MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) — A RusLine passenger plane carrying more than 50 people crashed near a city in northwest Russia on late Monday evening, officials said, killing everyone on board except eight people. The accident happened just before midnight local time when the Tupolev Tu-134 plane was attempting to land at the airport serving Petrozavodsk, [...]
Users worldwide logging into the Google homepage were pleasantly surprised to find the Google doodle of a guitar-not just any guitar, but a fully functional guitar that played when the strings are pulled. If you are wondering about the origin of this doodle then read on. It is Les Paul- the pioneer of guitar, the [...]
JOHANNESBURG (BNO NEWS) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela went back to his home in the Eastern Cape on Sunday to rest, the government said. It is his first public appearance in months. Mandela, 92, was briefly hospitalized in late January in order to undergo a series of routine tests which are common for [...]
NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — A prediction made by a Christian radio host that the Rapture would begin on Saturday evening failed to deliver as clocks hit 6 p.m. in parts of the Pacific Ocean. The claims by Harold Camping, 89, gained worldwide media attention in recent days as a number of his followers were [...]
JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected the U.S. call for a two state solution with Palestine based on the 1967 borders, the Haaretz newspaper reported. Earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama called for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on the mutual recognition and the 1967 borders. Obama also [...]
San Jose University was rocked by the killing of three people during a shootout in the campus parking garage on Tuesday night. The authorities reported the shooting to have occurred here. The polic on campus was intimated at around 8:30 pm on Tuesday. The incident took place on on the fifth floor. This was in [...]
The Chicago Code has been cancelled by Fox. While the show initially received a glowing review, it later was criticized for having too many Chicago clichés. Rather than interesting and breath taking stories, the show had become just about anything to do with Chicago. It was not a surprise then when it was all about [...]
The billboards have now finally declared that May21, 2011 would be the ultimate day of the mankind. It has been declared as the publicity blitz by a certain broadcast ministry, known as Family Radio across the world. The broadcast ministry is based in Oakland, Calif. If believed in the conventions and the history of Bible, [...]
MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday signed into law a bill that grants him power to impose additional anti-terrorism measures in case of a threat, RIA Novosti reported. The new law will also introduce a color chart similar to the one used in the United States. A substantial terrorism threat [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — In a historic announcement, U.S. President Barack Obama on late Sunday evening announced that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. operation in Pakistan last week. Obama made the announcement from the White House, giving confirmation that Bin Laden was killed and that the United States is [...]
