Sri Lankan doctors recant death figures

After being in custody for about two months, the doctors say they inflated death tolls. The doctors who stayed with the people till the end now claims that only 350-400 civilians were killed in the last month of...

News Corp's MySpace Launch Global Redesign

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace plans to launch a global redesign next week in an attempt to widen its demographic and boost user engagement on the site, the social networking site said on Friday. In...

Fox Yells "Cut" on Commercials

In a move that is certainly intriguing, Fox is planning to air a couple of its higher profile new fall shows with less commercials than normal:"Fox Broadcasting saidThursday it would drastically reduce the commercial levels oftwo upcoming action dramas -- "Fringe" and...

Suicide rates up for soldiers

This is really sad. I believe it though. I recently dated a Marine for awhile, but after he returned from Iraq he changed, drastically. He was really depressed, drank almost 5 beers a day and would go off in a rant about feeling guilty for being back home and leaving all of...

13 Days to Save Net Radio

I'm a big fan of Pandora and similar sites so I was interested to see this appeal: The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan...

Kenya: Machines for New Coffee Mill Received

"The Nation (Nairobi) January 10, 2007 Posted to the web January 9, 2007 Nation Correspondent Nairobi Machines worth more than Sh30 million for the ambitious Mathira Farmer's Coffee milling project in Nyeri district arrived at the weekend. Yesterday, engineers were busy...

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