NEW YORK (AP) – Prince Harry reminded New Yorkers on Saturday how much his mother had loved their city, then climbed onto a pony for a rousing game of polo to raise money for impoverished children in Africa.
On a brilliantly sunny day on Governors Island in New York Harbor, the 24-year-old prince drew a crowd [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Conan O’Brien wants viewers to think of his “Tonight Show” debut Monday as the introductory course to a new late-night era.
“I’m not going to cure cancer on the first show, and I’m not going to jump Snake River Canyon. I’m not going to levitate. Sometimes people forget this is the first [...]
LONDON (AP) – She dreamed a dream, and it very nearly came true.
But Susan Boyle’s reality show journey finished Saturday with a second-place finish in the finals of “Britain’s Got Talent,” an ending that didn’t fit the fairy tale. Instead of the 48-year-old internet sensation, an exuberant dance troupe called “Diversity” took the 100,000-pound ($159,000) [...]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – With a dramatic bow of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii’s head, rich sounds of the piano, violins, cello and viola broke the concert hall silence as he and a string quartet played Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44.
Just before the final note about 30 minutes later, the Van Cliburn International [...]
FRESNO, California (AP) – Hundreds of same-sex couples and their supporters marched Saturday through dusty California farm towns, pushing for gay marriage in the state’s conservative center.
Just days after the state’s highest court upheld a ban on gay marriage, advocates said they wouldn’t be dissuaded, and vowed to win the hearts and minds of those [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans are divided over how aggressively to go after Sonia Sotomayor, a family feud about the tone of the debate over confirming the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court.
There are concerns raised by an increasing number of GOP lawmakers and conservative leaders about the strident rhetoric that certain prominent Republicans have used [...]
KOCHI: Google Chrome is now being offered in many Indian languages, with version 2 of the browser made available for download.
The stable version 2 comes in Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya (on Windows Vista alone), Tamil, and Telugu. A Hindi version was available earlier.
What this means is that PC users who have Windows Vista [...]
Though in India use of cell phone is no more confined to any particular class, people belonging among the affluent section of the society use it for purchasing goods and services. Nevertheless, the picture is quite different in other parts of the world where more and more people are using mobile devices to satisfy their [...]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – Authorities shot dozens of exhausted whales that beached on a shore near South Africa’s storm-lashed southern tip Saturday amid scenes of grief and despair from volunteers who had tried to save them.
Fifty-five false killer whales washed up on the shores of Kommitjie, near the Cape of Good Hope, in [...]
ISLAMABAD (AP) – The Taliban have fled the Pakistani army’s advance on the main town in the Swat Valley, delivering the military a strategic prize in its offensive against militants in the country’s northwest, commanders said.
Taliban fighters had dug themselves into bunkers built into hotels and government buildings in Mingora, and initially offered stiff resistance [...]
