Poll: Americans favor college football playoff

2010-02-23T08:20:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Poll shows Americans favor playoff system to pick college football champion</div><div><p>A majority of college football fans want to scrap the current Bowl Championship Series and replace it with a playoff system that's similar to college basketball, according to a new national poll released Tuesday.</p><p>The

Ken Buchanan award dinner 1971

2009-08-27T21:35:43Z

Scottish boxer Ken Buchanan is presented with a silver salver at a dinner in the North British Hotel (NB Hotel, now the Balmoral Hotel) in Edinburgh in March 1971. Also in picture President Barack Obama's approval rating has slumped to 50 percent, the lowest since his inauguration, according to a poll released Thursday on the eve of his 200th day in office.</p><p>Quinnipiac University said the president's job approval rating dipped to 50-versus-42 percent, a reflection of growin...

UK News - April 29, 2009

2009-05-06T14:11:04Z

29.04.09 Edinburgh Whisky Society Peter Brown is building the Isle of Barra's 1st Whisky Distillery. Pic Neil Hanna

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National poll: mixed views on gay-rights issues

2010-02-27T18:27:36Z

<div id="subtitle">National poll: No to gay marriage, yes to civil unions, gays in military</div><div><p>A majority of Americans oppose gay marriage but support civil unions for same-sex couples and favor repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.</p><p>Quinnipiac's...

Humanities Prize

2009-04-22T13:23:50Z

In this undated photo provided by the Library of Congress, Irish historian Peter Brown is seen. Brown will receive the 2008 John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanities in a ceremony Wednesday,Dec. 10, 2008 at the Library of Congress in Wash...

Search is on for meteor that lit sky over western Canada

2010-03-01T12:03:02Z

<div><p>Scientists and amateur astronomers have been combing the prairies in western Canada for a 10-ton meteorite that lit the sky and exploded with the force of 300 tons of dynamite, according to experts from the Canadian Space Agency.</p><p>The meteorite, seen on Thursday by thousands of people in a 700 ki...

Anger over rising NZealand immigration

2010-03-04T01:42:41Z

<div id="subtitle">Rising Asian Population Figures Draw Anti-Immigrant Ire in New Zealand</div><div><p>New Zealand's Asian population is growing faster than any other ethnic group and will outnumber indigenous Maori by 2026, government figures released Wednesday showed.</p><p>The findings drew the ire of an anti-immigrant party that contends the door should...