LONDON: Swansea piled on the misery for Arsenal as Michu scored twice in the closing minutes to clinch a shock 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday.Spanish forward Michu underlined his growing reputation as the bargain buy of the season with a pair of clinical finishes on the counter attack, prompting Arsenal's fans to unleash a torrent of abuse at manager Arsene Wenger and his...
FDI in retail to safeguard international market mafias' interest: BJP
Label: LifestyleNEW DELHI: India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said retail reform is a step taken by the Congress led-federal government to safeguard the interests of the international market mafias at the cost of national interest.BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Saturday that voting inside the parliament would decide as to who is in favour of national interest and who is working...
KC Chiefs Player Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Label: Business A Kansas City Chiefs football player committed suicide today in front of his coaches and police outside of the team's stadium, just as officers investigating the shooting of the player's girlfriend arrived on the scene, police said.The name of the 25-year-old player has not yet been released.Kansas City Police were first alerted something was wrong by the girlfriend's mother."The...
Nov
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Boehner says ‘fiscal cliff’ talks at stalemate as Obama takes his case to the public
Label: World
Hatfield, Pa. — House Speaker John A. Boehner declared Friday that talks to avert the year-end “fiscal cliff” have reached a “stalemate,” as President Obama insisted that raising taxes on the wealthy is non-negotiable as part of a deal with Congress
In his first domestic trip since winning reelection, Obama demanded on Friday that tax rates on the wealthy must rise as part of a deal...
Strauss-Kahn, maid don't have deal yet: lawyers
Label: Technology NEW YORK: Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former IMF chief, shot down reports Friday that he was ready to pay $6 million to a Manhattan maid accusing him of sexual assault -- but confirmed that he was negotiating.In a statement seeking to dampen media speculation over an out-of-court settlement of the maid's civil suit, the lawyers stressed that Strauss-Kahn was talking,...
CBI chargesheets arms dealer Abhishek Verma, wife, firm & ex-IAF man in OS Act case
Label: Lifestyle NEW DELHI: The CBI today chargesheeted arms dealer Abhishek Verma, his Romanian wife Anca Maria Neacsu, their company M/s Ganton India Pvt Ltd and a former Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force for allegedly possessing secret defence documents and supplying them to foreign nationals in violation of the Official Secrets Act. They were charge sheeted under section 3 of the OSA (for passing...
Pictures: Inside the World's Most Powerful Laser
Label: HealthPhotograph courtesy Damien Jemison, LLNLLooking like a portal to a science fiction movie, preamplifiers line a corridor at the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF).Preamplifiers work by increasing the energy of laser beams—up to ten billion times—before these beams reach the facility's target chamber.The project's lasers are tackling "one of physics' grand...
Mo. Couple Wins Half of Powerball Jackpot
Label: Business The lucky winners of half of the record $587.5 million Powerball jackpot have been identified as Mark and Cindy Hill of Dearborn, Mo., their working-class lives suddenly taking a turn to the financial stratosphere.Cindy Hill, who with her husband has three adult sons and a 6-year-old daughter adopted from China, purchased the ticket at a Trex Mart gas station in Dearborn."I...
Nov
29
Mitt Romney arrives at the White House for lunch with President Obama
Label: World
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney arrived at the White House on Thursday for his lunch with President Obama, stepping out of the passenger side of a dark Lincoln Navigator and into the West Wing just before 12:30 p.m.
Romney, wearing a dark suit and tie, opened his own door and entered alone, according to pictures taken by photographers at the scene. He and Obama were scheduled...
Long hard road for Spain in recession: OECD
Label: Technology MADRID: Spain is engulfed in a long recession with little hope of a quick recovery and its towering unemployment rate will soar further, the OECD club of industrialised nations said Thursday.Spain must quickly fix its banks to avert the "substantial risk" of being cut off from external financing and plunging into an even deeper recession, the body warned in a report."The economy is undergoing...
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