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Holocaust museum shooter was targeting Obama advisor

Holocaust museum shooter was targeting Obama advisor

Tweet Washington : An 88-year-old white supremacist who killed a security guard last year at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was also targeting one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisors, US magazine Time reported Thursday. James Von Brunn, who died in prison seven months after the museum shooting, planned to kill senior advisor David Axelrod, [...]

New Zealand opposes bra for six-year-olds

Tweet Auckland: New Zealand has termed as “pornification of children” and “corporate paedophilia” a range of Australia-made bras for girls as young as six. The bras – known as “bralettes” – made by Australian underwear company Bonds, are being sold in Australia. But Bonds New Zealand said the company has decided that “selling bras for [...]

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Army frees Ecuadorian president from police mutineers

Tweet Quito: Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was freed by soldiers from mutinying police late Thursday, Ecuadorian television reported. He later appeared at the presidential palace in the capital Quito and addressed celebrating supporters. Soldiers took Correa from a military clinic, where he had spent much of the day amid a mutiny by police over a [...]

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Zeta-Jones praises brave husband

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Zeta-Jones praises brave husband

Tweet London : Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has praised her husband Michael Douglas for the bravery, “great strength and dignity” he has shown in his battle against cancer.  The 41-year-old actress said her 66-year-old actor-husband – who is currently undergoing radiation and chemotherapy – is “holding up very, very well” despite the severity of the [...]

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HP names former SAP chief as chief executive

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HP names former SAP chief as chief executive

Tweet San Francisco : US technology giant Hewlett Packard Thursday named Leo Apotheker as its chief executive and president, replacing Mark Hurd who was forced out last month after a sexual harassment probe uncovered his false reporting of personal expenses. Apotheker, 57, resigned as chief executive of German business software giant SAP earlier this year [...]

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Lehman Brothers auction raises cash for creditors

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Lehman Brothers auction raises cash for creditors

Tweet London : Artworks, door signs and other mementos from the London offices of collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers sold for 1.6 million pounds ($2.6 million) at an auction Wednesday in London. The sign that adorned the company’s offices in London’s Canary Wharf was among the prize items, selling for 42,050 pounds, auction house Christie’s [...]

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Indra Nooyi is again Fortune’s most powerful woman

Tweet Washington : PepsiCo’s India born chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi is No.1 on Fortune magazine’s US list for the fifth year in a row with Kraft Foods’ Irene Rosenfeld right behind her at No.2. It was a year of expansion for this elite group, said the US business magazine noting that several women, including [...]

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Pakistan blocks NATO supply to Afghanistan after airstrikes

Tweet Islamabad : Pakistan Thursday blocked a vital supply route for NATO oil tankers to Afghanistan, hours after a coalition force helicopter attacked a Pakistani border post killing three soldiers. Senior security officials ordered the security forces at Torkham border to block oil tankers and trucks at a checkpoint sharing border with Afghanistan, Pakistan’s Dunya [...]

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Times Square plotter says he planned second strike

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Times Square plotter says he planned second strike

Tweet New York: Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American suspect in the failed Times Square bombing case, has said that he had planned a second strike in New York, a media report said Thursday. The confession was disclosed in new court documents that say that Shahzad, who was arrested two days after the attempted May 1 [...]

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Seal, Klum to bare all in video

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Seal, Klum to bare all in video

Tweet London : Supermodel Heidi Klum and her singer husband Seal will be posing naked for a new video. The couple has filmed a promo for Seal’s new single “Secret”, and Klum said she and her husband were naked under the covers, reports dailystar.co.uk. “It’s the story of two people in love. My husband is [...]

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