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Woman kicked off train not pantless
Submitted by paul on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 9:08pm.The Utah Transit Authority said a woman booted from a train for being nude below the waist turned out to be wearing a miniskirt concealed by her jacket.Officers said the woman was asked to get off the TRAX train in Murray, Utah, at about 7:30 a.m. Monday a...
London of 2008 gets closer to '1984,' troubling some Britons
Submitted by paul on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 5:08am.LONDON - Each day, the average London resident is filmed 300 times as he or she walks their children to school, takes the train to the office or relaxes after work at a sidewalk cafe. Britain has 4.2 million closed-circuit surveillance cameras, one for every 15 people in the country, security expert...
Shanghai police arrest two men in alleged drug trafficking
Submitted by paul on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 4:53am.Shanghai railway police have arrested two men and seized almost 4,000 tablets of methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice", weighing 395 grams, during a routine train inspection. Police said they questioned the first man on the K80 train from Kunming to Sha...
Riding out hardship, Indonesians risk death on train roofs
Submitted by paul on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 12:20am.Hunched forward as an electrical cable weaves overhead, 19-year-old Bram says he has seen two people killed while riding on the roof of packed trains in and out of Indonesia's capital. Like thousands of poor workers here, Bram is part of a weekly ritu...
China's premier predicts 'final victory' in weather war
Submitted by paul on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 3:27am.China's prime minister said "victory" was in sight Tuesday with the country finally overcoming huge transport and power problems caused by weeks of savage weather ahead of Lunar New Year. A huge backlog of passengers left stranded at airports, train s...
China's premier predicts 'final victory' in weather war
Submitted by paul on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 3:02am.China's prime minister said "victory" was in sight Tuesday with the country finally overcoming huge transport and power problems caused by weeks of savage weather ahead of Lunar New Year. A huge backlog of passengers left stranded at airports, train s...
Worst Snowfall And Cold Weather In Decades Hit China
Submitted by paul on Mon, 02/04/2008 - 10:13pm.Seven killed in Sri Lanka suicide blast
Submitted by paul on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 6:41am.At least seven people were killed and 97 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack onboard a train at the main railway station in Colombo on Sunday, Sri Lankan police and a hospital spokeswoman said.
Seven dead, nearly 100 hurt in Sri Lanka suicide blast: police, hospital
Submitted by paul on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 4:08am.At least seven people died and 97 others were injured on Sunday in a suicide bomb attack onboard a train at the main railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, police and hospital sources said. "We received 97 patients," said a spokeswoman for...
