Wall Street rallied for a fourth straight day as investors focused on the strong start to the second-quarter earnings season.

Wall Street rallied for the fourth day in a row as strong earnings added to ...   more »

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U.S. stocks rally for a fourth day after JP Morgan's results add to growing optimism about the quarterly earnings season, and rising tech shares.

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A three year old child dies after his mother forgets him in her car.

LEIOA, VIZCAYA, SPAIN (JULIO 16, 2009) FORTA - A three year old child died on Thursday (July 16) after his mother ...   more »

Deepak Chopra says doctors are to blame for Michael Jackson's death.

Deepak Chopra has offered his thoughts on the death of pop star Michael Jackson. The noted spiritual author and medical physician was a close ...   more »

30 Rock and Mad Men lead the pack for the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations.

The Tina Fey comedy "30 Rock" led the Primetime Emmy nominations with a whopping 22 nods. Included in that ...   more »

Forty years on, as the U.S. space program is under pressure to accomplish another bold feat, the first manned moon landing by the Apollo 11 astronauts evokes the imagination but still reminds us of the ...   more »

Comic turned U.S. Senator Al Franken asked Judge Sonia Sotomayor about their mutual interest in the mid- 20th century Perry Mason TV show.

The Minnesota Democrat asked the Supreme Court nominee to name the one ...   more »

A worker was killed and seven others injured when a stage under construction for a Madonna concert in Marseille collapsed.

MARSEILLE, FRANCE (JULY 16, 2009) REUTERS -
A stage being constructed for a concert by ...   more »

Social Media Metrics Monitors and Analyses Over 20 Million Blogs, 5 Million Forum Posts, and 30,000 Online News Sources, Social Networks and Microblogs

LONDON, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com/) today announced the launch ...   more »

Protests, online discussion forums, and the support of a major beer company prompt Colombian officials to call off the hunt for a deceased drug lord's escaped hippo, whose mate was killed last week following government ...   more »

Author Frank McCourt, best known for his book and the film, 'Angela's Ashes', is gravely ill in a New York hospice.


NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 15, 1999) REUTERS -
"Angela's Ashes" ...   more »

Mexican authorities arrest suspected U.S. arms trafficker Robert Hamlin Wainwright, prepare to send him north.


MORELIA, MICHOACAN STATE, MEXICO (JULY 14, 2009) REUTERS - Mexican authorities arrested Robert Hamlin Wainwright on Tuesday (July 14) in ...   more »

Does Your Company Tag Line Pass These Five Crucial Tests?
Marcia Yudkin

Judging from the many disastrous slogans that state tourism
boards have happily paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars
for, even marketing ...   more »

Wal-Mart Has Everything You Need Including Your Next Dating Prospect
Lance Metzger

The difficulty of adult dating was brought home to me the other
day.

My 20-year-old nephew came to live with me and my ...   more »

Nearly 200 Years of St. Croix-Virgin Islands Family History Records Coming Online
PROVO, UT--(Marketwire - July 16, 2009) - Ancestry.com, the world's largest online commercial resource for family history, today announced that the company, in ...   more »

Singer Amy Winehouse and husband Blake Fielder-Civil are ending their two-year marriage.

Amy Winehouse is getting divorced.

The singer ended her two-year marriage to Blake Fielder Civil on Thursday when the couple were granted a ...   more »

Japanese toy manufacturers showcase innovative new toys and classics with a twist at the International Tokyo Toy Show.


Toys and games everywhere, but not a child in sight.

The International Tokyo Toy Show gets underway ...   more »

Victims And Relationships Don’t Mix!
Carol Chanel

In order for relationships to be truly fun, fulfilling, joyful
and loving both people have to be emotionally healthy. That
doesn't mean you still don't have some issues ...   more »

The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Brandy settles lawsuit, L.A. covers entire Jackson memorial costs, and Lady Gaga on top of the charts again.

Singer Brandy has settled a lawsuit filed by a ...   more »

Arabic music moves West with help from Madonna's producer.
You can call Yasmine's music many things, just don't call it World music.

The singer wants to combine elements of Western electro music with elements of ...   more »

Los Angeles County coroner's assistant visits office of Jackson's dermatologist.S

A Los Angeles County coroner's official went to the Beverly Hills office of Michael Jackson's dermatologist to serve a subpoena seeking additional medical records as ...   more »

German school students are among those who are making three-metre high cardboard dominoes to be used in the re-enacting of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November.

BERLIN, GERMANY REUTERS - As Germany prepares ...   more »

Japanese toy manufacturers showcase innovative new toys and classics with a twist at the International Tokyo Toy Show.


TOKYO, JAPAN (JULY 16, 2009) REUTERS -
The International Tokyo Toy Show kicked off on Thursday (July ...   more »

Intro
Indonesia's telecommunication authorities temporarily bans the import of new Blackberry models from July 16 until manufacturer RIM sets up a local after-sales service centre.


JAKARTA, INDONESIA (JULY 15, 2009) REUTERS- Indonesia's telecommunication authorities on ...   more »

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is known for being a hugely popular Hollywood film star, but the same can't be said of his political perception.

STRATEGIC PERCEPTION -
As the state budget crisis looms in Sacramento, ...   more »

U.S. space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (JULY 15, 2009) NASA TV -
The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts ...   more »

A tanker truck crashes on Interstate 75 north of Detroit, sparking a massive fire and causing an overpass to collapse.

HAZEL PARK, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES (JULY 15, 2009) NBC -
A road tanker crashed and ...   more »

How The Internet Has Changed The World...
Braxton Heitz

As most of us sit down at our computers each day, we might
realize that we have begun to take this Information Age for
granted. What ...   more »

China's growth rate rises significantly, boosting hopes that its economy will lead the way out of the global downturn.

China's economy gathered momentum in the second quarter thanks to massive fiscal and monetary stimulus, leaving ...   more »

A Spanish woman who gave birth to twins in 2006 and was thought to be the world's oldest mother at the time, has died of cancer.


Two and a half years ago Carmen Bousada de ...   more »