Investors Hit BofA Loan Modifications

Bank of America Corp.'s decision to embark on an $8.4 billion home-loan-modification program to settle charges brought by state attorneys general against Countrywide Financial Corp. was hailed as a milestone when the deal was announced this fall. But apparently nobody...

Chandrayaan successfully orbiting the moon

After a successful launch this is the icing on the cake for Indian Lunar Mission. ISRO has managed to place Chandrayaan in the Lunar mission. It is noteworthy that India has joined a select league of nationa like...

Ganguly completed 7000 test runs

"Sourav Ganguly reached a personal landmark on Friday when he became the fourth Indian batsman to cross 7,000 runs during the first day’s play of the second cricket Test against Australia at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here. Ganguly’s feat came just an...

World's biggest cruise sets sail

The 315m-long ship squeezed through the Papenburg watergates and will debut in November as a U.S. cruise ship. The vessel cost 616 million euros with a 1,000seat theatre was helped by two tug-boats to squeeze...

Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion

"mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages,...

MySpace Mom: Pleads Not Guilty in Teen Suicide Case

A mother who allegedly helped bully a child to death is in court. Lori Drew, whose fake MySpace profile and harassment led to the suicide of teen Megan Meier, prosecutors say,  is facing prison.This case also...

Born too soon: Can tiny fighters make it home?

" DALLAS - Seventeen weeks premature, our twin sons were so small, so fragile. And already they'd been through so much.Josh had had heart surgery, Jake a life-threatening bowel operation -- and that was just in their first week. They'd received blood transfusions, endured...

UN hands over to Kosovo Albanians

The United Nations has offically handed over power of Kosovo to the majority ethnic Albanian authorities.A simple and low-key ceremony will take place tomorrow." Majority ethnic Albanian authorities will now run...

Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran

As Hillary Clinton continues to try to position herself to the right of Obama in order to lock in her support from blue collar Reagan Democrats, she's come out with some truly shocking phrasing for how she...

Mariah Carey Surpasses Elvis in No. 1 Hits

Ain't this sweet? And all it took was a raunchy lil' "Touch My Body" number from Ms. Carey to catapult her past Elvis into the number two spot on Billboard's all-time No.1 hit singles chart. "LOS ANGELES - With...

Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Sells Over 2 Million: A Review

Tom Clancy must be worth a fortune. Not only does he have some major best sellers and multiple movies behind him, he's got his name attached to one of the best selling games of all time.Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Vegas...

Enjoying Life Of A Centenarian

People who reaches the age of one hundred and over is considered to have reached the milestone of life that only few have really succeeded. The number of people reaching age one hundred and beyond has now become the fastest growing segments of the population...

Valentine's Day true terms of endearment

Some guy I work with wrote this."For many young people, yesterday's steadfast rites of passage -- marriage, moving out, university -- don't offer the same assurance of long-term domestic bliss they once did.Grumpy...

Intel releases first chip with 2 billion transistors

Bad news first: Intel's new transistor-laden chip will be expensive--techradar.com guesstimates somewhere in the $5,000 USD range.The Good news is you probably won't need it.  It's for high-end servers.Still...

Japan intercepts missile in milestone test

"The $55 million test was a "major milestone" in growing U.S.-Japanese cooperation, said Rear Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Lt. General Henry Obering, head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.U.S.-Japanese missile-defense ties have...

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