health concerns.
The concerns date back longer [...]

27 Dec, 2009, England, UK
A large piece of the plastic ceiling panel fell on the shoppers seeking Boxing Day bargains at the Selfridges store in the Manchester. The incident injured four people. The 3ft square piece from ceiling light fixture fell in the store in the Manchester Exchange Square at about [...]

27 Dec, 2009, New Delhi, India

The fifth and the final one-day international between Sri Lanka and India got abandoned after 23.3 overs on Sunday due to unfit nature of pitch at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium. Sri Lanka had toiled on the tricky surface to reach 83 for five after being put [...]

27 Dec, 2009, Scotland, UK
The main route north through Scotland, the A9, had been reopened northbound after it was closed for nine hours by the snow and jack-knifed Lorries. The Highways maintenance contractor, Bear Scotland said that the carriageway had been shut to all traffic.
Eight inches of snow had fell on an area around [...]

26 Dec, 2009, America

A Nigerian links to al-Qaeda are being questioned after the attempted act of terrorism on a plane arriving in the US. A 23-year-old man was trying to ignite the explosive device as the passenger jet approached Detroit from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was overpowered by about 278 passengers [...]

26 Dec, 2009, UK
The Television’s first weather presenter, George Cowling died on the Christmas Eve. Mr. Cowling was of 89 years, had presented the first televised forecast from the BBC’s Lime Grove Studios on 11 January 1954. He joined the Met Office in year 1939 as a meteorological assistant for the RAF and he [...]

26 Dec, 2009, America
A fire on board in a Greek cargo ship off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela has killed nine members of a crew. The blaze reportedly had broken out early on Friday in the engine room of the Aegean Wind and spread upwards. The vessel which was carrying iron ore from [...]

26 Dec, 2009, Indonesia
The Countries across Indian Ocean are solemnly marking the fifth anniversary of tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. In Indonesia’s Aceh province, where more than 166,000 died, thousands held the prayers in public mosques and private homes. On Thai beaches, the Buddhist monks in saffron robes chanted prayers as mourners [...]