Whitney Houston's death overshadows Grammys

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With the death of Whitney Houston just hours earlier, it's hard to focus on the matter of crowning the best in recorded music — but Sunday night's Grammy Awards are going to try.Music's biggest night was rocked on the eve of the event with news that the 48-year-old pop legend was found dead in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was preparing to attend a pre-Grammy party.Speculation over this year's Grammy favorites seemed secondary in the wake of her death. Still,...

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Arab League backsSyria opposition, calls for peacekeepers

 CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League threw its support on Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed. A resolution approved by Arab League ministers meeting in Cairo called for "opening communication channels with the Syrian opposition and providing all forms of political and material support to it." It also urged the Syrian opposition to unite. The resolution...

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Mitt Romney wins narrow victory over Ron Paul in Maine’s Republican caucuses

Mitt Romney scored a narrow victory over Ron Paul in Maine's Republican presidential caucuses Saturday, avoiding an embarrassing setback in his bid for the GOP nomination. Romney received 39 percent of the vote to Paul's 36 percent. Rick Santorum finished third, with 18 percent, and Newt Gingrich finished fourth, with 6 percent. Maine's 24 delegates are not allocated by the results of the caucuses, but Romney and Paul stepped up their efforts to win the state in recent days, trying to score...

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George’s letter to be read despite Obama’s ‘compromise’ on birth control

Local Catholics attending Mass on Sunday will still hear Cardinal Francis George take issue with President Barack Obama’s controversial birth-control insurance coverage policy despite the president’s “compromise.” The letter from George to be read at all Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Chicago is dated Feb. 5. But it has not been updated even after the president on Friday backed down from his stance asking all employers including organizations tied to religious groups to pay for insurance...

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Keeping it Legal

Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association: Illegal Villa and Hotels Blamed for Unfair Price Competition in BaliPrice wars among villa and hotel operators in Bali – evident even during the high season – is prompting the Bali Chapter of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) to try to intervene to stop potentially destructive price competition.The executive director of PHRI-Bali, Ida Bagus Purwa Sideman, was quoted by Bisnis Bali, on February 7, 2012, as blaming unhealthy price...

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Australian reporter, US student held in Egypt: security

CAIRO — Egyptian police arrested on Saturday an Australian journalist, an American student and their Egyptian translator on suspicion of paying Egyptians to stage protests against the authorities, a security official said. Freelance reporter Austin Mackell, American student Derek Ludovici and translator Aliya Alwi were detained in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla on the same day activists held student strikes to mark the first anniversary of president Hosni Mubarak's overthrow. General Mostafa...

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Effect of Technology

Technology is an bigger avenue to an battered target. Technology is associated with innovation. It involves the transformation of account into something useful. Addition is just not bound to artistic humans and organizations, but aswell involves the availability of abstruse and accurate talent. Technology and addition are synergistic. Technology has absolutely afflicted our lives and for the better. Looking aback in time, we apprehend how abundant our lives accept afflicted due to the fruits...

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