So, the Russian unrest is resting a bit more now... Here's the summary from the BBC ( Read more... )

Watching news reports about the situation in Russia... we'll know how it turns out in the next several hours, I suppose.

Here' s a summary taken from the BBC:

President Putin decries "betrayal" and "treason" following a dramatic challenge by the chief of the Wagner mercenary force

Yevgeny Prigozhin called for a rebellion against the army - although he ( Read more... )

We've been watching a lot about the invasion of Ukraine by Russian Forces. What a mess Putin has made... It'll get worse in the coming days, I fear. Hopefully some sort of truce via diplomacy can be worked out before too many die.

For November, my Googlenews survey results were:

Arsenal F.C. 11
Chelsea F.C. 10
Myanmar 7
Paris 7
Russia 5
David Cameron 5
Israel 5
Adele 5
Egypt 4
Benjamin Netanyahu 4
Syria 4
Narendra Modi 4
Turkey 4
Liverpool F.C. 4
Vladimir Putin 4
George Osborne 4

Right.... here are the top stories for September, with the number of times they appeared as Google News "Top Stories" links as sampled once daily ( Read more... )

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This month's daily sample of Google Top News...

Alexis Tsipras 13
Syria 6
Copa América 6
Pope Francis 5
Vladimir Putin 5
Turkey 5
Apple Inc. 5
Charleston 5
Gaza Strip 5
FC Barcelona 4
England 4
Yemen 4
U.S. Open (golf) 4
Andy Murray 4
Eurozone 4
David Cameron 4
Iran 4
Wimbledon 4
Tunisia 4
Boko Haram 4

March's top Google news (sampled once per day ( Read more... )

I've sampled Google News nearly every day (once a day) and found the top news for December to be ( Read more... )

I decided to check Google news once a day for the month of November and see what came up as the "top news" stories... So I did it, and managed to remember to do it 20 days out of 30... so here are the top ones I happened to see in my daily sampling ( Read more... )

I feel like I should do something with my life. Write a book. Or a book of poems. Or paint pictures. Or play the guitar. Not just work at some job.

I do have a "life's work"... which is my hard copy journal that I've kept since 1986... 93 volumes... but I feel I should turn it into something maybe. Is it really very interesting, tho? Most ( Read more... )