
Updated : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:26:50 GMT
AP - Mike Dunleavy and the Los Angeles Clippers parted company for good Tuesday, barely a month after he relinquished his head coaching duties to focus solely on being general manager.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:59:15 GMT
AP - Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several others, police and the organization said.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:47 GMT
Reuters - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said Wednesday.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:59:48 GMT
AP - Israel's new plan to build 1,600 apartments for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:09:22 GMT
Reuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:26:50 GMT
Reuters - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:40:59 GMT
AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:03:31 GMT
AP - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:17:36 GMT
AFP - A car bomb killed five people in Afghanistan on Wednesday, as the Iranian president and the defence secretary of Iran's arch-foe, the United States, paid duelling visits to the war-torn country.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:40:28 GMT
Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:02:33 GMT
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Updated : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:06:11 GMT
Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral. Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:28:13 GMT
Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:11 GMT
Reuters - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported Wednesday.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:56:04 GMT
Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity. Publ.Date : Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:53 GMT
Reuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:23 GMT
Reuters - U.S. marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Tuesday.
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:35:02 GMT
Reuters - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.
Publ.Date : Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:51:23 GMT
Reuters - Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer's pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo. Publ.Date : Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:07:32 GMT
Reuters - A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt. Publ.Date : Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:25:15 GMT
Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:06:45 GMT
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Updated : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:39:06 GMT
PC World - If you watched the Oscars on Sunday, you knew a new wave of Samsung 3D TVs were coming thanks to the commercial that aired, but you didn’t know what you’d have to pay for them. On Tuesday Samsung tore open the envelope and rolled out a raft of 3D-capable LCD, LED and plasma TVs. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:33:00 GMT
PC World - Samsung’s nifty new 3D glasses for its 3D LED, LCD and plasma TVs will cost you a pretty penny if bought alone and you won’t be able to use them with other TV brands, company representatives confirmed at a press event Tuesday. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:04:00 GMT
Reuters - The NFL has signed a four-year agreement with Verizon Wireless to show live games and highlights on mobile phones in a deal U.S. media reported was worth $720 million. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:29:13 GMT
NewsFactor - On the heels of the big 3-D television presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Sony and Samsung are joining Panasonic, LG Electronics, and others in promoting the new technology. On Tuesday, Sony said it is aiming for 10 percent of its TV sales within the next year to be 3-D models, and Samsung announced a range of HDTV sets and Blu-ray players will ship later this month. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:29:49 GMT
PC World - If you're the early-adopter type who doesn't mind paying top dollar for the latest tech gear, 3D TV may tickle your buying bone. But once you've shelled out thousands of dollars for 3D-enabled hardware, such as a Panasonic, Sony, or Samsung 3D TV, a 3D-capable Blu-ray player, and two or more pairs of 3D glasse, well, what's on 3D TV anyway? Here's your 3D programming guide for 2010. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:42:00 GMT
AP - As a proposal to require health warnings on cellular phones got a fresh legislative review Tuesday, Gov. John Baldacci made clear his opposition but stopped short of threatening a veto. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:11:14 GMT
PC Magazine - The range of products Samsung announced on Tuesday is especially impressive with 17 TVs, Blu-ray players, and home theater products available with 3D features. But Samsung also scored a deal with Dreamworks for exclusive 3D content. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:17:30 GMT
Macworld.com - Perhaps you’ve seen that recent Microsoft demo where a game could save and load progress from Xbox 360, Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 Series devices. My first thought upon seeing that was “So, why doesn’t Microsoft have something that can do that on Xbox and PC right now?” My second thought was “Boy, wouldn’t it be nice if there was something like that for the iPhone and Mac OS X?” It turns out that I wasn’t alone. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:35:00 GMT
PC World - Begging trouble, Strategy Analytics forecasts Sony's PlayStation 3 will outsell both the Xbox 360 and Wii by the time things are winding down for all three. That's not all: In a report titled "Taming the Waves: Games Console Life Cycles and Platform Competition," the company offers specific figures, predicting everything from transitional timeframes to life unit sales. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:06:00 GMT
Macworld.com - Students of the hadouken have a new venue to test their fighting mettle: Street Fighter IV launched Wednesday for the iPhone and iPod touch. This seminal arcade fighter brings high-end graphics, complex combos, and a memorable cast of characters to the mobile platform. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:06:00 GMT
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