Inflation gone wild. Zimbabwe has introduced a new half-a-billion dollar bank note in a bid to tackle cash shortages fed by rampant inflation, the central bank said today. The $500,000,000 note is worth $A2.61c. “Introducing the new 500,000,000 bearer cheque for your convenience,” read a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe full-page advert in the state daily, [...]
Here are some highlights of US President George Bush’s speech at the presidential ‘Facing Tomorrow’ Conference. By the way, you’re better of viewing the video here, rather than clicking through to the YouTube page, unless you have an appetite for vehemently anti-Israel and anti-Bush comments.
I received the following in my email following one of our Shire Network News podcasts and I though the answer might be of interest here. Could you please explain this Israel Independence Day to me? I thought it was May 14 / 15th. Now everyone is saying it was May 8th. Then, I hear things [...]
This photo of first lady Laura Bush with Aliza Olmert during a visit to a school in Jerusalem, is crying out for a caption.
Updates below Yet another terror attack yesterday, with palestinians in Gaza firing an Iranian-made Grad rocket at Ashkelon, hitting a shopping mall at a busy time of the day. 15 people were injured, with 4 in serious condition, including a 24-year-old woman and her infant daughter. In addition, 87 people were treated for shock. Ashkelon [...]
