Tweet Cincinnati : First Franklin Corporation (Nasdaq: FFHS), the parent of Franklin Savings and Loan Company, Cincinnati, Ohio revised its earnings for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. The revision is due to an increase in loan loss reserves of $334,000 resulting primarily from updated information received on the underlying value of the collateral on [...]
Tweet Bellevue : Livemocha , the world’s largest language learning community, today announced that the company has raised $8 million in a Series B financing round led by August Capital, with participation from existing investor Maveron. Livemocha is the leading language learning site worldwide, with over 4.8 million registered members from over 200 countries. Livemocha [...]
Continue reading …Tweet London : Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie slept with her mother’s boyfriend when she was 16 years old, claims a biography. According to the book being written by Andrew Morton, the star had intimate relations with her mother Marcheline’s live-in lover. “Marcheline had a live-in boyfriend whom she was very much in love with, but [...]
Continue reading …Tweet New York : Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman, who made screen history as the villian in the first James Bond movie “Dr. No”, has died. He was 91. Wiseman died at his home. He is survived by his daughters – Martha and Ruth Wiseman. Imdb.com reports that Wiseman was a distinguished name in both film [...]
Continue reading …Tweet London : Rapper Chris Brown has confessed that he still has strong feelings for ex-girlfriend Rihanna. Brown had pleaded guilty to assaulting the his ex-girlfriend during a row in February. Contactmusic.com reports that the disgraced singer has been asked to stay at least 100 yards away from Rihanna for the next five years as [...]
Continue reading …Tweet London : American actress Megan Fox says she had once dressed as a banana to promote a smoothie cafe where she used to work. The 23-year-old says she wasn’t always as glamorous as she looks today and used to turn heads for other reasons instead, imdb.com reports. “I only had one job (while) growing [...]
Continue reading …Tweet London : Hollywood actress Jessica Alba has revealed she has been a victim of bullying at her Los Angeles high school when she was younger. The Latina admits she was a “shy, awkward” teenager who became an easy target for school jibes. She was a miserable student, her dad had to walk her to [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Kabul : President Hamid Karzai won an absolute majority in Afghanistan’s presidential election, according to a final preliminary result released by the election commission Wednesday. Incumbent Karzai won 54.6 percent of the vote in the Aug 20 poll, nearly double the 27.8 percent of his nearest rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, the commission [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Manila : The 2nd Asia-Pacific Housing Forum co-organized by Habitat for Humanity International with principal sponsor the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, opened today with almost double the number of participants as compared with the inaugural event in Singapore two years ago. The three-day forum in Manila has gathered together [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Abu Dhabi : Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has expanded its US operations by adding one more city to its network, WAM news agency reported Friday. The airline has launched flights from its Abu Dhabi home-base to the US city of Chicago. The inaugural flight took off Wednesday Sep [...]
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