admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
OK, we are talking about the place where no variation on luxury or grandeur is too wild or ostentatious. It’s the desert oasis with the bar made completely of ice (that at least serves hot chocolate), after all. Now the world’s tallest building boasts the world’s highest restaurant. Thanks again, Dubai. More: Read more
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
 I recently noted that, in the Jan. 24 New Yorker, media writer Ken Auletta offered the following aside in a lengthy article about the internet company formerly known as America Online.  (AOL) still gets 80 percent of its profits from subscribers, many of whom are older people who have cable or DSL [...]
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Egyptians armed with guns, sticks and blades have formed vigilante groups to defend their homes after police disappeared from the streets following days of violent protests. Read more
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
© Rex Features / Ken McKay EastEnders star Shane Richie has described the recent controversy over the baby swap storyline as “unfair”. The actor, who plays Alfie Moon in the BBC One soap, dismissed claims that Samantha Womack quit because of the plot and said that viewers who didn’t like the scenes should have turned [...]
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Southern Sudan’s referendum commission says more than 99 percent of voters in the south opted for secession according to the first official primary results released since the vote was held earlier this month.The head of the commission’s southern bureau, Justice Chan Reec Madut, said Sunday in the region’s capital of Juba that voter turnout in [...]
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
His generals are turning on him. President Hosni Mubarak’s two most senior military officials — Omar Suleiman, the newly named vice president, and Field Marshall Mohamed Tantawi, the defense minister — “raised with him the idea that he should leave,” the Sunday Times of London reported last night, citing a source close to [...]
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
San Jose — House GOP Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy wouldn’t seem to be a Silicon Valley guy. He opposes AB32, California’s landmark climate change law that is a Valley fave. He’s a blue collar dude from… Read more
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
IN MOSCOW — Russia has set off on an ever more authoritarian path as it heads toward a presidential election next year, sending ominous signals to the already weakened opposition and confronting the United States and Europe with vexing new political challenges. Read more
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
KABUL – An explosion in a supermarket in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic district Friday afternoon killed at least eight people, including three foreign women, according to Afghan police. Read more
admin @ January 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]