NEW YORK – The much-anticipated iPad tablet computer from Apple Inc. will start hitting U.S. store shelves on April 3, slightly later than originally planned. When Apple unveiled the touch-screen device Jan. 27, the company said the first iPads would reach the market in “late March” worldwide, not just in the U.S. Now international releases are planned for [...]
The total price tag: about $44 million — or roughly 10,000 years’ worth of salary for the average citizen of Azerbaijan. But the preteen who owns a big chunk of some of Dubai’s priciest real estate seems to be anything but average. His name, according to Dubai Land Department records, is Heydar Aliyev, which just [...]
Hidden in the Redlands is a picturesque French styled house that sits in the middle of a lush garden. The Kimberly Crest House, originally built by Mrs. Cornelia A. Hill 1897, was home to the Kimberly family, the founders of Kleenex. The house itself is 7,000 square feet with three stories and located on a [...]
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to [...]
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm. Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning had been holding up action for days but conceded after pressure intensified [...]
THE 2010 CENSUS The 2010 Census is a count of everyone living in the United States and is mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Census data are used to apportion congressional seats to states, to distribute more than $400 billion in federal funds to tribal, state and local governments each year and to make decisions about [...]
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Authorities removed a statue of Barack Obama from a park in the Indonesian capital due to a public backlash and moved it Monday to a nearby elementary school that the U.S. president attended as a child. The bronze statue, inspired by a childhood photograph of a 10-year-old Obama in shorts with a [...]
The first suspect to be tried in connection with the 2009 twin hotel bombings in Jakarta appeared in court on Wednesday, with Amir Abdillah sensationally admitting outside the courthouse that he had also plotted to kill the president. An Islamic militant and suspected driver for slain terrorist leader Noordin M Top, Amir, 34, faces multiple [...]
Despite the Canadian talk of “Own The Podium” and Russia’s bold prediction that they would win 40 medals, the overall medal count was won by a less likely candidate: the United States. With Saturday’s gold-medal win in the bobsled, the United States has 36 medals; 9 gold, 14 silver and 13 bronze. This breaks the [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia —Apolo Anton Ohno threw up his arms in a what-can-I-do gesture and smiled. The American short track speedskater had just been disqualified in the 500 meters, but he wasn’t leaving the Vancouver Olympics empty-handed Friday night. Ohno returned later and anchored the United States to a bronze-medal finish in the chaotic 5,000 [...]
