Report: Nokia loses cellphone top spot to Samsung The Washington Times | HELSINKI (AP) - Nokia has been bumped off its 14-year top spot as the world’s largest cellphone company by Samsung, according to a British research firm. | Gartner said Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co. sold 86.6 million cellphones in the first quarter, inching past Nokia Corp’s s...
Milwaukee Art Museum makes proposal to restore War Memorial Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Milwaukee Art Museum has unveiled a proposed $15 million project that includes a small, glassy new building on the lakefront, the creation of an urban park, a gutting and redesign of its galleries and a plan to help restore the War Memorial complex. | Museum officials say the plan is urgent beca...
Leaders arrive for NATO summit, terrorism charges announced Xinhua | CHICAGO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of NATO countries and the security bloc's partner nations on Saturday began to descend on Chicago, where the organization is having its 25th summit on Sunday. | On the same day, local authorities announced terror...
The stage is set for summit, protests Chicago Tribune | After all the planning, platitudes and protest, the NATO summit officially gets under way Sunday at McCormick Place, with President Barack Obama and fellow Western military alliance leaders charting the wind-down of involvement in Afghanistan and d...
Syrian opposition gets shoulder-fired missiles WorldNetDaily | Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card u...
Krakow, Poland's biggest tourist destination The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetKrakow's Main Market Square is one of the oldest and most beautiful one in Europe From music breaking out in the streets to the deathly silence at Auschwitz, Krakow's enigma lies in both, its glorious present and horrific pa...
Air Canada, pilots turn to arbitrator CBC | A last-ditch attempt between Air Canada and its pilots to work out a new contract on their own came to a crashing halt Saturday and it appears resolving the matter will fall to a federal mediator. | The union representing the pilots issued a news r...
Americans' support for Afghan war at new low LA Daily News By Anne Gearan | The Associated PressAssociated PressPosted: 05/10/2012 12:00:00 AM PDT | The transfer case containing the remains of Army Capt. Bruce K. Clark of Spencerpor...
Poll: Support for Afghan war at new low North Jersey | WASHINGTON — Support for the war in Afghanistan has reached a new low, with only 27 percent of Americans saying they back the effort and about half of those who oppose the ...
US support for war in Afghanistan hits all-time low The Daily Telegraph Support for the war in Afghanistan has reached a new low, with only 27 per cent of Americans saying they back the effort, according to a new poll. | President Barack Obama has prom...
Small plane lands on busy road in Broward Co. Herald Tribune | PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - Authorities are trying to determine what caused a small plane to lose power, forcing it to make an emergency landing on a busy road in Broward County. | No injuries have been reported. The two people on the plane were also no...
Plane makes emergency landing in Minnesota Herald Tribune | DULUTH, Minn. - An airplane headed from Duluth, Minn., to Las Vegas had to turn around and make an emergency landing after running into engine trouble. | Brian Ryks, executive director of the Duluth Airport Authority, says the Allegiant Air plane l...
Obama campaign accused of leaking intel regarding underwear bomb The Examiner | An alleged intelligence leak regarding a covert operation that thwarted an "underwear bomb" plot last week is now creating distrust and ill feelings within the U.S. intelligence community and has led to increased talk about intelligence lea...
Giraffes Die From Stress as Vandals Terrorize Polish Zoo Jakarta Globe Two giraffes at a zoo in central Poland’s Lodz died of stress after unidentified vandals went on a night-time rampage, the zoo’s management said Monday. | The vandals broke in overnight Saturday to Sunday, destroying benches, signs and sculptures and hurling pieces of the debris at the animals. | One of the giraffes died within hours of the inc...
