Home Eco Awareness - 'Global Warming' Polar Bear Rug (GALLERY)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:27:13 PDT
(TrendHunter.com) This poignant and haunting rug design shows a single polar bear stranded and alone on a tiny ice floe in a vast sea of blue water. The rug delivers a distressing message of the results of Global Warming…

5 ETFs Defying the Market Doldrums - New Money - usnews.com

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:32:31 PDT
Here are five funds defying the current market trend.

X-Men Go West, to San Francisco

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:20:56 PDT
If you pay attention to the national news, it's been the world against San Francisco lately. If we aren't getting hammered for the city's activism in the gay marriage debate, our role as a "sanctuary city" routinely causes controversy.

Google Horns in on Microsoft’s Olympic Glory

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:45:27 PDT
Interesting news about Google and Microsoft.

SOCOM: Confrontation Release Plans Finalized, Three Options Available

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:32:31 PDT
Starting the week October 14th, you will be able to pick up the following versions of SOCOM: Confrontation in North America: Bundle version at $59.99, stand alone version at $39.99 and the PSN version at $39.99. Here’s a quick description of the bundles: $59.99 SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation (Bundle Version) Includes SOCOM Confrontation, a newly designed Bluetooth® Headset for the PLAYSTATION®3 system and exclusive Behind the Scenes videos. $39.99 SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontat

Google Takes On WordTracker & Keyword Discovery

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:27:27 PDT
Google launched Google Insights for Search yesterday, a free keyword research tool that rivals for-fee keyword services WordTracker and Keyword Discovery. Regular readers know how fascinated I am with search behavior, so it should come as no surprise that I find Google Insights exceedingly cool. I've only given Insights a short spin around the block but I love what I see so far. You can compare search terms and get data on them back to 2004. You can find related terms and break searches d

SPARK-Ling Bug

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:57:07 PDT
The trends are changing.No longer is it a cool thing to own a long sedan, spewing horsepower in excess of 150.It’s now all about driving a car that’s perfect for city conditions yet manages to floor you with its uber cool looks.And friends, Chevrolet’s Spark is the new front runner in this category.

News Filtering Site SkyGrid Gets $11 Million Funding (CBS News)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:33:19 PDT
News filtering and aggregation site SkyGrid, based in Sunnyvale, CA, has raised a relatively big $11 million second round of funding. The round was led by RRE Ventures, with previous investor BlackRock also participating, along with a "prestigious group of investors from both Wall Street and Silicon Valley," the company said. Previous venture investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther ...

10 No Surgery Bum Boosters - Butt Bras (GALLERY)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:27:13 PDT
(TrendHunter.com) Trendelacreme.com recently recommended five easy ways to get a butt-lift without surgery - butt-bras. When gravity gets you down, head to the lingerie department! There is quite a range. If overall slimming…

AFP News Service Whines Compassion for Terrorist Suspect

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:32:10 PDT
Oh my.... feel compassion for a suspected terrorist on the U.N. no fly list. He can't fly home to Canada because he can't get a ticket. He's stuck in Sudan for months. BOOK PASSAGE ON A FRIGGIN SHIP AND GO HOME TO CANADA. Sheesh... there are ways to travel other than airlines. Stupid AFP reporter.

CWEB News - Breaking News, Celebrity, Business News and Video Broadcast

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Las Vegas, Nev. (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 -- Cwebnews.com has just gone live with the newest news network on the web. Cwebnews.com offers current and breaking news for politics, international news, ...


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Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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