VIDEO: What action will be taken against Iran?

VIDEO: What action will be taken against Iran?


VIDEO: What action will be taken against Iran?

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:52 PM PST

EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels in the shadow of the crisis between Britain and Iran that has put further strain on relations with the Islamic state.


VIDEO: Skopje Holocaust museum inaugurated

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:52 PM PST

The Macedonian capital, Skopje, has recently inaugurated a new Holocaust Memorial museum - only the fourth in the world after Washington, Jerusalem and Berlin.


How The Mobile Web Changes The SEO Landscape

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:09 PM PST

Guest post written by Duncan Heath Duncan Heath is Senior SEO Engineer at Fresh Egg SEO, a leading UK-based SEO and web design company. The year 2000 may have seen the dot-com bubble reach the limits of its inflation, but at that point the Internet marketing industry was really only getting started. Rapid increases in ...


Long After The Floods Recede, Supply Chains Feel The Pain

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:49 PM PST

Guest post written by Jim Jim is president and general manager of D&B Supply Management Solutions, a unit of Dun & Bradstreet. 2011 is starting to feel like the year of unpredictability for global supply chains. Flooding in Thailand is just the latest event in a string of natural disasters, political turmoil and economic strife ...


Early Egypt election results favor Islamists

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:33 PM PST

Unofficial numbers suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood's political party won perhaps 40 per cent of votes.


Bomb blast kills 10, wounds 25 in Iraqi town (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:14 PM PST

A U.S. soldier prepares ammunition at Camp Echo in Diwaniya, 150 km (95 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, November 27, 2011. Camp Echo's dusty motorpools are empty, its private contract caterers have long gone home and murals depicting the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York's twin towers have been painted over. Picture taken November 27, 2011. To match story IRAQ-WITHDRAWAL/TROOPS    REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY)Reuters - A car bomb exploded in a street market in the Iraqi town of Khalis on Thursday, killing 10 people and wounding 25, police and hospital officials said.



New accuser in Penn State sex-abuse case

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:09 PM PST

Man alleges former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky abused him "over 100 times" in the 1990s.


Bomb blast kills 10, wounds 25 in Iraqi town

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:14 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a street market in the Iraqi town of Khalis on Thursday, killing 10 people and wounding 25, police and hospital officials said.


Egypt awaits election results

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:51 PM PST

Initial results of Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak are due as early as Thursday.


Clinton to meet Suu Kyi in Myanmar

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 07:58 PM PST

A day after announcing her intention to run for Parliament, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi planned Thursday for her first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


Republicans Top Democrats On Yahoo! Search; Palin Beats Obama?

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:32 PM PST

Yahoo! lists Sarah Palin as the leading political figure searched for in 2011, surpassing that of President Barack Obama. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the bottom of the barrel.


German secure.me offers parents more control over children's Facebook accounts (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:38 PM PST

Digital Trends - A German online reputation and privacy management company, secure.me, set its sights on a global market today, announcing it will be launching in ten different languages. The company markets towards parents who want to monitor the online shenanigans of their children, as well as those who fear the social networking site they use could become an Achilles’ heel for their professional repute.


Oil rises to near $101 amid global stocks rally (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:36 PM PST

A group of demonstrators rally against the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline outside President Barack Obama's fundraiser at the W Hotel in San Francisco, California October 25, 2011. REUTERS/Stephen LamAP - Oil prices edged higher to near $101 a barrel Thursday in Asia amid a surge in global equities after the central banks of most of the world's biggest economies pledged to lower borrowing costs.



NZ engineers found building safe before collapse (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2011 file photo, recovery workers inspect the earthquake-damaged Pyne Gould Corporation building in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two engineers this week testified about their inspections of the Pyne Gould building at an ongoing government probe into building failure during the Feb. 22 Christchurch earthquake, which killed 182 people. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)AP - Engineers inspected and declared a New Zealand office building safe five times in the months before it collapsed and killed 18 people in an earthquake earlier this year, according to testimony at a government probe.



Mexico unearths drug tunnel under US border

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:36 PM PST

US officials say 32 tonnes of marijuana seized in what is the second such operation in the same area this month.


iPhone Ends 2011 As Web's Top Search Item

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:07 PM PST

To fans it comes as no surprise.?? The iPhone was the leading gadget punched into the ! search engine in 2011, ! said on Wednesday.?? Not only was it the top consumer item searched for, it was the time item overall, beating out the tragic Japanese earthquake and even Kim Kardashian.?? ! web trends specialist ...


Top 10 Internet Obsessions Of 2011

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:06 PM PST

Yahoo! released its Top 10 search items for the year on Dec. 1. Here's a look at what drove Americans wild on line in 2011, from one hit wonders discovered on YouTube, to government shutdowns.


VIDEO: Anil Kapoor: Bollywood to Hollywood

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 05:42 PM PST

For many Indian actors making the move from Bollywood to Hollywood has been fraught with difficulty as Talking Movies' Tom Brook reports.


Famous writers petition against Mexico silver mine (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:03 PM PST

AP - More than 150 internationally known writers and artists are urging Mexican President Felipe Calderon to cancel mining concessions in an area of northern Mexico considered sacred ground by the Huichol Indians.


International pressure mounts on Syria

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 09:19 PM PST

EU expected to widen sanctions as the world's largest Islamic body calls on Syria to "stop using excessive force".