The protests of the Syrian civilians against President Bashar Assad is facing more brutal side. With the inclination of more protesters on the streets, the Syrian security forces opened fired on huge protests across the country killing at least 19 people on Friday.
This October the tablet market will have one more important member: Amazon’s own tablet. According to analysts and investors, Amazon plans to release a tablet computer by October. It will solidify Amazon’s position as the world’s largest Internet retailer.
The United Nations has reported that measles outbreaks in Ethiopia and Kenya have killed dozens of children and sickened thousands of others. UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said today that at least 17,584 measles cases were reported by Ethiopian officials in the first half of the year. The outbreaks have results in 114 deaths.
With Apple's iPad dominating the tablet market, expectations of the iPad 3 release is considered to cement its position at the top. Sony, Samsung, and Hewlett Packard have all released their latest tablets in hopes of eating away at Apple's 82% hold over the US tablet market. The iPad 2 now have seen threats but can the new line of competitive tablets be enough to counter Apple's upcoming iPad 3?
Starbucks Corp has been hit with its first strike at a company-operated cafe in Chile, where some workers are seeking pay and benefit increases, union and company representatives told Reuters on Friday.
Panasonic may build homes with energy enhancing devices on its former factory sites post the devastating Japan quake that cut power supplies and wreaked widespread havoc in the nation.
Kate Middleton's recent trip to North America has catapulted the commoner-cum-duchess to global stardom. She's a fashionista and a role model to young girls. But according to one anorexia expert, that's not a good thing.
Prompted by the death of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter, two new bills were introduced in California today that would have put Casey Anthony in jail for 15 years. Caylee's Law has been introduced in at least 18 other states.
Levi Aaron has confessed to killing 8-year-old Hasidic child Leiby Kletzky, in what is one of the most grisly murders to hit the greater New York area in a while.
The Tour de France moves into the third day of the Pyrenees and another battle for the GC contenders. Stage 14 has five categorized climb before a final Hors category climb to Plateau de Beille for the finish.
President Barack Obama and Republicans traded demands for a serious deficit plan on Friday, as an acrimonious stalemate deepened in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. government default.
Rupert Murdoch apologized to victims of criminal phone hacking by one of his tabloids and accepted the resignations of News Corp's top two newspaper executives, Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton.
Bizarre fads such as cone-ing, planking, and owling are blazing the internet. Now videos are popping up on Youtube claiming that Cup-ing is the new cone-ing.
The Kletzky family is sitting shiva for their eight-year-old son in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Typically, Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews sitting shiva recall the lives of the deceased.
U.S. and Romanian police have arrested more than 100 people in a year-long effort to stop Internet fraud schemes that have cost Americans more than $100 million, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
Large predators and herbivores are being killed off -- everything from lions to sharks, provoking an extinction of the animals that are holding the equilibrium of the Earth's ecosystem in place.
Standard & Poor's on Friday raised the pressure on debt negotiators in Washington, saying it could downgrade insurers, securities clearinghouses, mortgage agencies and a laundry list of other firms without a deal soon to lift the debt ceiling and cut the deficit.
President Barack Obama and Republicans traded demands for a serious deficit plan on Friday, as an acrimonious stalemate deepened in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. government default.
A former currency trader extradited from Peru pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court on Friday to criminal fraud charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors said lured some 400 investors into losing at least $5 million.
TTI Floor Care North America Inc, the owner of the Hoover and Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner brands, has put itself up for sale and is seeking as much as $900 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
