Jul 13 2010
The Swiss government’s decision Monday, July 12, to decline a U.S. request to extradite Roman Polanski has ended a 10-month legal battle between the fugitive Franco-Polish filmmaker and American justice officials. But it’s unlikely to end...
Jul 13 2010
* * * 0diggsdigg The Swiss government’s decision Monday, July 12, to decline a U.S. request to extradite Roman Polanski has ended a 10-month legal battle between the fugitive Franco-Polish filmmaker and American justice officials. But...
Jul 23 2009
Previously the satellite phones were huge suitcase size devices however with the advent of latest technology, the size of the devices have reduced considerably. You may now experience a VoIP call over a satellite network, Elektrobit a Finnish...
Feb 16 2009
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s economy shrank at an annual 12.7 percent pace last quarter, the most since the 1974 oil shock, as recessions in the U.S. and Europe triggered a record drop in exports. Gross domestic product fell for a third...
Feb 16 2009
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — India’s budget deficit may be almost double next year’s planned target as the government steps up spending to protect the economy from the global recession ahead of elections in two months. Spending will rise 6 percent...
Feb 16 2009
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The sounds of the last desperate minutes in the cockpit aboard Flight 3407 could be clues to the cause of a crash that came violently and suddenly, with the doomed plane dropping steeply and pitching and rolling like a...
Jan 3 2009
Before meeting with Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of a consumer gene-testing service called 23andMe, I know just three things about her: she’s pregnant, she’s married to Google’s Sergey Brin, and she went to Yale. But after an hour...
Sep 23 2008
Congratulations! Now brace yourself for an avalanche of advice — from the 21 people in your Cabinet, from dozens of advisory councils, hundreds of members of Congress,