• Recently Written

  • CSI - Where did they go to school?
  • Sell Annuity
  • Chefs.com
  • Vaporizers
  • Bingo
  • Cell Tower and Leases
  • Cheap Viagra
  • Estate Planning in Arizona
  • Short voting gap shapes presidential race (Reuters)
  • Turkish plane crash kills all 57 on board (Reuters)

• Categories

  • Automobile
  • Blogging
  • Blogs
  • Business
  • Business And Finance
  • Cell Phones
  • Computers And Internet
  • Directories
  • Education
  • Electrical And Electronics
  • Entertainment
  • Finance
  • Food
  • Gadgets
  • Games
  • Health
  • Home and Garden
  • Insurance
  • Jobs
  • Legal
  • Marketing
  • Mobiles
  • Music
  • News
  • Pets
  • Real Estate
  • Science And Technology
  • SEO
  • Shopping
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Telecom
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Web Design
  • Web Directories
  • Web Hosting

• Archives

  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007

• Blogroll

  • Boca Java - Premium Gourmet Coffee and Tea.
  • PGA Championship Tickets
  • Playboy Mansion Tickets
  • Rock The Mansion Tickets
  • Ryder Cup Tickets
  • Wu Yi Tea

• Admin

  • Login
  • Wordpress
  • XHTML

  Search

Reuters - A Turkish domestic airliner
crashed in the mountains in southwest Turkey on Friday, killing
all 57 people on board, officials said.

Reuters - After more than a year of political
campaigning and tens of millions of dollars raised and spent,
some experts believe the contests to choose the Democratic and
Republican nominees for U.S. president could be over in a mere
five days.

AP - Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook Inc. has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other companies.

AP - Remember biology class where you learned that children inherit one copy of a gene from mom and a second from dad? There’s a twist: Some of those genes arrive switched off, so there is no backup if the other copy goes bad, making you more vulnerable to disorders from obesity to cancer.

AFP - Colombia on Friday released videos seized from rebels that for the first time in years show Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, three US nationals and other prominent hostages held by leftist insurgents.

Reuters - The European Union said it was
disappointed after talks with Iran on Friday seen as a last
chance to avert U.S. pressure for tougher international
sanctions over Tehran's disputed atomic program.

AP - Talks between Iran and the European Union broke up Friday without compromise on Tehran’s refusal to freeze uranium enrichment, and the top EU foreign policy envoy said he was disappointed at Tehran’s refusal to budge.

AFP - A plane operated by a budget airline crashed Friday in mountains in southwest Turkey after apparently veering off course, killing all 57 people on board, officials said.

AP - Roger B. Smith, who led General Motors Corp. in the 1980s and was the subject of Michael Moore’s searing documentary “Roger and Me,” has died, the automaker said Friday. He was 82.

AP - Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”

AP - The Bush administration is working with industry on a plan to extend lower, introductory interest rates on home loans before they reset at higher levels.

AP - Mitt Romney is the target, abortion is the issue, and the $100,000 ad buy will change the tone of the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential primaries.

AP - Two of fallen NFL star Michael Vick’s co-defendants were sentenced Friday to 18 months and 21 months in prison on federal dogfighting conspiracy charges.

Reuters - The White House on Friday said it
was "premature" to discuss possible new steps to address the
mortgage crisis and declined to comment on reports that
officials are working on a deal with lenders to freeze interest
rates on some loans.

AP - Even though her latest film, “Rendition,” was a flop, Reese Witherspoon is a moneymaker. The 31-year-old Academy Award winner commands $15 million to $20 million a movie, placing her at the top of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual list of the highest-paid actresses.

Reuters - Campaigning for Russia's parliamentary
election ended on Friday with President Vladimir Putin's party
on course for a landslide victory and opposition groups voicing
fears of widespread ballot-rigging.

AP - The search for a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn performer turned into a homicide case after her body was apparently found.

Reuters - Hundreds of Sudanese Muslims, waving
green Islamic flags, took to the streets of Khartoum on Friday
demanding death for the British teacher convicted of insulting
Islam after her class named a teddy bear Mohammad.

Reuters - Former Pakistani prime minister
Benazir Bhutto published her manifesto for a January election
on Friday, promising jobs for the poor if victorious but
keeping open the option of boycotting the vote.

Reuters - Iraqi security forces arrested dozens
of people, including the son of a leading Sunni Arab
politician, in a pre-dawn raid on Friday after a car rigged
with explosives was found near the lawmaker's office.

AP - A new service promises Londoners they’ll never have to spend much time looking for the loo.

Reuters - Philippine military and police teams
stormed a luxury hotel in Manila on Thursday to end a
short-lived coup attempt by a small group of soldiers and
others who had called on the army to mutiny.

Reuters - A “cyber cold war” waged over the
world’s computers threatens to become one of the biggest
threats to security in the next decade, according to a report
published on Thursday.

AP - Former Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and was a hero of the anti-abortion movement, died Thursday. He was 83.

Reuters - A British teacher accused of insulting
Muslims after her class called a teddy bear Mohammad was found
guilty and jailed for 15 days, a defence lawyer said on
Thursday.

AP - British teacher Gillian Gibbons was convicted of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation from Sudan, one of her defense lawyers said Thursday.

AP - Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a “probable” cause of cancer.

Reuters - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged
European countries to end their military cooperation with U.S.
forces in Afghanistan in an audio tape aired by Al Jazeera
television on Thursday.

Reuters - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
said on Thursday he would end a state of emergency next month,
bowing to domestic and international pressure to restore normal
government ahead of general elections in January.

Reuters - The government may tap emergency oil
reserves to offset Canadian imports lost after a deadly
Minnesota pipeline explosion briefly choked off more than 10
percent of foreign supplies to the world’s top consumer.

AFP - President Pervez Musharraf promised Thursday to lift Pakistan’s state of emergency on December 16, in a long-awaited gesture of reconciliation hours after being sworn in as a civilian leader.

AFP - Philippine troops stormed a Manila hotel in a flurry of gunfire and tear gas Thursday, forcing the surrender of a band of renegade soldiers who were demanding that President Gloria Arroyo step down.

AP - Jennifer Love Hewitt is engaged to her boyfriend, Scottish actor Ross McCall. Hewitt, star of the CBS drama “Ghost Whisperer,” became engaged last week, her publicist, Sarah Fuller, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

AP - The economy barreled ahead in the summer, growing at a 4.9 percent pace. The performance was the strongest in four years but isn’t expected to last through the current quarter amid the housing slump and credit crunch. New-home sales edged up in October but sales activity still hovered near an 11-year low.

Reuters - Tempers were raw
between rival Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani
and Mitt Romney on Thursday after a lively debate that included
what the Romney camp called a nasty attack by Giuliani.

AP - A missing Kansas college student believed to be the victim of foul play apparently led a double life as an Internet porn star by the name of Zoey Zane.

AP - ZMP of Japan began selling a two-legged walking robot Thursday that runs on Microsoft’s new robotics software ? a product the companies said will make it easier to transfer technology from one robot to another.

AP - A pair of 10-1 teams will meet tonight at Texas Stadium when the Dallas Cowboys host the Green Bay Packers. The winner takes a one-game lead in the race for home-field advantage in the playoffs and the tiebreaker. Packers quarterback Brett Favre has never won in eight games on the Cowboys’ home turf.

AP - Pervez Musharraf embarked on a new five-year term as a civilian president Thursday, promising to lift a state of emergency by Dec. 16 and restore the constitution before January elections, a key demand of his domestic opponents and foreign backers.

Reuters - Every politician in the U.S.
presidential race claimed to be fighting for the middle class,
and it seemed a sound strategy — until the Democratic
front-runners tried to define who, exactly, was middle class.