SPORTS

Harry Redknapp Rules out Signing Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Harry Redknapp Rules out Signing Ruud Van Nistelrooy »

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has ruled out signing Real Madrid’s Ruud van Nistelrooy due to the striker’s prohibitively expensive wages. Van Nisterooy, 33, has also been linked with West Ham, who are interested in an unnamed...

January 23 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Top Athletics Prospect Retires to Enter Priesthood

Top Athletics Prospect Retires to Enter Priesthood »

As a top prospect for the Oakland Athletics, outfielder Grant Desme might’ve gotten the call every minor leaguer wants this spring. Instead, he believed he had another, higher calling. Desme announced Friday that he was leaving baseball...

January 23 2010 / No comment / Read More »

POLITICS

China, U.S. Spar Over Internet Censorship »

China, U.S. Spar Over Internet Censorship

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China hit back at U.S. criticism of Internet censorship and hacking on Friday, warning that relations between the two global...

Jan 23 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors »

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors

U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. The global...

Jan 22 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

BUSINESS

World Stocks Tumble as Obama Targets Banks »

World Stocks Tumble as Obama Targets Banks

LONDON – World markets fell Friday, led by bank stocks after President Barack Obama proposed a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street to avert future financial crises. Obama said he would seek to limit the size and complexity of large financial institutions so that their collapse wouldn’t...

Jan 23 2010 / No comment / Read More »

TRAVEL

Merlin to open Legoland Florida ahead of £2bn floatation »

Merlin to open Legoland Florida ahead of £2bn floatationMerlin Entertainment, the operator of Madame Tussauds and the London Eye, has bought a 145-acre site in Florida for a Legoland resort as it gears...

Jan 23 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Advertisement

AFRICA

Deaths Mounting in Nigeria Religious Riots in Jos

Deaths Mounting in Nigeria Religious Riots in Jos

On Sunday evening, we buried 19 corpses and 52 yesterday. As of right now, there are 78 at the mosque yet to be buried,” said Muhammad Tanko Shittu, a worker organising the mass...

Jan 19, 2010 / More »

ASIA

China, U.S. Spar Over Internet Censorship

China, U.S. Spar Over Internet Censorship

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China hit back at U.S. criticism of Internet censorship and hacking on Friday, warning that relations between the two global heavyweights were being hurt by a feud centered on...

Jan 23, 2010 / More »

EUROPE

UK Raises its Terror Threat Level to ‘Severe’

UK Raises its Terror Threat Level to ‘Severe’

LONDON – Britain raised its terror threat alert to the second-highest level Friday, one of several recent moves the country has made to increase vigilance against international terrorists after a Christmas Day bombing...

Jan 23, 2010 / More »

USA

Haiti: Life on The Street Facing Hunger, Despair

Haiti: Life on The Street Facing Hunger, Despair

Ancelot Jean didn’t have much before the earthquake: a concrete house in a slum with a carpentry shop out back. Now he has almost nothing. He lives with his wife, six children — and...

Jan 22, 2010 / More »

ENTERTAINMENT

Jackson Estate Administrators Want Cut of Profits

Jackson Estate Administrators Want Cut of Profits

LOS ANGELES – Two men administering Michael Jackson’s estate are seeking 10 percent of profits they’re able to generate from the late pop superstars work, court documents filed Friday show. Attorney John Branca and...

Jan 23, 2010 / More »

FOOTBALL

Harry Redknapp Rules out Signing Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Harry Redknapp Rules out Signing Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has ruled out signing Real Madrid’s Ruud van Nistelrooy due to the striker’s prohibitively expensive wages. Van Nisterooy, 33, has also been linked with West Ham, who are interested in...

Jan 23, 2010 / More »
Advertisement
Search by Date
Search by Category
Search with Google