Taliban suicide bombers today made an attack on Afghanistan Gov. Abdul Basir Salangi and there was a result of 22 deaths. In defense, Gov. Salangi had taken shots at the suicide bombers. “The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kabul. The [...]

“I am going to be ending my campaign for president.” Today Tim Pawlenty (T-Paw), the former Governor from Minnesota and now the former GOP candidate, has decided that he will not be running for president any longer. Pawlenty announced this today on the ABC show, ‘This Week’! T-Paw was pretty disappointed where he finished yesterday [...]

It’s been nearly four years since tragedy struck Virginia tech on April 16, 2007.  Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student attending Virginia Tech, went on a shooting rampage leaving 25 wounded and taking 32 lives.  Today the horror strikes again.  Numerous children, attending a summer camp on campus, reported seeing a man hiding a gun under [...]

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that online marketplaces, and eBay in particular, can be held accountable if their users are found to be selling counterfeit goods via their online sales portals.  The ruling came after a case brought to the court by cosmetics giant L’Oreal, who complained that eBay users in [...]

The space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center without a hitch, in spite of threatening weather, marking the shuttle’s final voyage. Atlantis, climbing at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour, is scheduled to dock at the International Space Station on Sunday. Those involved, and many throughout the nation, experienced a moment of bittersweet [...]

After activists scheduled a demonstration to take place Friday, calling for accountability for perpetrators of the killings and attacks in Tahrir Square, more than two dozen officials were arrested. Among them, allies of former president Hosni Mubarak and assailants who rode camels and horses through the square during the uprising beginning on February 2nd. During [...]

At least 71 people died this week in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. The federal Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, a member of the People’s Party which holds power in the city, said the death toll may be as high as 85. The violence was the worst so far this year and comes after the city’s most [...]

News of the World, Britain’s biggest Sunday tabloid, in business for 168 years, will be shutting down after Sunday’s edition. The newspaper, run by Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate, is dealing with a scandal over alleged phone hacking of celebrities as well as families of terror victims and those related to a murdered girl. Allegations brought [...]

Casey Anthony will be free after spending six more days in jail. On Wednesday of next week, Anthony will be a free woman after being acquitted in the death of her daughter, Caylee. After the jury returned a “not guilty” verdict on all charges relating to Caylee’s death, from first-degree capital murder to manslaughter, Anthony [...]

After seven years of intensive work, Boeing and Japanese airline All Nippon Airways have finally begun to test the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, originally scheduled to be launched in 2008.  The deal was struck back in 2004, when ANA agreed to be the debut company for the Dreamliner, Boeing’s most fuel-efficient craft to date.  [...]