It is revealed that Microsoft never put off its offer. Yet another offer from Microsoft."Yahoo has angrily rejected a joint takeover offer from Microsoft and the investor Carl Icahn. Microsoft would have bought Yahoo's search engine while Mr Icahn would have ended up with...
This piece was published in the New York Times on 3 July, so may have been missed by readers. In a hugely significant judgment, Judge Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge for the Northern District of California, asserts...
Ahead of Presidential elections in Zimbabwe on friday President Mugabe has rejected all the calls of calling off elections. He lambasted British government for its policy on Zimbabwe. "Zimbabwe's...
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Update: June 26 | - Matthew Yglesias provides the best analysis I've seen so far: " My evolving view of the death penalty is that there are situations one could envision wherein punishment by execution would be a...
It appears that Friday's Zimbabwe's Presidential poll will be going aheard and clearly the world is withnessing the iron hands of Mr Robert Mugabe over his people and all the International communities can do is talk,...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know if Momin Khawaja were a teen, some could attribute the terrorism link to youthful idiocy, though still a teen knows right from wrong. In this case it is a...
Should we worry? Yes."Iran has rebuffed an offer from Britain and other leading world powers to help it build civil nuclear power stations if it stopped its disputed uranium enrichment programme. Speaking...
Its a NO!––"By Tom Peterkin in Dublin–Last Updated: 1:33PM BST 13/06/2008–Irish voters have thrown the EU into disarray by rejecting the Lisbon Treaty, the government conceded."
For the second time this year, Haiti's parliament has rejected a nominee to be the country's next prime minister. This time it's Robert Manuel, a former security chief and friend of President Rene Preval, who has...
" Leeds striker rejects Crewe move Elding has scored just once for Leeds in nine games (Getty) Leeds United striker Anthony Elding has rejected a move to League One...
Morgan Tsvangirai rejected a call today for a national unity government in Zimbabwe, as he said his party was sure to win the election despite the continuing violence and problems his campaign has been...
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Richard Komen summarizes the issues expertly here. This sounds nice and rational to me."A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v....
Following talks with former US President Carter in Syria this past weekend, Hamas reiterated their position regarding the borders between Israel and Palestine. Hamas will settle for nothing less than pre-1967...
You have to wonder if there'll be more dropouts to follow."A Buddhist temple has withdrawn from plans to host Japan's opening stage of the Olympic torch relay, officials say.Zenkoji Temple, in the city of Nagano, had been due to serve as the starting point for the parade on...
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"European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net.The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament.But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the...