A combination photo of Panasonic's "Evolta" robots, swim (top), run (R) and bike robot (L), being demonstrated during a news conference in Tokyo September 15, 2011. The company said three types of Evolta robots, developed to swim, bike and run, will challenge to complete an Ironman triathlon course in Hawaii, a total of about 230 km, within one week or 168 hours from October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao ...
03:20 PM, Sep 15, 2011
Honolulu: Thieves broke into a performing arts organization's van and stole three puppets worth $ 10,000, cutting the company's cast in half in the middle of a popular tour and prompting workers to frantically dig through trash bins in search of the missing characters. Maui Academy of Performing Arts officials said the cloth-covered foam puppets were created in 2009 by puppeteer Frank Kane, who once worked for Jim Henson and...
01:53 PM, Apr 12, 2011
Reno: Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plant have reached Las Vegas, but scientists say it poses no health risk. Extremely small amounts of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131 and zenon-133 reached a monitoring station by the city's Atomic Testing Museum this week, said Ted Hartwell, manager of the Desert Research Institute's Community Environmental Monitoring Program. Hartwell said he's certain the isotopes came from Japan because they're not usually...
07:54 AM, Mar 27, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama has ordered a thorough review of safety at nuclear plants in the country in response to the emergency unfolding at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday after returning from a surprise visit to the Japanese embassy, Obama said medical and nuclear experts have assured him that the situation in Fukushima poses no direct threat to the...
11:14 AM, Mar 18, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama has said that he was not worried about radiation from the quake hit Japanese nuclear power plant reaching Hawaii. Asked about whether he is worried about the radiation from Japan reaching the US shores, Obama said, "No. I've been assured that it, any nuclear release dissipates by the time it gets even to Hawaii, much less to the mainland of the US." "I do think...
07:03 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Tokyo: The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami on Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by eight feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. "At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (eight feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about...
12:52 PM, Mar 12, 2011
More than 45 countries have offered to help Japan deal with Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami, the United Nations said. Following is a list of aid offers. * US President Barack Obama sent condolences to the people of Japan and said the United States would provide any help its close ally needed. * US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the military was willing to do "anything we are asked to...
09:20 AM, Mar 12, 2011
Santiago: Chile on Friday upgraded a tsunami alert for its coastline and remote Easter Island territory after waves triggered by a massive earthquake in Japan hit Hawaii, and said it would evacuate flood-prone areas along the mainland coast. Chile was hit by a magnitude 8.8 quake and ensuing tsunamis a year ago that hammered towns, roads and industries in south central Chile, killed more than 500 people and caused an...
07:40 AM, Mar 12, 2011
Tokyo: Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people. Daybreak was expected to reveal the full extent of the death and damage from Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the 10-meter high tsunami it sent surging into cities and villages, sweeping away everything in its path. In...
06:57 AM, Mar 12, 2011
Oakland (California, US)/Quito: Thousands of people fled their homes along the California coast on Friday as a tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake in Japan began hitting the US West Coast after rolling through Hawaii. Initial reports from US civil defence officials and residents of coastal communities suggested the force of the tsunami, a giant wall of water, had dissipated as it sped across the Pacific Ocean toward North America....
12:21 AM, Mar 12, 2011
Washington: The United States Supreme Court refused to take up the question of President Obama's citizenship on January 10. The high court rejected the request by Orly Taitz, a California lawyer who has been spearheading the "birther" movement of mainly right-wing protesters seeking questions on where Obama was born. Obama's citizenship was first challenged by a US Army medic who refused to deploy to Iraq because she viewed the US...
09:29 AM, Jan 11, 2011
Washington: After months of political highs and lows, US President Barack Obama is enjoying Christmas holiday with his family in Hawaii and on top of his reading list is the biography of former president Ronald Reagan, a media report said. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tweeted that Obama is currently going through book on Reagan while holidaying, the Wall Street Journal said. The book "President Reagan: The Role of...
01:18 PM, Dec 27, 2010
Honolulu: Eight-year-old Juliana-Rose Hatcher had tracked Santa Claus all of Friday with the aid of NORAD's Santa hotline, before she got some unexpected help from Michelle Obama. The first lady stayed behind when her husband, President Barack Obama, and daughters Sasha and Malia hit the beach on their Christmas vacation in Hawaii to answer calls from children trying to pinpoint Santa's whereabouts. "She asked me what I wanted from Santa...
10:01 AM, Dec 25, 2010
Honolulu: The Social Security numbers, grades and other personal information of more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students were posted online for nearly a year before being removed this week, The Associated Press has learned. University officials told the AP that a faculty member inadvertently uploaded files containing the information to an unprotected server on November 30, 2009, exposing the names, academic performance, disabilities and other sensitive information of...
12:17 PM, Oct 29, 2010
The actor and the model have put to rest any rumours of a split ...
04:27 PM, Apr 19, 2010
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