VIDEO: RAF Apache prize for Captain Wales

VIDEO: RAF Apache prize for Captain Wales

VIDEO: RAF Apache prize for Captain Wales

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:49 PM PST

Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot after 18 months of rigorous training in the UK and the US, the Ministry of Defence has said.


VIDEO: Protests in Maldives turn violent

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:13 PM PST

Security forces in the Maldives have used batons and fired teargas to break up a rally in the capital, Male, in support of the former president, Mohamed Nasheed.


EU asks India to pressure Iran over nuclear program: report (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:42 PM PST

Reuters - The European Union will ask for India's help in convincing Iran to abandon its nuclear program and return to the negotiating table, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.


Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:48 PM PST

People watch ruins on the outskirts of Amecameca, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Residents set up a protest camp and filed complaints with state and federal officials, demanding a highway under construction be rerouted after pre-Hispanic ruins were detected during works January 2012, hoping that studies of the site can help solve an age-old riddle about their town. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.

Post-IPO Facebook: Television's Newest Frenemy

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:51 PM PST

A lot of people have been assuming is the most likely candidate to suffer at the hands of Facebook?s ascendant advertising business. It?s a belief underscored by ?s own Facebook fixation, as the search giant desperately tries to make Google+ a success. Long-term, that may be true, especially as extends more beyond search advertising into ...


VIDEO: People inside Homs 'feel trapped'

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:05 PM PST

Syrian opposition groups say the city of Homs has come under the heaviest shelling in days, despite the president's pledge to engage in dialogue.


EU asks India to pressure Iran over nuclear program: report

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:42 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The European Union will ask for India's help in convincing Iran to abandon its nuclear program and return to the negotiating table, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.

India tea exports to Iran facing payment hurdle: official (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:31 PM PST

Reuters - Payments for Indian tea exports to Iran are facing problems, India's trade secretary said on Thursday, the latest snag in trade between the two countries that is under mounting pressure from a new wave of Western sanctions against Tehran.


Lenovo 3Q profit up by half, warns of disk supply (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:35 PM PST

AP - Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's second biggest personal computer maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit grew by more than half but warned hard drive costs would remain high amid a global shortage.


India tea exports to Iran facing payment hurdle: official

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:31 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Payments for Indian tea exports to Iran are facing problems, India's trade secretary said on Thursday, the latest snag in trade between the two countries that is under mounting pressure from a new wave of Western sanctions against Tehran.

China, U.S. clash on Syria, other global issues ahead of Xi Jinping visit

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:05 PM PST

BEIJING — On the eve of Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping's official visit to Washington, the country's vice foreign minister in charge of U.S. affairs said the two countries now suffered from a "trust deficit" that the trip might help resolve.

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Alibaba.com Trading Halted In Hong Kong; Yahoo Deal Near?

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:10 PM PST

Alibaba.com has asked the Hong Kong stock exchange to halt trading in the company?s shares, apparently over rumors involving parent Alibaba Group and the possibility it will buy back the 40% stake in the company held by Yahoo. Actually, the statement Alibaba.com made to the exchange said that it requested the halt ?pending clarification of ...


Ahmadinejad seeks rebound in Iranian elections (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:35 PM PST

Iranian lawmakers sit in an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Allies of embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have turned from Tehran and other big cities â€AP - There's a Persian saying used to describe an under-the-radar political effort: "Driving at night with the lights off." Allies of embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be doing just that as they campaign in Iran's hinterlands in hopes of scoring a comeback in next month's parliamentary elections.

Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:17 PM PST

AP - Mexico's army says its troops seized 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco.


Red tape, corruption pull rug from under Afghan carpet business (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:49 PM PST

Reuters - At a small shop a stone's throw from the Ghazi Stadium where Afghanistan's former Taliban government used to stage its public executions, Mohammad Hashem is worried about the death of his carpet business.


Dozens confirmed dead in Caribbean sinking

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:48 PM PST

Hopes fade for further survivors from capsized boat carrying migrants from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.


The Empowered Employee is Coming; Is The World Ready?

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:29 PM PST

Guest post written by??John Hagel, Suketu Gandhi and Giovanni Rodriguez John Hagel is co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. Suketu Gandhi is a principal with Deloitte Consulting. Giovanni Rodriguez is a senior member of the Deloitte social-technology team, and a blogger for Forbes. In November 1993 - as the nation was just about ...


BranchOut Reaches 300 Million Profiles And 10 Million Users

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:11 PM PST

BranchOut, the LinkedIn for Facebook, has 300 million profiles, more than LinkedIn, but still has fewer actual registered users than LinkedIn.


Activision To Publish Battleship Game Based On The Movie That's Sort Of Based On The Board Game

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:03 PM PST

So I don?t know about you but I?ve played the old Battleship board game. You youngsters may not have seen it before, but if I recall correctly, it looked more like this: And less like this: See, I always thought that Battleship was a strategy game about naval warfare, but it turns out it?s actually ...


3-Year Freedom Investing Returns

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:03 PM PST

In Freedom Investing 2012 I analyzed the latest Index of Economic Freedom from The Heritage Foundation. Here I present some of the analysis for returns over the past 3-years. I took 17 of the developed countries with the largest investable markets and compared their current economic freedom score with their returns over the past 1, ...


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