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Meet Brazil’s New President

January 1, 2011 No Comment

Brazil’s first female president has finally been sworn into office. Dilma Rousseff, a protégé of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, promised to protect the most vulnerable of Brazilian society in her inaugural speech Saturday. —JCL The BBC: Brazil’s first woman President, Dilma Rousseff, has been sworn into office. She took over from her mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who stepped down after two terms as the most popular president in the country’s history. After taking the oath of office, Ms Rousseff promised in a speech to protect the most vulnerable in Brazilian society and govern for all. Read more Related Entries December 25, 2010 38 Dead in Christmas Attacks December 13, 2010 In Latest Compromise, Obama Agrees He Is a Muslim

Obama Resolves to Fix the Economy

January 1, 2011 No Comment

In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama committed himself in 2011 to improving the economy, creating jobs and strengthening the middle class. Here’s to a New Year’s resolution that hopefully won’t be broken. —JCL Reuters: President Barack Obama has set his New Year’s resolution high for 2011: repair the struggling economy. In his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday, the vacationing president said recent data showed the economic recovery was gaining traction even as millions of Americans are still out of work. “Our most important task now is to keep that recovery going,” Obama said. “As president, that’s my commitment to you: to do everything I can to make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs, and strengthening our middle class. That’s my resolution for the coming year.” Read more

HTC EVO Shift 4G nonchalantly shows up for Amazon pre-order

January 1, 2011 No Comment

So what if nobody has bothered to announce it yet? Sprint’s upcoming EVO Shift 4G Android handset has turned up on Amazon’s wireless outlet, albeit with the EVO ‘s spec sheet. We were getting excited about an 8 megapixel camera with HD video capture and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing imager until we realized those specs probably didn’t belong to the EVO Shift 4G — thanks to a note describing this phone as having been ” released in June, 2010 .” The product title is unequivocal, however, and offers you the EVO Shift 4G slider, to have and to hold, for $200 on a two-year contract. Clearly someone’s got his or her EVOs mixed up and has HTC’s second 4G cat for the Sprint network out of the bag a little early. [Thanks, Ryan] Update: The product image is user-submitted so we can probably disregard it. Still, Amazon’s got HTC’s unannounced phone up on its site, giving us the closest to official confirmation we’ve had yet. HTC EVO Shift 4G nonchalantly shows up for Amazon pre-order originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Benedict Announces Meeting of Faiths

January 1, 2011 No Comment

ROME — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday announced that he would hold an interfaith meeting in Assisi, Italy, this October to mark the 25th anniversary of a watershed meeting held there by his predecessor, John Paul II. In the ever-shifting legacy of a complex papacy, the announcement seemed intended to show Benedict’s good will toward other faiths after years in which he was criticized by Muslims, Jews and other Christian denominations, especially Anglicans. But it was also significant because as the longtime head of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal office when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he was widely seen as having had serious reservations about the 1986 meeting, where…

Russian Plane Catches Fire, Killing Three

January 1, 2011 No Comment

MOSCOW — A Soviet-made airliner caught fire on Saturday at an airport in Siberia, leaving at least three people dead, three missing and 34 hospitalized with burns, carbon monoxide poisoning and other injuries, officials said. The crew and the passengers were able to evacuate the plane before it exploded in an enormous fireball. Vadim V. Grebennikov, a spokesman for the region’s emergency service, said a fuel tank blew up, spilling flaming fuel. Investigators have opened a criminal case into violations of air safety rules. The plane was a Tupolev Tu-154, a three-engine model that was the mainstay of Soviet aviation. Russia halted mass production of the jet about 20 years ago, and…