Thursday, October 6, 2011

Apple fans use Jobs' devices to mourn him

Apple fans use Jobs' devices to mourn him


Apple fans use Jobs' devices to mourn him

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 03:01 AM PDT

People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, reviewed his life on Macintosh computers and tapped out tributes on iPhones.


What Jobs understood and politicians don't

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:59 AM PDT

It would be hard to walk 100 feet in Washington and not slam into somebody who's using something that Apple created - an iPhone or an iPad or a Macbook Pro.


Steve Jobs: Designer first, C.E.O. second

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:50 AM PDT

If you walked into the office of almost any chief executive and asked him or her to describe a favorite font, I'm pretty sure you would be greeted with a blank stare and silence.


Wall Street protests: Worry for Obama?

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:29 AM PDT

Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House on Thursday, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frustrations of the American public.


Obama warns Pakistan, says link between ISI and insurgents ‘troubling’

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:06 AM PDT

President Barack Obama On Thursday voiced concern over Pakistan's military and intelligence links with extremists, observing the US finds this "troubling." Obama also said that Pakistan should realize that a peaceful approach towards India would be in "everybody's interests."


Man hits wife for not clicking 'like' on facebook status

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:43 AM PDT

A Texas man is facing battery charges after police say he hit his estranged New Mexico wife and pulled her hair over her lack of a response to his Facebook status update. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports that 36-year-old Benito Apolinar of Pecos, Texas, was arrested Monday following a fight at the Carlsbad, N.M., home of Dolores Apolinar.


Obama warns Pak about ties to 'unsavory characters'

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama said Pakistan is "hedging its bets" by maintaining ties to militant groups that trying to undermine the government in neighboring Afghanistan, and acknowledged Thursday that the United States has been unable to persuade Pakistan that the U.S. goals of a stable Afghanistan poses no threat to Pakistan.


Peru: 11 die as school bus plunges into ravine

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:33 AM PDT

At least 10 people have been killed after a minibus returning from a school trip to a zoo in the Peruvian capital, plunged into a 120 metre (393 foot) deep ravine. The accident happened in Matucana, 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of Lima on Thursday.


Jobs bill will guard against downturn: Obama

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:46 PM PDT

President Barack Obama says his jobs bill will guard against another downturn in the U.S. economy, even if the situation in Europe continues to get to worse.


Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 01:05 PM PDT

The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer of Sweden, whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him wide recognition as the most influential Scandinavian poet of recent decades.


As she was dying, teen described last moments on Facebook

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 10:52 AM PDT

A teenager in Britain typed in her Facebook status " :'( feels like death" and minutes later she lay dead from a fatal asthma attack.


Baby survives living with dead grandmother for a week

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 10:08 AM PDT

A two-year-old Chinese girl lived close to her dead grandmother for more than a week, but survived the ordeal after being rescued in the nick of time.


Explosion at a fireworks shop in Indore; 6 dead

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 07:07 AM PDT

At least six people have died and over 15 left injured in an explosion at a fireworks shop in Indore. .


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