2 Million iPads Sold: Apple Inc.

On Monday, Apple Inc announced that the iPad sales since its launch two months ago have topped 2 million. The California based company initiated its global launch on Friday around Asia and Europe. Sales around the U.S. of the tablet touchscreen computer took place from April 3. Although the company has not given a breakdown [...]

iPad mania spreads around the globe as thousands get ready for international launch

Thousands of Apple fans and onlookers of the new iPad waited in lines outside shops in Europe and Asia as the table computer released in stores and began its global launch. Outside shops in Australia and Japan, long queues of customers waited hours before the shops opened. Masses of people waited outside stores in six [...]

Lines form for the new iPad hitting stores in UK

With the release of the new touchscreen tablet computer from the Apple Inc. – the iPad- releasing in the UK on Friday, lines formed outside stores as shoppers tried to get their grasps on the famed device. Apple’s flagship stores in London had queues outside as shoppers tried to buy the hot new device in [...]

Most Supplements Make False Health Claims as Reports Show They Contain Toxins

Traces of lead, mercury and other heavy and dangerous metals for health were found in many products tested by a Congressional investigation of dietary herbal supplements, a report in the New York Times said on Wednesday. Furthermore, the report said that numerous illegal health claims were made by these supplement manufacturers. In addition to the heavy [...]

President Obama: to send more troops to U.S.- Mexico border

President Barack Obama has assigned an additional US resources to apply more efforts to prevent the illegal flows of weapons and includes bulk of cash into Mexico which is said to provide organized crime with its firepower and the ability for corruption. He deploy a total of 1,200 National Guard troops and has request an [...]

NY Times Square bomb case makes feds warn Pakistanis leaders to “check your families for terrorism ties”

The Faisal Shehzad case has led feds to issue a chilling warning to Pakistani leaders: check your family and staff for terrorist ties, according to reports. According to a reports released by Philip Shenon, the U.S. has warned civilian and military leaders in Pakistan that they need to worry about a newly uncovered breeding ground [...]

Pressure on Pakistan Amid Fresh Terror links

Alleged links between the times square plot and extremists network are adding to perceptions of Pakistan as a global exporter of terror and increasing pressure on its military to crack down on Extremists along the Afghan border. While a failed attempt of car bombing in New York could affect the improvise relation between Pakistan and [...]

Apple iPad sales hit 1 Million, higher than its first iPhone sales

On Monday, Apple Inc. announced that it had sold 1 million of its new iPad tablet computers in a month since its launch. This means that it has been selling more than twice as fast as the iPhone did when it was new. Apple said that on Friday, they had reached the milestone, the day the new [...]

3G iPad hits stores across U.S.

Apple Inc. on Friday launched the pricier, high-speed wireless version of the iPad in the United States, following the successful launch of the short-range Wi-Fi tablet earlier this month. The event was not as enthralling as the April 3 debut, but Apple retail stores in big cities saw decent-sized crowds before the 5 p.m. launch of the [...]

Shakira goes to Arizona to protest new immigration law

Shakira was in Arizona on Thursday to voice her opposition to the state’s tough new immigration law. The Colombian Grammy Award-winning singer will meet Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon at City Hall on Thursday evening. Gordon has called the law unconstitutional and has said he may sue on behalf of the city to stop the law [...]

Bill Clinton: More Immigrants a Solution to Come out of Deficit

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton spoke during a national debate on immigration on Wednesday where he asserted that America needed more immigrants, not lesser, to ensure its long-term fiscal future. Clinton said one of the keys to avoid a massive debt was to maintain a good ratio between people paying into the system, and those [...]

Canada to send nuclear fuel back to the U.S.

Canada will be sending nuclear fuel to the U.S. – its supplier – as part of a global drive to secure fissile materials, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday. While attending U.S. President Barack Obama’s nuclear security summit in Washington, Harper said that a “significant quantity” of used highly enriched uranium stored at Canada’s Chalk River [...]

Summit urges countries to accept terrorism treaty

The 47-nation nuclear security conference gathered by the world leaders on Tuesday corroborated with President Barack Obama’s call for securing all of the globe’s vulnerable nuclear materials within four years and gave a few objectives to reach that goal. The U.S. announced that two treaties were brought in line with the U.S. laws by the submission of [...]

Michelle Obama makes surprise visit to quake-ravaged Haiti

First lady Michelle Obama made a surprise visit to the capital of Haiti on Tuesday, where three months after the devastating earthquake, thousands of people remain in dire need of help. Along with Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, the First lady took a helicopter tour of Port-au-Prince, where thousands of people are still homeless because [...]

US, Malaysia: world must send ‘clear signal’ to Iran over nuclear program

The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak corroborated with US President Barack Obama that the global community should send a “clear signal” to Iran over its controversial nuclear program after talks were held between the two on Monday. The U.S. and its allies are trying to toughen sanctions within weeks on Iran over its nuclear program of producing weapons, but Iran denies [...]

4 killed in U.S. aircraft crash in Afghanistan

A U.S. aircraft crashed in southern Afghanistan on Friday, which led to the deaths of three U.S. service members and one civilian employee, a statement from NATO-led forces. The aircraft was an Air Force CV-22 Osprey, and the cause of the crash is not yet known. The aircraft conducts long-range infiltration and resupply operations for [...]

Apple’s iPad first-day sales reach up to 300,000

On Monday, the Apple Inc. confirmed that the iPad, released on Saturday, April 3, was a major success in early sales. Apple said that they sold more than 300,000 iPads in the United States the first day the new tablet computer was on store shelves. Followed by this, the iPad users downloaded more than 1 [...]

Four killed in LA restaurant by gunman

A gunman shot dead four people and wounded two others at a Middle Eastern restaurant in Los Angeles, before fleeing in a car on Saturday. The Police in LA hunted the gunman on Sunday. There was no clear incentive for the shooting but it could be linked to ongoing strife between Armenian gangs, the authorities [...]

Iran to host nuclear disarmament conference

A nuclear disarmament conference taking place this month will be hosted by Iran, as an effort to show it is not seeking developing nuclear weapons. Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Sunday on State television that China will be attending the two-day conference called “Nuclear Energy For All, Nuclear Weapons For No One,” [...]

Apple fans finally get a hold of the first iPads

The iPad is finally in the hands of early adopters. Eager customers wanting to be the first owners of the tablet computer stood in long lines across the U.S. on Saturday. The enthusiastic crowds shown in lines seemed to want the device in their hands before discovering the usefulness of it. The lines, however, were smaller than [...]

It’s iPad day!

Hundreds of people lined up outside Apple’s “cube” store on Fifth Avenue for a chance to get a hold of the new tablet on Saturday, with many others waiting their turn at Apple Stores from Pasadena, California, to Knoxville, Tennessee. Although the lines weren’t as long as those for the iPhone in previous years, they were no less fervent. [...]

Search for missing pilot ended by U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy said on Saturday that it was calling off the search and rescue efforts for a pilot who went missing after his plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region last month. They declared the missing pilot as deceased. The U.S. Navy said in a statement released on Saturday that Lt. Steven Zilberman’s plane [...]

China opposes Switzerland taking Guantanamo Chinese Uighur detainees

On Thursday, China expressed its disagreement to Switzerland taking two Chinese Uighurs released from Guantanamo Bay the previous day. “China resolutely opposes the US transfer of the above terrorist suspects to a third country, and opposes any third country taking them,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang. “We have lodged solemn representations to the country [...]

U.S. sends 2 Chinese Uighur detainees to Switzerland

The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that two Chinese Uighur brothers who were held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had been transferred to Switzerland. Although China demanded that the Uighurs be returned to their country, the U.S. government has said it could not do so because they would face persecution. The U.S. government also [...]

Wall Street Journal will charge $17.99 per month on iPad

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that it planned to charge $17.99 a month for a subscription to the newspaper on Apple’s upcoming and highly anticipated iPad, which is releasing in a few days. The Wall Street is a News Corp. owned Journal, and is one of the many American media outlets which have developed applications [...]

4 US church abuse victims detained by Rome police

After showing photos of the pope during a news conference outside St. Peter’s Square, four American victims of clergy sexual abuse said they were detained and questioned by Italian police in Rome, according to the detainees. On Thursday, one of the victims named Barbara Blaine said while emerging from a police station near the Vatican [...]

American doctor faces first day of Australian manslaughter trial

The trial of an American surgeon, charged with killing three Australian patients with unnecessary, sloppy or antiquated operations, began on Monday, where he pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. The lawsuit has drawn widespread attention in Australia, as being questioned as a racial issue or not. The trial which began early Monday came forth five years [...]

Democrats vote to pass Obama health bill

The Democrats in the House of Representatives gained the 216 votes necessary to pass President Barack Obama’s historic health overhaul, a top party leader in the Congress spoke on Sunday. “We have the votes. We are going to make history today,” Representative John Larson of the House Democratic Caucus told the ABC television program “This [...]

Russia-U.S. to have a Nuclear treaty soon: Kremlin

Kremlin said on Saturday that the U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev have agreed that Washington and Moscow are close to reaching an agreement on a new nuclear disarmament treaty. U.S. and Russian negotiators have been meeting in Geneva to discuss a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), [...]

Apple starts taking pre-orders for iPad launch on April 3

  The highly anticipated iPad touch-screen tablet computer from Apple Inc. was to hit the U.S. store shelves on April 3, but Apple began accepting pre-orders on Friday for the gadget which allows users to read books, watch videos and surf the Web. After a slight delay in the launch, the iPads, with Wi-Fi wireless [...]

Obama to give away $1.4m Nobel Prize

U.S. President Barack Obama plans on donating the $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize. He aims on giving it to the students, veteran’s families and survivors of Haiti’s earthquake through organizations doing “extraordinary work.” The President is giving a total of $750,000 to six groups that help children go to college. The White house added on [...]

‘JihadJane’ allegedly plotted killing Swedish cartoonist

An American woman, calling herself ‘JihadJane,’ was alleged on Tuesday to have contacted at least 5 terrorists living in different countries in a plot to murder a Swede cartoonist, who had drawn unethical images of the Prophet Mohammed. An indictment was unsealed on Wednesday in which prosecutors accused the divorced, middle-aged Colleen Renee LaRose for [...]

Tornadoes in Arkansas injures 4

Tornadoes hit the U.S. state of Arkansas on Wednesday, injuring four people and destroying homes along it. Three people suffered major injuries in a tornado destroying a house near Pearson in northern Arkansas, Emergency Management spokeswoman Renee Preslar said. Tornadoes and high winds damaged a lot of other areas on Wednesday in the state. A [...]

11 dead as blast hits police building in Pakistan

A suicide car bomber hit a building in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Monday, where police interrogate high-value suspects, killing at least 11 people and wounding 61 others, including women taking children to school, officials said. The attack broke what had been a relative lull in major violence in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country reviled by [...]

Iranian President Ahmedinejad calls September 11 attacks a ‘big lie’

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the official version of the September 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror on Saturday, state media reported. The comment made by the Iranian President was during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff. The sore relations between the West and [...]

Al-Qaida tells US Muslims to attack America

On Sunday, the American-born spokesperson of al-Qaida called on all Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to follow the steps of the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood. The message was conveyed via a 25-minute video posted on militant Web Sites. The spokesman named Adam Godadhn, also known as Azzam [...]

Top Pakistani Taliban deputy believed dead

A leading Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, officials said Saturday, in the latest blow on insurgents attacking Pakistan and threatening U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan. Maulvi Faqir Mohammed was believed to be among a number of insurgents killed Friday at a sprawling compound in the northwest Mohmand tribal region, Interior Minister [...]

Charges submitted against Americans by Pakistani police

Pakistani police submitted the charges of plotting terrorism against five young Americans detained last year on Tuesday, a lawyer said. The young students are from the U.S. state of Virginia. They were detained in December in the town of Sargodha, 190 km (120 miles) southeast of Islamabad, and accused of contacting militants over the Internet [...]

NASA radar finds ice on moon’s North Pole

A U.S. radar launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon’s North Pole, NASA scientists said on Monday. The U.S. space agency’s Mini-SAR radar found more than 40 small craters ranging in size from one to nine miles (1.6 to 15 kilometers), each full of water ice. “Although the [...]

8.8-magnitude quake hits Chile, sends tsunami waves to the Pacific

A devastating 8.8-magnitude quake hit Chilean capital Santiago early Saturday, killing at least 122 people, snapping power and communication lines, and leaving rubbles of building and infrastructures behind. Minutes after the tremendous quake that shook 115 kilometers of Conception and 325 kilometers of northeast Santiago, a 7.7-foot wave crashed onto the coastal town of Talcahuano. [...]

U.S. drone attacks kill 8 militants in Pakistan

A U.S. drone aircraft, firing three missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killed eight militants on Wednesday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike targeted a stronghold of the Haqqani network, a major Taliban faction attacking Western forces across the border in Afghanistan. Fire broke out after the missiles exploded in Dargi [...]

Taliban in Northwest Pakistan Kill 2 Alleged U.S. Spies

Two bodies of alleged U.S. spies, wounded with bullets, were found on Wednesday in a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan, the latest victims of an intelligence war that a top American general indicated is tilting in Washington and Islamabad’s favor. The men’s bodies were found together in Mir Ali town in North Waziristan tribal region. Each had a note attached accusing [...]

Lawmakers to press military on fate of gay ban

Lawmakers this week will press the military’s top uniformed officers for the first time on whether they think repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” makes sense or would be too disruptive. The testimony from each of the service chiefs on Capitol Hill will be crucial to the debate in Congress on whether to repeal the 17-year-old [...]

Suicide attackers strike Pakistani police stations

In an apparently coordinated attack, suicide bombers struck two police stations Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing a police chief, and wounding four officers, authorities said. The chaos comes after Pakistan and the U.S. appeared to have made gains in the battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban. Officials confirmed earlier in the week that the No. [...]

Pilot of crashed plane hitting U.S. building leaves anti-tax note

A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) crashed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees on Thursday, officials said, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air. A U.S. law official identified the pilot as [...]

Dalai Lama “very happy” with talks with Obama

President Barack Obama welcomed the Dalai Lama for closely-watched White House talks Thursday, risking fallout in China over the get-together and Obama’s statement supporting preservation of Tibet’s identity and human rights. “The president commended the Dalai Lama’s ‘Middle Way’ approach, his commitment to nonviolence and his pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said [...]

Small plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas

A low-flying small plane crashed into an office building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas on Thursday, and at least one person was missing, witnesses and officials said. Assistant Austin Fire Chief Harry Evans said two people have also been taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known. A law enforcement official said [...]

Kutcher visits Russia to improve U.S. relations

Hollywood actor and Web-savvy activist Ashton Kutcher says he will “crowd source” questions about the Kremlin’s push to develop a Russian Silicon Valley to his 4.5 million Twitter fans. The actor is part of a U.S. delegation of technology and social media leaders that arrived in Moscow as part of White House efforts to improve ties with Russia. Kutcher told reporters here Thursday that [...]

8 U.S. missionaries reach home after being freed by Haitian judge

Out of the 10 missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti, 8 were sent home on Thursday by the Haitian judge. The remaining 2 missionaries remain in a Haitian jail in an ordeal sparked by the group’s attempt to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country. The missionaries arrived on a U.S. Air Force [...]

Lack of sleep and exercise needed for health recovery: Clinton

The former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday that he will begin managing his stress better after undergoing a heart procedure to unclog a blocked artery, but added that he will not slow down. At the event focusing on childhood obesity, Clinton said that it would be a mistake to stop working. “I’ve been [...]

Former U.S. President Clinton undergoes heart procedure

Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday had two stents inserted to prop open a clogged heart artery after being hospitalized with chest pains, an adviser said. Clinton, 63, “is in good spirits and will continue to focus on the work of his foundation and Haiti’s relief and long-term recovery efforts,” said adviser Douglas Band. Secretary of State [...]

Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76

The late Rep. Charlie Wilson worked tenaciously to funnel millions of dollars in weapons to Afghan rebels who fought off the Soviet Union, only to watch Afghanistan plunge into chaos and eventually harbor al-Qaida terrorists. The course of events greatly saddened the rakish Texan, who died Wednesday at age 76, and he believed it could have been [...]

First lady Michelle Obama launches childhood obesity campaign

First lady Michelle Obama launched a nationwide campaign to fight childhood obesity on Tuesday. This was a part of her effort to teach America’s children about better nutrition and exercise. Michelle Obama said the “Let’s Move” campaign will encourage more: physical activity for children, healthier foods in schools, and more accurate food labeling. Some of her initiatives, [...]

Sweden and Poland join forces in calling on U.S. and Russia nuclear arms cuts

Sweden and Poland’s foreign ministers on Tuesday called on the United States and Russia to reduce their tactical nuclear arsenals and pressed Moscow to withdraw its nuclear weapons from areas adjacent to EU member states. In an op-ed published on the Web site of the International Herald Tribune, Sweden’s Carl Bildt and Radek Sikorski of Poland singled [...]

Pentagon Chiefs to Brief U.S. Senate Panel on Homosexuals in Military

President Barack Obama’s top two military leaders will brief a Senate panel today on the administration’s efforts to lift the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy towards homosexuals in the armed services. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has already been working with Obama on how to implement the change should such legislation pass Congress and will discuss [...]

Obama meeting with Dalai Lama harmful: China

Any meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama would harm bilateral relations, China warned on Tuesday while repeating Beijing’s refusal to discuss Tibet’s status with the spiritual leader’s envoys. An Obama meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader would “seriously undermine the political foundation of Sino-U.S. relations,” said Zhu Weiqun, executive deputy head of the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department in [...]

Haiti says Baptists can be tried in U.S.

Haiti’s Prime Minister Max Bellerive said on Monday that it was clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission “knew what they were doing was wrong.” The prime minster also told The Associated Press his country is open to having the Americans [...]

Haiti detains 10 Americans taking children across border

Ten Americans were detained by the Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission,” meant to save abandoned children from the chaos following Haiti’s earthquake. Their plan was to scoop up [...]

U.S. government to cut down greenhouse emissions by 28 percent

The White House announced on Friday that President Barak Obama would order the U.S. federal government to reduce its greenhouse gas pollution by 28 percent by 2020. “As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become more efficient,” Obama said in a statement. [...]

Denmark welcomes talks between China and Dalai Lama

Denmark welcomed the resumption of talks between China and exiled Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama over the political status of Tibet, and said that the two nations should ensure that the Tibetans attain genuine self-rule within the framework of the Chinese constitution. Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, reached Beijing [...]

Hopes low for survivors as search for Ethiopian plane victims continues

The searchers and rescuers continued on Tuesday to find victims of Mondays’ Ethiopian jet crash off the coast of Lebanon. Along with victims, they tried to recover the black boxes and flight data recorder so as to determine the cause of the crash. As the search continues, all 90 people aboard the Ethiopian Airlines jet [...]

Afghanistan bans the use of chemical used to make bombs

On Friday, Afghanistan banned the use of a fertilizer chemical which is also used to make bombs. The government gave the farmers and other holders of the dangerous chemical a month to turn in their supplies. Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai’s office issued a decree banning the use, production, storage, purchase or sale of ammonium nitrate. [...]

A year since Obama took office

It’s been a year since the U.S. President Barack Obama took office, and the stack of various domestic and international issues surrounding him has increased. The economy, health care, two wars, and national security are a few of the issues still at hand. Although the president recognized these challenges at the time he took office [...]

Hillary Clinton lands in Haiti

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton landed in Haiti and met with Haitian President Rene Preval on Saturday, promising that U.S. quake relief efforts would be closely coordinated with local officials. Clinton’s promise depicted that a too-intrusive U.S. involvement in the aftermath of the quake would not exist, but assured the Haitians the humanitarian [...]

Alleged U.S. missiles kill 12 in Pakistan

Suspected U.S. missiles killed at least 12 alleged militants on Thursday in a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, and the eighth such attack in two weeks. The strike is yet another attack , despite the Pakistani protests, that have surged in number in recent days. [...]

U.S. software firm sues China for $2.2 billion

A California based software firm filed a $2.2 billion lawsuit against China, accusing Beijing of stealing its technology  to bar Internet access to political and religious sites in China. The Santa Barbra firm Cybersitter is suing the Chinese government, two Chinese companies, and seven PC manufacturers for misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, copyright infringement [...]

China overtakes Germany & becomes world’s biggest exporter

China overtook Germany as the world’s top exporter after December exports jumped 17.7 percent for their first increase in 14 months, data showed Sunday, in another sign of China’s rise as a global economic force. According to the General Administration of Customs, exports for the last month of 2009 were $130.7 billion. That raised total [...]

U.S. & UK shut down embassies in Yemen

The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday because of threats from al-Qaida. The closure came a day after both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight the terror group linked to the failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas. The top U.S. general in the [...]

12 Guantanamo detainees sent to home countries by the U.S.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Sunday that twelve inmates from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were sent back to their homelands, which included Afghanistan, Yemen, and the breakaway Somali enclave of Somaliland. Out of the twelve detainees, six were Yemeni, four were Afghani, and two were Somalis. The Yemeni and the Afghani detainees were sent [...]

Renewal of Corruption Charges may be Bad News for the U.S.

The amnesty of corruption charges on Pakistan’s politicians struck down by the Supreme Court was rather bad news for Washington on Wednesday afternoon. The removal of the amnesty granted to politicians, including President Asif Ali Zardari himself, can lead to an end of his presidency and thus, America’s top ally in Pakistan will no longer [...]