Trang Bang: In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava. She will always be a victim without a name. It only took a second for Associated Press photographer...
12:56 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Cannes: The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, 'Amour.' The Austrian director's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons - 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant - as an elderly couple coping with the wife's worsening health. Cannes jury member Jean Paul Gaultier praised...
10:15 AM, May 28, 2012
Director John Hillcoat's 'Lawless', Austrian director Michael Haneke's 'Amour' and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 'Beyond the Hills' are competing for the prestigious Palme D'Or this year. ...
09:50 AM, May 22, 2012
Canberra: An Australian billionaire announced plans on Monday to build an "unsinkable" version of the Titanic, 100 years after the original sank after hitting an iceberg. Titanic II is expected to make its maiden voyage from England to North America, the old Titanic route, in late 2016. "It is going to be designed so it won't sink," mining and tourism tycoon Clive Palmer told reporters. "It will be designed as...
03:45 PM, Apr 30, 2012
San Francisco: Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison said the software maker had considered building its own smartphone to compete with Apple Inc and Google Inc, but decided it was a "bad idea" after a weeks-long cost and market analysis. As part of that exhaustive internal analysis, he said, Oracle had pondered at one point buying Blackberry-maker Research in Motion Ltd and Palm - a smartphone maker scooped up by...
08:32 AM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: BenQ has announced the launch of its palm-sized second-generation 'Joybee GP2 projector' in India that lets users have a big screen experience on the move. The projector comes with an iPhone/iPod-compatible dock. Priced at Rs 39,167, the projector uses an LED light source to last for the life of the projector. Thus, it is claimed to project for 30,000 hours without decrease in brightness when in the Eco...
03:32 PM, Mar 28, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURM: This summer, instead of tasting Coke and Pepsi, the city is preferring soft drinks which are healthier. As many as ten outlets of KELPALM (Kerla State Palmyrah Products Development and Workers Welfare Corporation Limited) are running successfully at various locations in the city. Bottled palm drinks such as Palm Lahar, Palm Squash and Palm Syrup are available in the stalls. Palm Pine, a mixture of various fruits, including pineapple...
09:25 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Orlando: Two weeks after another injury scare, and two days before his former coach's book goes on sale, Tiger Woods looked dominant as ever in that red shirt on Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational. It was his first PGA Tour victory since a sex scandal at the end of 2009 led to one of the greatest downfalls in sports. And with the Masters only two weeks away, Woods...
08:50 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Orlando: Tiger Woods finished atop the leaderboard at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Saturday, leaving him one round away from winning on the US PGA Tour for the first time in 30 months. If anything, Saturday showed that it won't be easy for Woods. In two holes, he went from a four-shot lead to briefly tied with Graeme McDowell after a bizarre chain of events that featured a young man...
12:22 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Orlando: Tiger Woods has shown signs of his old form in recent weeks but now has the perfect chance to end a once-unthinkable PGA Tour victory drought of more than two years. Woods fired a seven-under-par 65 on Friday and will enter Saturday's third round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a share of the lead on a course where he has won six times in his career and enjoys...
10:40 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Orlando: South Korea's Charlie Wi took the early clubhouse lead in the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Thursday after firing a fine six-under-par 66 at Bay Hill. Wi mixed seven birdies with a bogey on the par-four eighth hole for a two-stroke lead over American Nick Watney at the penultimate tour event before the April 5-8 Masters. Former world number one Tiger Woods and England's Justin Rose...
03:36 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Jupiter, Fla.: Tiger Woods returned to practice on Friday and declared himself ready to play next week. Woods said in a story on his website that his left Achilles tendon felt good and that he would play in the two-day Tavistock Cup exhibition that starts on Monday, and then the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. Woods withdrew from the Cadillac Championship on Sunday after 11 holes with what he...
02:20 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Jupiter, Fla.: Tiger Woods said his left Achilles tendon is mildly strained and he is hopeful he can still play next week at Bay Hill. Woods withdrew from the Cadillac Championship at Doral on Sunday after hitting his tee shot on the 12th hole. "Got good news from doc tonight," he posted on his Twitter account on Monday night. "Only mild strain of left Achilles. Can resume hitting balls late...
09:56 AM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: Tata Steel has topped a list of India's 50 most admired companies, while four other companies from the steel-to-software conglomerate Tata group have also made to the first such rankings. However, the first such list for India, compiled by business magazine Fortune and global management consultancy Hay Group, has nearly half of the total 50 positions being occupied by the Indian units of the foreign companies. Tata Steel...
02:46 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The special prosecutor in the Palmoil import corruption case in Kerala stepped down on Thursday, saying he was not happy with the vigilance department's report in the case. P.A. Ahamed told reporters here he had no other option but to resign because he was not happy with the conclusion and observations made by the department. "I resign from the post," said Ahamed. This comes after the vigilance department gave...
04:22 PM, Feb 16, 2012
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