PARIS (AFP) – A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim. In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface….so lucky..
Thirty-nine-year-old Shelly Koontz was arrested Thursday night on a fifth-degree theft charge. She is accused of keeping “The Freedom Writers Diary,” which she checked out from the public library in nearby Jessup in April.
Longtime Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller’s legs were amputated 6 inches below the knee on Friday. Jazz spokesman Jonathan Rinehart said Friday’s surgery was the result of complications from Type 2 diabetes.
Home-grown rap, an avenue of self-expression for young Chinese, cannot get broadcast but its fan base is growing.
The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the National Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet.
Richard O’Connor, the Vice President of Marketing for Aetna, might want to rethink how his department handles its customer retention program in this economy, particularly when it comes to telling people that they’re still valued even though they’ve been let go.
The number of abortions performed on teenage girls who have had at least one before has risen by almost 70 per cent since 1991, fuelling fears that terminations are being carried out for lifestyle reasons.
A UK Facebook group plans to protest the government’s consultation into further communications monitoring by cc’ing Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on every one of their emails.
Study shows gamers more likely to drink, smoke weed, ignore friends
A first look into new content from Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 4, featuring new music, weapons (auto-shotgun, grenade launcher, pipe bombs), characters, television programming, Internet, and minigames, as well as new multiplayer modes and “superpeds”. Motorcycles have also been tweaked so that they’re much easier to ride and harder to fall off of.
