Less people applied for unemployment benefits in the U.S. last week compared to the previous 12 weeks, a sign the job market may be on its way to improvement. Economists, however, warn that this trend will have to continue for a couple of more weeks before conclusions could be reached that the companies have started [...]
At least six people have been killed Thursday in a dangerous and over-populated district of the Mexican Capital, which has been mainly spared from the mass shootings that became common in a nation swamped by drug related violence. According to Miguel Angel Mancera, Mexico City’s Attorney General, the killings occurred in the early morning hours [...]
German government has moved on Wednesday to make forced marriages a criminal offence in Germany amid a growing debate in the society about integration of Muslims in this country. According to Thomas de Maiziere, German’s Interior Minister, the new law would affect the four million Muslims in Germany and is aimed at banning the tradition [...]
Yahoo Inc has begun rolling out a spruced up version of its free web-based e-mail service on Tuesday in an attempt to convince its users to spend more time browsing its website. Beginning on Wednesday you can try out the new beta version of the Yahoo mail product that boasts, among other things, more social [...]
France’s national team coach Laurent Blanc has started a campaign aimed at decreasing the number of clubs in the French top league from twenty to eighteen. Blanc says many of the French soccer players feel overloaded with too many games they have to play during the season. He further added that streamlining the national championship [...]
Even though the King of Pop Michael Jackson is no longer with us, he still grossed millions of dollars since his untimely death back in 2009, landing number one place on the list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities published yesterday by the Forbes magazine. According to Forbes estimate, Jackson’s estate has generated more than $275 million [...]
The polished and elegant writing style of the greatest English novelist Jane Austen may not belong to her, according to Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford. The researcher says she has looked into more than 1,100 original handwritten manuscripts and came to a conclusion that Austen`s works have been seriously edited to eliminate [...]
Indonesia’s most unpredictable volcano has started erupting on Tuesday, spewing out huge clouds of rocks and ashes from Mount Merapi, just a day after the scientists warned the pressure accumulated underneath its dome could cause the most potent eruption Indonesia has seen in years. The volcanic agency in Indonesia has raised the eruption alert to [...]
The Wall Street Journal has published a report suggesting that the popular social networking site MySpace may be sharing user information with its advertisers. MySpace, however, does not think this poses any problem as the information they shared with the advertisers would not identify a person, mainly because they do not require the members to [...]
A recent study published in the Pediatrics journal has suggested that nearly 1 in 10 teenagers in North America is having same-sex partners. According to the researchers, the number of teens engaging into same-sex relationship has doubled compared to the findings in the previous studies. For instance, a study conducted in Vermont and Massachusetts in [...]
