The launch of an Apple iPhone is a cultish event, where each eye in a geek universe turns to California, possibly around a internet or by satellite link-up.
The outcome has been each other phone association tends to keep their heads resolutely subsequent a wall when a new iPhone is due – yet not this year.
Both [...]
Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming said his team will not face any extra pressure when they take on Cape Cobras in a NCL T20 tie Wednesday.
The defending champions faced defeat against the Mumbai Indians in their opening game and their semi-final hopes now hang in the balance but the coach insisted his wards still [...]
Global warming is changing the adventure-travel industry. Sure, climate change has had an adverse effect on activities like coral-reef diving and polar-bear watching. But there are many more stunning things tourists can do and see, thanks to the earth’s changing landscape. From springtime hikes in Greenland and on eastern Tibetan trails, which had been covered [...]
One of the most promising, proven methods for preventing H.I.V. in Africa is being implemented much more slowly than international health authorities recommended.
Circumcision, which cuts men’s risk of infection by 60 percent or more, has been urged by health authorities since 2007. Their goal is to circumcise more than 20 million men, 80 percent of [...]
Noel Gallagher is in the dressing room at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England. It’s August 11, 1996, and he and his band Oasis have just played the second of two 125,000-capacity concerts — events that would prove to be the high-water mark for British rock music in both the 1990s and subsequent decade.
Like everyone else [...]
The seven-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is deployed by the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-48) in this NASA handout photo dated September 1991. NASA is expecting the satellite to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.
Every satellite falls back toward earth. But when it’s a giant, 12,500-pound version (about the size of an average elephant), expected to hit somewhere [...]
TOKYO – Never mind natural resources or national pride.
China’s rapid military modernization and aggressive territorial claims are rooted in the calculus of nuclear deterrence, according to defense analysts in Japan.
China has claimed virtually all of the South China Sea and is developing aircraft carriers and stealth fighter planes largely to secure a haven for ballistic [...]
Mongolia by Horseback: Traveling with Genghis Khan’s Descendants
For much of the year, Mongolia covers up under a thick layer of snow and ice, lacerated by glacial winds that make its frigid expanses as uninviting to potential visitors as they are punishing for the thousands of nomads who call the country’s wilderness their home.
But for a [...]
WASHINGTON — A combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 trillion as he drew clear battle lines for next year’s elections. He promised to veto any effort by congressional Republicans to cut government health care benefits for the [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “The Lion King” is back on top of the movie jungle seventeen years after the film first hit theaters.
A 3-D release of animated classic “The Lion King” ruled the domestic weekend box office by trouncing virus thriller “Contagion” and three newcomers, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters on Sunday.
The three-day [...]
