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...

(Opinion)Transgendering the NY Times--Shakespeare, Iago, and the McCain Mess

And you wondered why they make you read Shakespeare in school. One good reason: Shakespeare, in plays like Othello and Hamlet, provides you with survival tools for the great political games of life.The New York Times' presentation of Othello is rich in irony."The New York...

Rich US dog hiding after threats

"A dog which inherited $12m (£5.8m) from late New York hotelier Leona Helmsley is in hiding after it was targeted by death threats, US media say. Trouble, a white Maltese that belonged to the billionaire until her death in August, was flown by private jet to Florida, the New...

Trust warns of £15m hospital debt

"Swansea NHS Trust says it faces going £15.5m into the red unless it closes 86 beds and cuts around 750 jobs. But health officials say the efficiency programme will mean it will still treat the same number of patients by cutting down the time they spend in hospital. BMA -...

Heathrow's T4 evacuated

Just in"LONDON (Reuters) - Terminal 4 at London's Heathrow airport was being evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious package was found, passengers said. Advertisement "The tannoy is telling everyone to evacuate the terminal. They're saying a suspect package has been found,"...

EMI Says It Recieved An Approach From Warner Music (3rd Update)

"EMI Group Plc, the U.K. music company that cut its forecasts twice in the past month, received a takeover approach from Warner Music Group Corp. in the second attempt at a merger in a year. There is ``no proposal currently for the EMI board to consider,'' the company said...

Health officials find unsafe mercury levels at 5 more lakes

"Health officials find unsafe mercury levels at 5 more lakes By Todd Hartman, Rocky Mountain News January 25, 2007 State health regulators have discovered unsafe mercury levels in fish in five more Colorado water bodies, including popular Horsetooth Reservoir west of Fort...

Castro in "slow, progressive" recovery

"Cuban leader Fidel Castro is making a "slow but progressive" recovery although his condition is serious due to his advanced age, a Spanish doctor who has examined him said on Friday. Castro, 80, has suffered complications after undergoing surgery to his digestive system but...

The Perils of Being a Front Runner

"John McCain was a straight-talking upstart in the 2000 presidential election. Now he's poised to be the G.O.P. favorite for 2008, but at what cost? As a rallying cry. "Common sense conservatism" doesn't have quite the ring of "Straight Talk Express." But the new slogan on...