Leon E. Panetta - Nytimes As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of his administration.
Altantuya issue haunts Najib at by-election - Straitstimes Former premier Mahathir Mohamad, however, deflected attention away from Mr Najib. He said yesterday that some people were trying to project it as a test for ...
Qatar Accuses Israel of 'War Crime' in Gaza - Payvand Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday called for a global boycott of the US dollar and US-made products, including Coca-Cola, ...
US seeks to jail Madoff, panel meets on .. - Guardian By Grant McCool and Rachelle Younglai NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - US prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, ..
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Gaza hospital struggles to cope with casualties - 04 .. - Youtube According to the United Nations, at least 507 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 2,400 injured since Israel began its offensive in Gaza. A quarter of those killed are civilians.
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Global Warming is just tip of the iceberg - Thespec By James R. Lee The Cold War shaped world politics for half a century. But global warming may shape the patterns of global conflict for much longer than that ..
"Nanodiamond" Find Supports Comet Extinction .. - Nationalgeographic The discovery of tiny "nanodiamonds" supports a controversial theory that a catastrophic bombardment of space rocks altered the course of Earth history.
America's first CTO to be named - Bbc They include Google's Eric Schmidt, who helped advise Mr Obama and has himself said several times that he wasn't interested in the job and Vint Cerf, ...
How To Try Spotify Immediately, No Matter .. - Techcrunch New European streaming music service Spotify , which TechCrunch UK has been tracking since October, is getting increasingly good reviews . Spotify is a ..
Canada seeks access to detained .. - Yahoo AFP - Canada has not been granted consular access to detained prominent Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan in Iran, a foreign affairs spokesman said in ..
Vegas gadget show gets smaller - Yahoo Reuters - Even amid the flash and sizzle of the world's premier showcase for consumer electronics, the reality of the economic recession will be hard to ignore.
F News - Businesswire Using WiMAX technology , the company has developed a fast and reliable broadband network that can deliver Carrier Class Ethernet, to businesses which ...
JVC to showcase “super-thin” LCD at CES - Tgdaily By Wolfgang Gruener Las Vegas (NV) - JVC said it has developed a thin and light LCD for upcoming 32” LCD TVs. The display will be shown at CES in Las Vegas later this week.
