Tiger Woods said Friday Night on his website he is taking an indefinite leave from golf to try to save his marriage. Tiger stated on his website, “I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person”. Tiger and his wife, Elin, have been married five years and have a 2-year-old [...]
A Chicago man was charged Monday with conducting surveillance on potential targets in the Indian city of Mumbai before terrorist attacks in 2008 that killed 166 people. David Coleman Headley, 49, was charged in a 12-count criminal information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and maim people in [...]
Today President Barack Obama will unveil a new U.S. plan for winning the eight-year war in Afghanistan. There is expected to be a substantial troop increase, while also mapping out a path to bring America’s military involvement in Afghanistan to an end. President Obama has described Afghanistan as the war the United States cannot afford [...]
Military and police in the Philippines are searching for a southern governor and his militia after 21 people, including journalists, family and supporters of his political opponent were found dead. More bodies are expected to be uncovered. Authorities discovered the bodies of at least 30 people who had been kidnapped early today in the southern [...]
1. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT)
There are approximately 4,200 stores in the U.S. and the company has affirmed its medium-term growth goals including opening new supercenters in Canada, Mexico and the U.K.
2. PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP)
3. Perrigo Company (Nasdaq: PRGO)
With strong corporate growth spans all divisions which means no hiring freezes for this Michigan-based employer.
4. NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP)
#1 [...]
Military officials say the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 and wounding 29 in last week’s shooting rampage at his military post in Texas will face 13 charges of premeditated murder under the military’s legal system. Hasan is suspected of killing 12 soldiers and one civilian in last Thursday’s shooting spree at Fort Hood. He [...]
Thursday there was a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, the Texas Army base where 13 people were killed and 28 wounded by an Army psychiatrist facing deployment to Afghanistan. U.S. Army officials said Friday that the alleged shooter in the military-base massacre that left 13 people dead and dozens wounded was in stable condition [...]
The organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has approved a new plan to allow non-Latin characters in Web extensions. Known as Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), the system is designed to globalize the Net so regions around the world can use their own local alphabet characters to surf in cyberspace, [...]
Radovan Karadzic is allegedly responsible for the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebenica in 1995. He is in The Hague now for charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The charges are genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. Karadzic is accused of leading four years of ethnic cleansing [...]
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) this morning reported a 14% slip in sales and an 18% plunge in profit for its fiscal first quarter. Its shares immediately soared, briefly flitting to a 52-week high of $29.35. First-quarter net income fell to $3.57 billion, or 40 cents a share, beating the 32-cent average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. [...]