US Shares Rise Sharply after $1tn Debt Bailout
US shares rise sharply as Wall Street backs $1tn debt bailout
Timothy Geithner, the embattled US treasury secretary, won a burst of approval from the financial markets last night as Wall Street stocks rose sharply on a $1tn proposal for a partnership of public and private investment to rescue Wall Street’s struggling banks.
In the biggest one-day rally since late October, the Dow Jones industrial average leapt by 497 points to 7,775‚ a rise of nearly 7%, as a clutch of encouraging economic figures fuelled a sense of relief that the Obama administration is poised to act on the financial crisis.
First Man to Give Birth to Twins
Spanish man in world first as he prepares to give birth to TWINS reports Daily Mail:
A Spanish man is set to become the first in the world to give birth to twins.
Transexual Ruben Noe Coronado, 25, is due to become a dad at the end of September.Ruben, born a woman called Stephanie, will bring the boys up with partner Esperanza Ruiz, 43.
The pair plan to marry before they become parents.
Well, to me ‘he’ is still she. As a person born a girl, he’s still got the woman organ i.e. womb to be pregnant and deliver a baby. It’s not a big news actually. It’ll be a real deal if and when a man born as a man could be pregnant and give birth to either boy or girl without any medical engineering.
In picture: Ruben Noe Coronado (left?) will become the first transexual to give birth to twins (photo Daily Mail)
American Scholarships for Iraqi Students
Iraqi Offer of Scholarships Draws Crowds to U.S. College Recruiters
Nearly 100 Kurdish college students thronged to a conference center here a few weeks ago to talk to representatives from the University of Kansas and the University of Oregon, West Virginia University and the Monterey Institute of International Studies, among others.
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Officials from American universities visited Sulaimaniya.
The students’ questions tumbled out: “Do you have a computer science program?” “How long does it take to get a degree?” “Can I study English at the same time?”The college fair in Sulaimaniya followed a similar one in Baghdad where some 700 students flocked to meet with mostly American college recruiters at the first event of its kind in Iraq, a recruiting session for Iraqi students who want to study in American and British Commonwealth institutions.
Scholarships and fellowships for international students (daily updated) can be found here, here, here and here.
Chávez Lambasts Obama as ‘Ignorant’
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela called President Obama “ignorant” on Sunday, saying he has a lot to learn about Latin America.
