The first English athletes have arrived in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games as the threat of a mass boycott over safety and facilities recedes.
The Indian prime minister was holding crisis talks last night, as armies of cleaners and ...
Sep 24, 2010
Commonwealth Games boycott threat recedes
The first English athletes have arrived in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games as the threat of a mass boycott over safety and facilities recedes.
The Indian prime minister was holding crisis talks last night, as armies of cleaners and ...
Ahmadinejad accuses US of 'orchestrating' 9/11 attacks to aid Israel
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has accused the US government of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks to prop up Israel.
Speaking at the UN general assembly, just a few miles away from the still open ....
England to attend Commonwealth Games | Reuters
Credit: Reuters/Luke MacGregor .
By Alan Baldwin
LONDON | Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:03pm BST
LONDON (Reuters) - England committed to the troubled Commonwealth Games on Thursday after all 17 member sports agreed to go amid signs of improvement on the ground in India.
Teresa Lewis executed in Virginia despite protests | World news | guardian.co.uk
Teresa Lewis died early today after being given a lethal injection at the Greensville correctional centre, the first woman to be executed in Virginia in almost a century.
The execution went ahead despite protests from lawyers, international celebrities and ...
Executions of women are rare because they kill less often, researchers say - latimes.com
Virginia put to death a 41-year-old woman Thursday night, the first execution of a female in the country in five years and the first in that state for nearly a century.
Sep 23, 2010
Crime Scene - Teresa Lewis to be executed tonight
Teresa Lewis, who plotted the killings of her husband and stepson, is scheduled to die by injection in Virginia's death chamber Thursday night. She would be the first woman the state has executed in nearly 100 years.
Crime Scene - Video: Va. woman to be executed
By Washington Post Editors | September 22, 2010; 12:04 PM ET
Categories: Death Penalty, Updates, Virginia
Categories: Death Penalty, Updates, Virginia
Microsoft To Offer Free Security Software For Small Businesses | SmallBusinessNewz
Microsoft said today that beginning in early October, it will offer Microsoft Security Essentials for free to small businesses with up to 10 PCs.
“Small-business owners just want to concentrate on running the business, without worrying about PCs going down,” says Jeff Smith, director of Marketing for Microsoft Security Essentials.
“Small-business owners just want to concentrate on running the business, without worrying about PCs going down,” says Jeff Smith, director of Marketing for Microsoft Security Essentials.
Katy Perry dropped from Sesame Street show | Reuters
U.S. singer Katy Perry smiles during an interview for the television show 'etalk' in Toronto June 18, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Mike Cassese
NEW YORK | Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:26pm BST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Producers of the hit children's TV show Sesame Street have cancelled an appearance by pop singer Katy Perry following feedback from parents.
Silver is Emerging From Under Gold's Shadow
Gold surged to an all-time record high of $1,298 an ounce yesterday (Wednesday) after a U.S. Federal Reserve plan to jump-start the American economy triggered a slump in the U.S. dollar.
The yellow metal has now rallied for five straight trading sessions and is up about 18% for the year. Investors are waking up to the fact that the central bank's plan to use U.S. Treasury purchases as a means of injecting another $2.3 trillion into the U.S. economy is only going to further debase the greenback.
The yellow metal has now rallied for five straight trading sessions and is up about 18% for the year. Investors are waking up to the fact that the central bank's plan to use U.S. Treasury purchases as a means of injecting another $2.3 trillion into the U.S. economy is only going to further debase the greenback.
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