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Global Positioning System (GPS) developed by the United States Department of Defense, GPS is officially named NAVSTAR GPS (Contrary to popular belief, NAVSTAR is not an acronym, but simply a name given by John Walsh, a key decision maker when it came to the budget for the GPS program).The satellite constellation is managed by the [...]

British scientists universities of Exeter and Oxford said on Wednesday which appears in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences,that Women on low-calorie diets or who skip breakfast at the time of conception are more likely to give birth to girls than boys.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.Martin Luther King, Jr.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a victory over Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary.

Nokia said Tuesday that it will offer free 12-month access to music from the world’s second biggest label, Sony BMG, to buyers of Nokia Music Phones.”We are quite confident that we will have all the labels at the table for Comes With Music. We are progressing in those negotiations,” said Liz Schimel, head of Nokia’s [...]

Hundreds of people in several Chinese cities have gathered to demand a boycott of French products ‘No to French goods’ and denounce campaigns for Tibetan independence.

“Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as an island. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, refuges unto themselves, shall seek [...]

Commissioner Reva Goetz has ordered Britney Spears and her family to pay her lawyers $372,500.

Rudy Giuliani,a twice-divorced former New York City mayor and former Republican nomination for the White House,has taken Communion at a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict on Saturday, breaching rules that bar those who remarry outside the Church from doing so.Rudy Giuliani said that he is not uncomfortable by breaking the the Church ban on the [...]

Carlos Tevez came to Manchester United’s rescue with a late header to secure a 1-1 draw at Blackburn Rovers.
Source SkySports

Crystle Stewart, of Missouri City, Texas, 26-year-old entrepreneur was named Miss USA on Friday.”I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it,” Said the new Miss USA.The panel of judges for Friday’s pageant included Heather Mills, model and former wife of Paul McCartney; comedian Rob Schneider; Olympic gold-medal swimmer [...]

Migrants from Myanmar, most of them women had been forced to stand in the locked and sweltering container area of a truck.Fifty-four migrants along with 47 survivors,suffocated in the back the unventilated truck in southern Thailand while being smuggled to the resort island of Phuket

The world’s two biggest search engines,Yahoo and Google,have announced a two-week experiment which will allow Google to place ads alongside 3% of search results on Yahoo’s website.Cowen and Co analyst Jim Friedland said to the BBC that “Microsoft had all the cards, Yahoo is at least now able to use this for leverage to get [...]

The Internet video download and streaming service which allows viewers to catch up on BBC shows from the past week, or view certain shows from the corporation’s archives ,BBC’s iPlayer ,will soon be available via the Nintendo Wii.

Want to get your hands on J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard? Amazon.com wants to send you and a friend to London to spend a weekend with the rare and delightful book of fairy tales handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling herself (security guards included, of course). Open to Muggles ages 13 and [...]

The French government and a ministry official said that Pirates had seized control of a French luxury yacht “Le Ponant” carrying 30 crew members Friday off the coast of Somalia.