The strange side of world news at week’s end
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Friday often brings some of the world’s stranger bits of news, from amusing to weird to hard to believe: Young people who are not yet of voting age,...
View ArticleUnited swallows Continental in merger of “equals”
GenevaLunch News United Airlines has agreed to buy Continental in what the two are calling a merger of equals, for about $3.2 billion. The new airline, to be called United, will fly to 59 countries,...
View ArticleChicago mayor Daley to step down
GenevaLunch News Long-standing mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, has announced that he will not seek a record seventh term and will step down when his term ends in 2011. He made the surprise...
View ArticleBedbugs bring together 400 in Illinois hotel
GenevaLunch News Some 400 self-proclaimed experts on bedbugs have converged on the Hyatt Rosemont in Illinois, near Chicago, for the world’s first convention on bedbugs; 200 others were turned away....
View ArticleYet another winter storm wallops US
GenevaLunch News Australians hold their breath as Cyclone Yasi nears It’s water in Queensland, but snow in the US: the latest storm, being called a megastorm by some, cut a north-south path that...
View ArticleChicago woman runs marathon, then gives birth
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Runner Amber Miller beat her husband Joe in the 42-km Chicago Marathon 9 October, but the hard work wasn’t over yet for the day: she went into labour soon after...
View ArticleChicago Nato meeting draws protesters
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Scuffles and arrests marked Sunday’s Occupy Chicago protest against the Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) meeting being held in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
View ArticleObama support from US teachers’ unions wavers
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US teachers’ unions, traditionally strong supporters of the Democratic Party, are taking a more critical approach to the party as the Democrats’ convention opened...
View ArticleChicago teachers vote to go back to work
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Teachers in Chicago, Illinois, the third largest school system in the US, are heading back to work Wednesday after nearly two weeks of a strike whose ripple...
View ArticleMidwest in US hit by big snowstorm
GenevaLunch News Chicago gets it for rush hour GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – March came roaring into the Midwest in the US like the proverbial lion, dumping several inches of snow in what is being described as...
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