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BBC News A religious service will take place in Belfast on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of the ill-fated Titanic. The ship entered Belfast Lough on 31 May 1911 from Harland & Wolff, then the largest shipyard in the world. During the service, a flare will be set...

BBC News Populations of wildlife species in the world-renowned Masai Mara reserve in Kenya have crashed in the past three decades, according to research published in the Journal of Zoology. Numbers of impala, warthog, giraffe, topi and Coke's hartebeest have declined by over 70%, say...

AP Elite Navy SEALs storm a walled compound in Pakistan and take out the world's most wanted terrorist. Footnote: They were all men. While America's last 10 years of war have propelled women into new and far more risky roles across the military, there are still some doors that are...

BBC News Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power plants phased out by 2022. The decision makes Germany the biggest industrial power to announce plans to give up nuclear energy. Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen...

BBC News A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity. Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have been widely criticised for imposing their ideology on four-month-old Storm. The family...

BBC News I bet this is one teacher who wishes the kids were home schooled !! Four Muslim men who assaulted a religious education teacher because they did not approve of him teaching Muslim girls, have been jailed. Gary Smith, 38, was beaten as he walked to Central Foundation Girls'...

BBC News A 91-year-old Californian woman who sells kits to help people end their lives says her home has been raided by federal agents. Sharlotte Hydorn said they took away her computers, sewing kits and boxes of what she calls "exit kits", the Associated Press reported. The kits...

BBC News The US Treasury has agreed to sell part of its stake in American International Group (AIG), as it winds down ownership of the global insurer. The government plans to sell 200 million AIG shares at $29 (£18) each, a total of $5.8bn. It stands to make as much as $7.1bn, if Wall...

BBC News A New Zealand truck driver who fell on a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock has survived being blown up like a balloon. Steven McCormack had fallen between the cab and the trailer of his truck, breaking the air hose. The nozzle pierced his buttock and began pumping...

BBC News Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings. Initial excavations have already confirmed...

BBC News The trial has opened in Florida of a young US woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2008. Prosecutors base their case on forensic evidence they say shows Casey Anthony, 25, kept Caylee Anthony's dead body in the boot of her car. But they have no witnesses or...

BBC News Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wants the social networking site to let children under the age of 13 use it. At the moment that age limit is dictated by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act which was made Federal Law in America in 1998. But Zuckerberg...

We know that there are Canadian and English Members of E.O. How about any other Nations? Any Ex-Pats out there :D:p

With the Election in the not to distance future Members in the Soapbox have been repeating the same thing in many different threads ..... "The G'ment should not be involved" My question's are (to further my education :p) ...... How can this be achieved? Has it gone too...

Reuters "In his latest pronouncement, he had said doomsday would begin in Asia, but with midnight local time come and gone in Tokyo and Beijing and those cities already in the early hours of May 22, there was no sign of the apocalypse" There apparently is no sign of Mr Camping either...

BBC News The US administration is examining the legality of continuing in the Nato-led Libya campaign beyond Friday. The War Powers Resolution, passed after US withdrawal from the Vietnam War, rules that involvement in combat operations unauthorised by Congress must be terminated after 60...

BBC News Movie and TV streaming site Netflix is now the single biggest source of internet traffic in the US, according to research Hmmm I thought EO was ..... :p The data, gathered by network monitoring firm Sandvine, showed that in March the site accounted for 29.7% of downstream...

BBC News A retired prison guard in the US has eaten his 25,000th Big Mac. It has been 39 years to the day since Don Gorske ate his first nine. At a ceremony in his honour at a McDonald's in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, he said he would continue to eat Big Macs "until I die"...

BBC News The US is to impose sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for human rights abuses, sources have said. It would be the first time Mr Assad has been targeted personally by the international community for his government's crackdown on protesters. President Barack Obama...

BBC News By Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington With two more Republicans dropping out of the 2012 presidential race, and others still holding back, the field of candidates to take on President Barack Obama has yet to take shape. Why? Within a little over a year-and-a-half, the United...