Entries from June 2008

Spears granted overnight stay with her kids

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Spears granted overnight stay with her kids

The frequency of visitation allowed to Britney Spears is not clear but the court has allowed the pop star to stay overnights with her sons, 2-year-old Sean Preston and 21-month-old Jayden James.

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User mapping program from Google

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

User mapping program from Google

The Google Map Maker service will be launched by Google to make users get update information about roads and cities. The service will come with a user submitted data and the users will be able to upload data to Google Maps.

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Community close to Mississippi River delta at risk of contracting tropical diseases

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Community close to Mississippi River delta at risk of contracting tropical diseases

Climatic changes has led to increase in spreading infectious illnesses like dengue fever and Chagas disease and the researchers are predicting that the African American community that lives close to the delta of the Mississippi River are at higher risks of contracting these dieses.

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Home values fall in 20 U.S. metropolitan cities

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Home values fall in 20 U.S. metropolitan cities

The value of homes has declined in 20 metropolitan cities in U.S. and the reports issued on Tuesday said that consumer confidence dropped to its lowest point in the last 16 years. The consumer confidence index fell to 50.4 in June from 58.1 in May.

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Number of dollar millionaires’ rise across the world

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Number of dollar millionaires’ rise across the world

The number of millionaires increased by 6% all over the world. As per World Wealth Report from Merrill Lynch on the globe about 10.1 million people are worth more than $1 million and Europe and North America continue to create millionaires but Ireland sees a fall in wealthy [...]

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Obama attacked by evangelical leaders

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Obama attacked by evangelical leaders

Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama met the son of Rev. Billy Graham a few days back and the evangelical leader James C. Dobson has attacked Obama saying that he has got a fruitcake interpretation of the constitution.

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Militants kill Israeli troops breaching 5 day old cease fire

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Militants kill Israeli troops breaching 5 day old cease fire

As was suspected by the Hamas leaders, the cease fire agreement between Israel and Gaza militant group Hamas did not extend for more than 5 days and Islamic Jihad rocket attacks were made on Israeli troops that had killed a Palestinian group’s commanders in West Bank.

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Rates are expected to be stable at 2%

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Rates are expected to be stable at 2%

The credit market pressures and inflation will be discussed by Federal Reserve and the economist is expecting that the chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues will keep the rates at 2%.

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U.S. concerned over increasing insurgency in Afghanistan

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

U.S. concerned over increasing insurgency in Afghanistan

As per pentagon reports in Afghanistan the insurgent activities have increased sharply and it has spread to areas that were considered to be safe and stable. About 40% of the attacks have been carried out in the eastern province of Afghanistan alone.

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Tropical storms head towards Taiwan and southeast China

June 25th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Tropical storms head towards Taiwan and southeast China

The tropical storms, Fengshen that caused destruction in Philippine is heading towards Taiwan and southeast China. The storm smashed a ferry that carried more than 864 people and only 34 survivors could escape the devastation.

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