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 Presidential candidate Barack Obama is the first politician
that makes his campaign ads turn up in video games. The Obama campaign has
purchased ad spots in several games: “Burnout Paradise”, “Madden NFL ‘09”, “NASCAR
‘09”, “NHL ‘09”, “NBA Live ‘08”, Need for Speed (Carbon and ProStreet), "NFL
Tour" and Skate....
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More than 1,140 mammals are in danger of extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
South African IUCN conservation expert Michael Hoffmann gave Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa examples of the most highly threatened species of mammals. They include:
Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota...
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Spain may be engaging in some pre-match mental warfare ahead of Friday's start of the Davis Cup quarter-final tie against the US, with Rafael Nadal reported to be suffering with fatigue after a long season.
High altitude in Madrid on a clay court laid inside a bull ring will balance the tie, according to Spanish captain Emilio Sanchez...
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US cultural theorist Fredric R Jameson was Tuesday named winner of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize.
Worth 4.5 million kroner (785,000 dollars), the prize is awarded "for outstanding scholarly work in the academic fields of the arts and humanities, social science, law and theology."
Jameson, 74, a professor...
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 NBC newsman Tim Russert, 58, died Friday
while recording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” His death
shows that medicine can’t always prevent the risk of sudden death. It raised
questions on the amount of stress his work put on him and the increased heart
attack risk he was exposed to.
Dr. Randall Zusman of...
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 Robbie “Kaptain” Knievel successfully jumped over 24 delivery trucks Saturday night at the site of one of his father's most famous stunts, the Associated Press reported. It was his longest gap ever – almost 200 feet – at Kings Island amusement park, Manson, Ohio. He made this jump in honor of his father, the legendary stunt man, Evel...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 U.S. President George Bush marked the fifth anniversary of
the U.S invasion of Iraq
with a speech to an audience at the Pentagon Defense
Department, defending the conflict as one that was necessary.
“Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right
decision—and this is a fight America
can and must win,” claimed Bush in a...
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 A new research study reports that women who took estrogen
and progestin hormones to ease the menopause symptoms still had an increased
cancer risk after ending the therapy.
The study was developed by the Women’s Health Initiative and
involved more than 16,000 women who used the estrogen and progestin combination
drug,...
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 Sales of mobile phones reached 1.15 billion in 2007, the
market research company Gartner reports.This means a 16 percent increase from 2006, when 990.9
million phones were sold, the firm said.
The increase is probably due to the fact that technology
kept evolving and consumers changed their old mobiles with new ones,...
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 Librarian of Congress James Billington announced the 25
additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as part
of its efforts to preserve the nation's aural history by archiving recordings
deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant,” Reuters
reported.
The titles range from Michael...
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 The winners of the fifth season of the gripping show “Dancing
With The Stars” Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough decided to join the Dancing
tour that will charm people from 37 cities.
The pair that mesmerized both jury and audience with their
dancing skills and personal charisma will dance along with other couples...
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 Heath officials has stated that a Tennessee company is
recalling cheese sold in seven states and distributed nationwide in gift
baskets that could be contaminated with dangerous bacteria. No illnesses have
been reported so far although health inspectors are on the look out.
Sweetwater Valley Farms Inc. said its Southern Cheddar...
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 According to state health official reports released on Monday, cancer has
beaten heart disease as the No. 1 killer in the state and in Guilford County
State analysis of 2006 mortality data showed that 17,267 North Carolina residents
died of cancer in 2006, a rate of 195 deaths per 100,000 people. Some 17,189
deaths occurred from...
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 According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
the week after Thanksgiving, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2, will be known as National
Influenza Vaccination Week. The week is designed to highlight the
importance of getting a flu vaccination.
The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by
viruses. It can cause mild to severe...
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 According to a new law to be implemented as of immediately,
airline companies will not be allowed to run adult-themed movies on overhead
screens after receiving g numerous complaint from passengers.
The legislation was prompted by complaints from parents and
others who said airlines were increasingly showing movies and television...
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 According to researchers at the University of Texas,
more Americans are predisposed to suffer from kidney stones in the coming
years, as a result of global warming.
Kidney stones, which usually arise from dissolved minerals
in the urine, can be awfully painful and are regularly attributable to
dehydration, either by not drinking...
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 A team of researchers lead by Julie Daniels, assistant professor of epidemiology and maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill analyzed
medical registries of 1.237 children born in Sweden between 1977 and 2003 who had been diagnosed with autism before the age of 10.
The purpose of this study was to...
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 Without doubt, inactivity has disastrous effects on
people's health, no matter if they are young or old. But when inactivity is
associated with fried potatoes and TV the negative effect doubles its power.
This process has been scientifically proven. Robert
McMurray, Ph.D., and his colleagues at the University of North...
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 A new study by US researchers has found that people exposed to pesticides had a 1.6 times higher risk of developing Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs the sufferer's motor skills and their speech. Another study at the Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu has found that an impaired sense...
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 According to two studies of children in Britain and New Zealand, the known link between higher IQ and being breast fed as a baby may be down to a gene variant likely to be present in 90 per cent of the population.The two studies are published in one paper in the November 5th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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 According to recent medical research released on Monday,
donated blood decreases in quality with every passing moment as it quickly
loses some of its life-saving properties as an important gas dissipates, thus
explaining why many patients fare poorly after blood transfusions.
Researchers at Duke
University Medical
Center in...
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 Apparently, people are not motivated to lose weight for
themselves but will be happy to do so in exchange for a some money. A new work strategy
for overweight people is to motivate them to slim down by paying them little sums
of money.
Overweight employees who were paid lost more weight than
those who were not compensated for...
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 Royal Bank of Canada's RBC Centura Bank has announced it agreed to buy Alabama National BanCorporation, together with its First American Bank subsidiary, for $1.6 billion. RBC offered shareholders a substantial 51% premium over the closing price Wednesday of $53.12, or 80$ per share. RBC Centura is the name of Royal Bank of Canada's...
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 Janet Jackson’s manager stated that the 42-year-old singer is ready to return on stage and go on with her “Rock Witchu” tour. Kenneth Creaer, Jackson’s manager, also added that her mysterious disease was in a fact a rare form of migraine which made the singer to postpone most of her concert from her tour.Still, Jackson is ready to start...
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 Janet Jackson, 42, was taken to the hospital before her concert in Montreal, Canada. She seemed to have “got suddenly ill” during her sound check, according to her publicist. Jackson was released from hospital two hours after she had been admitted. The personnel from Royal Victoria Hospital didn’t give any further details about the...
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 While Jay-Z keeps extremely quiet about his alleged marriage
with 26-year-old R&B star, Beyonce Knowles, Mary J. Blige didn’t manage to keep
silence when it came to this subject. During the North Carolina concert on Saturday, Blige
spit it all out by saying with enthusiasm "Congratulations to my man,
Jay-Z, and my girl...
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 From dancing to rapping and now acting, K-Fed sure gets around. Kevin Federline, Britney Spears’ ex-husband, was cast in a series of episodes of the upcoming season of CW’s "One Tree Hill," which will air in mid-season, no date has been set yet. According to Us Weekly, the rapper wannabe will appear in two episodes of the teen...
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 Just two days after he won his 13th major title, Tiger Woods announced he planes to design his first US golf course. The location of the future course is The Cliffs planned community in the western North Carolina mountains, the world’s best golfer announced Tuesday.Woods also stated his intention of designing “a handful of very unique...
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 Legendary rock band Van Halen officially announced their reunion with the initial lead singer, David Lee Roth, for the first time in 22 years, during a much anticipated press conference held on Monday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. "This is the press conference you never thought you'd see, especially while we were still...
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Bank of America, the second- largest US financial institution, posted profits for the second quarter of 3.4 billion dollars that were down on last year but well above expectations.The bank said it had been compelled to make write-downs of 1.2 billion dollars as a result of the continuing financial crisis.Net revenue for the quarter rose...
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 According to Inter-American Development Bank’s latest report, less Mexican immigrants from the United States send money back home than last year. At least two million people in Mexico will not receive the financial help they had received in 2006 from their fellow countryman in the US. The percentage of workers who regularly sent money...
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 Top seed Andy Roddick won 6-4 7-6 over the big surprise of the $600,000 Washington Open, the 416th-ranked John Isner the on Sunday.Roddick blasted just 12 aces in the 80-minute final and had the only service break, that gaeve him a 4-3 lead in the seventh game of the opening set.On the other hand, the 22-year-ild Isner had been broken...
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 Due to the worst U.S. housing recession since 1991, the home-improvement retailer, Lowe’s Cos., has announced on Monday that its third quarter profit fell by 10 percent and reduced its forecast for the annual profit for the second time in two months.The company said that the fall was caused by the bigger energy costs and the...
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 The largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU, the Bonn-based Deutsche Telekom AG, has announced it agreed to buy SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. for $1.6 billion. The deal will expand Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile unit with more than a million mobile-phone customers in the U.S. southeast and Puerto Rico.The German...
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 Mobile phone service company MetroPCS Communications Inc. has offered rival Leap Wireless International Inc. around $5.12 billion in stock in a buyout attempt. The offer is a 3.5 percent premium to Leap's most recent closing price, or $75.04 per share. The proposal is subject to due diligence, approval by both MetroPCS' and Leap's boards...
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 According to a study by the Environmental Integrity Project released
on Tuesday, the dirtiest power plants in the United
States are in Texas,
while New England and the Pacific
Coast make less carbon
dioxide because they have fewer coal-burning plants.
The main cause of the greenhouse gases that lead to global
warming are the...
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 Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina’s star, was awarded the Oscar Robertson Trophy on Friday, being named and acknowledged as the nation's top college basketball player.The US Basketball Writers Association offered him the trophy during its annual college basketball awards breakfast in San Antonio.Hansbrough has led the Tar Heels to record...
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 Wake
Forest basketball head
coach Skip Prosser passed away Thursday due to an apparent heart attack the
university declared.
According to Athletics Director Ron Wellman, 56-year-old Prosser
was found dead on his office couch at about 12:45 p.m. by director of
basketball operations Mike Muse soon after returning from his jog in...
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Four Marines were arrested after they had told investigators they were the ones who robbed and killed a fellow Marine and his wife last month. The four broke into the couple’s home, sexually assaulted the woman and searched for valuable objects. They were charged on Wednesday with the execution-style slayings of Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24,...
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Democrats increased their control of Congress in US elections Tuesday, picking up significant gains in the Senate and House of Representatives by capitalizing on a backlash against Republicans and President George W Bush.
The Democrats won three Senate seats vacated by retiring Republicans in Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado, while...
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Election day finally arrived Tuesday for the record throngs of US voters planning to cast their presidential ballots for either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
Obama held a significant lead in opinion polls as state officials braced for an unprecedented turnout and massive lines at polling places in an election...
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The Department of Justice has released a report announcing that federal immigration agents made a criminal search warrant at a poultry processing plant in Greenville, South Carolina, and arrested nearly 300 workers. The federal agents went to the Columbia Farms at 9 a.m. after 10 months during which they tracked down numerous employment...
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A possible compromise in the takeover battle for ailing Wachovia bank was in the making, with the two takeover rivals, Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. considering a deal to divide up the the bank, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The newspaper said the two banks, with officials of the Federal Reserve and the US...
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 CNN meteorologists released a report on Tropical Storm Hanna saying that it made a landfall at about 3:20 a.m. ET on Saturday near the Little River Inlet at the South Carolina-North Carolina border and "large and dangerous battering waves" will be expected east of Hanna’s center.The coastal storm surge will reach 5 feet above...
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President George W Bush has approved what
would be the first execution by the US military since 1961, though
court appeals are likely to continue delaying the 20-year-old case
indefinitely, the White House said late Monday. A Bush
spokeswoman issued a statement saying that Bush had given the go ahead
for a sentence of capital...
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A former police officer and a neighbor announced on
Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who is now the widow of five attempted to
hire them to murder her fourth husband more than twenty years ago.
Ex police officer Allen Lawrence informed the Associated
Press that he had warned North
Carolina authorities repetitively for two...
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Former US government spokesman and Fox News
commentator Tony Snow has died at the age 53 from colon cancer, US
media reported Saturday. Snow served as Bush's third press secretary, from April 2006 to September 2007 following Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.
Used to earning more as a television commentator Snow took a pay cut...
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 Former republican Jesse Helms died on Friday, July 4, at the age of 86. Helms was an influential television commentator and had a career in Congress for thirty years. North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who gained Helms’ seat after he retired in 2002, said that he remained famous for being against everything. In the book he wrote,...
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A military spokesman said on Saturday that a soldier at Fort Bragg
in North Carolina
was the primary suspect in the death of a pregnant servicewoman. The victim,
Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, aged 23, was found dead in the bathtub of a motel a week
ago. Her body was found after a maintenance supervisor inspected a strange odor
he smelled...
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Fayetteville’s authorities are now investigating the death
of a seven months pregnant soldier found dead in a motel. Her corpse was found
Sunday morning, after the police received a phone call regarding an intense
odor coming from the room where the woman accommodated.
Two days after finding the body, Spc. Megan Lynn Touma...
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 Darius McCollum’s fascination with trains made him cross into a restricted area in the Columbus Circle station disguised into a subway track worker. McCollum, 43, of East Elmhurst, Queens, was arrested again, this time on the platform at the 59th Street/ Columbus Circle subway station. The man was wearing navy blue clothes similar to a...
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 Three weeks after being diagnosed with a malignant glioma, a
lethal type of brain tumor, 76-year-old Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, brother of J. F.
Kennedy, returned home yesterday following a risky 3 and ˝-hour brain surgery, which
he suffered last Monday. The surgery, which took place at Duke Medical Centre
in Durham, North Carolina was...
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 Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading democrat
and the leader of a long-lasting political dynasty, will undergo brain surgery
today in an attempt to treat a malignant brain tumour which was diagnosed last
month, after suffering a seizure.
In a statement released shortly before
surgery, Sen. Kennedy said he would have “targeted...
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 39,000 soldiers will be sent to Iraq to replace troops which were scheduled to leave the war zone, the Pentagon said on Monday. The Defense Department announced four brigades from the Army National Guard will head to Iraq and Kuwait, including the 72nd Brigade Combat Team of the Texas National Guard.The United States has 155,000 troops...
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The U.S.A has been devastated by an alarmingly high number of tornadoes this year. Records made by the Weather Channel show that 819 tornadoes ravaged the country between January and May, in comparison to 539 such phenomena in the same period of the last three years. There were 98 deaths registered, the biggest number of fatalities since...
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 Thousands of students decided to skip classes today to
protest on the “National Day of Silence” and to participate at events marking
the 93rd anniversary of the American Genocide. The “Day of Silence” should
spread a message of tolerance toward their colleagues with different sexual
orientation. 199 schools in North
Carolina,...
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 According to a government study released on Wednesday, it
appears about 15% of American adults have driven under the influence of alcohol
in the past year, Reuters reports. The study also revealed that in some states,
as many as 25% did it, while another 4.7% drove under the influence of illegal
drugs, the survey by the Substance...
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 Although Capitol Hill has repeatedly criticized the Justice
Department, claiming they should take more measures to minimize the crisis,
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey decided to stand aside and let all the
investigations in the hands of local prosecutors.
Usually, when confronting with a governmental crisis, a
centralized...
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 Former first-daughter, Chelsea Clinton, spoke Monday on behalf
of her mother Hillary Clinton’s campaign in front of hundreds of students from North Carolina State
University, Peace Collage and the University of North Carolina. During the town hall
meeting, Chelsea
answered to several questions concerning her mother’s campaign, but...
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 The Florida Legislature apologized Wednesday for the state’s
history of slavery, expressing a “profound” regret for what Senator Barak
Oblama called America’s
“original sin.”
The process of reconciliation with the past is meant to heal
the wounds created by the state’s role “in...
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 A second suspect charged with the murder case of University of North Carolina is in police custody. The suspect was identified as Lovette Jr. The 17-year-old student was handcuffed by SWAT officers after they surrounded the North Carolina building where he was hiding. They got the tip that Lovette was hiding there from an anonymous...
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 The woman with whom former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer met through the V.I.P. prostitution ring was identified as a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, The New York Times wrote.Ashley Youmans, now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, was mentioned in the court files as Kristen. She was the prostitute working with the Emperor's...
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 The student body president at the University of North Carolina was shot dead in a no-arrest, no-suspects case. Eve Marie Carson, a 22-year-old senior from Athens, Ga., was shot “randomly” and found on a street. She was shot several times and at least one bullet hit her in the head, police said. There weren’t any signs of sexual assault,...
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 Wind-whipped fires near the South Carolina coast have seriously damaged
a number of structures, have sent people away from their homes and have closed
several highways.
About 60 houses were evacuated on Sunday, after the fire
sent the smoke on a distance of 15 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, we read in the Associated
Press....
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 The tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination will soon lose another competitor, reports saying John Edwards is intending to end his bid for the presidency.Edwards was scheduled to give a speech on poverty and employment in New Orleans early Wednesday afternoon but his aides told CNN it would be a resignation address...
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 A Marine suspected of killing a colleague was indicted Thursday by a North Carolina grand jury on a first-degree murder charge.Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach was eight months pregnant at the time of her death, but the investigators have determined that her child had not been born.Therefore, Corporal Cesar Laurean was indicted by a grand...
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 With the race for the White House getting tighter, a poll
indicates that Republican candidate John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton
took the lead in New York.
The opinion poll released Tuesday comes in a time when the
presidential hopefuls brought out the heavy artillery in a bid to shore up
their party’s...
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 In recent events, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters proposed new
rules to improve the safety of school bus seats and expand the use of shoulder
belts, but declined to order that all new buses include seat belts.
Peters on Monday rode a packed school bus to Morrisville Elementary School,
among the first schools in the...
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 The incident took place Tuesday morning when a helicopter
carrying two photographers crashed into the Gulf of Mexico,
near Casey Key. The helicopter was flying low so that Thomas Newby, 50, of Manhattan Beach, Calif.,
the chief photographer for Powerboat Magazine, and Mark Copeland, 44, of North Carolina, an
Emmy-winning video...
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 Tropical storm Gabrielle made landfall Sunday on North Carolina’s banks.
Although it brought winds of speeds in excess of 50 mph, this did not stop
beach-goers or surfers from enjoying every moment of it.
“It's a lot rougher out there, but this is what we look forward to every
year,” said Derek Creekmore, 32, of Chesapeake,
as he...
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 The United
States’s Senator Barack Obama has collected
till now a record amount of money for his presidential campaign. From April to
June the first-term senator from Midwestern, Illinois, has collected the record amount of
$31 million. This way he has reached the leading place in the top of
presidential campaign money amounts,...
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