With gorgeous red carpets, blinking cameras and a thrilled deluge of global stardust – Hollywood's biggest night has finally arrived!!!
Ace British director Danny Boyle shepherded the extended ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ cast members down the red carpet Sunday to the Kodak Theatre for the star-studded 81st Annual Academy Awards.
San Francisco - After months of deadlock, which saw California unable to pay its bills, the largest and richest state in the US solved its budget crisis on Thursday.
The impasse, which led Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to issue layoff notices to 20,000 state workers and order a halt in all public works projects, was broken after he succeeded in persuading a Republican legislator to back the spending plan despite strong opposition from their rightwing party.
Cupertino, California - It was a historic event. On January 24, 1984, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer. The highlight was the machine's revolutionary graphical user interface.
"It allowed lay users to work with computers for the first time," explains Andreas Stolte from the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn, Germany. Yet, it was ultimately the PC and MS-DOS, and their successor Windows, that won the next battle in the operating system war, not the Mac.
Pasadena (California, US), Jan 29 : Astronomers have observed a planet that heats up to red-hot temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling down.
Using NASA''s Spitzer Space Telescope, the astronomers have identified the "hot-headed" planet as HD 80606b.
They describe it as a gas giant that orbits a star 190 light-years from Earth.
Washington, January 24: Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have found that the rate of sudden deaths increased six-fold in the first year that California law enforcement agencies deployed the use of stun guns.
The researchers have also observed a two-fold increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths during the same time period.
The team surveyed the Taser, the most widely used brand of stun gun, for outcomes related to the deployment of the device.
Sacramento - With California facing a cash crunch, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday urged legislators to set aside partisan differences and forgo their salaries until passing a long- overdue plan to address the state's looming 40 billion dollar deficit.
With gorgeous red carpets, blinking cameras and a thrilled deluge of global stardust – Hollywood's biggest night has finally arrived!!! 
San Francisco - After months of deadlock, which saw California unable to pay its bills, the largest and richest state in the US solved its budget crisis on Thursday.
Cupertino, California - It was a historic event. On January 24, 1984, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer. The highlight was the machine's revolutionary graphical user interface.
Pasadena (California, US), Jan 29 : Astronomers have observed a planet that heats up to red-hot temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling down.
Washington, January 24: Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have found that the rate of sudden deaths increased six-fold in the first year that California law enforcement agencies deployed the use of stun guns. 
