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Opposition defiant after Uganda body says president wins re-election
21/02/2011 11:03
Uganda's electoral commission on Sunday declared that President Yoweri Museveni had won another term, an election that an opposition leader blasted as a "sham" and an international observer claimed was marred by bribes and various "failures." Museveni captured 68% of the vote, easily topping his...
Giffords Cleared for Rehab
27/01/2011 10:50
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been transferred from a neurotrauma ICU to an inpatient Coach Outlet rehabilitation facility, two-and-a-half weeks after getting shot through the head at a public meeting. Giffords was discharged from University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, and was...
3 months on, 2 million Windows Phone 7 handsets in the channel
27/01/2011 10:43
In an interview with Bloomberg, Microsoft Senior Project Manager Greg Sullivan said that more than two million devices have now sold into the channel. cheap jordans The company remains silent on the number actually in users' hands. In another interview, with CNET, the news was more encouraging....
Smoking explains why Americans don't live longer
26/01/2011 11:51
Smoking and, to a smaller degree, obesity explain why Americans do not live as long as the French or Japanese, U.S. experts reported on Tuesday. Even though just 20 percent of Americans smoke now, more than 40 percent of U.S. adults smoked in 1960 and the population is still paying the price,...
Verizon to offer iPhone 4 with $20 hotspot tethering plan
26/01/2011 11:48
Verizon Wireless has finally confirmed that it will offer iPhone 4 with a $20 "personal hotspot" WiFi tethering plan similar to what it currently offers its cheap jordans existing smartphone subscribers. A report by MacWorld confirmed the mobile hotspot details with Verizon's executive director...
Cocoa Tests 1979 Peak as Ivory Coast Political Unrest Spurs Supply Risks
25/01/2011 15:25
Cocoa may climb to the highest price since the late 1970s as political unrest disrupts supplies from Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producer. Hedge funds have more than quadrupled bets on a cocoa rally since early December after a disputed election left Ivory Coast with two rival presidents....
To achieve Middle East peace, first we need justice
25/01/2011 15:19
The Palestine papers appear to confirm what many have feared – that the so-called Middle East peace process has been dead for far longer than just the last few months longchamp outlet (Israel spurned Palestinian offer of 'biggest Yerushalayim in history', 24 January). So how can Britain's policy...
S.E.C. Study Recommends More Oversight of Brokers
24/01/2011 13:15
Investment advisers and stockbrokers should be subject to the same fiduciary standard of conduct — putting a customer’s interests above their own — rather than the different governance regimes that currently apply to the two groups, Longchamp Backpack the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Four police shot in Detroit precinct, gunman killed
24/01/2011 13:08
Four police officers in Detroit’s Northwestern District were shot this afternoon when a gunman came in and opened fire, the Free Press has learned. According to Sgt. Gucci Todd Eby, the gunman walked in at about 4:20 p.m. with a pistol grip shotgun. Unprovoked, he just started shooting, said Eby,...
Good Afternoon, Sundance: Lights, Crowds, Action
22/01/2011 14:21
As the Sundance Film Festival kicked off on Thursday, fest founder Robert Redford gave his annual state-of-Sundance press conference – “and as usual,” says Gregory Ellwood, “it was a mostly dry affair.” Redford’s spiciest quote came in response to a question about whether he had plans to retire...
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