LONDON, England. CNN reports here: Authorities in Kent, England, have appealed to the public for help in solving the armed robbery of a security company, which involved the kidnapping of a manager and resulted in the theft of 25 million pounds, or about $43.5 million.
As the extent of a doping scandal involving Austrian athletes at the Winter Olympics becomes clearer, Germany’s press on Tuesday tries to figure out what it all means for the games in Turin in particular and sport in general. For more see this page at Spiegel Online.
Can Exercise or Mind Games Help? A Look at the Evidence here in this article at the Washington Post website and please let us know what you think about it.
Spiegel Online writes here: A 70-year-old Berlin woman is paying the price for trying to top up her pension with a couple of bank heists. The judge jailed her because he was convinced she would have gone on robbing banks — police searching her apartment found a number of "Hand over the money" notes she […]
CNN writes here: Lawmakers voice concerns about takeover by Dubai-based firm. President Bush is facing political pressure to block a deal that would give a United Arab Emirates-based company management of six major U.S. seaports.
"A Soap," a film about a straight woman who falls in love with a transsexual man, came away with two prizes over the weekend. But what’s the fascination? SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with the film’s director Pernille Fischer Christensen about the gender confusion in all of us. You can read the interview here at the Spiegel […]
Found here at the Washington Post website: Martha Stewart believes her version of NBC’s popular reality show featuring Donald Trump flopped this past fall because of too much "Apprentice." See also this article here at the Newsweek website: Renovating Martha Inc. A year out of jail, she’s still crafting her comeback. So what do you think […]
The Independent writes and (much more) here in this article titled: Paris Hilton: Naked ambition: Paris Hilton is famous. You may have heard of her. She appears in a celebrated sex video, she appears on television, she is the heiress to a $50m (£29m) hotel fortune and this week she appeared on the catwalk at the […]
CNET News.com writes: When the first high-definition DVDs finally hit shelves this spring, a mad scramble may ensue–not for the discs themselves, but to figure out what computers and devices are actually able to play them in their full glory.
Unraveling the mystery won’t be easy. Many, if not most, of today’s top-of-the-line computers and […]