The government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is planning to meet the Taliban in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to jump-start peace talks, the BBC learns.
Syria's army moves to reassert control in rebellious suburbs of Damascus in the worst fighting around the capital in the 10-month uprising, activists say.
Iraq's opposition Iraqiyya bloc ends a boycott of parliament begun last month over an arrest warrant issued for the country's most senior Sunni politician.
Google rolled out a new version of its Google Earth software, replacing the patchy, quilt-like mapping graphics with smoother, more cohesive graphics. The new update is available on both the mobile and desktop versions of Google Earth, which you can download on the official page. Comments
Yesterday the news was all about the new features in Firefox 12 that were to be released to the Aurora channel at the end of the month. Yesterday evening the announcements were updated to inform users that the Home Tab and the New Tab features will probably not be released with Firefox 12, but will make it into version 13 to be released in May. Yet another s […]
At last the real reason Kim Dotcom was arrested becomes apparent. It had nothing to do with Megaupload's copyright infringement; it was all about his standing in Call of Duty 3. Since he has been incarcerated without bail, he has lost his standing as the #1 player in the world. If you can't beat 'em fair and square, have 'em locked up. Ir […]
I don't know if DigSin is just swimming against the current, rocking the boat or actually being a trend setter for the future of music downloads, but it's a great concept. Getting the majority of the music industry to come on board is a bit of a stretch, but if the model did ever gain traction, it would sure solve the pirating problem. But could th […]
This will rate a 10 on the Weird Stuff-o-Meter in many gamers minds. The upcoming release of Street Fighter X Tekken, due out on March 6th has a surprise guest character in the form of (drumroll please) Pac-Man. I wonder if Ms. Pac-Man knows he's out crusin' the streets and pickin' fights? But we'd have to say bringing Pac-Man into the st […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Even the usually dour Bill Belichick was joking around as the New England Patriots arrived in Indianapolis for Super Bowl week....
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Novak Djokovic ripped off his shirt and let out a primal scream, flexing his torso the way a prize fighter would after a desperate, last-round knockout....
MIAMI (AP) -- LeBron James scored 35 points, while reigning NBA MVP Derrick Rose wasted two chances in the final 23 seconds and the Miami Heat escaped with a 97-93 win Sunday over the Chicago Bulls....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut guard Ryan Boatright says he just wants to concentrate on basketball while his mother considers legal action in the wake of an NCAA news release detailing an investigation into the freshman's eligibility....
When Mitt Romney vigorously defended Massachusetts' decision to require that nearly every resident either have health insurance or pay a tax penalty Thursday night, some said it was the best support of the individual mandate made by any candidate so far this election cycle.
The federal health law requires that insurers spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenues on health care. Some consumers will now be eligible for rebates.
Correcting overpayments in the Medicare Advantage program could save the federal government billions of dollars, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
States are grappling with mental health issues including a redesign of a program in Iowa, increased coverage for the mentally ill in California and a first aid pilot program in Pennsylvania.
The American Medical Association opposes implementation of the coding system known as ICD-10, saying it would require physician offices to deal with an estimated 68,000 insurance codes -- five times more than the current 13,000.
Recently, OnMilwaukee.com tracked down a few local folks who made major career changes at the age of 40 or older. Their stories are definitely courageous and, hopefully, inspiring.
The OnMilwaukee.com editors and contributors share what's on their "Milwaukee bucket lists," from playing with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra to getting up close and personal with the Polish Moon.
Milwaukee rapper SPEAK Easy has had his ups and downs during his career on the scene. The blue-collar emcee has never been one to complain and instead has always been the one to pull himself up by the boot straps out of his love for music, which has led him to being a positive spirit in the Milwaukee hip-hop community - and the Milwaukee community in general […]
Need a new way to get your butt in gear, a sweet sake to warm up your winter months or a new story for the little ones? Check out this week's OnMilwaukee.com Recommends for more.
As parents, it's pretty nice when our kids teach us a lesson or "show us how it's done." At a time when much political debate in Wisconsin and nationally seems intensely partisan, personal and petty, more reasoned and rational political discussion comes from a local group of high school students who annually take part in a national civic […]
A school teacher in the tribal Betul district asked students to fetch liquor for him and then caned the girls, forcing them to dance in a closed classroom.
The next time you drape a sari, you might want to re-tie that knot. The report said that sari petticoat, if tied in the same place day after day, can cause irritation.
In a move aimed to protect victims of sexual abuse from further mental trauma, a high powered government committee has recommended abolishing the “two finger test” for determining rape or sexual assault.
The 22nd anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was commemorated in the capital of Russia on 10th December...
"A more open, free and democratic China is of great importance for Asia and the world as a whole", said the Prague Declaration signed by the six speakers of the Democracy and Human Rights in Asia: One Year after an Empty Chair in Oslo yesterday...
On 10 December 2011, International Human Rights Day, Tibetans from various Australian cities converged in Canberra, the Australian national capital, to draw attention to the situation in Tibet ...
The meeting of two old friends, a spiritual leader and a playwright took place today in Prague on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights day. His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited his old friend former President Václav Havel ...
Raw video footage showing Chinese police, SWAT teams and paramilitary troops conducting household raids in Dogde township in March 2008. This footage was smuggled out of Tibet ...
American forces seize control of the Caribbean island of Grenada less than a week after a left-wing coup in which the prime minister, Maurice Bishop, was killed.
You’re on the way to a meeting. Traffic seems to be slowing. A text comes in: “You’re going to be late. Take the next exit for alternate route.” It’s from Google. [More]
The moon of today is a static orb with little to no internal activity; for all intents and purposes it appears to be a dead, dusty pebble of a world. But billions of years ago the moon may have been a place of far more dynamism--literally. [More]
The color of a candidate’s skin failed to sway voters to depress the lever for either Obama or McCain in the 2008 election, immediate analyses of that contest seemed to suggest. Some pundits hailed it as the first postracial election. [More]
Children living near DuPont’s plant in West Virginia are exposed to much higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers, according to a newly published study. [More]
Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada , fresh supplies of petroleum are only just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil plateau--roughly 75 million barrels of oil produced each and every […]
Free Download Manager? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
Newt Gingrich forged ahead in an increasingly negative battle with Mitt Romney, even as polls showed Mr. Romney surging in Florida with only 48 hours left before primary day.
In the hours after Mitt Romney’s double-digit loss to Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, the Romney team hatched a two-part plan to win in Florida: make Newt mad and Mitt meaner.
The median price of first grade has gone up by 48 percent over 10 years, and parents at three schools are waiting to find out whether they will be joining the $40,000-a-year club.
Source code theft from Symantec?s systems in 2006 places pcAnywhere software at risk of being attacked. Company says software is bundled with many of its products.
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on ways to save $1 a day, family-friendly Super Bowl parties, and cheap things that make life easier. Top 5 Articles 18 Way To Save (At Least) $1 A Day — Save at least $1 a day by finding free WiFi. [SavvySugar] 7 Excellent Ideas for a Family-Friendly Super Bowl Pa […]
NirLauncher is a package of more than 100 portable freeware utilities for Windows, all of them developed for NirSoft Web site during the last few years. [License: Freeware| Requires: Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7 | Size: 12 MB]
XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let's you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in Windows XP. This utility was successfully tested by lots of users, and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in Windows XP. [License: Freeware| Requires: Win XP/Vista | Size: 397 KB]
If you like to listen to free Internet Radio, Online Radio or Web Radio, then the Online Radio Tuner is the perfect tool for you It will play and record your favorite radio stations and display the album art of the artist (if available). It's the ultimate tool to record radio. [License: Shareware $39.95| Requires: Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7 | Size: 424 K […]
Tweaking.com - Windows Repair is an all-in-one repair tool to help fix a large majority of known Windows problems including registry errors and file permissions as well as issues with Internet Explorer, Windows Update, Windows [License: Freeware| Requires: Win7/Vista/XP | Size: 3.29 MB]
Tweaking.com - Windows Repair is an all-in-one repair tool to help fix a large majority of known Windows problems including registry errors and file permissions as well as issues with Internet Explorer, Windows Update, Windows [License: Freeware| Requires: Win7/Vista/XP | Size: 770 KB]
Tweaking.com - Simple Performance Boost is designed to bring only the safest tweaks to your system to increase speed and stability. [License: Freeware| Requires: Win7/Vista/XP | Size: 2.64 MB]
Tweaking.com - Simple Performance Boost is designed to bring only the safest tweaks to your system to increase speed and stability. [License: Freeware| Requires: Win7/Vista/XP | Size: 1.07 MB]