Warning over maternity leave threat to women's careers

A commission has claimed that the right for a woman in the UK to take a year for maternity leave may be making employers hesitant to hire or promote women, for fear of losing them for a eyar down the line."THE right to a year's maternity leave could be ruining women's...

India close to creating history with nuke deal: PM

"NEW DELHI: With the top Congress leadership closing ranks over the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night said India is in the process of making history by going ahead with the deal. Another highlight of the two-hour long meeting of the...

Led Zeppelin Not Coming to Guitar Hero or Rock Band

What was once thought to be simply a long licensing process, it's come out that we may never see (or more appropriately, hear) any Led Zeppelin songs on games like Guitar Hero or Aerosmith. The reason behind this seems to be the band's unwillingness to give any outsider...

Bored With Web 2.0? Demand Change

Some interesting thoughts on the role of technology in making the world better. I disagree with a couple of Haque's contentions. Alot of money has been going into green technologies. According to Goldman Sachs investment increased from $400 billion in 2003 to $3 trillion in...

Iran says nuclear program continues 'non-stop'

Islamic Republic's envoy to U.N. nuclear agency dismisses requests to halt uranium enrichment despite a world powers' offer of economic incentives to coax Tehran into halting such activities"Iran is pressing on with uranium enrichment "non-stop," its envoy to the U.N. nuclear...

Malnutrition death toll rises in East Nusa Tenggara

" The death toll from malnutrition in East Nusa Tenggara has increased to 23 following the death of a child in Sumba regency on June 14. East Nusa Tenggara health office head Stefanus Bria Seran said in Kupang on Monday that his office was making efforts to limit the...