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The man who makes Obama's dessert: Michelle Obama's first meeting with the White House cooks was nerve-racking for the pastry chef, Bill Yosses. “The most surprising day of my life,” said Mr. Yosses, who was hired by Laura Bush in 2007.
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Britain's improbable new leaders promise big changes: The leaders of Britain’s bold new experiment in coalition government flung off their differences and stood side by side on Wednesday, promising to act in concert to promote economic stability, reform the country’s frayed political system and demonstrate that their unlikely arrangement is more than just a hasty marriage of necessity.
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Fifth deadly attack on a school haunts China: Gates and cameras have been installed at schools. Security guards have been trained to fend off knife-wielding attackers. China’s top security official convened a nationwide conference call, ordering underlings to protect children when they attend classes.
But on Wednesday, the latest in a streak of copycat assaults was also the most deadly: a landlord with a kitchen cleaver barged into a kindergarten in central China, hacked to death seven children, their teacher and her mother and returned home while rescuers rushed to the scene before taking his own life.
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Price of Facebook privacy? Start clicking: Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830 words long; the United States Constitution, without any of its amendments, is a concise 4,543 words.
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New complaints on privacy for Facebook from Europe: Social networking site, Facebook, has faced sharp criticism from the European data protection officials for putting users’ privacy at risk due to the changes it brought to its service.
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Playboy readers get 3-D centerfold in June issue: Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a centerfold jumped right off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef's world.
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Attacker hacks six children to death in China school: Six kindergarteners and a teacher were stabbed to death and at least 20 other people were injured on Wednesday in an attack at a school in northern China, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
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Swede who caricatured Prophet Mohammed attacked: Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who sparked controversy by drawing Prophet Mohammed was attacked while giving a lecture at a university, police said.
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US rules out any cut in aid to Pakistan: The US has ruled out any cut in its assistance to Pakistan in view of the recent revelation that Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is responsible for the failed Times Square bomb attempt, as demanded by certain American lawmakers.
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UK: Miliband in race to lead defeated Labour: Former foreign secretary David Miliband announced on Wednesday his candidacy to lead Britain's defeated Labour party, after the resignation of Gordon Brown.
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Revamped Microsoft Office will be free on the Web: Microsoft has created a chimera in its new Office 2010 software, part desktop software and part Web app. This latest version of Office, which includes applications like Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, is Microsoft’s long-awaited effort to modernize one of its most lucrative products and to thwart rivals like Google that are nipping at its heels with free Web software.
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The postman who stole 76,000 letters: A British postman, who stashed away 76,000 letters and parcels in his home, had to leave his flat as there was no space to live in it.
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Sikh leaders meet US lawmakers, raise issues of concern: Sikh leaders met US lawmakers during a week-long summit here and sought meaningful solutions to the issues of concerns to the community like discriminatory practices, hate crimes and the right to wear turban.
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Plane crashes in Libya, 105 dead: A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa crashed on Wednesday at Tripoli airport killing all 105 people on board, a security official told AFP.
Among the dead were 94 passengers and 11 crew members, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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NKorea claims to achieve elusive nuclear fusion: North Korea claimed Wednesday that its scientists succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction, but experts doubted the isolated communist country actually had made the breakthrough in the elusive clean-energy technology.
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An ATM with the golden touch in Abu Dhabi: Gold dispensing ATM : Abu Dhabi's top hotel is upping the ante in the race for Gulf glitz: adding a gold-dispensing machine. The ATM-style kiosk in the Emirates Palace monitors the daily gold price and offers small bars up to 10 grams or coins with customized designs.
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UK: Brother vs brother in race for Labour?: As the Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition government gets to work, the Labour party prepares to sit in opposition. With Gordon Brown resigning as Labour party leader, the race for a new leader has begun. As was widely expected the first to throw his hat into the ring is former Foreign Secretary David Miliband but the race could get even more interesting with sources saying his brother Ed Miliband is also considering running for the post.
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Cameron faces challenges beyond his coalition: The Conservative Party that David Cameron inherited in 2005 was a disoriented shadow of its once mighty self, riven by ideological disarray, wounded by endless power struggles and facing the bleak prospect of long-term unelectability.
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Ash affects flights in Morocco, Turkey, Spain: Volcanic ash from Iceland wound its way south to North Africa and curled eastward, forcing authorities for the first time to shut down airports in Morocco, as well as in Spain and, briefly, in Turkey.
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Rana's trial likely to begin on November 1: After David Headley, Rana and 26/11 attacks :The trial of Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks, is expected to begin on November 1 and go on for a tentative four weeks, with a US district court judge saying the trial process should start "sooner rather than later."
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Infidelity, marriage, commitment in your genes?: Why do some men and women cheat on their partners while others resist the temptation? To find the answer, a growing body of research is focusing on the science of commitment. Scientists are studying everything from the biological factors that seem to influence marital stability to a person’s psychological response after flirting with a stranger.
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Plane crashes at Libya airport, over 100 killed: Plane crashes at Libya airport, over 100 killed - An eight-year-old Dutch boy was the sole survivor when a Libyan plane arriving from South Africa exploded on landing at Tripoli airport today, killing more than 100 people, officials said.
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Cameron sets up National Security Council in UK: New British Prime Minister David Cameron has set up a National Security Council to oversee all aspects of Britain's security, particularly focusing on policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and review the terror threat to the country.
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Guns in luggage, Egypt detains US man: Airport officials in Cairo say police have detained an American-Egyptian man who arrived on a flight from New York with several weapons in his luggage. The officials say the man was taken into custody as he tried to pass through customs with a metal box containing two 9 mm handguns, 250 bullets, several swords, daggers and knives.
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Cameron wants 'new special relationship' with India: Conservative leader David Cameron, the youngest British Prime Minister in almost 200 years, favours a "new special relationship" with India and supports its bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
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Pak's enemy is 'cancer' within, not India: Obama: Pakistan's enemy is 'cancer' within, not India: Obama - Pakistan has got yet another dose of toughspeak from Washington, this time from US President Obama himself. Virtually reading out the riot act to Islamabad, Obama said Pakistan's real enemy was the cancer of terrorism within, not India.
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Obama's warning to Pakistan: In yet another instance of America’s heightened rhetoric on Pakistan, US President Barack Obama has said Pakistan has realised that it is not India but the "cancer" of terrorism emanating from its own territory that is its primary concern.
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Russian coal mine blast kills 60, 30 missing: Rescuers struggling through the blast-shattered corridors of a Siberian coal mine have nearly reached the last area where any of 30 missing miners could still be found alive. Russia's Emergencies Ministry has confirmed death toll in the blasts had risen to 60.
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David Cameron becomes Britain's PM: David Cameron becomes Britain's PM - David Cameron, the youthful leader who modernized the party of right-wing icon Margaret Thatcher, became Britain’s Prime Minister Tuesday after the resignation of Gordon Brown — capping a gripping election saga that returns the Tories to government after 13 years of Labour Party rule.
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Pak man caught in Chile a terrorist?: Pak man with traces of explosives held at US Embassy in Chile - Traces of explosives were found on a Pakistani man who was summoned to the US Embassy because his US visa had been revoked.
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