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************************************************************(Bild entfernt)************************************************************ Brooklyn-Bridge 1889   ************************************************************ Der WM-Kampf zwischen Steinitz und Zukertort 1886 in verschiedenen amerikanischen Städten regte das allgemeine Interesse für das Schach in den USA. Danach unterbreiteten Ellsworth, Schubert und Steinitz  einen Vorschlag für die Austragung des Sechsten Amerikanischen Schach-Kongresses in New York. Читать дальше...

This year’s Christmas podcast has a historical flavour. First of all, we will be hearing about the fate of a group of Norwegian seal hunters who met their end on Svalbard, in the Arctic Ocean. Ulf Aasebø and his team have redeemed their memories with a new explanation for their deaths. We stick with sea voyages, as John Hayman tells us about his...

BBC braut sitt eige etiske regelverk då dei overtalte prinsesse Diana til å la seg intervjue i 1995. Journalisten som gjorde intervjuet, Martin Bashir, gjorde seg også skuldig i bedragersk framferd, konkluderer ei ekstern gransking.

Kina og nabostatene Filippinene, Vietnam, Malaysia og Brunei strides om hvem som skal ha suverenitet over områder i Sør-Kinahavet som har rikt fiske og som kan inneholde gass- og olje.

Bharti Airtel Limited (hereafter “Bharti Airtel”) and SoftBank Mobile Corp. (hereafter “SoftBank Mobile”) announced today that the two companies have successfully developed a practical technology to provide cost-efficient 3G mobile phone services using a communications satellite as a transmission line following a field trial conducted in actual environments in the Republic of Kenya.