You know this is serious because they’ve already talked about it on SportsCenter.
Wednesday saw one of the most painful pieces of cheating that soccer has enjoyed since, oh, since pretty much any other World Cup qualifying game.
However, this occurred in the dying minutes, featured one of the most famous players in the world (yes, he’s [...]

Sony is planning a new online store a la Apple’s iTunes, but with a few twists.

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Announced at a strategy meeting in Tokyo on Thursday, the new service will hawk music, movies, books, and other downloadable content geared for its various electronics, including TVs, mobile phones, music players, and computers.
The service, which Sony aims to launch [...]

U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles.
An IPO filing from the 6-year-old start-up, best known for its $109,000 all-electric Roadster, is expected any day, said one of the sources. The person did not give a specific [...]

An estimated 450,000 people in Nepal are currently suffering from diabetes but many of them do not know that they have acquired it, local media reported Sunday.
The number is likely to reach 1.3 million by 2030 if no intervention was made, experts warned.
“Diabetes has become a common problem in urban areas. The current trend suggests [...]

Some 70 percent Chinese business people expect export demand to pick up remarkably next year, according to an official survey released here Saturday.
The survey, based on 5,016 valid questionnaires and released by the Chinese Entrepreneur Survey System, showed that most of Chinese business people believed the recovery of overseas market demand would be a gradual [...]

An Australian iron ore producer announced on Friday that it had sold the expected first five years of production from a new mine to Chinese customers.
Centrex Metals Ltd announced it had signed a five-year sales agreement for its Wilgerup project in South Australia with Shenyang Orient Iron & Steel (Group) Co Ltd plus a one-year [...]

Because of global warming, the United Sates has seen more daily record high temperatures than record lows over the past decade, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
For the period from Jan. 1, 2000, to Sept. 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows, [...]

A gun battle between Afghan-International forces and Taliban fighters left six insurgents dead in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, provincial police chief said on Sunday.
“Taliban attacked a military outpost of Afghan and the NATO-led peacekeeping troops in Nurgraham district Saturday night, and troops returned fire, killing six rebels including their commander Mullah Abdul Qadir [...]

Because of global warming, the United Sates has seen more daily record high temperatures than record lows over the past decade, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
For the period from Jan. 1, 2000, to Sept. 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows, [...]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama met Sunday on the sidelines of the APEC meetings and declared to update a strategic arms reduction pact.
According to local media, both leaders said negotiations over the replacement treaty of the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty(START) were making progress, as the 1991 pact was due to [...]