First Active offer 100% mortgages in Ireland

Thursday, July 14, 2005 First Active logo First Active has become the first financial institution to offer 100% mortgages in the Republic of Ireland. The bank previously offered 100% financing to professionals in finance and medicine, but is now to offer this product to anyone who can afford to meet the repayments. The development is […]

United States: Two killed, more than a hundred injured in Amtrak train collision in South Carolina

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Early on Sunday morning, Amtrak’s passenger train number 91, the Silver Star, bound for Miami from New York, slammed into a stationary CSX freight train in Cayce, about ten miles (16 km) south of Columbia, capital of the US state of South Carolina. Two Amtrak employees were killed and at least […]

Josef Fritzl’s former house to be demolished

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Josef Fritzl’s mugshot Image: Austrian Police. The house where Josef Fritzl used to live and where he imprisoned his daughter is set to be demolished. Fritzl locked his daughter Elisabeth in the make-shift dungeon for 24 years. During that time he raped her repeatedly — and fathered seven children with her, […]

China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 […]

Proud Boys chapter leader pleads guilty in US Capitol attack

Sunday, April 10, 2022 An unidentified man wearing tactical gear and Proud Boy insignia while carrying a radio transmitter in his vest in Washington, D.C.. hours before the January 6 attack. Image: Elvert Barnes. On Friday, leader of the North Carolina chapter of the Proud Boys organization Charles Donohoe pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy […]