Lives News

Iranian Envoy, Hezbollah Leader Meet

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

A top Iranian envoy was in Syria on Thursday for talks on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, in a gathering of the Lebanese guerrilla’s two key sponsors, according to Iranian news reports. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah was taking part in the session, according to Kuwait’s Al-Siyassah newspaper, known for its opposition to the Syrian
Link

Mon Blan Ad Representing the Revival of Ink into Writing

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

This advertisement from Mont Blac indeed reflects a fantastic piece of creativity that highlights the sustaining power of expression of ink in the wake of computing revolution.
Link

Israel pounds south Lebanon

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Israel pummeled south Lebanon with bombs and shells on Thursday and Israeli media said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s cabinet favored heavier air strikes against Hizbollah guerrillas rather than a big ground offensive.
Link

Israel Using Lethal Cluster Ammunition in Lebanon

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Israel is reportedly using artillery-fired cluster munitions in the civilian area of Lebanon. Researchers of Human Rights Watch have confirmed that a cluster munitions attack was carried out on the village Blida killing 19 civilians. Cluster munitions should not be used in a populated area, as it is quite lethal.
Link

Security guard to suspect: Richard Jewell looks back - U.S.…

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Richard Jewell pauses during his interview with the Associated Press in Atlanta, on July 22. Since the Olympics, Jewell has worked in various law enforcement jobs, including as a police officer in Pendergrass, Ga., where his partner was killed in 2004 while pursuing a suspect.
Link

Turnpike boss quits amid scandal - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Big Dig tunnels were closed for several days for inspections and repairs after ceiling panels fell, killing 38-year-old Milena Del Valle as she and her husband drove through the tunnel July 10 on their way to the airport.
Link

Zawahri weighs in on Mideast conflict - International Terrorism…

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Ayman al-Zawahri, considered Al-Qaida’s No. 2, weighed in on the conflict in Israel and Lebanon in a message aired Thursday.
Link

First Hurdle is Clear, HOR Approves Indo-US Nuclear Deal

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

As we said in our previous article India-US Nuclear Deal: Still Long Way to Go,, there are more steps ahead to get final approval from the US Congress on the nuclear bill. Hence, the first barrier is crossed.
Link

PM Dares Jaswant to Uncover the Mole

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Jaswant Singh claimed in his book, вЂ?A call To HonourвЂ™ that a mole was working in the PMO during the regime of PV Narsimha Rao government and was leaking nuclear secrets to the US.
Link

Jaswant Remembers Kandhar Hijacking in A Call to Honour

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

вЂ?A Call to HonourвЂ™ is the book, which shook Indian politics. Mumbai Mirror has published some parts of the book that recollect the horrible memories of IC-814 hijacking. Here you may find some parts of the story from вЂ?JaswantвЂ™ writings.
Link

Bad news from Iraq

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Being avid consumers of news, most of us are aware of the consistent stream of negative reporting coming out of Iraq. Death, violence, terrorism, precarious political situation, problems with reconstruction and public frustration (both in Iraq and America) dominate, if not overwhelm, the mainstream media coverage and commentary on Iraq. The readers
Link

Ralphs Pleads Guilty To Illegal Hiring

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Ralphs Grocery Co. formally entered guilty pleas in federal court Wednesday to several charges stemming from the grocery chain’s hiring of hundreds of workers under fake names during a 2003 strike and lockout in the Southern California supermarket industry.
Link

12-year-old Child Guerilla in Myanmar Surrenders

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Imagine, a boy barely 12-years-old running an entire militant group. This is how, Johnny Htoo, the child militia leader of the small but notorious gang of GodвЂ™s Army would like to introduce himself.
Link

NBC - WSJ poll: U.S. Pessimism On Rise

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

With congressional midterm elections less than four months away, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that candidates will be facing a public that has grown increasingly pessimistic, as nearly two-thirds don’t believe life for their children’s generation will be better than it has been for them, and nearly 60 percent are doubtful th
Link

French Police Thwart Effort to Roll Longest Joint

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

This one stirs up memories of Cheech and Chong!
Link

16 Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

A helicopter crashed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, killing all 16 people on board, including at least two American civilians, officials said Thursday.
Link

Qaeda’s Zawahri warns over Mideast fighting

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri warned his group would not stand by and watch Israel bombard Lebanon and the Palestinians, calling on Muslims in a video aired on Thursday to fight attacks on their countries.
Link

Mortar Rounds, Car Bomb Kill 27 In Iraq

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

A mortar barrage followed minutes later by a car bomb blasted Baghdad’s upscale Karradah district Thursday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 63, police said.
Link

Resurrection of Taliban Regime Terrorizes Afghan Women

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Afghan women beware: Taliban regime knocks again Since decades, the barbaric rule of Taliban has crippled the Afghan society and more specifically, it has almost destabilized the women community.
Link

Zawahri says Muslims must fight - Zionists, crusaders -

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri called on Muslims to join forces and fight what he called the Zionist-crusader war against Lebanon, the Palestinians and other Muslim nations.
Link

Baseball cards are no longer cool

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Slate: How baseball cards lost their luster
Link

World Trade Center, September 13, 2001

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Pictures of Ground Zero two days after the attacks.
Link

Failure to Declare Forced Marriages Illegal Creating Havoc…

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

The British governmentвЂ™s incapability to adopt the proposed legislation that was meant to declare forced marriages illegal is going to aggravate the life of Muslim women across the globe.
Link

Mueller: FBI Restructuring Will Improve ‘Business Side’

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday detailed the next steps of his organization’s restructuring вЂ” ongoing since the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks вЂ” including a new business-side position and a weapons of mass destruction division.
Link

Internet billionaire aims to build spaceport in Texas

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

The 2200 residents of Van Horn, Texas, US, seem to be embracing the idea of having a spaceport in their backyard. Blue Origin, a company headed by Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has applied to build a launch site for its planned New Shepard space rocket about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Van Horn.
Link

Japan Lifts Ban on U.S. Beef Imports

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Japan’s health minister on Thursday announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed in January due to concerns about mad cow disease. Health Minister Jiro Kawasaki announced the lifting of the ban after the Agriculture Ministry’s mad cow advisory committee approved a resumption in imports.
Link

Motorola Launches 3G Capable MOTORAZR XX

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

The dual mode, triband GSM (900/1800/1900MHz) and WCDMA (2100MHz) compatible MOTORAZR XX includes both EDGE and HSDPA high-speed data connectivity, plus Bluetooth (with A2DP stereo headset support) and mini-USB for shorter range connections.
Link

Analysys International Says China Web2.0 Market Will Reach…

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Analysys International, a leading Internet based provider of business information about technology, media and telecom industries in China, says China’s Web2.0 market, including Blog, SNS, P2P Streaming, Category Information, Personal Portal, WiKi services, etc., will reach RMB165 million in 2006 and will reach RMB2.1 billion by the end of 2008
Link

U.S. Hearing Looks At Internet Name Privatization Plan

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

This week’s hearing is in anticipation of the September deadline for turning ICANN into a private entity, not responsible to the U.S. government in its handing out of domain names.
Link

Op Ed: Rational Lampoon

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

How to make a thorny constitutional question disappear.
Link

89 Ways to Write Powerful Press Releases

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Every day for 89 days in a row, you can get one lesson, delivered via email, on how to write and distribute a press release. Each day, you’ll also have one opportunity to write a release. For example, if youвЂ™re rolling out a new product, thatвЂ™s one opportunity. Each dayвЂ™s lesson will take you just a few minutes to read.
Link

NoNAIS.org: No To Tags!

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

NAIS is being developed through the integration of three components-premises identification, animal identification, and animal tracking. Our government officials support NAIS. NAIS is great for big agri-businesses and the tag identification companies.
Link

Jetliner loses engine, lands safely in NYC

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

A jetliner carrying more than 250 people lost power in one of its two engines Wednesday but landed safely at a nearby airport.
Link

Angel Of Lebanon

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

(CBS) The war in Lebanon has had plenty of victims, but CBS News’ Vicki Barker reports that it now has a hero Гўв‚¬вЂќ a brave young Lebanese-American woman who helped rescue dozens of her fellow citizens.
Link

Soaking In Curry

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

The Hakone Hotel Kowkien in Japan has added curry spices to its hot spring, such as red pepper and turmeric, which can improve blood flow and make skin beautiful.
Link

Saddam Hussein forced back to trial

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Saddam Hussein, who had been on hunger strike, has said in his trial today that he was taken to court from his hospital bed against his will.
Link

Rome Lebanon summit urges ceasefire

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Diplomats attending a crisis summit on Lebanon in Rome on Wednesday pledged to do their best to help achieve a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah .
Link

Rare Lincoln slavery letter found

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Seven score and five years ago, Abraham Lincoln put his John Hancock on letters to the nation’s governors, asking them to support a 13th amendment to the Constitution — one that would enshrine slavery as the law of the land.
Link

Top 10 reasons why ‘Top 10′ lists are so popular

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Love them or loathe them, you only need to take a quick glance over popular social link sites to see that ‘Top 10′ pages are incredibly prevalent. Here’s a list of 10 reasons why such lists are so popular.
Link

Report: U.N. observers’ calls unheeded

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
Link

Suspected Child Molester Arrested

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

(WCCO) Maple Grove, Minn. A 51-year-old man accused of groping children in at least two department stores has been arrested in Todd County, authorities said Tuesday morning.
Link

CNN.com - Iranians volunteer to fight Israel - Jul 26, 2006

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

More than 60 Iranian volunteers set off Wednesday to join what they called a holy war against Israeli forces in Lebanon.
Link

Capitol Hill Blue - Another paper dumps Coulter

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

At the rate newspapers are dropping Ann Coulter’s column she may have to start hand delivering her screeds to what few readers she has left.
Link

YouTube Is Not For Sale

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley, who appeared on a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit today, says that the company isnвЂ™t for sale.
Link

Russian rocket with satellites crashes after launch

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

The first and second stages of the rocket failed to separate correctly after 86 seconds of flight, causing the Dnepr — a converted intercontinental missile — to crash.
Link

Students Charged With Professor Prank

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Two students each face up to a year in jail for a prank that involved hacking into a professor’s computer, giving grades to other students and sending pizza, magazine subscriptions and CDs to the professor’s home.
Link

Online Cat Fight: Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

Keep on top of this Cat Fight Between the top men of Digg and Netscape!
Link

news story

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

a news worthy new story.
Link

Amazon.com riles investors with spending, price cut plans

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

For years, Amazon.com Inc. has insisted that its hefty investments in cheap shipping deals, mysterious technology or new retail offerings would please its customers and ultimately pay off for its long-term shareholders. But nine years after the company went public, some investors are getting fed up.
Link

U.N. observers asked Israel to stop bombing 10 times before…

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:20:20 +0000

U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an Israeli attack destroyed their border outpost, killing four observers and sparking widespread international anger with Israel.
Link