Nov 11 2007
The European planemaker snared a deal with Gulf airline
Emirates for 70 of its A360 Xtra Wide Body Airbus Planes and
options on 50 more - an order worth a potential $US35 billion.
Boeing is ahead in the annual race for orders with Airbus but
the Emirates deal means that gap is now narrowing as the two
fight it out for market share. Not to be outdone, Boeing did a
$13.5 billion deal with Qatar Airways for its 787 Dreamliners.
Nov 09 2007
Photobucket, the media-sharing site is introducting a search
mechanism that lets users append labels to specific faces and
objects in photos.
Nov 08 2007
Fast food restaurants are part of the Americans landscape, but
in a community that is inundaated with them, the city council is
trying to change that.
Nov 05 2007
A listing of Citi stock in Tokyo on Monday came in wake of
news of news of a change executives and staggering exposure
to US credit woes.
Nov 05 2007
China Fashion Week opens in Beijing with designers showing
their spring-summer 2008 collections. Images of Rosestudio
Fashion Co. Ltd’s “Guo Pei Fashion Show”, an haute-couture
show, and the Cabbeen Clothing Co.Ltd. menswears’ line.
Nov 05 2007
Confirming its long-rumored foray into the mobile market,
Google said Monday it is developing a free cell phone software
package so the internet search leader can more easily peddle
ads and services to people who aren’t in front of a PC.
Nov 05 2007
The championship took place in Perth, Western Australia.
Mangold, the 2005 champion, beat Spaniard Alejandro Maclean
in the consolation final.
Nov 05 2007
62-year-old Kailash Jagodiya says he can eat 51 of the chillies
in one minute. He also smears his body with chilli powder, and
says he can endure this for an entire day.
Nov 03 2007
Cargill Inc. says it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of
ground beef that may be contaminated with E.coli bacteria, the
second time in less than a month it has voluntarily recalled beef
that may have been tainted.
Nov 03 2007
A US astronaut has carried out a dangerous spacewalk to fix
a damaged solar panel on the ISS.
Nov 02 2007
19-year-old Kristina Dimitrova from Bulgaria and Andrei Andrei
aged 24 from Romania won the women’s and men’s categories
in the world’s best bum contest, organized by the underwear
maker Sloggi. 43 candidates from 28 countries battled it out at
the final in Munich to convince the jury of the quality of their
behind.
Nov 02 2007
A man in California is trying to realize his dream of preserving
and restoring some of the oldrest trees in the world. As
Correspondent Haven Daley reports, the effort involves some
brave souls climbing hundreds of feet up the ancient Redwoods.
Nov 02 2007
Game over! The AP’s Derrik J. Lang plays ‘Clive Barker’s
Jericho’ in one sitting and talks to the producer of ‘Turning
Point: Fall of Liberty’ about creating an ending.
Nov 02 2007
A Belgian man broke out of jail while his accomplice distracted
the guards by landing a helicopter in the prison. Authorities
caught up with Nordin Benallal in the Netherlands.
