BRUSSELS British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia have offered to give away takeoff and landing slots at London and New York airports to soothe European Union antitrust worries, EU regula...
A new American research has found that miniature tubes layered with a chemical fuel can generate 100 times more electrical power by weight than conventional batteries.
Ousted quot;Bachelorquot; contestant Rozlyn Papa has been placed at the centre of a scandal after a sex tape allegedly featuring the model found its way to the Internet.
At last yearrsquo;s Big East tournament, 13th seed St. Johnrsquo;s beat 12th seed Georgetown in the first round, capping a disappointing season for the Hoyas. The next day, the Red Storm were blown ...
eceiving the Ed Block Courage Award given for sportsmanship and courage.He was a unanimous pick by his teammates.quot;It shows I'm making strides,quot; Vick said. quot;I'm trying to do the right thing.quot;Not that e...
The Kansas City Chiefs made a significant offensive move for next season as they picked up last season's third-best running back Thomas Jones in free agency. Jones led the New York Jets to become t...
Quarterback Derek Anderson hit out at the Cleveland fans after the Browns ended his topsy-turvy five-year spell with the team. The 26-year-old was a Pro Bowl selection in 2007 after he threw for 29...
Hip: Additions to the Novationreg; comprehensive hip system including low-demand press fit and cemented stems using a lsquo;quick-kitrsquo; shared core instruments. Novation Elementreg; was recently added to ...
Shelvin Mack scored all 14 of his points in the first half, and Matt Howard had 14 points and nine rebounds to help No. 12 Butler rout second-seeded Wright State 70-45 in the Horizon League title game...
New Jersey racing officials took a step towards what they believe will bring a brighter future for the industry by announcing a one-year experimental plan to offer $1 million a day in purses during th...
Michael Jordan and even got to meet his childhood idol when he took his visit to North Carolina, where he eventually signed. Wednesday, Barnes will do Jordan one better by winning an award that wasn't...
Tonight, Eddy Curry will be feeling some butterflies. Because it's been a while since he even has been active for a game, let alone played in one. With 19 games to go, the Knicks' perpetually injured ...
LOS ANGELES -- Mike Dunleavy and the Clippers parted company for good yesterday, barely a month after he relinquished his head coaching duties to focus solely on being general manager. Now that arrang...
END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --gt; BEGIN: Module - Main Article --gt; Microsoft is launching a free online video player - the first serious rival to the BB...
HONG KONG--Investors seem to have a love-hate relationship with Indonesia. Many are confident, boosting the country's benchmark stock index 115% in 2009. At the same time, Asian business executives ju...
Ears are ringing in the halls of the wireless industry's annual gatherings, but it's not because of poor connections on attendees' mobile phones. Rather, wireless industry leaders at Mobile World Cong...
India's entrepreneurial journey is a few years behind China's own path, but the gap is narrowing. I was surprised to see this in a recent three-week stint of interviews there.Like China, India has a g...
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.
U.S. mortgage applications nudged up last week, reflecting increased demand for home purchase loans even as interest rates trekked higher, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.
customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards. It's a step that may become a common move ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees.
Middle East - General Motors (GM) in the Middle East will continue to honour Hummer warranties, while providing service support and spare parts to current and future Hummer owners across the Middle Ea...
LONDON -- Nationalized mortgage lender Northern Rock said Wednesday that it returned to profit in the second half of 2009 as interest income rose and losses on loans fell.Northern Rock said it posted...
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. Thacker, for his work in pioneering the networked personal computer. In
Microsoft is expected to share details about Internet Explorer 9 at its upcoming MIX10 conference, and industry watchers say the forthcoming release could help the software giant put part of its embat...
Microsoft warned of a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is already being exploited by hackers, the second such admission in the last two months. Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and its 2006 ...
Microsoft announced a lighter load of security bulletins for its users, but security experts say the potential impact is considerable if vulnerabilities aren't addressed. quot;Even though it is a slower ...
THE man brought in to fix the problems of the Welsh Ambulance Service has announced he is leaving after three-and-a-half years in post. Alan Murray today announced he will step down as chief executiv...
PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) - In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powe...
Research: Sex, health, and years of sexually active life gained due to good health: Evidence from 2 US population based cross sectional surveys of aging
The number of banks with risky levels of bad loans rose only slightly in the last quarter of 2009, partly because the FDIC closed so many failing banks, according to federal data analyzed by the
, 3/5). Wimmer withdrew the original version and resubmitted a measure that omitted the quot;recklessquot; provision. Herbert issued his first veto as governor Monday to block the original bill and signed th...
, the hospital quot;prides itselfquot; on having higher VBAC rates and lower overall c-section rates than wealthier, more renowned hospitals. This week, NIH is hosting a
The Washington Post reports, adding that President Obama quot;and his health secretary staged a two-pronged attack Monday in a stern letter to health insurance chief executives and a speech in which the p...
: quot;The Senate Finance Committee has opened an investigation into patient deaths and allegations of substandard treatment at long-term care hospitals, small specialty medical centers that treat chronic...
Even as medical caregivers try to change practices, racial disparities in hospice care continue, according to a study in the March 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
THE new health board serving a vast tract of South Wales between the Vale of Glamorgan and Gower is facing the risk of failing to deliver its statutory duties because of crippling financial problems. ...
March 10, 2010 NPR's Julie Rovner and Father Thomas Reese of Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center talk to Steve Inskeep about how abortion remains an obstacle to passing health care le...
News ) Wednesday confirmed that it is in preliminary discussions with a third party regarding a possible offer for the company. The company, however, did not reveal the bidder's identity. Following th...
News ) announced Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has given permission to initiate a phase II proof of concept study with its investigational depression drug EVT 101.The p...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Ten men captured by Russian security forces in a raid that killed a militant leader last week have been arrested as suspects in a deadly November train bombing, Russian news agenci...
One of Iran's most prominent filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami, has called for the release of Jafar Panahi and Mahmoud Rasoulof, two directors recently detained by the Iranian authorities.quot;New York Ti...
Iranian human rights lawyer and womenrsquo;s rights advocate Shadi Sadr has dedicated her ldquo;Women of Courage Award,rdquo; given by the U.S. State Department, to jailed human rights activist Shi...
KYIV (Reuters) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has offered the post of deputy prime minister in charge of economic affairs to reformist former central bank chairman Serhiy Tihipko, Yanukovych...
BRUSSELS -- Catherine Ashton, the European Union's new high representative for foreign policy, says that reforms in the bloc's immediate neighborhood will be her key priority. Such reforms, she said, ...
Written by RFE/RL editors and correspondents, Transmission serves up news, comment, and the odd silly dictator story. While our primary concern is with foreign policy, Transmission is also a place for...
United Nations official said, offering an incomplete picture of the vote that will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the countryrsquo;s political landscape. The results were initially expec...
Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works, at the Citeacute; de lrsquo;Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, features the Eacute;glise Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, in Nevers.
King Abdullah and Crown Prince bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud over dinner at one of the kingrsquo;s desert camps. He arrived in Saudi Arabia from Afghanistan, where earlier on Wednesday he told an assemble...
KABUL mdash; Taking aim at the US, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a quot;double gamequot; in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once supported.A...
BANGKOK, Mar 10, 2010 (IPS) - Not even religious advocates and leaders and can say no to the power of online media, whose call they are heeding in order to spread various messages of spirituality. In ...
JOHANNESBURG South Africa's governing party says a leading member didn't mean it literally when he sang about killing whites. African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema i...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Entertainers lined up for the Alabama Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony March 25 in Montgomery include Percy Sledge and the Blind Boys of Alabama. Exec...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's governing party says a leading member didn't mean it literally when he sang about killing whites. African National Congress Youth League leader ...
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's governing party says a leading member didn't mean it literally when he sang about killing whites.African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema is often in...
CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, storage and networking solutions, today released its
http://www.kingsisle.com ) is using Aria Platform Enterprise Edition to support tremendous growth in its online gaming community. KingsIsle specializes in massively multiplayer online (MMO) games that...
www.loopt.com ), the groundbreaking location-based mobile social networking service, today announced a new version of its popular iPhone application. The new version of Loopt expands the product's Pul...
The countdown has begun for Turkeyrsquo;s largest film event, the 29th International Istanbul Film Festival. Under the sponsorship of Akbank yet again, the festival will take place between April 3 an...
Radio 2 since 2007, will be cut from four to three nights a week.Their Thursday night outing will be replaced with a new live music strand, In Concert, which previously aired on Radio 1.The Radcliffe ...
The Taoiseach has defended his Health Minister, and denied a cover-up over the latest cancer scandal - this time at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.Brian Cowen was responding to revelations that nearly 58...
LISBON, Portugal The head of Portugal's debt agency says a euro990 million ($1.34 billion) bond auction was oversubscribed, suggesting the government's austerity plan has eased market concerns...
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Oil futures rose on Wednesday, boosted by strong economic data from China, as investors awaited a report on U.S. petroleum inventories. Crude oil for April delivery gai...
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures held to a tight range Wednesday, with little to focus on outside of a smattering of merger news and wholesale inventory data due later, as markets paused fol...
A decade ago, on March 10, 2000, it seemed almost difficult to find someone skeptical about the dazzling future of dot-com stocks. An undeniably prescient strategist at Warburg Dillon Read, now par...
ZURICH -(Dow Jones)- Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG (NOV.VX) Wednesday gave details of a three-tranche bond worth $5 billion being used in part to fund its purchase of eye-care company Alcon...
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. recovery remains fragile and there will be ups and downs in the months ahead, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday.
MUNICH -(Dow Jones)- Munich Re AG's (MUV2.XE) first-quarter results will reflect the high bill it received for claims related to the earthquake in Chile, the European storm Xynthia and the overall har...
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- British Airways PLC (BAY.LN), AMR Corp.'s (AMR) American Airlines and Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA (IBLA.MC) have offered to lease four pairs of daily takeoff and landing slo...
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- The dollar got a lift against the euro Wednesday when trade data from Germany, a key euro-zone economy, came in worse than expected.
National Bonds Corporation PJSC, the Shari'a-compliant saving scheme, has announced a strategic alliance with Emirates Post, the national postal services provider of the UAE, to enable customers to pu...
Lexalytics CEO Jeff Catlin and VP of Products Seth Redmore Will Speak at Upcoming Content, Cloud Computing, Text Analytics, and Sentiment Analysis Conferences On March 15, Redmore will sit on a panel ...
The American Psychiatric Association will spotlight several sensitive issues on African Americans and Mental Health, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at the APA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The...
Washington, Mar 10 : Massage eases anxiety, but it is no more effective than simple relaxation in a room alone with soft, soothing music, concludes a new study.
US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem.
placer miner Darrell Carey applied to renew his licences to mine claims he has on the Midnight Sun Dome. But CBCquot;, quot;http://article.wn.com/view/2010/02/26/Dome_Road_mining_bid_worries_Dawson_City_resid...
The Armed Forces are no more considered a viable career option and implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission to make the Services more attractive has not been able to reduce the shortage of 14,448 officers in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
The grand finale of the Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) saw designer Suneet Verma spectacularly recreating the magic of the '70s and '80s with his collection titled 'Night Fever'.
The Pakistani boxing team's participation in the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi is under doubt as the government is yet to give a green signal for their visit to India.
Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday charged the Left parties of taking undue credit for the successful passage of the Women Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
The Lok Sabha was on Wednesday adjourned till 12 p.m. due to the chaos created inside the House by members of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party and the Samajwadi Party over the successful passage of Women Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
