More and more of our precious memories are out of our hands – stored on remote servers run by online photo-sharing sites. Here are some tips on how to pick one that works best for you:
- Read closely. Examine the terms of service before you sign up for an online photo site. Don’t give in [...]
NEW YORK – A recent e-mail from Eastman Kodak Co. didn’t lead to a Kodak moment for Vanessa Daniele. It got her angry.
On May 16, the company’s Kodak Gallery online photo service will delete her picture albums unless she spends at least $4.99 by then and every year thereafter on prints and other products.
That’s the [...]
PARIS – France is ready to quadruple its civilian aid to Afghanistan to shore up schools and other nonmilitary institutions – but is not ready to send any more troops despite U.S. pressure, an official said Thursday.
The new French pledge comes as representatives of 70 nations were meeting in the Netherlands to discuss Afghanistan’s future [...]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Huge crowds have gathered in the Turkish capital for the funeral procession of a hardline nationalist politician who died in a helicopter crash last week.
The mourners in Ankara carried banners praising Muhsin Yazicioglu, leader of the Great Unity Party.
He and five other people died in the crash in bad weather in [...]
Imprisoned former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is on trial for the second time.
- What are the charges?
- Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are charged with embezzling oil worth more than $25 billion, from subsidiaries of Khodorkovsky’s Yukos oil company from 1998 to 2003, and of laundering most of the proceeds. They are also [...]
PARIS – Angry French workers facing layoffs at a Caterpillar factory briefly detained four of their bosses Tuesday at the U.S. manufacturer’s plant in the Alps to protest job cuts, a regional official said.
It is the third time in the past few weeks that French workers have seized their bosses to protest job losses stemming [...]
SAN’A, Yemen – Foreign tourists have been kidnapped in Yemen and taken to a mountainous area near the capital of the impoverished and tribal country, officials said Tuesday.
Security officials declined to provide more details including how many tourists were kidnapped, their nationalities or when and where they were taken captive. An official from Yemen’s Khawlan [...]
WASHINGTON – Hispanic students have become more segregated in U.S. suburban public schools over the last decade, even while blacks and Asians have become slightly less isolated, according to a new study.
The report by the Pew Hispanic Center challenges the conventional assumption that growing minority populations will create an instant “melting pot” in suburban and [...]
BOSTON (AP) – A Kenyan aunt of President Barack Obama goes to court Wednesday to begin her fight to reverse a five-year-old deportation order in a case drawing attention from observers on all sides of the immigration debate.
Zeituni Onyango was ordered deported in 2004 after losing her bid for asylum in the U.S., but she [...]
NEWARK, Ohio (AP) – Authorities say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool.
Police in Newark, 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered [...]
