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German football authorities Wednesday honoured goalkeeper legend Bernd Trautmann for his services to football at a ceremony ahead of an international between Germany and England.
Trautmann, 85, was awarded the German Football Federation pin with diamond - its highest award for a person outside the federation - for his "unique...
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The future of Olympic football is still up in the air, pending a meeting between IOC President Jacques Rogge and FIFA President Joseph Blatter.
"We still have not discussed the issue with FIFA. We have not scheduled a meeting, but we will schedule one in the future," Rogge said in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Leading European clubs will resist any attempts to make the Olympic football tournament part of the official FIFA calendar, Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has said.
Rummenigge, who is chairman of the European Club Association (ECA) was quoted Wednesday by Germany's Sport Bild weekly, as saying he would also welcome...
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The president of football's governing body, Joseph Blatter, said Thursday that he hoped that the Olympic football tournament would be integrated into the international match calendar.
Blatter's call follows problems involving several European clubs, who were reluctant to release their players for the tournament and were told by the...
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Nigeria on Tuesday clinched their place in the final of the men's Olympic football tournament with a convincing 4-1 victory against Belgium in the Shanghai stadium.
The 1996 champions, who beat Argentina in the final in Atlanta to become the first African country to win a gold medal in Olympic football, were in total control after...
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 Quarterback Tim Couch agreed on a two-year deal yesterday with the Jacksonville Jaguars, a contract that gives him a chance to refresh his career as a backup to Byron Leftwich.The two-year agreement will earn the top overall pick by Cleveland in 1999 a minimum of $595,000 if he makes the team. “Right now, I’m just trying to be a guy,...
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 The Chicago Bears decided it’s in their best interest to let Tank Johnson go after his latest scrap with the law. Not even Tank had a hard time understanding that his former team did what they had to do."I want to thank the Bears organization and fans for their support during this difficult time," Johnson said in a statement...
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 Indiana University head football coach Terry Hoeppner died Tuesday morning of a brain tumor.The 59-year-old has undergone brain surgery twice in the last 18 months. He received chemotherapy and radiation treatments in the last few months, but was all in vane. Hoeppner died at 6:50 a.m. at Bloomington Hospital with his family at his...
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Kabul (dpa) - A suicide car bomber targeted a foreign military convoy Thursday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, killing more than 20 civilians and one US soldier, officials said.
The death toll in the blast - which came a day after a tanker truck bombing in southern Afghanistan killed six people - had risen throughout...
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A Carnation couple was arrested and faces criminal charges for what investigators consider one of the worst cases of child abuse they have ever seen.The 44-year-old mother and 43-year-old father were detained on suspicion of first-degree criminal mistreatment of their daughter, aged 14. The pair was kept in custody for only one day. On...
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Thailand's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday that talks between Bangkok and Phnom Penh over disputed border areas were postponed by mutual agreement for internal procedures and not because of political tension in Thailand, as some media reported.
The "meeting has been postponed, not because of Thailand's domestic...
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The scramble for the White House was dead even between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to two separate polls released late Sunday, the eve of the opening of the Democratic nominating convention.
The Gallup Poll showed each candidate with 45 per cent support from registered voters, while a CNN/Opinion...
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China has deported all 10 of the pro-Tibet activists it arrested for protesting or helping to organize protests during the Beijing Olympics, releasing them before the end of their 10-day detention following pressure from the US embassy in Beijing, a US-based Tibet rights group said Monday.
"All 10 have been deported. They were...
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A Russian court on Friday denied granting parole to former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, news agencies reported.
Khodorkovsky, 45, once Russia's richest man, applied for parole having served over half of an eight-year jail term for large-scale tax evasion charges against his former oil empire Yukos.
"The court ruled...
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The near-eradication of the blue whale in the waters of the Antarctic during the early 20th century led to a paradoxical fall-off in krill, the small shrimp-like creatures on which they feed, a German report said Wednesday.
Marine biologist Victor Smetacek told the German weekly Die Zeit that blue whales had once consumed 180 million...
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Hezbollah handed back to Israel the bodies of
two Israeli soldiers Wednesday, two years and four days after snatching
them in a July 12, 2006 cross-border raid that sparked one month of
deadly and destructive fighting. Under a deal brokered by a
United Nations-appointed German mediator that closes the final chapter
of that 33-day...
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 Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate, aged 46, was freed last week together with 14 other hostages after being held in captivity for six years by Columbian Marxist guerillas. The perpetrators were allegedly tricked into handing them over to military staff disguised as autonomous organization workers.Even now, the...
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Hedge fund fraud Samuel Israel III was confronted on Thursday with a
new accusation of bail jumping and was sent to prison without delay, the next
day after his mother persuaded him to end his impressive run from justice.
Samuel Israel III, who simulated his own death approximately
one month ago in order to stay away from a 20-year...
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Hedge fund fraud Samuel Israel III confronted on Thursday a
new accusation of bail jumping and was sent to prison without delay, the next
day after his mother persuaded him to end his impressive run from justice.
Samuel Israel III, who simulated his own death approximately
one month ago in order to stay away from a 20-year prison...
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 Columbian commandos disguised as rebels rescued 15 hostages
on Wednesday, including Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician and
three U.S.
defense contractors held by leftist rebels in a heroic action that blew away
the plans of the country's largest anti-government force.
The 46-year-old presidential candidate Ingrid...
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 Hezbollah, the Shi’a Islamic
political and paramilitary organization, sent to Israel
on Sunday a coffinlike container with the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in
the 2006-war with Lebanon.
This move seems to have impressed Israel and made it consider as a
foreword to a possible prisoner trade.
Two Israeli soldiers, Eldad...
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 Indian and Pakistani foreign ministry officials met on
Tuesday to review the peace process that has been held up because of the
internal political tensions that burst in Pakistan last year. Both countries
intend to continue the dialogue that began four years ago under former military
strongman, President Pervez Musharraf.
Some of...
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 Despite their different opinions on important issues, Chinese
President Hu Jintao decided to continue the dialogue with the Dalai Lama. China’s latest accusation was that the Dalai Lama
was responsible for the protests over the Olympic torch and the incidents in Tibet, which China has governed since the 1950s.
The Tibetan spiritual...
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A British terrorist suspect in an alleged plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners managed to escape from a mosque
when his police escorts allowed him to say prayers on their way back to
the prison, police investigators said Monday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, escaped from
guards on Saturday...
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 According to Fiji
police officials, more than 16 people were arrested over an alleged plot to
assassinate Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, the military chief who became prime
minister after leading last year's coup.
Police Commissioner, Esala Teleni, said at a news conference
in the capital Suva,
that three of those arrested were...
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 According to a state-owned oil rig press release made public
on Wednesday regarding the death of at least 18 oil workers, the cause of the
incident was due to a drilling rig which struck an oil platform in stormy
weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico Seven other workers were
still missing.
Rescuers have pulled 61...
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 Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders received
letters from hundreds of senior Muslim leaders proposing similarities between
the faiths as a basis for peace and understanding.
The letter analyzed particularly two theological
similarities found in the Quran and the New Testament: belief in one God and
love of...
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Look to the sky tonight as you will witness a rare and
amazing astrological event.
According to the Shanghai Observatory, on the 28 of August
we should be able to see a full lunar eclipse. This is not just any lunar eclipse,
for tonight the moon will turn bright red as the earth and sun align on either side.
It is the...
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 A report released by the US-based
group Human Rights Watch holds responsible Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent
forces for severe violations of the laws of war that have resulted in
heavy civilian casualties.
The 113-page report called "Shell-Shocked:
Civilians under siege in Mogadishu" refers to the fights...
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...the 166th day of 2007 with 199 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince," in 1330;...
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 SanDisk announced on Wednesday a technology that the company describes
as being able to boost the speed of solid-state drives significantly,
called ExtremFFS. The technology avoids tying the location of data to
physical space by altering its position on the drive to the place where
it will be most efficient. Unfortunately, no release...
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 Yesterday, the highly anticipated Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) finally started and along with it came the new iPhone. This version is said to be faster and cheaper, as the problems that users have complained about with the existing models mainly focused on the device’s slow Internet browsing and high price....
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 Today, San Francisco is hosting the 2008 edition of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The event has been stirring up quite a lot of interest as several new products are expected to be launched on this very special occasion.It seems that Apple stores have been receiving some "Do-Not-Open-Until-Monday" boxes but at...
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 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has completed its quad-core Opteron portfolio, as it has started shipping two new processors for the 2300 series as well as two more for the 8300 series. The new chips are designed for high-end four-socket / eight-socket servers.The newcomers are called Opteron 2358 SE (2.4GHz), Opteron 2360 SE (2.5GHz),...
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 On June 9, San Francisco will host the 2008 edition of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. The event is stirring up quite a lot of interest as several new products are expected to be launched on this very special occasion.The most anticipated device is probably the new 3G version of the iPhone. Apple said it would produce at least...
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The Bluetooth specialist Alpin
has announced this week the release of a new headset, Jawbone 2, a
revolutionary model from every point of view. This new powerful product on the
market, which is believed to reach 120 million units worldwide by 2009,
contains a few advantages over its opponents.
The special headset is two...
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 On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) launched five new quad-core Opteron processors (8347 HE, 8346 HE, 2347 HE, 2346 HE, and 2344 HE), described by company officials as energy-efficient. They run on 55 Watts of AC power and, when compared to the 75-watt Barcelona chips that were released by AMD last year, the Opteron shows a 30...
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 On Thursday, a critique co-signed by Roger Pielke Jr., a science-policy specialist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, caused quite a stir. The study attempted to show that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was way off with its assessment of the technology challenge the world is facing.The study referes to the...
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 As they had announced on Monday,
Intel and Microsoft made public on Tuesday the decision to sponsor the Parallel
Computing Lab opened in January 2008 at the University
of California, Berkeley,
but also research facilities at the University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. So, the world’s largest and most popular companies on...
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 The giant high
tech companies Microsoft and Intel announced on Monday that they decided to
sponsor university research related to new ways of programming software for
multi-core microprocessors. Microsoft is the world’s largest software marker,
while Intel is its largest chip maker, and both companies decided to join
forces in...
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 Intel Corp. is starting the branding campaign for its new
family of ultra-small chips.
The microprocessors, previously known as Silverthorne and
Diamondville, will be officially called Atom. The company’s Menlow platform for
ultramobile computers will also be renamed Centrino Atom, once the products are
launched on the...
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 In spite of the fact that the creators of HD DVD decided to
abandon the format, DreamWorks Animation is locked in an exclusive contract
with Toshiba.
"We have a partnership with Toshiba and have an obligation to see this
through," DreamWorks Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg said on Tuesday,
according to...
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 Toshiba will not continue to fight the losing battle for its HD DVD high definition format and has thrown in the towel. However, LG announced its selected players will continue to support the HD DVD format."LG believes that at this present moment in time, it is necessary to provide a player which supports both formats and therefore...
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 It's finally official: Toshiba will not continue to fight the losing battle for its HD DVD high definition format and has thrown in the towel. HD DVD was backed up by two movie studios, Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures and General Electric Co.'s Universal Pictures, which were using the HD DVD format exclusively.Toshiba announced today...
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 HD DVD definitely lost the
battle. As if it weren’t already enough, Best Buy announced this week that
starting with March it would begin recommending Blu-ray disc players and other
high def products that support this video format. So, once again, Toshiba
loses, Sony wins!
The popular retailer said that it
would mainly showcase...
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 On Thursday Apple made public its
decision not to participate at this year’s NAB (National Association of
Broadcasters) Show in Las Vegas.
The recent announcement confirmed a previous report posted on the TVTechnology
web site. The National Association of Broadcasters represents an annual
gathering of television production...
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 During the MacWorld conference, which is taking place in San Francisco, Google announced on Monday an update of its popular mapping and e-mail software especially for the iPhone, optimizing them for Apple’s device.The new Google interfaces include the addition of auto-complete to hasten e- mail composition. Also, they should include the...
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 NASA’s release of the National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS) study on Monday dragged sharp criticism from the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), which is the industry trade organization that represents the leading US airlines that transport more than 90 percent of the US airline passenger and cargo traffic.The...
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 Sony is likely to revolutionize
the consumer electronics industry with its recently announced organic
light-emitting diode TV. The Japanese company has announced on Monday that it
has plans of releasing this innovative device in Japan starting with the 1st
of December 2007.
The brand new organic
light-emitting diode TV, also...
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 iBiquity Digital Corporation, the
company that has first started to develop the HD Radio technology, has recently
announced that a new service is to become available for the HD Radio devices’
users. So, soon the users of the HD Radio devices coming from Polk Audio and
JBL will be able to tag the songs they are hearing on the radio so...
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 Sony Corp. has recently announced
it is going to release a new 12-megapixel digital SLR. Alpha 700 has been
designed to be a midrange digital camera that the company is going to add to
its Alpha digital still camera range starting with this fall.
The Alpha 700 model has been
unveiled by Sony Corp. on Thursday through a news...
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 The most recent rumors are not
telling only about gPhone, the ultimate mobile phone that Google Inc. is allegedly
preparing to announce and release, but also about a similar plan that would
come now from Microsoft’s battle field. So, this idea seems to have been born or
at least to have been pronounced out loud for the first time at...
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 India has successfully launched
yesterday a new satellite that is expected to boost digital communications in
this country. Insat-4CR represents the latest such communication satellite India has
launched into orbit and the services it is expected to boost are related to new
communication high technology. Insat-4CR, which is expected...
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 If anyone were to bet on either Sony’s Blu-Ray or Toshiba’s
HD-DVD, the odds were more likely to be on Sony’s side, and yet Paramount
Pictures and DreamWorks Animation thought different!
Paramount, owned by the media giant Viacom, accustomed
everybody with their releases on both formats, but now it has settled to only
one, the...
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 Have you ever imagined your cellphone, laptop or PDA recharged without wires and without sockets? This is what scientists from MIT have dreamed of and the first step they’ve taken is represented by a simple light bulb.Their invention promises even more: slimmer, lighter devices that will work without ever needing a battery at all.A team...
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 The University of Missouri has been for the second time this year the victim of a serious data theft that affected the accounts of more than 22,000 individuals associated with the University.The University is unable as of this moment to comment upon whether there was a single attacker or a group of hackers that have accessed one of...
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 George Bush had a kind of documentary about his life at the end of his presidency, but Obama will have it at the beginning of his time as President of the United States. After Oliver Stone produced W, now Eduard Norton wants to produce a documentary about Obama’s life. The documentary will be released by HBO.Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films...
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 On Wednesday night the major broadcast networks will air the half-hour campaign ad made for Barack Obama. Still, the ABC won’t do it because their program on Wednesday night is too important. Instead, they have tried to reschedule the campaign ad on a different night. According to ABC, they lost their chance to give time on their...
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 Production has kicked off on the first fictional feature film based on the Disney Channel original series “Hannah Montana” starring Miley Cyrus, the Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.The movie directed by Peter Chelson, which is scheduled for a spring 2009 release, also features “Hannah Montana” regulars Emily Osment, Jason Earles,...
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 “Saturday Night Live” fans shouldn’t be too disappointed for
the fact that Janet Jackson canceled her appearance on the show.
Another great name is scheduled to deliver a gig on “SNL,”
an artist that has been eagerly awaited to return on the show for ten years. We
are talking now, obviously, about Mariah Carey.
Janet Jackson...
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Singer Jessica Simpson is definitely preparing something!
Apart from being in the studio for her fifth album of her
career and her first country release, there is still something more. According
to her father and manager, a new reality show featuring the blonde cutie is
coming up. In the other hand, her rep talked about a show,...
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 Kyle, Kenny, Stan and Eric are here to delight us for yet
another 4 hilarious seasons.
Apparently the creators of “South
Park” Matt Stone and Trey Parker are
going at it again for another few years, as “the boys” as they are generically called
will go back to school in the little town of “South Park.”
Comedy Central is now...
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 The show that practically launched Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s careers, "The Simple Life," got finally cancelled after five seasons.Despite all the publicity the two starlets received lately, the show’s ratings dropped low enough for E! Network to cancel Paris and Nicole's former hit show, which premiered in 2003 and aired...
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 Calvin Broadus, aka Snoop Dogg, who often makes headlines with his brushes with the law, now managed to attract attention in a more peaceful way. He reportedly signed up to star in a new E! reality series which will revolve around his family life."Snoop Dogg is, without a doubt, one of the most charismatic and intriguing...
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 Three teenagers from a school-sponsored camp drowned in the Fox River as they tried to sneak out during the night and go for a boat ride. The students took four or five paddle boats, which were already removed the floor plugs for the winter, went on the water and slowly sank.John Greene, battalion chief of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills...
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 On Friday during Halloween trick-or-treat a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed from inside a house while he was accompanied by his family. The incident took place in South Carolina and his father and brother were injured by the gunfire too, according to the authorities.Quentin Patrick is the prime suspect in the murder of the boy, as a...
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The options for survival for US automotive giants General Motors and Chrysler are limited to bankruptcy protection, merger or a receipt of aid from the US government, the Wall Street Journal said Monday.
Citing sources inside GM and Chrysler, the respected financial daily said the two companies which are currently in merger...
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John McCain did not mince words in his reaction to an important Supreme Court decision in June on the rights of suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
McCain called the 5-4 the ruling "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," adding that it would result in the courts being flooded by a...
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 The authorities released a report announcing that a man shot and killed his wife inside a hospital, in her bed. The 88-year-old man then shot himself. Michael Mastronardy, police chief, stated that the man was in a critical condition and immediately after he had shot his 87-year-old wife he was taken to the trauma center at Jersey Shore...
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 The British police announced on Thursday that three men were charged because they had been plotting against the publisher of a novel which is related with the Prophet Muhammad. Salesman Abrar Mizra, 22, cab driver Abbas Taj, 30 and Ali Beheshti, 40, the suspects, were arrested on Saturday near the house of Martin Rynja, the publisher of...
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Police stated on Monday that a landlord from suburban Philadelphia has been putting cameras all over his apartment and has been videotaping the women who have been renting his apartment for years. Thomas Daley, 45, is from Phoenixville and he was accused of wiretapping, invasion of privacy and criminal use of a communications device. The...
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The homicides in Oakland reached the number of 101 on Sunday, when three people were slain in different neighborhoods. One of them was killed at International Boulevard and 35th Avenue but the police dispatcher didn’t know much about the man who was murdered or how the homicide occurred. The other two men were two young people who were...
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 A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed in the deep waters of Oahu. The crash killed three people on board and left a fourth one missing. Rescue crews tried to find him or his body on Friday and Rear Adm. Manson Brown, 14th Coast Guard District commander said that "this is a very difficult case because rescuers are being...
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The United States economy grew at 3.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2008, the government said Thursday in revised figures that showed strong international trade had helped stave off a feared recession.
The gross domestic product (GDP) figure was revised upward from an earlier estimate of 1.9 per cent for the quarter, the Bureau of...
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Anyone who expected Hillary Clinton to bow gracefully from the scene or be a sore loser may want to think twice after the heartfelt endorsement she delivered for her onetime rival Barack Obama for US president.
The former first lady, 60, made a grand, triumphant entry into the Pepsi Center convention hall Tuesday evening, creating a...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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 John McCain, 72, is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and a presumptive nominee in the 2008 presidential election for the Republican Party. "I'm not running for President to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things," McCain said when he announced his...
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On Thursday, an ice cave fell on two teenage boys and trapped them underneath for hours until rescue crews arrived at the scene with chain saws to cut through the big compact snow and ice to release the boys. Alec Corbett, 17, and Allesandro Gelmini, 14, were both from Seattle and they were suffering from hypothermia. The first rescued...
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