BBC World Service’s flagship sports programme for Africa, Fast Track, has revealed the shortlist for the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2009 vote, as selected by football experts throughout Africa. It includes Didier Drogba (Chelsea and Ivory Coast), Michael Essien (Chelsea and Ghana), Samuel Eto’o (Inter Milan and Cameroon), Tresor Mputu Mabi (TP Mazembe [...]
Manila :Local and foreign activists and journalists marched Monday in the Philippine capital to protest the massacre of 57 civilians allegedly perpetrated by political allies of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The rallyists gathered outside the presidential palace in Manila to denounce the Nov 23 brazen mass slaughter of mostly women victims and journalists in Ampatuan [...]
London : The British Broadcasting Corporation has apologised to radio listeners after cricket commentator and former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott used the F-word off air. Boycott was overheard shouting “F***ing tosser” during radio coverage of the England’s one-day international match against South Africa Sunday. Boycott did not know he could be heard on air, and [...]
The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is a novelty, a fad. These were the words uttered famously by a president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer Horace Reckham not to invest in the Ford Motor Co. in 1903. Blame it on the Theory of Technological Evolution or call it [...]
Munich : Searches on the Yahoo engine should soon deliver more results, thanks in part to new filter functions, reports the company. Those new filters could allow a searcher, for example, to limit results to those found on major websites like Amazon or Wikipedia. The company also reports that its filter allows searches by related [...]
Madrid :Exiled Cuban author and journalist Julio San Francisco documents the struggle for press freedom in his homeland in “Prensa Gulag”, an online novel that the co-founder of an independent news agency on the island has been working on for much of his life. With this novel, now available at bubok.es, lulu.com and amazon.com, the [...]
Washington : The Washington Post will close its remaining bureaus outside the US capital, the paper said Wednesday, in an attempt to cut costs in the prevailing economic climate. The daily said it would close bureaus in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, pulling back to focus on local news and national politics coming out [...]
London : Hollywood actress-singer Lindsay Lohan has gone topless for a photospread in French fashion magazine Purple. The “Mean Girls” star appears in a series of candid poses in the provocative shots taken by ace snapper Terry Richardson, reports imdb.com. The pictures will feature in the upcoming issue of the publication.
Reston : comScore, Inc. has released October 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that more than 167 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in October with nearly 28 billion videos viewed during the month, as Google Sites accounted for 38 [...]
London : Google removed a racially offensive image of US First Lady Michelle Obama from its search engine Wednesday while the blog hosting it apologised in Chinese. The image of Michelle with monkey features, which appeared at the top of Google’s search results, was posted on a blog called Hot Girls, which is hosted by [...]