French actress Eva Green was chosen to be the new Bond girl, Vesper Lynd, in the new movie with the famous spy, "Casino Royale", despite the media rumors that Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron are among the favorites to be cast for this part.
Eva made her film debut in The Dreamers in [...]
CNN reports here: More bags were lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered by U.S. airlines last year than in at least eight years, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Reports of mishandled bags on domestic flights rose 23 percent in 2005, from 4.91 per 1,000 passengers in 2004 to 6.04 per 1,000. That’s an average of [...]
Found here at the CNN website: U.S. government still functions as ‘five and dime’ store. The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday.
CNET News.com writes here: Nearly every U.S. company with a Web site located in China will have to move it elsewhere or its executives would face prison terms of up to a year, according to proposed legislation expected to be introduced this week in the U.S. Congress.
A draft version of the bill reviewed by CNET [...]
BBC reports here: Mac users are being warned to be on the lookout for what is being called one of the first viruses for Apple computers. The malicious program, known as Leap-A, tries to spread via Apple’s iChat instant messaging program. The worm disguises itself as images of Apple’s forthcoming version of its operating system, [...]
Found this story here at the CNN website: Greenland’s southern glaciers have accelerated their march to the Atlantic Ocean over the past decade and now contribute more to the global rise in sea levels than previously estimated, researchers say.
And here at the BBC web site: "We are concerned because we know that sea levels have [...]
The LA Times writes here: When the government of Malaysia sought to repair its tarnished image in the U.S. by arranging a meeting between President Bush and its controversial prime minister in 2002, it followed the same strategy as many other well-heeled interests in Washington: It called on lobbyist Jack Abramoff for help.
CNN writes here: As many as 142 million people around the world could die if bird flu turns into a "worst case" influenza pandemic, according to a sobering new study of its possible consequences.
And global economic losses could run to $4.4 trillion — the equivalent of wiping out the Japanese economy’s annual output.
The study, prepared [...]
Spiegel Online writes here: New images from Abu Ghraib broadcast in Australia show a new scope of the torture committed by American soldiers at the Iraqi prison. With the daily protests in the Middle East over anti-Muhammad cartoons, the timing could not be worse.