Several businesses catch fire in Queens, New York

Monday, November 3, 2008 Sunday, a fire rushed through seven businesses at the Whitestone Shopping Center in Whitestone, Queens, New York, near the Cross Island Parkway in New York City. The fire started at around 1:00 AM EST (UTC-5) on November 2, 2008 in a diner known as Lollipops. According to local sources, Lollipops was…

Mumbai officials demolish 39K shanties; 200K homeless

December 25, 2004 Officials in Mumbai, India, demolished over 6,000 shanties today in a push to eradicate the capital city’s slums. In total, 39,000 shanties have been flattened, displacing over 200,000 people, in the city’s biggest-ever demolition drive, which began in early December. When complete, over 2 million people are expected to be displaced. After…

Category:Cannabis

This is the category for cannabis, a drug with recreational and medicinal uses. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 16 February 2018: United States: Berkeley, California declares itself a sanctuary city for recreational cannabis 16 April 2017: Canada to legalise marijuana to ‘make it more difficult for kids to access’ 20 January 2017:…

Cabinet Minister resigns after boycott in Grenada

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 A Grenadian cabinet Minister has resigned after he boycotted his own swearing-in ceremony. Michael Church handed his resignation to Tillman Thomas, the Prime Minister of Grenada yesterday. Church boycotted the ceremony after he was demoted from Minister of Labour, Social Security and Ecclesiastical Affairs. He was then given the post of…

At least 22 dead after typhoon hits Vietnam

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Vietnamese officials have reported that at least 22 people were killed by Typhoon Ketsana, which brought torrential rainfalls and heavy flooding to the central areas of the country. “According to our official count as of Tuesday afternoon from the local authorities, the typhoon killed 22 people,” said an unnamed official from…

Government forces kill 17 rebels in northern Yemen

Thursday, September 10, 2009 The government of Yemen has said that it killed at least seventeen suspected members of a rebel group in the northern part of the country on Thursday. The rebels, belonging to the Shi’ite Huthi group, were killed after violence overnight in Saada, a mountainous region in northern Yemen. “The army and…