Eyes on the prize: Sunderland have sights set on silverware Photo: GETTY IMAGES Bruce helped United win the FA Cup three times and he believes his Sunderland team have what it takes to win this season’s Wembley showpiece as the 1973 Cup winners begin their quest [...]
AP - The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan that killed eight Americans, five Canadians and an Afghan in a surge of violence in the war-battered country. A U.S. congressional official said CIA employees were believed to be among the victims of a suicide blast at an American base in [...]
U.S. stock futures rose slightly Thursday, pointing to a mildly higher open for Wall Street on the final day of the year and leaving top indexes on track for their largest yearly percentage jumps since 2003. Less than than two hours before the start of trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 15 points [...]
We’ve always had a lot of fun with Indianapolis-based startup ChaCha. They launched in 2007 as a human powered search engine – meaning a human found you answers when you typed in a query. Pranksters, obviously, loved it. And we noted the high cost of hiring humans to basically do Google searches and [...]
Global health officials’ response to the swine-flu pandemic reflects major improvements in flu-fighting capabilities in recent years, but limited vaccine supplies, crowded emergency rooms, and other challenges show they still aren’t fully equipped to combat a deadlier scourge, the World Health Organization’s chief said. While a second wave of infections caused by the H1N1 [...]
Profile: Parfitt and Rossi Entertainment and arts honours Status Quo rockers Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi have been appointed OBEs for services to music and charity.The band, whose songs include Rockin’ All Over The World, first had a hit in 1968 with Pictures Of [...]
AP - Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is resting comfortably in a Hawaii hospital after suffering chest pains while on vacation, his radio program says.[Read more...]
It’s about time that TiVo outs some new hardware and it looks like it might be sooner than later. The TiVo HD and HD XL have been sitting atop the companies mast unchanged for sometime now, while other DVRs like the Moxi keeps the updates rolling. But a little manual mix-up might show [...]
Tel Aviv The caption on the Photo of the Year in Tel Aviv’s 2009 Local Testimony competition reads, “Israel military forces blowing up a Palestinian house in the northern part of the Gaza Strip during the IDF operation.” Kobi Gideon’s winning photo was taken with a telephoto lens from the Israeli [...]
Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt (left) and Francis Rossi have been awarded OBEs in the New Year Honours list. Photo: PA The pair thought that their “wild past” would have deterred the secretive Whitehall committees who draw up the honours list. But today they become [...]
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Fierce street fighting in Sirte
Snipers in last-ditch bid to defend Gaddafi hometown
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FBI searches for missing Mo. baby in Kan. landfill
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Libyans face heavy resistance in Gadhafi hometown
(AP)Snipers slow government attack on Gaddafi hometown
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Libyan government forces launch big assault on Sirte
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Tank fire hits Gaddafi stronghold
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Nobel honors African, Arab women for peace
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Economy adds 103,000 jobs, but it’s not enough
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