The U.S. government has launched an investigation into whether Internet search engine Google is using its dominance to promote its products while blocking competitors. Google controls more than 65 percent of web searches worldwide and earns most of its money – billions of dollars – in search-related advertising. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says it […]
New York Approves Same-Sex Marriage in Major Gay Rights Victory
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
New York has become the sixth U.S. state to legalize same sex marriage. By a vote of 33 to 29, the legislature in the populous northeastern state approved a bill late Friday allowing same-sex unions after four Republicans crossed party lines to support it. Gay rights advocates hailed the vote, calling it a major victory […]
Suicide Bomber Attacks Afghan Hospital
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
A suicide car bomber set off a huge blast Saturday at a hospital in eastern Afghanistan. The explosion in Logar province, about 40 kilometers from the capital, Kabul, caused heavy casualties, but Afghan authorities gave conflicting estimates. Hours after the attack, officials said they think the blast killed more than 30 people, including women and […]
Militants Launch Deadly Attack on Police Station in NW Pakistan
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 11:15 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani police say militants are attacking one of their stations in the northwestern part of the country, killing at least five police officers. Local police officials said militants armed with guns and grenades launched their attack on a station in the small town of Kolachi. By late Saturday, officials said the attack was ongoing and […]
NATO Responds to Libya Claim that Strikes Kill 15 Civilians
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 11:05 am (UTC-5)
NATO officials have responded to Libyan claims that alliance forces struck a restaurant and bakery in the eastern city of Brega, killing 15 civilians, saying its aircraft hit “legitimate military targets.” A spokesman for the NATO mission in Libya said Saturday that allied warplanes hit key command and control centers in the strategic port city, […]
Wayward Penguin Recovers in New Zealand Zoo Hospital
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 10:35 am (UTC-5)
Veterinarians in New Zealand say a wayward emperor penguin, knicknamed Happy Feet, is in critical condition following two medical procedures performed at a zoo in Wellington. On Friday veterinarians cleared the bird’s throat. On Saturday they attempted to flush sand from its stomach. The bird had been eating sand and twigs on Peka Peka beach […]
Russian Billionaire Elected Head of Pro-Business Political Party
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 10:20 am (UTC-5)
Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov has been elected to lead the pro-business Russian political party Right Cause. Members of the party voted in the 46-year-old billionaire on Saturday. Prokhorov is one of Russia’s richest men and owns a U.S. professional basketball team. He heads the Onexim Group, an investment firm that has interests in mining, banking […]
Hundreds of Syrians Flee Into Lebanon
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
Hundreds of Syrians have fled across the border into neighboring Lebanon to escape escalating violence in their homeland. A Lebanese security official said Saturday that up to 1,000 Syrians, at least six with gunshot wounds, have crossed into northern Lebanon over the past two days near the border town of Wadi Khaled. The injured refugees […]
US Probes Google’s Business Practices
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
The U.S. government has launched an investigation into whether the Internet search engine Google is using its dominance to promote its products while blocking competitors. Google controls more than 65 percent of web searches worldwide and earns most of its money — billions of dollars — in search-related advertising The U.S, Federal Trade Commission is […]
Suicide Bomber Attacks Afghan Hospital
Posted June 25th, 2011 at 8:50 am (UTC-5)
A suicide car bomber set off a huge blast Saturday at a hospital in eastern Afghanistan. The explosion in Logar province, about 40 kilometers from the capital, Kabul, caused heavy casualties, but Afghan authorities gave conflicting estimates. Hours after the attack, officials said they think the blast killed about 20 people, including women and children, […]
