http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php Tell your joke and story - Blog en http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:36:11 -0400 admin@tellyourstoryandjoke.com admin@tellyourstoryandjoke.com A landslide caused by rains in southern China left 21 people missing Tuesday, adding to a growing death toll from China's worst flood season in a decade, which is expected to worsen with heavy rains forecast across the country. Rescuers searched for 21 people missing after a landslide in Hanyuan County in China's southern province of Sichuan on Tuesday morning, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Rocks and mud buried 58 homes and about 4,000 villagers were evacuated from their homes. .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=212 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:36:11 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=212#cmt BP said Tuesday that controversial chief executive Tony Hayward will step down on Oct. 1 as it announced losses of nearly $17 billion in three months. The unfortunate and gaffe-prone Hayward would still be able to walk away with a payoff of more than $1.6 million. Hayward is to be succeeded by American Robert Dudley, who has been overseeing BP's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP said the Gulf spill had cost the company $32.2 billion, driving the firm to a second quarter .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=211 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:25:58 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=211#cmt Chelsea Clinton and her groom-to-be, Marc Mezvinsky. The couple will wed July 31 in the upstate New York community of Rhinebeck. This small town in the Hudson Valley is thrilled that the wedding of the year will be happening here on Saturday. Thrilled, even though no one can talk about this wedding plan. Indeed, you can practically feel the shopkeepers biting their tongues, wishing they could share details of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, which, according to wedding planners, will inspire .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=210 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:01:54 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=210#cmt The European Union on Monday formally adopted a package of new sanctions against Iran, targeting the country's foreign trade, banking and energy sectors. The move, which was agreed to in principle by EU leaders in June, is the latest in a series of measures taken by the international community in an effort to halt Iran's nuclear program. EU foreign ministers adopted a decision "on a package of restrictive measures" in the areas of trade, financial services, energy and transport, said a diplom .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=209 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:45:09 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=209#cmt Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson might have found a new way to generate some income to help her Cash-strapped situation: by hosting a show of her own on Oprah Winfrey’s fledgling cable network, OWN. Ferguson reportedly has an offer from the network on the table, one that came from Winfrey herself. Oprah made the call this week … the offer is a ray of light at the end of a very dark tunnel,” reported Britain’s Daily Mail on Sunday. Publicists for OWN and for Winfrey did .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=208 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:54:43 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=208#cmt Supersonic passenger travel was grounded in 2003 when British Airways and Air France cancelled their transatlantic Concorde service because of falling revenues and rising maintenance costs. The Aerion Supersonic Business Jet promises to help travelers break the sound barrier again. The Aerion Supersonic Business Jet will be able to carry a dozen passengers at speeds of up to Mach 1.5 for more than 4,000 miles. It is currently undergoing proof-of-concept aerodynamic testing of critical compon .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=207 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:31:43 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=207#cmt Stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans crushed 15 people to death and injured dozens at Germany's famed Love Parade festival on Saturday. Thousands of other revelers kept partying at the event in Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, unaware of the deadly stampede that started when police tried to block thousands more people from entering the already-jammed parade grounds. Police are still trying to determine exactly what happened, but the situation was "very chaotic," police comm .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=206 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:03:43 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=206#cmt Young men who attend the Ecurie Dakar Plateau school for traditional Senegalese wrestling train in a schoolyard in Dakar, Senegal. Thousands of unemployed or underemployed men flock to this West African country's capital to train in wrestling schools in the hopes of making it big. Hoping for fortune and fame may be just around the corner for Aliou Faye, who quit his job earlier this year to devote himself full time to becoming a champion wrestler. For now, though, he can only afford to eat m .. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=205 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:28:21 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=205#cmt A couple on a yacht outing off the coast of South Africa get a giant shock when a 40-ton southern right whale jumps out of the ocean and slams into their boat on July 21. The whale destroyed the boat's mast and then returned to the water. The couple were not injured. Paloma Werner and Ralph Mothes tell how a 40-ton whale jumped and landed on their sailboat in the waters off Cape Town, South Africa. Werner says it was “an extraordinary experience” she would not like to repeat. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=204 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:59:48 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=204#cmt Lindsay Lohan reported Tuesday for a 90-day sentence that the troubled actress likely will serve in isolation. Wearing dark denim jeans, a gray top, black corset belt and black jacket, the 24-year-old Lohan showed up at the Beverly Hills courtroom about 10 minutes late. After a short hearing, she rose and was handcuffed behind her back to serve her time for a probation violation. http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=201 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:54:51 -0400 http://www.tellyourstoryandjoke.com/blog/index.php?id=201#cmt