September 20th, 2009 at 11:31 pm » Comments (0)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accepted an invitation by President Barack Obama for the three to meet this week during the United Nations General Assembly, ...more »

September 19th, 2009 at 10:52 pm » Comments (0)

Western officials have reacted strongly to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's September 18 comments about the Holocaust.  White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his German counterpart Frank-Walter ...more »

September 19th, 2009 at 10:50 pm » Comments (0)

Three lawmakers from Japan's Liberal Democratic Party held a public debate on Saturday as they campaigned to become the next leader of the party which is struggling to rebuild following ...more »

September 18th, 2009 at 1:42 am » Comments (0)

More thoughtful than its cookie-cutter marketing campaign implies, and better than its awful title promises, "Love Happens" is the rare Hollywood romance concerned with emotions other than love at first ...more »

September 18th, 2009 at 1:39 am » Comments (0)

The House voted yesterday to deny federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group that occurring just three days after the Senate took similar ...more »

September 16th, 2009 at 10:38 pm » Comments (0)

A surge in school absenteeism suggests swine flu is widespread across Minnesota, meaning it has been reported in half of the state's regions.   More than 30 Minnesota schools and dozens ...more »

September 16th, 2009 at 10:36 pm » Comments (0)

The national community organizing group Acorn, which has come under fire after employees were caught on camera appearing to encourage tax evasion and prostitution, said Wednesday that it was ordering ...more »

September 15th, 2009 at 10:36 pm » Comments (0)

Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) said Tuesday its $1.8 billion acquisition of Omniture Inc. (OMTR) will allow it to offer Web-traffic-monitoring tools to its customers, who often build their sites with ...more »

September 15th, 2009 at 10:35 pm » Comments (0)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Iran must answer "head on" concerns about its nuclear programme at talks with world powers on 1 October. Mrs Clinton said the issue ...more »

September 14th, 2009 at 11:24 pm » Comments (0)

'Oscar Wilde once famously said that a cynic is someone 'who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,'" wrote federal Judge Jed Rakoff yesterday in a scathing ...more »