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According to AFP, Australian doctors revealed Sunday that three people who died shortly after receiving organ transplants from the same donor were all infected with a previously unknown virus. Read MoreTechnorati Tags: Virus, Australia, New Virus

Bangladesh’s ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is stopped from boarding a flight home from London.Technorati Tags: Bangladesh, PM, London, Sheikh Hasina

French presidential election turnout ratio is high than 2002, at 6 a.m. EDT, 31.2 percent voting compare to 21 percent in 2002, the highest rate at that stage since 1981.
Leading candidates are centre-right Nicolas Sarkozy, socialist Segolene Royal, centrist Francois Bayrou and far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.Technorati Tags: Politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, Segolene Royal, [...]

After the Social Security numbers of 63000 people were posted on a public Web site the US government officials has warned of possible identity theft.Read More at USA Gov
Technorati Tags: US Gov, Social Security Numbers, ID Theft, 63000

With the Saturday Draw Man UTD may have drop point in the Title Chances.Read Article at BBC Sport.Technorati Tags: Man UTD, Boro, UK, Football, Soccer, Middlesbrough, Sports

A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot.Source Yahoo,
San Francisco ChronicleTechnorati Tags: Navy Blue Angel, Jet Crashed, BEAUFORT, S.C

The statement by Sun-Kyung Cho, sister of Seung-Hui Cho, on behalf of herself and her family:
On behalf of our family, we are so deeply sorry for the devastation my brother has caused. No words can express our sadness that 32 innocent people lost their lives this week in such a terrible, senseless tragedy. We [...]

Google Inc. has pushed further into Microsoft Corp.’s turf with a major upgrade of its Google Apps hosted suite. Like the free Standard and Education Edition versions, the new Premier offering has Gmail Web mail (with BlackBerry support), Calendar shared scheduling, IM and integrated Docs & Spreadsheets apps…Read More Technorati Tags: Google, Gmail, [...]

The company is accused of abetting the commission of torture by helping Chinese authorities identify political dissidents who were later beaten and imprisoned.Source CNETTechnorati Tags: Yahoo, Chinese, China

Christians have overwhelmingly been voicing their satisfaction with the recent ruling by the Supreme Court which upheld a 2003 law banning the controversial partial-birth abortion.Source christianpost.comTechnorati Tags: Abortion Ruling, Christians, Partial-Birth

NASA evacuated a building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston after a person with a gun was seen and a shot was fired, a NASA spokeswoman said Friday. Brandi Dean said it was not yet known if anyone was hurt. Local police were on the scene, she said. NASA spokesperson, James Hartfield, told CNN [...]

A store clerk’s slip-up at the cash register has paid off big time.Source CNNTechnorati Tags: Clerk win

Two of Bollywood’s biggest stars, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, have wed in the Indian city of Mumbai.Read MoreTechnorati Tags: Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan

After Dell’s feedback site was swamped with calls for the return of Windows Xp, Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed.The policy for Windows Vista to be the only Operating system on almost all new home machines was taken in January.Technorati Tags: Vista, Windows, Windows XP, DEll, Windows [...]

The Internet search engine Google has seen a rise of 69% in it quarterly profits.This rise is mainly because of the strong advertising revenueTechnorati Tags: Google, Ad Revenue

According to market research firm NPD, the Nintendo Wii game consoles is the Number 1,selling over 259,000 units in the new gaming Consoles.Technorati Tags: Nintendo Wii, NPD