Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang Steps Down

Yahoo! is looking for a new CEO. It appears as though Jerry Yang's hardball with Microsoft and then later failure on not being able to close an advertising deal with google ended up costing him his job. He is...

China Detains 19 Over Tainted Milk Powder

Joe McDonald of the Associated Press is reporting that a Chinese officials has said that 19 people have been detained in connection with tainted powder that was linked to kidney stones in hundreds of...

Former gold medalist shoves judge and kicks referee in the face after routin...

When Cuban taekwondo competitor Angel Matos was disqualified from the broze-medal match he reacted with a swift kick to the face of a referee prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to call for a life-time ban...

Chinese Student Murder: Yang may have Faked Degree

Detectives investigating the murders of Yang Zhen Xing and his girlfriend Xi Xhou, have now located his mother in China.  Perviously, detectives had been puzzled by Mr. Yang's seeming lack of relatives  ...

"Gruesome" Chinese Student Murder "Involved in Internet BETTING SCAM"

Detectives piecing together the motive for the murders of ex-Newcastle University students Yang Zhen Xing and girlfriend Xi Xhou say Yang may have been involved in an international BETTING SCAM on the internet....

"Gruesome" Chinese Students Murder: Bizarre Dead CAT Clue

Detectives have revealed that the male victim of the double student murder that has stunned Newcastle's student population, Zhen Xing Yang,  put up a tremendous battle of resistance to his attacker/s with...

China Olympic ceremony star mimed

The pretty girl in the red dress during the opening ceremony of the Olympics was miming.In fact, it wasn't even her voice that she was miming to.The girl, Lin Miaoke, sang a rendition of 'Ode to the Motherland',...

Beijing residents told to stay home as games open

As the Olympics start on August 8, 2008 , Beijing does its best to keep its citizens at bay while hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. After seven years of preperation and building, Beijing claimed Friday as an...

Microsoft exit hits Yahoo shares

  Withdrawal of Microsoft bid has hit Yahoo badly. In the opening hours of trading at German bourses. " Yahoo's German-listed shares plunged 17% after software giant Microsoft dropped its three-month-old bid to buy the internet firm. Analysts expect Yahoo's US...

We get happier with age, study says

This is good news indeed: with age comes contentment, according to an extensive new study.The findings make sense on an intuitive level; older folk seem to know and accept themselves moreso than do idealistic...

TVT Record Label Files for Bankruptcy

I thought the days of Big Bad Record Companies messing with the lives of artists on their roster were over. Apparently not. Oh right, it was the days when record companies were able to earn a profit. To quote Lil...

China set to launch record number of spacecraft in 2008: report

"China will launch a record number of spacecraft this year, state media reported Tuesday, amid a rise in tensions among world powers over the militarisation of space. China plans to send up more than 10 missions this year, said Yang Baohua, head of the China Academy of Space...

Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

"Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it...

China FM in flurry of phone calls after US report on Iran released

""The Chinese side is willing to continue to make efforts to appropriately resolve the Iranian nuclear issue," the statement quoted Yang as telling Solana in the late-night telephone call.In a report released Monday, the US National Intelligence Estimate said Iran halted its...

China`s lunar probe enters moon orbit

"Chang-e I will orbit the moon for about a year, photographing and mapping the lunar surface, but its first pictures are not expected to be transmitted until late this month. The probe, named after a legendary Chinese goddess who flew to the moon, is the first stage of...

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