Names You Need To Know: 2D Glasses

Names You Need To Know: 2D Glasses


Names You Need To Know: 2D Glasses

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:54 PM PDT

Inventor Hank Green has developed glasses that turn 3-D movies into 2-D images.


VIDEO: Obama 'watched' raid on satellite video link

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:34 PM PDT

New pictures, show President Obama and his team following a live video link up, monitoring developments second by second.


Searchers find second Air France crash black box (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Search parties scouring the sea bed off Brazil's northeast coast have recovered the second of two flight recorders from the Air France aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, investigators said on Tuesday.


Sony hit by second security breach

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:15 PM PDT

Data of 25 million users of PC games stolen after electronics giant's PlayStation network was hacked.


Thai-Cambodia border clashes claim life

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:30 PM PDT

Thai soldier killed and several others wounded in continuing clashes over disputed temples on the border.


Gbagbo calls for peace in Ivory Coast

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:05 PM PDT

Former president calls on his supporters to drop political quarrels and help the country revive its economy.


Searchers find second Air France crash black box

Posted: 02 May 2011 11:16 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Search parties scouring the sea bed off Brazil's northeast coast have recovered the second of two flight recorders from the Air France aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, investigators said on Tuesday.


Meet The 'Endangered' Critter That Could Halt A Fifth Of America's Oil Production

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:06 PM PDT

Hopefully we won't have to give up the Texas oil industry to protect some lizards.


Al-Qaeda's Big Post-Bin Laden Cash Crunch (Time.com)

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Even before the terrorist network's charismatic leader was killed, al-Qaeda was practically pleading for cash from its once avid supporters.


Swiss identify nearly $1 billion assets to freeze (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:10 PM PDT

AP - The Swiss government says it has identified potential assets to be frozen worth 830 million Swiss francs ($957 million) belonging to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi and the ousted presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.


Asian stocks lower as bin Laden euphoria fades (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:12 PM PDT

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)AP - Most Asian stock markets fell Tuesday as euphoria faded over news the day before of the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and investors turned their attention back to earnings and economic reports.



Swiss Authorities Report Seizing Funds From Mubarak, Gaddafi

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:35 PM PDT

Swiss authorities have revealed the discovery of potentially illegal funds belonging to former Egypt


Bin Laden killing will embarrass authorities: Pakistani media (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Pakistani media on Tuesday said the killing of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in a U.S. commando raid would heap embarrassment on authorities hard pressed to explain how he had been able to live in the country undetected for years.


China police detain seven over deadly hotel fire (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:41 PM PDT

Chinese investigators scour a burnt-out hotel operated by Chinese budget chain Home Inns in Tonghua, an industrial city close to the North Korean border. Police have detained seven people suspected of deliberately starting the fire that killed 10 people and injured 35, the government and state media have said.(AFP/File)AFP - Police in northeastern China have detained seven people suspected of deliberately starting a weekend fire in a hotel that killed 10 people and injured 35, the government and state media said Tuesday.



Special report: In China the big nuclear question is "how soon"?

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:48 PM PDT

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - The congenial Professor Duan Xuru doesn't look like a stereotypical mad scientist as he shows guests into a cluttered laboratory filled with canisters, vacuum pumps and patched-up pipes tied together with spirals of blue wire and rubber tubing.


Bin Laden killing will embarrass authorities: Pakistani media

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:36 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani media on Tuesday said the killing of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in a U.S. commando raid would heap embarrassment on authorities hard pressed to explain how he had been able to live in the country undetected for years.


U.S. commandos knew bin Laden likely would die (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2011 08:47 PM PDT

A news ticker displays information on al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death in Pakistan as people attend a spontaneous celebration in New York's Times Square, May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Chip EastReuters - U.S. special forces set out to kill Osama bin Laden and dump his body in the sea to make it harder for the al Qaeda founder to become a martyr, U.S. national security officials told Reuters on Monday.



Investigators recover second Air France black box (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:29 PM PDT

The Remora 6000 submarine discovers an Air France Flight Data Recorder (FDR) from the plane that crashed in June 2009 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.(AFP/BEA/ECPAD/Johann Peschel)AFP - Search teams have retrieved the second black box flight recorder of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 en route from Rio to Paris, killing 228 people, French investigators said Tuesday.



Sacked bishop accuses Vatican of authoritarianism (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:19 PM PDT

William Morris (foreground), who has been the Catholic Bishop of the vast Queensland diocese of Toowoomba since 1993. Morris was forced to resign over a row related to his comments on women priests and other liberal reforms, saying that Pope Benedict XVI thought it best he be replaced.(AFP/Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba)AFP - An Australian bishop who said he was forced to resign after a dispute with the Vatican on Tuesday accused the Catholic Church of "creeping authoritarianism".



New Zealand's largest city hit by tornado (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:33 PM PDT

AP - A tornado ripped across part of New Zealand's largest city on Tuesday, upturning cars and sending debris slicing through the air, witnesses and news reports said. At least one person was killed and about 20 injured, a hospital official said.