China calls for rich country help on climate change - Reuters

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

China calls for rich country help on climate change - Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Addressing climate change head-on is in China’s best interests, but it needs developed countries to do their fair share, President Hu Jintao said in a speech reported by the Xinhua news agency on Saturday. Hu called on developed
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Entertainment News from AP - WLNS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Jurors serving in trials for murder and other violent crimes can often suffer from stress and depression after trials end, and some jurisdictions around the country have begun to offer services like counseling to help. Experts
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Body found in search for teenager - BBC UK News
Det Con Insp Steve Strong, of Norfolk Police, said: “I am as satisfied as I can be at this stage that the body we have located in Mautby is that of Simon Everitt. The family have been notified of the discovery.” The teenager’s bicycle was found at
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Gamestop: We stopped selling Zunes - ZDNet Blogs

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Gamestop: We stopped selling Zunes - ZDNet Blogs
Video game retailer Gamestop has ditched Microsoft’s Zune. The news emerged on Gamestop’s earnings conference call when executives were asked why its operating margins were crimped. Gamestop’s operating margins fell to 26.1 percent from 27.2
Source: blogs.zdnet.com

China, Russia condemn US missile defense - Salon
May 23rd, 2008 | BEIJING — The presidents of China and Russia have condemned a U.S. plan for a global missile defense system. Chinese President Hu Jintao and new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev say in a joint statement that the plan “does not help
Source: www.salon.com

Thinking the unthinkable: Who follows Ted Kennedy? - Newsday
WASHINGTON - People in Massachusetts suddenly are thinking the unthinkable: Who possibly could succeed Sen. Edward Kennedy , patriarch of the famed political family that has dominated the state for more than four decades? The news about Kennedy’s
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CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet - Los Angeles Times

Friday, May 16th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet - Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in its latest bid to expand its reach on the Internet, the companies announced Thursday. The price
Source: www.latimes.com

Official: CPC and Hu welcome visit of KMT chairman - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) — The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and its General Secretary Hu Jintao welcome and invite Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung to visit the mainland, an official said Saturday. “The Taiwan
Source: news.xinhuanet.com

Obama’s ’sweetie’ is a pickle - Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK - Welcome to “Sweetie-gate,” a place paved with eggshells, where terms of endearment turn into political peccadilloes at the drop of a diminutive. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois found himself in just such a place this week when the Democratic
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