CAIRO — Iranian protesters shouting “Death to England” stormed the British Embassy compound and a diplomatic residence in Tehran on Tuesday, tearing down the British flag, smashing windows, defacing walls and briefly detaining six staff members in what appeared to be a state-sponsored protest against Britain’s tough new economic sanctions against Iran. The attack was [...]
LOS ANGELES – For now, Wall Street protesters camped out on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn still have their tent city after defying a deadline to pack up and clear out. “Still occupied,” read the sign of a protester up in a tree. Hours after emerging from a possible confrontation with police largely unscathed [...]
The German drugmaker Merck KGaA has begun legal action against Facebook after discovering what its lawyer described as the “the apparent takeover of its Facebook page”. The webpage is being used by the German firm’s US rival Merck & Co. Merck KGaA said that the social network “is an important marketing device [and] the page [...]
(Reuters) – Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling holiday shopping season. The Brooklyn, New York teacher, one of hundreds of thousands of shoppers jostling for deals around the country, said he ended [...]
Take out the account = “Saca la cuenta” You didn’t take account = “No te diste cuenta” The embarrassment costs = “Vale la pena” They threw me an indirect = “Me tiro una inderecta” Don’t throw fear at me = “No me tires miedo” How is your business walking = Como esta caminando el negocio? [...]
Occupy Wall Street-inspired protesters are eyeing a new target — Target. And dozens of other companies. A campaign under the name “Occupy Black Friday” is trying to enlist supporters to boycott just about every major retailer, and quite a few mid-sized ones, the day after Thanksgiving. The protesters are casting a wide net, urging people [...]
Open letter to Barak Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America Dear Sir, You became our president in 2009 and for almost three years you are now the leader of the country. For two of those years you had the greenest possible light an American president can have – both chambers of [...]
FOREIGN hackers have broken into a water plant control system in Illinois and damaged a water pump in what may be the first reported case of a cyber-attack on a critical US computer system, according to an industry expert. On November 8, a municipal water employee in Illinois noticed problems with the city’s water pump [...]
A top House Republican is threatening to enforce a subpoena for criminal immigrant information “to the fullest extent” of the law, after claiming the Obama administration “stonewalled” his request. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith for months has been seeking a comprehensive list of names and other information for the thousands of immigrants who are [...]
‘Here is a staggering fact,” marvels John Lechleiter, the CEO and chairman of the drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. “In 1960 the average life expectancy in East Asia was 39. Thirty-nine! In 1990, 30 years later, it was 67. Think about that. Does that explain the Asian economic boom? I think it might go [...]
Who said that Jazz music had to consist of wind instruments to be considered “Jazz.” No Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Clarinet and so on found here but great innovative stuff. Jazz is Jazz to me and that’s why I prepared this 4 set podcast here and to further prove that Jazz sounds great, no matter what [...]
Oil futures surged over $101 a barrel today for the first time since June, a spike which analysts say could raise prices for consumers. But who will get hit first? The full impact of today’s surge may not be known right away, as the jump is due in part to news of a deal to [...]
As MF Global Holdings Ltd. was sinking in late October, trader Andrew Gochberg thought he was making all the right moves to protect himself if the securities firm failed. The 52-year-old Mr. Gochberg closed his trading positions at MF Global, leaving the entire balance of more than $1 million in what he thought was a [...]
Reasonable minds should be able to agree that it’s not in the United States’ national interest to assist anti-American dictators in searching for oil to support their repressive, failing regimes. It won’t drop the price of gas in the United States or do anything to enhance our “energy independence.” Yet American assistance to make oil-drilling [...]
New York police have dismantled the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park and arrested more than 70 people following a raid in the early hours. Protesters were ordered to leave at about 01:00 (06:00 GMT), before police began removing tents and property. The New York camp was set up in September to protest against [...]
Billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway now has a stake in IBM worth $11 billion, making it the largest single stakeholder in the company. With fully 5.5 percent of the all common shares, Buffett, who is the president, chairman and chief executive officer of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, has been snapping up as much IBM as he [...]
Man’s best friend might need a flu shot this season. Officials at Cornell University Veterinary school say there have been reports of canine flu in the tri-state area. New Yorkers who keep their pets in close quarters with other dogs, like in a kennel, might want to consider getting them vaccinated. The sickness is not [...]
ALTHOUGH it came after scandal, scheming and a truly dismal record as prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi’s resignation pledge was no more cathartic than any other of the remedies that the euro zone has so far concocted. The gesture was too little because Mr Berlusconi is so distrusted, after a total of eight and a half [...]
It’s hard to believe that only last week we were getting excited for Russia’s first interplanetary mission in 15 years to launch. By now, we should be happy in the knowledge that the ambitious — and awesome — mission is powering through space, toward the Martian moon Phobos. The reality is that we are now [...]
The federal government will spend $148.8-million over the next five years to expand existing programs that help the country deal with impacts of climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Tuesday. Kent explained that the investments were “important” to ensure that the “reality of climate change be well understood and proactively managed.” The funding [...]