Reuters: Google launched a new tool on Tuesday that will help U.S. federal health experts track the annual flu epidemic. Google Flu Trends uses search terms that people put into the Web-based search engine to figure out where influenza is
Embedded video from CNN Video Reuters: Iran said it test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface missile on Wednesday and that the Islamic Republic was ready to defend itself against any attacker.
Reuters: Three-quarters of Pal Town’s homes are covered by solar panels, which are distributed for free and have become one of the main draw-cards for residents keen to minimize their power bills.
Reuters: The world’s fourth largest economy, China, plans to spend nearly $600 billion to boost demand in the face of the global slowdown. The official Xinhua news agency said investments will be targeted at infrastructure, social welfare and other key
Reuters political reporter Jon Decker had finished an interview with MSNBC around 10:30 a.m. when he saw Barney and his handler. After getting permission to pet the dog, Decker said Barney snapped and chomped down on his right index finger
Reuters: Asian shares tumbled as auto giant Toyota cut its profit forecast, while the euro and sterling fell on expectations of pending rate moves.
Embedded video from CNN Video Reuters: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s black labrador dog, Koni, Friday was given a collar that will allow her master to track her movements by satellite.
Embedded video from CNN Video Reuters: Angry Senegalese fans attacked the country’s soccer federation headquarters on Saturday, smashing windows, after the national team was eliminated from qualifying for the 2010 World Cup by drawing 1-1 with Gambia.
Reuters: Nokia unveiled on its first touch-screen phone, priced well below Apple’s iPhone model, as the world’s top mobile phone maker hopes to tap consumers for whom the iPhone has been too expensive.
Reuters: The two men were arrested by police on a KLM aeroplane at Cologne airport in western Germany shortly before take-off. The men are suspected Islamic militants and are suspected of planning to take part in terrorist attacks. A police
Reuters: China’s third manned spaced mission ascends 343 kilometres above the earth, entering its final orbit. Astronauts on board the Shenzhou VII craft, meaning ‘sacred vessel’, are preparing for their most challenging mission, to carry out their first spacewalk.
Reuters: TMZ said rap star Kanye West rushed at a photographer and grabbed his camera. A struggle followed and West took the camera and threw it to the ground.
Reuters: US Secretary of State Rice makes a landmark trip to Libya, the first by a U.S. Secretary of State in more than half a century The State Department said Rice’s trip is a tangible sign of warming U.S.-Libya relations,
Reuters: Georgian hopes for European action against Russia are dashed, despite a strongly worded statement. European Union heavyweights France and Italy insisted on the bloc should not take steps to isolate Russia, hours before an emergency summit issued a tough
Reuters: Palaeontologists in Poland have discovered the fossilised remains of a dinosaur believed to be a previously unknown ancestor of Tyrannosaurus Rex. The predator dinosaur, given the working name “Dragon”, lived around 200 million years ago.
Reuters: An eccentric British millionaire has put his entire life up for sale on the Internet — including his title of Lord of the Manor of Warleigh — in the hope of converting his assets into cash.
Reuters: Eventually, the chimp is lured with a banana and then sedated. It is thought the chimp was trying to find shelter from the sweltering heat that Japan has been having. Temperatures reached 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
Reuters: American performance artist Brian Berg, who holds a Guinness World Record for stacking cards, is using some 140,000 playing cards to create the “Bird’s Nest” national stadium, the “Water Cube” aquatics centre and a 3.2-metre (10-foot) version of the
Reuters: Uday and his younger brother, Qusay, were both killed in a gunbattle with U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2003, a few months after the invasion of Iraq.
Reuters: Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service and its deep-pocketed parent, Google.
Reuters: An Illinois man suspected in a killing spree in which eight people, ranging from a 2-year-old boy to a 93-year-old man, were beaten or hacked to death was captured by police outside a bar.
Reuters: US President Bush won backing from Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown for tougher sanctions on Iran Iran has ignored calls to stop enriching uranium, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons, and says its nuclear energy
Reuters: Japan’s No.2 automaker is looking to win points with canine fans using a website that offers information on dog-friendly cafes and hotels, dimensions for its cars’ cargo space for stashing cages, a rating system that ranks seat fabric for
Reuters: McDonald’s has switched to cooking oils free of trans fats in all of its restaurants in the United States and Canada.
Reuters: Ex-Soviet Georgia has accused a Russian air force jet of shooting down an unmanned Georgian reconnaissance drone over Georgian territory.
