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Press of Atlantic City - 3 minutes ago
Great Britain's David Haye, center, celebrates after winning his WBA heavyweight title fight against Russia's Nikolai Valuev in Nuremberg, southern Germany, on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Haye won the fight after 12 rounds by points.
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San Diego Union-Tribune - 4 minutes ago
Federal authorities say they've cracked a sophisticated computer hacking ring that stole more than $9 million within 12 hours last November, securing indictments against eight people from Russia, Estonia and Moldova.
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Mesabi Daily News - 6 minutes ago
Onions: To the multitude of fools that don’t have a clue as to where the federal government’s money comes from. What in the world did they ever learn in school? For them to realize that such money comes from taxes on we the people, would be beyond comprehension.
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Summit Daily News - 7 minutes ago
Lessons from the Wall by Morgan Liddick This is a week fraught with profound historical significance in a month full of history. And no, I don't mean a vote for government health care. Tomorrow will mark the 91st anniversary of the end of the First World War, that calamity which ended the optimism about the future and the faith in the doctrine of "progress" which so permeated the second half of ...
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Marketwire - 10 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - November 10, 2009) - Academy Award® winner Warren Beatty has been selected to receive the Art Directors Guild's (ADG's) coveted honorary Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, it was announced today by Thomas A. Walsh, ADG President, and Awards co-producers Dawn Snyder and John Janavs. Beatty is one of the few people who has taken on so many roles in ...
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Swimming World Magazine - 10 minutes ago
Universal Sports FINA World Cup Dashboard, including webcasts and highlights STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 10. THE first day of finals is underway at the FINA World Cup stop hosted in Stockholm. W...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - 11 minutes ago
The designer of the Kalashnikov, sometimes called the world's most lethal weapon, was named a "Hero of Russia" Tuesday by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating "the brand every Russian is proud of."
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 14 minutes ago
Russia's Nikolay Davydenko and Spain's Fernando Verdasco tightened their grips on the remaining ATP World Tour Finals places by reaching the third round of the Paris Masters on Tuesday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 17 minutes ago
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," almost certain to be the year's best-selling video game, has also become its most notorious. That's because of a prerelease leak showing a terrorist raid on an airport — exactly the sort of thing that's guaranteed to rile up anti-violence watchdogs and generate free publicity.
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Bloomberg - 23 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- OAO Gazprom , the world’s biggest natural-gas producer, expects demand for the fuel to rise in the next two or three years, narrowing the oversupply caused by the recession and new production projects.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 27 minutes ago
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," almost certain to be the year's best-selling video game, has also become its most notorious.
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New York Times - 38 minutes ago
Fritz Henderson, G.M.’s chief executive, assured German politicians and union leaders that Opel will have the authority and the independence to be successful.
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EARTHtimes.org - 38 minutes ago
Cairo - A new plan was launched Tuesday for the preservation of the tomb of Tutankhamen - one of the most popular tourist attractions in Egypt. The tomb of the pharaoh, popularly known as King Tut, was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howa...
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Sports Illustrated - 38 minutes ago
PARIS (AP) -- Nikolay Davydenko of Russia moved closer to qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals by beating Benjamin Becker 6-2, 6-1 Tuesday in the second round of the Paris Masters.
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EARTHtimes.org - 39 minutes ago
Washington - A total of 260 humanitarian aid workers were killed, kidnapped or seriously injured in 2008, one of the highest figures on record, according to a study released Tuesday in Washington that ranked the quality of crisis aid by donor countri...
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Convenience Store News - 40 minutes ago
November 09, 2009 - The International Olympic Committee's recent announcement that Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympic Games was celebrated throughout Brazil, a nation that appears on the verge of cementing its status as one of the world's emerging economic powers.
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PDNonline - 42 minutes ago
WASHINGTON—Back for its second year, FotoWeekDC offers a packed schedule of exhibitions, museum shows and events scattered across the sprawling capital city. Photography fans have a few more days to catch all the exhibits.
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Network World - 43 minutes ago
A U.S. grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight people related to hacking into a computer network operated by credit-card processing vendor RBS WorldPlay and stealing US$9 million.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 47 minutes ago
Alleged computer hackers from Estonia, Russia and Moldova have been indicted in a scheme that netted nine million dollars from cash dispensers, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.
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Unstrung.com - 51 minutes ago
Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK ) upped the smartphone stakes today as it announced it has shipped the first N900 devices. (See Nokia Ships N900 .) That the phone maker has lost ground to the likes of Apple and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM ; Toronto: RIM) and others is evident in the company's latest market-share figures.