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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye.Read More

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

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Pentagon proposes Taiwanese arms sale

Saturday, January 30, 2010 The US Department of Defense has notified Congress of a potential arms sale to Taiwan, with a value of $6 billion, that was first pledged by the Bush administration. The deal, that would include helicopters and anti-missile defences, angered China, who stated that the move would “seriously damage” US–China relations, asRead More

Pentagon proposes Taiwanese arms sale

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Eight dead and two missing after cargo ship fire in Kaliningrad, Russia

Sunday, June 8, 2008 Eight people are dead and two more are missing and presumed dead after an explosion and fire on a cargo ship undergoing repairs at a naval dockyard in Kaliningrad, Russia. The container ship MV Yenisey was the scene of an explosion while in drydock at about 3:00 p.m. Moscow time (11:00Read More

Eight dead and two missing after cargo ship fire in Kaliningrad, Russia

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Service held in Nova Scotia on tenth anniversary of Swissair crash that killed 229

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 A memorial service has been held in Nova Scotia, Canada to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Swissair Flight 111 disaster. None of the 229 people on board survived the aircraft’s impact with the sea on September 2, 1998. Hundreds of search and rescue personnel and local fishermen were mobilised afterRead More

Service held in Nova Scotia on tenth anniversary of Swissair crash that killed 229

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Windows Vista faces possible trademark challenges

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, announced the name of its forthcoming version of the Windows operating system from its headquarters in Redmond, Washington Friday. But in choosing the name “Vista,” Microsoft may find itself in a legal fight. Microsoft has made a name for itself in legal circles as aRead More

Windows Vista faces possible trademark challenges