Livni: Israel's Only Alternative Was Attack

Israel's foreign minister said Monday that the Jewish state had "no alternative" but to launch a series of attacks in Gaza.

Read more Israel's Only Alternative Was Attack


Source: world news

Israel in 'all-out war' with Hamas

Palestinian medical sources say at least 345 Gazans have been killed and another 1,450 wounded in three consecutive days of Israeli bombardment in the heavily-populated territory...

Read more Israel in 'all-out war'

Source: al jazeera

Gaza braces for all-out war

Palestinian officials said several children are among the casualties while United Nations officials in New York said nine of its staff had been killed in the attacks...

Read more All-out war


Source: al jazeera

Satellites unearthing ancient Egyptian ruins

Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech allies…

Read more Satellites unearthing Egyptian ruins


Source: world news

Olmert issues "last-minute" warning to Hamas

His comments were the clearest indication yet that Israel was preparing a possible Gaza offensive which could result in heavy casualties on both sides and fuel a humanitarian crisis.....

Read more "last-minute" warning to Hamas


Source: thestaronline

Home prices may rise on mortgage refinancing boom

"It is quite likely that the country is about to enter a new mortgage refinance boom," the Ladenburg Thalmann analyst wrote in a note to clients…

Read more New refinancing boom


Source: yahoo finance

100 million Americans breathe dirty soot

The EPA added 15 cities to the sooty air list, mostly in states not usually thought of as pollution-prone, such as Alaska, Utah, Idaho and Wisconsin. That's probably because of the prevalence of wood stoves in western and northern regions, a top EPA official said….

Read more 100 million Americans breathe sooty air

Source: ap

Japan see’s car exports drop sharply

Toyota said it still expected to make a profit on a net level for the year ended March but has cut its forecast sharply to 50bn yen, down from a previous estimate of 550bn yen….

Read more Toyota braced for historic loss

Source: bbc news

Motor City's Big Problems

Among the worried is 81-year-old Warlena McDuell, a retired surgical technician who shares a home with her cancer-stricken daughter. On a recent weekday, she was among hundreds of Detroiters, most of them elderly, filling orange-plastic grocery carts at a food bank run by Focus:HOPE, a local nonprofit…

Read more Detroit’s woes extend beyond auto industry

Source: AP

Obama fills economy team. But, “Years to recover..”

He noted his speed in putting his full economic team in place, saying he had done so at an earlier point than previous presidents because of the magnitude of the troubles the country faces…

Read more “Years to recover”…


Source: ap

Gaza truce with Israel is over: Hamas

Hamas said it is ending its six-month truce with Israel on Friday and will respond to any attack on the impoverished and besieged Palestinian territory.

Hamas has also ruled out any extension of the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire, which began on June 19 but has seen repeated violations in recent days, with Israel launching air strikes in response to rocket and mortar attacks…

Read more truce with Israel over: Hamas


Source: khalee times

Brown confirms Bristish troop withdrawal from Iraq

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the end of Britain's involvement in the Iraq war on Wednesday, saying almost all its troops would be out by the end of July next year…

Read more Bristish troop will withdraw from Iraq


Source: international herald tribune

Latin America summit excludes U.S. and welcomes Cuba

The presence of Cuban President Raul Castro at the meeting in northeastern Brazil was touted as a sign of Latin America's growing independence from the United States, a far cry from the Cold War era when Cuba was expelled from the Washington-based Organisation of American States...

Read more America summit excludes U.S.


Source: reuters uk

Fed Cuts Interest Rate Near Zero

The new strategy is likely to involve unusually close co-operation with the Treasury of President-elect Barack Obama, which is still formulating its economic-rescue plans. The aim is to kick-start borrowing and spending to propel the economy toward a recovery by the middle of next year....

Read more US cuts interest rates


Source: economic times

Obama considers $1 trillion plan to jolt economy

Obama has not settled on a grand total, but after consulting with outside economists of all political stripes, his advisers appear determined to make the stimulus bigger than the $600 billion they initially envisioned, aides said Wednesday....

Read more Obama considers $1 trillion plan



Source: economic times

Jewish leaders fear anti-Semitic backlash

Bernard Madoff's alleged $50bn financial fraud reverberated in Israel yesterday, with concern being voiced by some about a possible antisemitic backlash...

Read more Jewish leaders fear backlash


Source: the independent world

Arabs hail shoe-hurling journalist

Images of Bush ducking the fast-flying shoes at a Baghdad press conference, aired repeatedly on Arab satellite TV networks, were cathartic for many in the Middle East, who have for years felt their own leaders kowtow to the American president.

Read more Arabs hail shoe-hurling journalist


Source: international herald tribune

Bush arrives in Afghanistan

Moving from one war zone to another, Mr Bush flew secretly from Baghdad to Kabul, landing under cover of darkness for talks with Mr Karzai and meetings with US troops spearheading the fight against a resurgent Taliban...

Read more Bush arrives in Afghanistan for talks


Source: irish times

Obama had warned his staff

President-elect Barack Obama warned his staff that he would fire anyone who dragged his presidency into a corruption controversy weeks before the Illinois scandal broke...

Read more Obama warned staff


Source: gulf news

Inside Wall Street's $50 Billion Scam

As investors from Palm Beach to New York to London counted their losses on Friday in what Madoff himself described as a $50 billion fraud, federal authorities took control of what remained of his firm and began to pore over its books...

Read more How Bernard Madoff worked his magic..


Source: international herald tribune

Germany attacks 'depressing' UK economic rescue

Germany has lambasted Gordon Brown’s response to the economic crisis as “crass” and “depressing” in an astonishing attack as EU leaders prepare to debate how to recover from the recession in Brussels today.

Peer Steinbruck, the social democrat German finance minister, warned that it would take Britain a generation to pay for the huge financial stimulus introduced by the government in its attempt to kick-start the economy...

Read more Germany attacks 'depressing' UK


Source: times online

Twenty terrorists still at large, say Mumbai police

POLICE in Mumbai said the 10 men who carried out the terrorist attacks in November were among 30 recruits selected for suicide missions. The whereabouts of the other 20 were unknown.

Police released the identities and home addresses in Pakistan of the nine gunmen who died during the attack on India's financial centre...-

Read more Twenty terrorists still at large


Source: canberra times

The End of Bush's Crusader Capitalism

Centuries before Adam Smith (the father of Capitalism) wrote in The Wealth of Nations that "progress results when individuals and businesses follow their own self-interests" and when "consumers compete with each other," the Christian crusaders of the Middle Ages were already pursuing such values....

Read more The End of Bush's Crusade


Source: world news

Three dead as US jet crashes into San Diego homes

Three people are dead and a fourth is missing after a US FA-18 fighter jet slammed into a densely populated residential neighbourhood in California on Monday, officials said.

Police spokeswoman Monica Munoz said a medical examiner was going through destroyed homes to determine whether there were more victims...

Read more Three dead as US jet crashes


Source: smh.com.au

Economy to get worse before it improves: Obama

Obama also said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that the survival of the domestic car-making capacity is important, yet any bailout must be "conditioned on an auto industry emerging at the end of the process that actually works."..

Read more Economy to get worse


Source: the times of india

War 'unlikely' despite rhetoric between Indian, Pakistan

Hostility between India and Pakistan is at its worst in years, but tensions stemming from last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, are unlikely to bloom into full-blown war between the nuclear-armed rivals - at least for now, according to analysts on both sides of the border..

Read more War 'unlikely' despite rhetoric between Indian, Pakistan


Source: gulf news

O.J. Simpson Sentenced In Las Vegas

U.S. had substantive nuclear talks with North Korea

Top U.S. nuclear diplomat Christopher Hill said he had substantive talks with his North Korean counterpart on Thursday, but wants to ensure broader six-party talks next week zero in on the specifics of a deal....

Read more U.S. had substantive talks with North Korea


Source: international herald tribune

UPDATE: Bombs found at Mumbai train station

Indian police on Wednesday discovered and defused explosives at Mumbai's main railway station, left by militants who struck the city last week.

"This is part of the same consignment which the terrorists had brought on Wednesday night when they were attacking and running helter-skelter, some of the material had been left behind," anti-terrorism chief K.P. Raghuvashi said...

Read more Bombs found at Mumbai train station


Source: smh.com.au

Wall Street rebounds sharply after big drop

Investors wary about the economy drew solace from Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally, who said the automaker has enough cash to make it through 2009 and might not need government help. Rival General Motors Corp. said late in the day that it needs $12 billion in government loans to continue operating; the news briefly shook the market, but stocks rebounded before the close....

Read more Wall Street rebounds


Source: the times of india

U.S.' Hill to meet N.Koreans this week

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill will meet North Korean officials in Singapore ahead of Dec. 8 multilateral talks in Beijing on persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs, a U.S. official said on Monday...

Read more Hill to meet N.Koreans


Source: the star online

Mumbai death toll revised down

The disaster management cell of the Maharashtra state government said the lower figure - down from 195 - was due to "double-counting" of the dead at hospitals in the wake of the militant strikes...

Read more Mumbai death toll revised


Source: smh.com.au

Jewish group recalls slain N.Y. rabbi, wife

“There are no answers to what happened,” said Rabbi Asher Bronstein of Chabad Lubavitch of Merrimack Valley, who went to the same Brooklyn day school Gavriel Holtzberg attended. “It just shows how crazy the world is and that we should go out and do good in their memory.”..

Read more Jewish group recalls slain rabbi, wife


Source: boston herald

Mourners bid farewell to attack victims

WITH her murdered husband's body covered in marigolds and draped with the Indian flag, Mansi Shinde pushed away the pallbearers, refusing to let him go...

Read more Mourners bid farewell


Source: smh.com/au

Mumbai Massacre: 'Put your hands up if you are British,'

India's financial capital, Mumbai, was rocked by a series of gun attacks and blasts last night that targeted luxury hotels and restaurants – and especially British and American visitors. At least 80 people were reported to have been killed and up to 250 injured....

Read more Mumbai Massacre


Source: belfast telegraph

President-elect starts taking on burdens of the job

His press conference on Monday, to be followed by one on Tuesday and another one on Wednesday, will triple the amount of time he has spent before the cameras since winning the election three weeks ago. His advisers determined that it was time for Obama to come forward and signal that he is taking ownership of the economic crisis...

Read more President-elect starts taking on burdens of the job


Source: the international herald

Some in Arab world suspicious of Clinton

There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving...

Read more Arabs distrust Clinton


Source: gulf news

Bush Rides Free Market

US preisdent George W. Bush, faced with a fast dwindling number of days in office, has been using his final world summit to try to keep a virulent economic crisis from triggering a retreat into protectionism.....

Read more Bush rides free market


Source: nzhereald.co.nz

Citi battles rumours of sale, merger

A day after it lost more than a quarter of its value, rumours were rife on Friday that Citigroup was considering a sellout (in parts or whole) or at least a merger...

Read more Citi battles rumours of sale, merger


Source: the times of india

Bush Shows Obama the Way

In a few weeks, Barack Obama will inherit the mantle of the capitalist system. What will he do with this responsibility? That's the question being asked everywhere...

Read moreBush Shows Obama the Way


Source:Lawrence Kudlow

With Japan in Recession, IMF Needs Money

Japan became the latest major economy to fall into recession on Monday with France close behind, and the IMF said it needed at least $100 billion to fight an economic crisis enveloping the world.

Read more Japan Now In Recession


Source: calgary herald

Autopilot: The Future if Detroit Falls

The failure of one or more of the Big Three automakers would put a huge initial dent in U.S. manufacturing, but in time, car companies from overseas would pick up the slack by stepping up production in their U.S. plants, many industry experts and economists say...

Read more No Future for Auto Workers if Detroit falls

Source: the international herald

Mexico Cartels Bring Drug Wars and Death To the U.S.

Oscar Reynoso was found by police in a home in suburban Atlanta. Authorities say cartel members had chained and tortured Reynoso over a $300,000 drug debt.

Last month federal authorities in Atlanta announced indictments against 41 people they said were trafficking drugs and laundering money for Mexican cartels. Among those netted in Operation Pay Cut were a former deputy sheriff from Texas who was stopped on a Georgia highway with nearly $1 million in cash in his pickup.

Read more Mexican Cartels Hit The Streets of The U.S.

PBS Discussion: Drug Cartels


Source: la times / pbs

The Door: Citigroup Job Cuts Will Top 100,000

We've run the numbers.

And even though Citigroup had announced 22, 000 job cuts back in October,and now another 53,000 - it is our numbers that tell us that their job losses will total more than 100,000.

Read today's headlines Another 53,000 Pink Slips for Citigroup


Source: yahoo news / cnn

'Hot' New Gadget From Japan

Back in April of this year, Graham Webster (formerly a journalist and consultant in Beijing, he follows the effects of technology on Chinese politics, the environment, and global affairs) made this new gadget discovery. Interesting find by the way...

Read more This is a new hot gadget from our friends in Japan


Source: graham webster

The Evolution of Consoles and Games

Just as personal computers have grown into multimedia environments capable of playing video and music, video games have come to include advanced 3-D graphics, high-quality music, and rich varieties of voices and sound effects...

Read more Evolution of Consoles and Games

Source: web japan

UPDATE: Jobless Claims Hit 25-year High

The number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose by an unexpectedly steep 32,000 last week to 516,000, the highest since the weeks following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Labor Department said.

Read more Jobless claims hit 25-year high, imports plunge


Source: reuters

Russian President Wants Better Relationship With Obama

Said Medvedev: "I hope... we'll be able to find a way out of these (difficult) situations, which we haven't been able to do with our current colleagues. The new president has a big reserve of good-will. He was elected during a very difficult period. I wish him success in dealing with what lies before him,"...

Read more Medvedev wants better relationship with Obama


Source: philadelphia daily news

Gloom May Deepen In Japan

Japan reported a sharp drop-off in wholesale inflation for October, with slowing demand for goods spurring fear that deflation stalks a global economy that as recently as mid-year was menaced by surging prices...

Read more Japan Prepares Funding for IMF as Gloom Deepens..


Source: cnbc

Farrakhan Compares Obama To Robert F. Kennedy

"The only politician with my knowledge that came close to having this effect on people was Senator Robert Kennedy in his bid to become president of the United States." rev. louis farrakhan

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Source: breitbart.tv

Outsourcing Crisis

Financial services companies, particularly banks, which got a fresh lease of life thanks to state intervention — direct infusion of capital or otherwise — could be pressured by their governments to bring back jobs outsourced to countries such as India.

Read more Outsourcing crisis


Source: the economic times

Obama To Use Executive Orders Immediately

President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas...

Read more Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact


Source: mnb news

BLOWOUT: Berkshire Hathaway Profit Falls 77%

Buffett, 78, is finding opportunity amid the turmoil, investing in nuclear power, chewing gum and Wall Street as results slump at Berkshire's insurance units and businesses tied to housing. He committed at least $28 billion this year to acquire companies, finance buyouts and purchase securities as prices fall and competitors are hobbled by limited access to credit.

Read more Berkshire Hathaway Profit Falls 77%


Source: bloomberg

Meet Rahmbo, the anti-Obama

Less beloved than respected, he's earned the nickname Rahmbo for his work on Capitol Hill and in the White House. Colleagues say he's prone to angry, profanity-filled outbursts.....

Read more Meet Rahmbo


Source: barrie mckenna / globeandmail.com

Hot SEO Idea For 2009' - EYE TRACKING

Better ways to prepare your website for SEO......

Read more Eye tracking studies have shown that searchers scan a search..

Florida Stops Gay Marriage

But results of more than 150 state measures across the nation showed a more complex cultural map than the easy election of Democrat Barack Obama as president might indicate, according to preliminary results.

Florida and Arizona banned same-sex marriage and Arkansas passed a measure that would stop homosexuals from adopting children, NBC projected....

Read more Abortion bans lose, Florida stops gay marriage


Source: yahoo! news

Barack Obama New U.S President

Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the nation's 44th president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country's highest office...

Read more Obama Wins Presidential Race


Source: la times / mark z. barabak