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… a lot of energy.” Her surprising victory at the final Grand Slam tournament of 2009 makes Clijsters a Laureus World Sports Awards nominee for Comeback of the Year. Winners will be announced Wednesday in a ceremony in the United Arab Emirates. Other …
The Minnesota Vikings have signed kickoff specialist Rhys Lloyd. The Vikings announced the deal Tuesday.
World Day of Prayer The World Day of Prayer will be conducted from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at St.
But Ryan is right . Rep. Paul Ryan will be among the three dozen lawmakers at a White House health care summit Thursday.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologized personally and repeatedly Wednesday to the United States and millions of American Toyota owners for safety lapses that have led to deaths and widespread recalls.
The Senate voted Wednesday to extend for a year key provisions of the nation’s counterterrorism surveillance law that are scheduled to expire at the end of the month.
It’s the Year of the Tiger, but Chinese fortune tellers say it’ll be a rough patch for the world’s most famous one: disgraced golfer Tiger Woods.
An effort is under way to have an upstate New York post office named after a 19-year-old Marine recently killed in action in Afghanistan.
Congressman Bob Brady says “There will never be another Jack Murtha,” adding “He went out on top of his game.” The Pennsylvania Democrat died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan.
Who is the rightful owner? Updated: Wednesday, 03 Feb 2010, 7:19 AM EST Published : Wednesday, 03 Feb 2010, 7:19 AM EST BRETT ZONGKER,Associated Press Writer An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be.
A man was charged with attempted murder after authorities said he drove his truck through the window of a service station.
An Arizona school principal who penned a sarcastic letter that chided parents for children who were either “too lazy or too stupid” to complete their assignments in class was suspended after the missive was mistakenly sent home.
Authorities in Iowa say a woman who robbed a bank Tuesday morning didn’t make it too far after a train stopped the alleged robber right in her tracks.
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Retail sales in the 16 countries that use the euro were flat in December from the previous month, official figures showed Wednesday - a further sign that consumers in the eurozone remain reluctant to spend despite the end of the recession.
A judge in Los Angeles is sending the troubled son of Ryan O’Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett back to rehab after more than a month in jail.The judge placed Redmond O’Neal back on probation and sentenced to an intense residential rehab program during a brief hearing Thursday.
D.C. officials say major roads in the city are ready for the morning rush after a storm dumped snow on the region overnight.
The security officials said around 90 people were wounded in the blast that took place Wednesday morning.
A nurse administers an H1N1 vaccination in Hefei, China in a file photo. Photograph by: STR, AFP/Getty Images OTTAWA a ‘ The federal government will announce Thursday that Canada is donating five million doses of its excess H1N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization, Canwest News Service has learned.
Shoppers in Asda Penryn were faced with a fleet of ships as they entered the supermarket on Friday as members of a model boat club were raising money for the RNLI.
IPSWICH: Health officials today revealed there has been a FOURTH Ipswich death in the meningitis scare which gripped the town in December and January.
Firefighters were called out to a chimney fire at a home on Higher Pumpfield Row in Pool at 2pm this afternoon. A crew from Camborne used chimney rods, stirrup pumps, extension ladder and a thermal imaging camera to extinghuish the flames.
… vaccines is unprecedented but just a small part of what is needed,” said Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation. “It’s absolutely crucial that both governments and the private sector step up efforts to provide lifesaving …
… between 2010 and 2019, Gates told reporters at the World Economic Forum. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization described Gates’ commitment to vaccines as “unprecedented” and called on governments around the world and the …
Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered his budgetary vision for FY2010 yesterday and then quickly flashed an image of how much worse it could get - ” and very well might - ” if Governor Paterson’s proposed state budget is passed without changes.
… Gates. “With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime.” Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, called the Gates contribution unprecedented and urged governments and private donors to add to the initiative. “An …
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Responsible banks and aid for Haiti _ not invincible billionaires, high-charged diplomacy or rock stars _ are the watchwords at this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos.
Indian software services firm HCL Technologies Ltd. said Monday that quarterly profit fell 16.7 percent in dollar terms, stung by foreign exchange losses, falling interest income, higher costs and weak revenues from its back office business.
European Union regulators say a plan by the world’s No. 2 and No. 3 iron ore miners, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton Ltd., to combine some operations could damage competition.
Clear Channel Communications is interested in signing radio shock jock Howard Stern.
China denied involvement in Internet attacks and defended its online restrictions as lawful Monday after the United States urged Beijing to investigate a computer attack against search engine giant Google.
The window was closing as search teams tried to rescue the dying victims of Haiti’s earthquake before they become the dead, and governments around the world were rushing to get in aid supplies.
Chinese internet users, already the largest in the world, have grown even more to 384 million by the end of 2009, a Chinese research group said Friday. Click here to read more.
Camera maker Eastman Kodak Co. has said it will sue Apple Inc. and Research In Motion , the makers of the iPhone and Blackberry, for patent infringement. Click here to read more.
The Intel logo is shown Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 in New York. Intel Corp. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit ballooned as a strong rebound in the personal computer market overcame a hefty payment Intel made to its biggest rival.
Students at Hamilton Middle School in the Heights are preparing a unique set of robotics challenges for an upcoming contest - and it’s not too late to get involved.
NASA is investigating how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Only a couple of days after a Korean paper said the new iPhone would be out in April, a Goldman Sachs analyst chimed in on the annual update to the iPhone, saying it would be out in (ta-da) June, when Apple usually release updates to its popular app phone.
If you’re a big gadget fan or you’re the kind that “has” to have the latest toys you’ll probably want to know what’s happening at the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show.
The world of URL shorteners continues to expand as more people use Twitter and Twitter-like services. After all, with 140 characters to play with, you can’t have a full-fledged URL in a Tweet. With that, Google (goo.gl, natch), Facebook (fb.me) and bit.ly (new Pro service) have all made announcements this week.
This will probably raise red flags across the publishing industry, but it is certainly a coup for Amazon.com and its Kindle e-book reader. Steven Covey is Amazon.com’s 13th-highest top-selling author overall, and Amazon.com now has “electronic exclusivity” to two of his best-sellers.
Hoping to jump-start his plans for job growth, President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to pass incentives for homeowners who retrofit their homes to make them more energy-efficient. The president planned to visit a Home Depot store in Northern Virginia on Tuesday to make the case that outfitting houses to be more energy-efficient will create …
Motorola’s new Droid phone, which runs Google’s Android 2.0 system. The Wall Street Journal says Google will market its own phone Google Inc.’s development of a mobile phone that uses its Android operating system marks a new push by the company to take on Apple Inc.
New data from satellites show the vast underground pools feeding faucets and irrigation hoses across California are running low, a worrisome trend federal scientists largely attribute to aggressive agricultural pumping.
The Google phone, now also known as the Google Nexus One or the HTC Nexus One, will launch as early as January 5, 2010, according to an anonymous source quoted by Reuters. The information follows a Friday explosion of data about the new phone, which was apparently given out by Google to its employees en masse.
Hot on the heels of AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega’s announcement that the carrier would be pursuing tiered pricing for data plans, Fake Steve Jobs took AT&T to task. Ah, but he didn’t stop there. Fake Steve has a plan to bring AT&T to its knees on Friday: Operation Chokehold.
The White House on Monday announced a new program drawing funds from international partners to spend $350 million over five years to supply developing nations with clean energy technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce global warming.
China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.
Microsoft has fixed a problem in Office 2003 that prevented the software from opening documents saved using its access control technology.
