Manchester, England (Sports Network) – John O’Shea’s goal in the 17th minute gave Manchester United a 1-0 win over Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
The WHO will convene an expert panel on April 29 to attempt to answer that question, but one way to begin is to look at where the virus originated.
Epidemiologists appear to be homing in on a possible ground zero in the Mexican Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, in a town called Perote, which is home [...]
More than 1,000 people have fallen ill in Mexico City in a short period of time.
An unusual strain of swine flu has been detected among victims of a large outbreak of a severe respiratory illness in Mexico, prompting global health officials, fearful of a potential flu pandemic, to scramble yesterday to try to contain [...]
An impressive number, considering that the DSi is not only an upgrade in hardware but also a jump in cost as the system costs $170, compared to the DS Lite’s $130. Nintendo dominates handheld gaming, hands down. The company recently said it has sold more than 100 million of the original Nintendo DS and its follow-on [...]
Brown adipose tissue (called brown fat) helps babies, young children, and other small mammals stay warm by burning calories when activated by low temperatures. The more familiar fat — known as white fat, although it’s actually yellowish — stores up calories and stubbornly accumulates around waistlines, thighs and bottoms.
Three new studies show that most adults [...]
Gioacchino Giuliani a researcher who works for the National Institute of Astrophysics, had forecast a devastating earthquake for March 29, posting his findings on the Internet and alerting authorities.
Vans with loudspeakers drove around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after Giuliani, from the National Institute of Astrophysics, predicted a large [...]
Sallie Mae announced that it will bring 2,000 jobs to the U.S. within the next 18 months as it shifts call center and other operations from overseas.
SLM Corp, as the company is legally known, said on Monday
it plans to add staff over the next 18 months in call centers,
information technology and operations support across the [...]
Skype’s iPhone application last week started the debate on wireless net neutrality.
Consumer rights organization The Free Press has asked the Federal Communications Commission to apply its 2005 Internet Policy Statement—otherwise known as the FCC’s principles of net neutrality—to wireless Internet services, as well as more-traditional wireline broadband services. The reason? Mobile operators’ seeming unwillingness to [...]
Carrie Underwood became the seventh female to win the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year award Sunday (4/5), ending Kenny Chesney’s four-year reign.
Incidentally, at the
ACM Awards 2009, she also won ACM Top
Female Vocalist award as well, so all in all, it was a big night for the former American Idol, as [...]
According to a source, Miller scheduled a Monday afternoon meeting with his staff, at which point he is expected to finalize the decision. The source said Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood called Miller early Monday after having been rejected and “significantly changed” the offer, which was initially around $2 million per year for seven seasons.
Last [...]