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Photo News Last updated: Wed 25 Nov 2009 07:32 PM GMT
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She’s Bad News for the GOP - And For Everybody Else Too.
2009 SOUL TRAIN AWARDS
Sade's Soldier of Love
View Article  Talk of the Town: MTV stunt no surprise
The top showbiz news and headlines including Eminem-Cohen stunt planned, Brandy reaches a verdict with crash victim's family, and Michael Jackson still planning reunion concert.


The head writer for the MTV Movie Awards announced that ...   more »
View Article  After 17 years in the making, first authorized biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez hits bookshelves
Seventeen years in the making, author finishes first full biography of Nobel prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.


NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MAY 26, 2009) REUTERS-
Almost two decades in the making, the first ...   more »
View Article  Second UK cabinet minister quits, PM seen losing grip
A second British cabinet minister has announced she is resigning, draining Prime Minister Gordon Brown's authority over a government battered by scandal and economic recession.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (JUNE 3, 2009) ITN -
A second ...   more »
View Article  China detains activists, bars dissident and tightens security ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
Security is high in Beijing and activists are placed under house arrest on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Taiwan hold a candlelight vigil and Tiananmen dissident Wu'er Kaixi is ...   more »
View Article  E3, the video game convention, seen returning to glitz.
The interactive videogame industry's biggest convention has convened in Los Angeles returning to its glitzy past with big presentations from industry giants like Microsoft and Sony.


LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JUNE 2, 2009) REUTERS ...   more »
View Article  Russia PM Putin says gas transit to Europe may stop
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the flow of gas to Europe may be halted within weeks if Ukraine does not pay for pumping the gas into underground storage.

HELSINKI, FINLAND (JUNE 3, 2009) REUTERS ...   more »
View Article  Virgin America Teams Up With Google Apps for a Day in the Cloud
Award-Winning Airline and Web Technology Company Team Up to Showcase Cloud Computing and WiFi at 35,000 Feet

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- After becoming the first and only airline to offer Gogo(R) In-flight Internet ...   more »
View Article  Shell tried over Nigeria executions
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell faces trial in New York, accused of involvement in the 1995 hangings of nine enironmental activists.


In 1995 Nigerian activist Ken Saro-wiwa was hanged with eight others - accused by ...   more »
View Article  Weather data programme could not have averted Air France's plane crash
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says that their Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay Programme (AMDAR) could not have prevented Air France's 447 flight from crashing.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (JUNE 3, 2009) REUTERS -
The World Meteorological Organisation's ...   more »
View Article  Pregnant British woman gets life
A British woman who became pregnant while in jail in Laos facing drug trafficking charges escapes the death sentence on account of her condition.

British woman Samatha Orobator is led away by police in Laos ...   more »
View Article  AWACS planes sent to search for missing plane
France sent three jets including one AWACS or Airborne Warning and Control System, on Wednesday (June 3) to help search for the Air France jet that went missing during a storm with 228 people on ...   more »
View Article  Kylie Minogue celebrates double Glamour Awards victory
Kylie went home with yet another award. Not for her vocal skills however but for her style. She won the Glamour Awards for the Woman of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year.

LONDON, UNITED ...   more »
View Article  'AIDS is DC's Katrina' ad campaign
New photo posted to PhotoNews.


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View Article  AMD Demonstrates World’s First Microsoft DirectX® 11 Graphics Processor
AMD Previews Significant Improvements to the Digital Media and Gaming Experience, Commits to Bring DirectX 11 to Market First

COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) ...   more »
View Article  Adobe Unveils BrowserLab in Free Preview for Web Designers
New Hosted Service Accelerates Website Design With Cross-Browser and OS Compatibility Testing

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today unveiled a free preview of Adobe BrowserLab, a new hosted service that enables Web designers ...   more »
View Article  China seen as world No.2
China is expected to overtake Japan as the world's second largest economy as soon as next year.

China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second largest economy as soon as 2010, according to ...   more »
View Article  Soul favourites from the 80s
Let's hear it for the 80s



Since I am a product of the 80's, I decided to compile this playlist when I was searching through Youtube. The main focus of this list is soul music ...   more »