CSIRO secures wireless patent win

This is excellent news for Australia's premier scientific research organisation, The CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), which for the past few years has had to seek external funding due to government cutbacks. Hopefully, wins like this will...

The Cox-Arquette family is getting bigger?

Several gossip sites, specially the National Enquirer, reported that Courtney Cox and David Arquette are seriously thinking about having another member enlarging the clan, whether by adoption or In Vitro Fertilisation. The two became parents in 2004 when their daughter Coco...

Clegg defeats rebels over LibDem tax plans in UK

Following Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's announcement that the British political party would take a turn to the right and announce a plan to lower taxes, Many in the party are unhappy with Clegg's decision to bring it to the right, But Clegg has survived a grilling in a...

Bindra urges for professionalism

"India’s Olympic shooting champion Abhinav Bindra has urged the country’s sports administrators to adopt a more professional approach to help the country build on the good show at the Beijing Games. Bindra became India’s first individual Olympic champion after claiming...

Democrats adopt goal of health care guarantee

" Democrats shaped a set of principles Saturday that commits the party to guaranteed health care for all, heading off a potentially divisive debate and edging the party closer to the position of Barack Obama's defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.Obama, soon to be the...

McCain Criticized for Opposing Gay Adoption

McCain can't expect to get away with this kind of moralizing, hetero-normative, 'traditionalism' in 2008. He should know better. But he doesn't."Advocates for gay and lesbian parents are denouncing Sen. John McCain, an adoptive father himself, for opposing adoptions by gays,...

US Democratic National Committee Bans Lobbyist Money

The Democratic National Committee can no longer accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees after Barack Obama instructed them to adopt his own policies.Also, no campaign staffers can be registered lobbyists, resulting in three more departures from...