Tech layoffs: The scorecard

Tech layoffs: The scorecard    Yahoo! Buzz With the overall economy slumping, the tech industry is taking its fair share of hits. We'll keep updating the chart below as news of...

Customers injured in crush suing Wal-Mart

Some of the customers injured in Friday's horrific stampede at a Walmart on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the US when stores open early and offer big deals for people who come at dawn, are planning to...

Google Calendar officially comes to Apple's iCal

Google on Monday formally announced full support for the CalDAV protocol along with the release of a small piece of software for Mac computers that lets users easily link up their Google Calendars with the iCal...

Iraq intelligence failure my biggest regret: Bush

Most interesting perspective.. I would presume that George W. Bush, Jr., would have to take this stance publically... It would be interesting to see a story of what is in actuality, going on inside of him...  He...

PM's terror stand comes back to haunt him

"NEW DELHI: Of all his formulations, the one that has returned most often to haunt Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the assertion that Pakistan too, like India, was a victim of terrorism. The macabre irony embedded...

Pakistan's Intelligence Chief Will Travel to India to Help

This is a positive sign to ease tensions between two nuclear powers that certainly, and easily, could esqulate out of control... Let's hope that it works, and there is none of the retalitation that many...

Mid-air drama on Qantas flight

Yet another concern about air traffic during a heavy travel period... Makes one wonder about just how safe is it to travel... "A Qantas jet serviced days ago in Hong Kong had to turn back to Perth on Friday after the...

Japan to withdraw air force from Iraq

Japan continues to support the reconstruction of Iraq, but not the war it appears."Japan will withdraw its air force from Iraq by the middle of December, bringing to a close a five-year operation to provide supplies...

Court Grants Comatose Patient Right To Dignified Death For 1st Time In South ...

A legal precedent set in South Korea on patient's right to die."(AP) A South Korean court ordered the removal of a respirator from a comatose patient Friday, saying the "meaningless" extension of life was against the patient's right to die with dignity.The decision marks...

France Gives Painting Seized by Nazis to Charity

The conclusion of a seven decade trip of a wonderful painting."PARIS — The Henri Matisse painting "Le Mur Rose" was once seized by Nazis. As of Thursday, it belongs to a charity that supports Israeli...

18 Women From Iraq Suicide Bombing Network Surrender to U.S. Forces

This surrender will have spared military and civilian persons death and injury in untold amounts.  "BAGHDAD — Eighteen young women purportedly belonging to a suicide bombing network in northern Iraq...

Ringed by Foes, Pakistanis Fear the U.S., Too

"By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to...

After More Balanced Coverage, What Next?

"Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Mosharraf Zaidi As the world’s attention turns increasingly to Pakistan and its role in tackling the threat of globalised terrorism, the country’s perception abroad is evolving. More than seven years after 9/11, a more nuanced approach to...

China Releases over 1,000 Detained after Tibet Riots

Over 1000 people detained after the riots in Lhasa in March have been released, rights groups say they did not get fair trials and recieved "harsh treatment". Also in the news China has postponed a summit with the EU...

An Indian in every Pakistani?

"Shireen M Mazari The writer is a defence analystLack of formal education and sheer ignorance does not by definition imply an innate sense of stupidity. On the other hand, formal education in itself is no guarantee of an intelligent and rational human...

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