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Mar 7th, 2012
Apple unveiled its much-anticipated third-generation iPad with a bunch of new features in San Francisco on Wednesday.
The new iPad comes with a high-definition screen with the resolution of the display was 2,048 by 1,536 pixels, driven by faster processing chip powered by a new A5X chip with improved graphics performance.
Tim Cook, the chief executive of the company claimed to have redefined once again the category Apple created. Â The new iPad also features a 5MP camera sensor and will be able to run on 4G LTE networks where the service is available and also act as a Wi-Fi hotspot for other devices if carriers allow the function.
Mar 7th, 2012
French media reported that the founder of the French breast implant company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) at the heart of a global health scare has been jailed after failing to pay his bail.
The 72-year old PIP boss Jean-Claude Mas, was released on $131,000 bail in January 2012, facing a charge of involuntary injury.
French breast implant company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) was shut down in 2010 after its product was found to have used industrial-grade silicone gel.
According to reports, more than 400,000 women in more than 60 countries are thought to have had the implants.
In France, the government has advised 30,000 Frenc
Mar 7th, 2012
A new poll results showed that a majority of US people back the President Barack Obama’s decision to apologize for US troops burning copies of the Muslims’ Holy Book Quran in Afghanistan.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos survey showed that 56% of those surveyed agreed with the Obama’s decision to apologize, while only 23% disagreed with the president’s decision of apology.
Reports showed that the support for the Obama’s decision of apology was more split by partisanship; however, just 37% of GOP voters backed the decision, as compared to 53% of independents and 76% of Democrats.
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum
Mar 6th, 2012
The United Nation said on Tuesday, the world’s nations achieved a UN goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water five years ahead of the 2015.
The UNICEF (United Nation Children’s Fund) and the WHO (World Health Organization) released a report saying that during the period between 1990 and 2010, two billion people had achieved access to improved water, through tools like water pipes and protected wells.
Agencies said that the 2 billion figures mean that one of the first Millennium Development Goals to be met.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General hailed the achievement of the clea
Mar 6th, 2012
The latest statement released by the White House, Tuesday’s media news conference is not timed to shift the world’s media attention away from the Super Tuesday’s 10 Republican primaries.
The White House said that the news conference is set for 1315 EST in the Brady Press Briefing Room and Obama’s is first formal news conference since last year.
Most of the US media questioned the timings of the news conference, coming on the biggest day, Super Tuesday, yet in the Republican presidential campaign, ten US states hold caucuses and primaries with more than 400 delegates at stake, or more than a third of the total a contender
Mar 6th, 2012
Police said that dozens of angry protestors were arrested at the California Capitol in Sacramento late Monday during a protest over hikes and budget cuts at California’s public universities.
Authorities said that hundreds of students and many other people marched on the statehouse and rallied outside the Capitol before many of the activists moved the demonstration inside the building, blockage hallways in and around the rotunda.
Local media reported that the one group chanted slogans “no cuts, no fees, education must be free”, as they sat crossed-legged on the black-and-white tiled floor of the statehouse.
The California
Mar 6th, 2012
Australian authorities said today that floods across eastern region of the country forced more than 13,500 people to leave their homes after record-high summer rains drenched three states over the past week, swelling rivers and forcing local dams to run over.
Emergency authorities said that nearly 9,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in the inland city of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
Mark Murdoch, State Emergency Service Assistant Commissioner said that if the levee is breached, they would expect major flood and they would expect that to happen very quickly and impossible to handle.
Australian media reported th
Mar 5th, 2012
On Monday, the White House announced that the President of the United States Barack Obama will host leaders of the G8 (Group of Eight) club of the world’s largest economies this year on May 18-19 at his Camp David compound retreat instead of in his hometown of Chicago.
The White House said that in the month of May, the United States also looks forward to hosting the NATO summit on May 20-21 in Chicago for shaping up as crucial to plans to transition international forces out of Afghanistan.
The House said that to make easy a free-flowing discussion with US close G-8 partners, Obama is inviting G-8 leaders to Camp David on May 18
Mar 5th, 2012
Judge Napolitano gave testimony of Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve-insider Timothy Geither’s arrest in a 4-minute corporate news show. American Kabuki listed the bank resignations that are increasing daily. David Wilcock and Benjamin Fulford gave an explanation and document history and deceit at the top of US and global finance, that lead to current and imminent arrests.
Anyone with intellectual integrity and moral courage can give affirmation that the Federal Reserve system is guilty of financial fraud at its core. The “emperor has no clothes” reason is the lie in omission and commission with a fiduciary responsibility: the
Mar 5th, 2012
On Monday, a group of gunmen killed 27 Iraqi police officers in early morning shooting at checkpoints in the western Iraqi city of Haditha.
According to police source, who had been carrying the victims to a hospital morgue, told that three other policemen had been wounded and one of the gunmen also died.
Local media said that the facility of the Haditha hospital had received 27 bodies of slain victims, and three wounded policemen were being treated.
It is reported that the killings started with the gang kidnapping two police officials from their homes in the western Iraqi city of Haditha pre dawn and it ended with the gang rai
