The N900 – seen as key for Nokia’s future in the high-end of the market – is the company’s first phone running on Linux software. It will come with a touch screen and a slide-out keyboard, and will retail for around 500 euros ($750), excluding subsidies and taxes.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq said the attacks were within its campaign dubbed the “Invasion of the Captive,” SITE Intelligence said.
The near-simultaneous car bombings which targeted on Sunday the justice ministry and the Baghdad provincial government headquarters also wounded more than 500 and left body parts and charred corpses scattered around the streets of the capital.
Defence ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari had told media that the evidence found confirmed the bombers were linked to Al-Qaeda and supporters of the Baath Party of executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
“As long as this government is in power, it will not retreat one iota on the undeniable rights of the Iranian nation,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northeastern city of Mashhad, broadcast live on state television. He said the provision of nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor was an opportunity for Iran to evaluate the “honesty” of world powers and the U.N. nuclear agency watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “We welcome cooperation on nuclear fuel, power plants and technology and we are ready to cooperate,” Ahmadinejad added.
On the other hand, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s mission to a newly disclosed plant in Iran said the inspectors had what he termed a good trip but he declined to give any details.
Ben Ali’s margin was down slightly compared with the 94.4 percent he received in the last election five years ago, a dip that may help deflect foreign criticism that the latest race was tilted in his favor.
Ben Ali’s RCD ruling party won 75 percent of the seats in a parliamentary vote held simultaneously on Sunday, the official news agency TAP reported, quoting official results. Tunisia’s most prominent opposition figures did not take part in the election. Two of Ben Ali’s challengers on the ballot rarely criticize the president and the third acknowledged during the campaign that he could not win.
In his 22 years in power, Ben Ali has established Tunisia as a moderate voice in the Arab world and Western governments view it as a bulwark against Islamist extremism, although some have raised questions about its record on democracy.
It would reveal how many aircraft were sold or how, but said it was a multimillion-dollar agreement.
Germany, the Office of Defense Technology and Procurement confirmed that it had signed an agreement to acquire the aircraft.
Israeli drones have been previously provided to the coalition forces to gather intelligence on Islamic militants in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The apparent rejection of the offer could relax President Obama’s effort to buy time to resolve the nuclear crisis.
The U.S. and European officials said that Iranian officials had refused to go along with the central feature of the draft agreement reached on 21 October in Vienna: a provision that would have required the country to send about three quarters of its reserves Current knowledge of low-enriched uranium to Russia for processing and returned for use in a reactor in Tehran used to make medical isotopes.
“The government has always maintained that IDPs should be designed and delivered in a structured and well managed manner,” Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe.
“We hope to reach our goal of resettling a majority of IDPs on 31 January next year,” he said.
Tamil Today, tens of thousands displaced by war are languishing in refugee camps special and Washington, the EU and human rights groups have called for their early repatriation back home.
“Having overcome the threat of terrorism and achieve military dominance in a ruthless organization that has ruined the life of the nation for nearly three decades, we have a unique opportunity to forge a new Sri Lanka where the human dignity of all citizens is fully safeguarded” , who said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Minister of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Rishad Bathiudeen said the total number of displaced persons in northern numbering 2.85 LAKH, nearly a Lakh people have been sent back home.
Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world’s most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.
Haruna Ai, 37, beat off stiff competition from 20 other glamorous contestants at the Miss International Queen 2009 who came to the Thai beach resort of Pattaya from as far as Brazil and the United States. The contest, which was called off last year because of political turmoil in Thailand, is taken just as seriously as more traditional pageants in a nation famed for its sexual tolerance. Millions of Thais watched live on television late Saturday as the statuesque beauties — all of them born men — strutted their stuff at Tiffany’s Show Pattaya, billed as the world’s largest transsexual cabaret. Japan’s Ai won 10,000 dollars, a year’s stay at a Pattaya hotel and a 500-dollar surgical voucher after judges picked her over runners-up Karngsadal Wongdusadeekul from Thailand and Daniela Marques of Brazil. While the audience may have whooped and cheered raucously, contestants and organisers said there was a serious side to the pageant — boosting public awareness of transgender issues.
The missile was fired from the submarine, Bryansk, and the warheads reached their target at the correct time, agencies reported without giving any further details on the type of missile or its range. Vesti television channel reported Sunday that the Bryansk is equipped with 16 Sineva-class ballistic missiles.
The success comes after Russia experienced a series of embarrassing failures in tests on its new-generation Bulava missile. A submarine failed to launch the missile in the latest test in October.
“We are determined and persistent in the pursuit of that goal,” she said in a speech at a development forum in Morocco attended by Arab ministers. After a weekend of heated words about the perceived U.S. tilt towards Israel on the issue of settlements on the occupied West Bank, Clinton said it was important for all sides to “be careful about what we say” and avoid angry rhetoric.
One body had been recovered and 11 people were still missing in the remote spot 2,700 kilometres (1,700 miles) from Australia’s mainland, a customs spokeswoman told media. Some 27 survivors had been picked up by a passing tanker.
Two bodies sighted in the water have yet to be recovered, a news agency said early Wednesday.
Authorities have not confirmed whether the 39 people on the stricken boat, which went down overnight on Sunday, were bidding to join the more than 1,700 asylum-seekers who have made the perilous voyage to Australia this year.
“Obviously, considering the amount of time they’ve been in the water, there are concerns for their safety. But we’ll keep looking,” the customs official said of the missing.
Choppy seas continued to hamper the search by the Bahamas-registered LNG Pioneer, which diverted to the scene after a plea by Australian authorities and has now been joined by a Japanese fishing boat.
The plane was said to have been on a routine training mission when it lost radio contact with air traffic control.
The emergency services say, despite the bad weather, they have located the wreckage site some 15-20 kilometres from the coastline, and are now searching for surviving crewmembers.
“If they try to perpetuate the terrorism of the LTTE in the appearance of the various movements over others, this will also be offset by us,” said Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said.
“No country should allow any host or group meetings that serve a separatist cause in Sri Lanka,” the Minister told the state run Sunday Observer.
“The LTTE is banned in countries like the U.S., where Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran which is said to have taken over the activities of the diaspora to the LTTE, is based”, the newspaper said.
Rudrakumaran, which is called the “coordinator of the group,” said the survey was conducted among the diaspora community to elect members for what they called the “Provisional Government of the Crime of Tamil Eelam (PTGTE).
International terrorism expert and professor at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, Rohan Gunaratna says the LTTE international wing factions Rudrakumaran heading political affairs of his party.
President Barack Obama will Tuesday attend a memorial service to honor victims of the rampage at Fort Hood attributed to Muslim US army doctor Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is also suspected of wounding 30 people. “All evidence at this point indicates the suspect allegedly acted alone,” Chris Grey, spokesman for the US Army criminal investigation division, told reporters, adding that no motive had yet been established.
Five people are still listed as missing after the landslide hit a village in Palopo district, South Sulawesi province on Sunday, health ministry crisis centre head Rustam Pakaya said.
Nine people were injured. A rescue team from provincial capital Makassar is on the way to the area.
“The affected area is near the top of the mountain and there’s a lot of rain there. The landslide was caused by a flash flood triggered by rain,” he said.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said it was not clear how the isolated animals had contracted the flu virus that is spreading quickly among humans in the northern hemisphere, particularly in Eastern Europe.
A novel flu virus — looking like a mix of human and swine genes — has been detected in some mink farms in Denmark, and seems to have infected only the animals and not the farm workers in proximity to them.
The international team used a disabled form of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to deliver working genes to two boys with the brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Their success may help shape future treatment.
Patrick Aubourg of Inserm-University Paris Descartes, who led the study, said it was the first time scientists had successfully used an HIV-derived delivery technique for gene therapy in humans, and the first time gene therapy had been used effectively in a severe brain disease.
U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Thursday blocked the sites BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com and owner Hank Risan from selling copyrighted songs by The Beatles and others. Music company EMI Group filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday seeking an injunction against the sites, claiming they were engaging in music piracy.
EMI claims the Web sites have infringed on its copyrights to numerous artists' songs, including The Beach Boys, Coldplay and Lily Allen. Its complaint states BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com were offering the recently released digitally remasters of The Beatles catalog for 25 cents per song; the box set of 13 albums retails for $250.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says Counter died at a Los Angeles hospital on Friday.
Counter served as the group's president for 27 years and negotiated more than 300 collective bargaining agreements with entertainment industry guilds and unions on behalf of movie studios, television networks and independent producers.
The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot (900-meter) tether suspended by a helicopter at a speed of 8 mph (3.7 meters per second or 13 kilometers per hour) during a Wednesday attempt.
LaserMotive's robot climber managed to get all the way up the cable four times in two days, with a best time of about 3 minutes and 48 seconds (translating to a speed of 3.9 meters per second).
The president dialed the freshman congressman from Louisiana around noon on Saturday, hours before a vote on an amendment offered by anti-abortion Democrats that banned most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in the insurance "exchange" the legislation would create. That measure passed later in the evening.
Cao said he explained to the president he could not support the health care bill without the amendment, but said he would support the bill if the abortion measure passed. It was a sentiment he also expressed to House GOP leadership ahead of the vote, he said.
The White House announced the meeting on Sunday.
Netanyahu has resisted Obama administration calls to halt Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the heart of a future Palestinian state, though he announced his government would limit construction of new settlements.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced last week that he would not run in the next Palestinian elections, set for January, amid open frustration among Palestinian leaders with Washington.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fueled Palestinian anger last week when she described Netanyahu's decision to restrict -- but not halt -- West Bank settlements as "unprecedented."
Clinton later clarified that the United States "does not accept the legitimacy" of building Israeli housing on occupied Palestinian land. But she was unable to persuade Abbas to resume talks with Israel.
Netanyahu is scheduled to address a conference of Jewish groups in Washington on Monday, but no meetings had been scheduled between the U.S. and Israeli leaders as of late last week, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday.
The White House announced the meeting on Sunday.
Netanyahu has resisted Obama administration calls to halt Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the heart of a future Palestinian state, though he announced his government would limit construction of new settlements.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced last week that he would not run in the next Palestinian elections, set for January, amid open frustration among Palestinian leaders with Washington.
Tim’s father and Dick’s parents make the dynamic duo fall prey to the manipulations of the Black Lantern enemies, but their attacks are far more mental than physical. Perhaps because these non-powered heroes rely more on their unemotional intellect than the physical powers, the bad guys resort to a more mental approach, causing both of them to lose their cool reserve and let their emotions ride free. That is exactly what the bad guys need to power themselves up. Only the timely arrival of Etrigan, possessed by Deadman, saves the new Batman and Robin.
The art is great, some of the best I’ve seen by Syaf. The fact that Damian brought Commissioner Gordon to where Alfred could help puts a little trouble into the idea of maintaining a secret identity, but I’m sure they’ll write it off as Gordon being woozy and out of it. The solution to the problem is innovative: Batman and Robin encase themselves in ice, the Black Lanterns cannot locate the two subjects, nor feed on their emotions, and so take off in search of other prey. Deadman possesses each one to enable the breakout from the ice. A handy advantage that should be used elsewhere in this meta-event.
This was a very satisfying mini-series. Good marks for both story and art.
Oct. 30--BOSTON -- The first month of the NHL season is quickly coming to a close and the Boston Bruins are still searching for an identity.
It was easy to assume the Bruins would pick up right where they left off last year, when they skated to the best record in the Eastern Conference.
But anyone who pledges allegiance to the Black & Gold now realizes that was then and this is now. And in the here and now, the Bruins are scuffling along, without key offensive cogs Marc Savard (broken foot) and Milan Lucic (broken finger), trying to put forth a consistent effort every game.
The Bruins had the misfortune of getting into a breath-holding contest with the New Jersey Devils at the TD Garden last night. And as is often the case when it comes the Devils, the Bruins ended turning blue in the face first.
Dainius Zubrus scored with 1:26 left to play to lift the Devils past the Bruins, 2-1. The loss left the Bruins with a 5-5-1 record.
Patrice Bergeron scored Boston's goal with assists from Marco Sturm and Zdeno Chara at 2:32 of the second period.
"There are a lot of things that have to change," said Bruins' coach Claude Julien. "A couple of our top players aren't at the top of their game just yet. There are some key injures that are slowing us down a little bit. But I see some positive signs that the team is coming around.
"We really didn't get going last year until November. People want to make assessments, but you really can't make them because
every year is different. You have to get bounces. You have to be healthy. A ton of things come into play. We just have to take this year and work towards making it a success. That's all we should be thinking about right now."
The Bruins have only scored 31 goals through their first 11 games. This means there isn't much margin for error for the goaltenders, as Tim Thomas (29 saves) found out last night. Both of the Devils' goals came on rebounds that bounced past Thomas and were whacked into open nets.
"We've been getting some scoring," said Thomas. "It's just that we haven't scored on the nights where we've played a good defensive game. They haven't seemed to go together. The games where we've gotten the goals are games when we've had a lot of turnovers and gave up a lot of chances. Then we have a game where we play well defensively and don't give up as many chances, but we don't score. We were trying to score (tonight) but we just couldn't get any in. New Jersey is the master at keeping the score down."
With all the speculation about Black Friday 2009 deals, we haven’t heard much about retail behemoth Wal-Mart. One would think that Wal-Mart would have the best Black Friday deals of them all…after all Wal-Mart is all about cutting out the competition.
Recently, Wal-Mart launched an attack against bookstores. Wal-Mart and Amazon.com have lowered the price of highly anticipated hardback titles to just about $9. This could pose a threat to local bookstores, that thrive on their loyal customer base. Just how loyal do you think the customer base will stay when they can get a $30 book for $9?
The Wal-Mart Black Friday deals 2009 will be the gold standard for the industry. There will be thousands of Black Friday deals to be had at a multitude of retailers, but expect heavy crowds and amazing deals at your local Wal-Mart store.
So far, only a few select Black Friday ads have been leaked. They include Gander Mountain and Harbor Freight.
