Minggu, 12 Februari 2012

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,...

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...

Sabtu, 11 Februari 2012

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...

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...

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...

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...

Effect of Technology

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Selasa, 07 Februari 2012

BC-AP Sports Digest

The supervisor is Jay Cohen, followed by Ralph Russo at 5 p.m. and Pat Horne at 1 a.m. The supervisor can be reached at 800 845-8450, ext. 1630. Sports Photos, ext. 1918; graphics, ext. 7636; agate, ext. 1635. AP stories, along with the photos that accompany them, also can be obtained from http://www.apexchange.com. Reruns are available from the Service Desk (800 838-4616) or your local AP bureau. All times EST. TOP STORIES: BKC--BIG EAST-EXPANSION A person familiar with the talks says the...

Digital copyright law underneath review when Optus court win

A day when the bosses of Australia’s biggest sports lobbied the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and senior ministers for urgent changes to copyright law, the govt. has announced that it's ordered a review of the copyright law within the digital surroundings. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon this morning said that she had commissioned the Australian Law Reform Commission to conduct the review. She said it had been within the designing for a few time however its announcement nowadays was timely. The...

Moustache film competition to be held in Maine

Move over, Cannes. Maine are going to be taking part in host to its first-ever international moustache film competition, a part of its annual pageant that celebrates the bristly facial hair. The competition set for March thirty in Portland can feature short films with storylines that involve moustaches or a main character who wears a moustache, said Nick Callanan, head of No Umbrella Media, a video production company organizing the event. The idea for the moustache film competition, believed...

Opinion Snapshot: Nuclear threat from Iran

The Islamic Republic solely suspended its nuclear weapons program once -- in 2003, once the U.S. invaded Iraq. solely a reputable *threat* of military force can create sanctions work. And prompt the mullahs to rethink their course of action. however the employment of force would possibly undercut America's goal of regime modification. K.T. McFarland, national security knowledgeable and Fox News contributor: Iran is in Syria serving to them slaughter their folks. As a dry run for slaughtering...

Russian visit ends in speakof peace as shells rain on Homs

Russia thrust itself to the centre of faltering diplomatic efforts to curb the bloodshed in Syria yesterday, with its Foreign Minister insisting throughout a visit to Damascus that the regime was committed to stopping the violence at the same time as the shells continued to rain down on the restive town of Homs. Sergei Lavrov said once a gathering with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, that the embattled leader had pledged to speak to the opposition, hold a referendum on a brand new draft...

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