Bill and Melinda Gates talk about their struggle to eliminate the paralysing disease.
Continue reading …The latest census figures on the housing market make grim reading for homeowners. Some 18.4 million homes are vacant—11% of the nation’s housing supply—and home ownership rates are dropping rapidly, CNBC reports. Prices are down year-over-year in all 28 major metropolitan areas tracked by the Wall Street…
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Egyptian protesters continued camping out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square Wednesday morning, hours after President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not run for a new term in September, but rejected their demands that he step down immediately. (Feb. 2)
Continue reading …A New Jersey man who went shopping for pet snakes over the weekend ended up in critical condition after a snake bite. The 25-year-old snake fan was hospitalized after a bite from an albino cobra, which he had bought along with a diamondback rattlesnake and a copperhead snake, MSNBC reports.
Continue reading …Charlie Sheen’s worried family will likely seek a court-ordered conservatorship over the way wayward actor to force him into rehab, reports Radar. CBS officials, meanwhile, have yanked Sheen’s hit TV program off the air and a permanent shutdown could cost the network millions as Sheen grapples with the effects of…
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Sudan is another country that is now feeling the effect of the protests in Egypt. Students have been rallying for regime change since Sunday. They say that they will not be cowed by arrests and beatings. But as Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall reports, there is a striking difference between Sudan and its neighbour.
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(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) – The Afghanistan war can be won without Pakistan’s army moving against militants in North Waziristan, the No. 2 American general for the war effort said Tuesday, publicly signaling that the U.S. is resigned to the idea that Islamabad won’t take on that terrorist safe haven. Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez’ stopped short of calling for more U.S. strikes in the border region, which has been under assault from a well-known but unacknowledged U.S. bombing campaign carried out largely by CIA drones. But he agreed that there would have to be “some plan . “to decrease the impact of the safe haven,” including greater efforts by…
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All these upcoming NFC-equipped smartphones wouldn’t be worth much without places to use them , so it’s good to hear LG’s announcement this week that it’s working on providing the infrastructure for contactless payments. The Korean company has set its sights on Europe, where it’s conducting beta testing of point-of-sale technology that will facilitate paying for goods and services by swiping your phone near an NFC sensor. We’re not told whether that phone would necessarily have to be built by LG, though we imagine the company would be well served by including as many devices as possible and just taking its slice of the profits. Whatever LG does, it’s looking increasingly safe to assume that having NFC on your phone will be a legitimate asset in the coming months (and not just if you live in Japan ). LG working on an NFC payment system for Europe, planning launch in 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Residents of New York’s “Little Egypt” kept a close eye on Cairo’s massive anti-government demonstrations Tuesday. Many say they want Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately, but others say he should serve out his term. (Feb.1)
Continue reading …The Senate is expected to hold a showdown vote today on repeal of the health care law. The chamber’s Republicans—buoyed by a federal judge’s ruling that the health care overhaul is unconstitutional — tacked a repeal amendment onto a massive Federal Aviation Administration budget reauthorization bill being debated in the…
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