| Tue 7 Feb 2012 |
Cespedes awaiting clearance to sign contract
MLB | Yoenis Cespedes is not yet ready to sign with a Major League team after all. | Despite being declared a free agent on Jan. 25, the Cuban defector, who established temporary residency in the Dominican Republic in January, has not been legally cleare... |
Does a low IQ make you right-wing? That depends on how you define left and right
The Daily Mail | Predetermined: Children with a higher IQ tend to grow up with more socially liberal views (posed by models) | So right-wingers are stupid – it’s official. Psychologists in Canada have compared IQ scores of several thousand British child... |
Controversy over Jesus Christ needless: Karat
The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat Tuesday termed the present controversy surrounding his party and Jesus Christ as a needless one and one that had been created purposely.... |
Prakash Karat defends having Jesus' portrait at CPI(M) exhibition
DNA India | Defending the display of a portrait of Jesus Christ at a CPI(M) organised exhibition here, party General Secretary Prakash Karat today said it was not done to run down religion or basic tenets of Christianity. | Terming it as an "unnecessary contro... |
VIEW: Is US-China collision inevitable?
Pakalert Press Share | With China determined to uphold its ‘core’ national interests, and the US and others equally committed to, for instance, freedom of navigation through the South China Sea, it only needs a spark to ignite a prairie fire | Even as Iran has ... |
Karat quotes Castro to defend Jesus pic
Zeenews Thiruvananthapuram: Defending the display of a portrait of Jesus Christ at a CPI-M organised exhibition here, party General Secretary Prakash Karat today said it was not done to run down religion or basic tenets of Christianity. | Terming it as an "u... |
Woody Paige: Manning trio — Archie, Peyton, Eli — truly terrific
Denver Post | Giants quarterback Eli Manning (AP file photo) | A few months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, Archie Manning returned to the family's stately Greek revival home in the city's Garden District. | "Water got up beyond knee leve... |
Cuba's Fidel Castro Writes His Memoirs: Any Lesson For Rawlings?
Peace FM Online Former Cuban President Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance to launch his memoirs at the Havana Convention Centre last Saturday (BBC News, February 4, 2012). | The book, Guerrilla of Time, is almost 1,000 pages long and relates his childhood an... |
Auction houses outfox Chinese antiquity fakers
Yahoo Daily News | Nicolas Chow places a magnifying glass against a Ming Dynasty vase to inspect the potter's 600-year old workmanship. | Chow, the international head of Chinese ceramics and works of art at auction giant Sotheby's, points out layers of uneven bubbles... |
Iraq's Sunni-backed ministers to return to Cabinet
Yahoo Daily News | BAGHDAD (AP) — An official from Iraq's Sunni-backed bloc says its ministers have ended their boycott of the Cabinet, a move that could restore some stability to the war-ravaged nation. | Iraqiya spokeswoman Maysoun al-Damlouji says the overwhelmi... |
Military: Maldives president resigns amid protests
Yahoo Daily News | MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge. | Brig. Ahmed Shiyam told reporters Tuesday that Nasheed has agreed to step down and h... |
Maldives military says President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned amid public protests
Yahoo Daily News | MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives military says President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned amid public protests. on Twitter, become a fan on Editors' Picks | Explore Related Content | 1 - 4 of 10 | The Maldives' vice president has joined calls for t... |
Pakistan hunts for survivors as factory toll hits 16
Yahoo Daily News | Rescuers on Tuesday scrambled through the rubble of a factory that collapsed in Pakistan's city of Lahore, in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll climbed to 16. | The three-storey building used to manufacture veterinary medicines cam... |
Toyota Q3 jumps, raises FY outlook on cost cuts, incentives
Yahoo Daily News | TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly operating profit, shrugging off a firm yen and the damaging impact of flooding in Thailand, and raised its annual forecast, helped by cost cuts and Japanese government ... |
Fidel Castro warns of bleak future, touts memoir
Zeenews Havana: Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir. | The 85-year-ol... |
Virginia Rabung, 94, pioneering pilot flew to Batista’s Cuba
Chicago Sun-Times | In 1943, Virginia Rabung, a secretary from Chicago, trekked by bus to a small airport in McCook, marched into the office in her high heels and told the men that she wanted to fly. | “They looked at her like she was from another planet,” said Sh... |
Teen tennis star Tomic disappointed at car controversy
Yahoo Daily News | Teenage Australian tennis star Bernard Tomic said Tuesday he was disappointed to have been caught up in another controversy involving his high-powered, bright orange sports car, and he plans to sell it. | The 19-year-old is due to face court next w... |
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