Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Google doodle caper shakes out raising speculations

Google doodle caper shakes out raising speculations

Google doodle caper shakes out raising speculations

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For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students. Usually, Google makes it clear what's being celebrated, using the doodle as a lure to teach web surfers more about the topic — artist Nam June Paik on his birthday, for example, or the history of China's lantern festival, to pick just two of more than 300 past designs.


London tube strike: Commuters struggle

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Millions of Londoners struggled to get to work by road, rail, boat and bicycle on Tuesday as a strike by London Underground workers shut down much of the city's underground system.


Plan to burn Quran 'un-American': Obama Administration

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called a Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks a "disrespectful, disgraceful act."


Photographers ditching digital for film

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Modern photography is often as simple as, well, point and shoot. But for many photographers, megapixels are out, and film stock is in. "I just enjoy playing with them, they're so much more fun. Digital just seems a bit cold sometimes," says amateur photographer, Tim Moore.


UK cop caught assaulting woman on CCTV, jailed

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A British judge on Tuesday sentenced a policeman who assaulted a 57-year-old woman by hurling her into a cell to six months in prison. Sergeant Mark Andrews was caught on security cameras in 2008 dragging Pamela Somerville across the floor and shoving her into a cell at a police station in Melksham, western England.


London, Paris commuters struggle with subway, bus strikes

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The French government was bracing on Tuesday for a major strike and protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. A subway strike in London led the government to make available additional boats and buses and to encourage commuters to cycle to work.


US father kept daughter locked up for a year

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A man in the US repeatedly raped one of his daughters, who was less than 13 years old, and locked up another in a room no bigger than a wardrobe for more than a year, it was reported here Tuesday. The case is similar to that of Josef Fritzl, an Austrian father who kept his daughter locked in a room for years and repeatedly raped her.


26/11 case: Pak prosecutors file plea for formation of commission

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Pakistani prosecutors have filed a petition in a Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court for the formation of a commission that would visit India to record the testimony of 24 key witnesses in the Mumbai attacks case.


Angelina Jolie in Pak to raise funds for flood relief

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Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie who had earlier donated US $1 million to relief efforts in flood ravaged Pakistan, arrived in the country on Tuesday to provide some hands-on help. The Academy award winning actress jetted to Pakistan on a mercy mission for the millions left homeless because of the floods.


Pak not satisfied with India's replies on Headley

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Pakistan is not satisfied with India's replies to its questions on Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) operative David Headley, detained in the US in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks, according to a media report. "The Indian response to our queries is hardly relevant," a senior official was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper on Tuesday.


Obama to propose tax write-off for capital investment

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As part of his emerging program to jolt the economic recovery from its stall, President Obama will call this week for allowing businesses to deduct from their taxes through 2011 the full value of new equipment purchase, from computers to utility generators, to increase demand for goods and create jobs.


Office-goers' daydreaming 'peaks on Tuesdays'

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It's a Tuesday when most office workers daydream about their next holiday, a study has found. According to the study, online holiday searches peak at 9 pm on Tuesday as workers struggle with the start of the working week -- in fact, many can't wait until they get home and 1 pm to 4 pm at work is also a busy browsing time.


Burning Quran will endanger troops, warns US Army

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The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned today that an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book the Quran could endanger US troops in the country and Americans worldwide.


UK: Man loses job as he's too fat to work

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Many may find it a bit odd, but a Briton has lost his job simply because he's too fat to work. Fifty one-year-old Barry Fowers was offered redundancy by an insurance company which was worried that he could topple over on his colleagues and hurt them.


Pressure on WikiLeaks founder to step down: Report

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is under pressure from within the whistleblower organisation to step down from the helm of the website he created.


Cops hunt for Britain's youngest car thief, aged 7

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A seven-year-old boy is said to be Britain's youngest car thief who uses cushions to sit on so he can peer over the steering wheel of the vehicles he steals for joyrides, a media report said. British police claim they have "intelligence" that he is only seven years old and are desperate to catch the mystery youngster, 'The Sun' reported.


Will Iranian woman be stoned to death after Ramzan?

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The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said on Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramzan.


Funding to lure Taliban defectors stalled

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A $250 million program to lure low-level Taliban fighters away from the insurgency has stalled, with Afghans bickering over who should run it, and international donors slow to put up the money they had promised.


Australia elections: Julia Gillard to stay as Prime Minister

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor party today won the support of two king-maker independents and would be forming a minority government with their support. Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, the two independent lawmakers, said that they will support the Labor party, ending weeks of political instability following a hung parliament, first since 1940.


Burning Koran endangers troops

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Muslims consider the Koran to be the word of God and insist that it be treated with the utmost respect, along with any printed material containing its verses or the name of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad. Any intentional damage or show of disrespect to the Koran is deeply offensive.


Posted by Harshad at 11:12 PM

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