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Major delays were reported by Internet-service providers in Middle East and North Africa, experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage. According to a statement carried by the state news agency, KUNA , Kuwait’s Ministry of Communications said the problem could take two weeks to solve.

According to reports in the Los Angeles Times Britney Spears 26, was physically abducted from his home by police and placed in an ambulance about 1 hour, then escorted to UCLA Medical Center by a phalanx of more than a dozen motorcycle officers, two patrol cars police and two police helicopters. The singer was resting [...]

One al-Qaida’s top commanders in Afghanistan and a key liaison with Taliban, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed according to a Web site used by militant groups.Al-Qaida commander killed in Afghanistan – Yahoo! News.

CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2008—Apple® today announced that MacBook Air™, the world’s thinnest notebook, is now shipping. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than

An asteroid ,known as 2007 TU24,at least 500 feet long will make a rare close pass by Earth next week,on Tuesday with its closest approach at 334,000 miles, but there is no chance of an impact, scientists reported Thursday.
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Is 2008 the year of Free legal Music download ? Last.fm is allowing users to stream music from the four major record labels for free. They recently announced that tracks from EMI, Sony BMG, Universal, Warner, as well as 150,000 independent artists and labels are available online for free in the United States, the United [...]

French bank Societe Generale said Sunday that the young trader Jéróme Kerviel, 31, accused of perpetrating one of the biggest banking scandals in the history has stolen computer access codes and created fraudulent e-mails to bet more on the bank total market value of the risky investments.
Tags: Jéróme+Kerviel, Société+Générale, Societe+Generale

Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it will begin an international roll-out this year of its digital music store that offers songs without copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.After it has signed deals with all the four major music labels, Amazon MP3 now claims to have 3.3 million songs from more than 270,000 artists.”We have [...]

Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia’s communist movement and pushed aside the country’s founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.
Tags: Suharto, Indonesian

Miss Michigan, Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008 on Saturday at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip was aired for the first time on TLC.
Tags: Michigan+Kirsten+Haglund, Miss+America+2008

A “large” US spy satellite has lost power and could fall to Earth sometime in February or March, a government official said on Saturday.
Tags: satellite

I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self defence, one has to formulate a creed of one’s own. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, [...]

Cooper Lawrence “The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever“, said in Fox News program “The Live Desk With Martha MacCallum” on Monday that Mass Effect, one of the most critically praised games of 2007, contains frontal nudity and explicit depictions of sexual activity.Ms. Lawrence said that since the controversy over his remarks [...]

A hotel-casino MGM Mirage’s 3,000-room Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas is being evacuated on the Las Vegas Strip because of a fire that’s broken out on the roof.The fire has been proving difficult to put out and the according to the BBC “firefighters have to get to the roof” and in 1980 claimed more [...]

A group of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” has knocked the Church of Scientology’s Web site offline with a distributed denial-of-service attack.According to a Web page maintained by the hackers the attack is part of the “Project Chanology also known as Operation Chanology and Operation CoSplay is the large scale plan to bring down the [...]

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony