Washington: After Congress gave final approval to the emergency finance rescue package, US President George W Bush popped next door to the pillared Treasury building to shake hands with his treasury secretary Henry Paulson.
In the photo image used on front pages across the US on Saturday, the two men are grinning in obvious relief over the passage that ended a grim two-week-long economic cliffhanger.
The staid treasury building serves as a backdrop in the photos, as it does on all US paper currency.
New York, October 4 : An artist in New York City is offering people a chance to fake going caribou hunting with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in picture forms.
Dawn Robyn Petrlik of Brooklyn has set up photoshopped cardboard cutouts of Palin and daughter Piper in front of a backdrop mountain scene.
There is also a huge stuffed caribou, presented as though it had been shot by the hunters in the picture.
All that a person is required to do is to hold a cardboard rifle and pose for a photo with Palin and her daughter.
New York, Oct. 4 : An anti-blasphemy resolution passed by the United Nations has been criticized in certain quarters as attempting to curtail the right to freedom of speech.
Religious groups and free-speech advocates are banding together to fight the resolution, which they say is being used to spread Sharia law to the Western world and to intimidate anyone who criticizes Islam.
London - Europe's carmakers are to ask the European Commission to lend the industry up to 40 billion euros (55.4 billion dollars) to help them develop more environmentally friendly vehicles, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
The move comes days after the US Congress approved a 25-billion- dollar programme to help major US carmakers to produce green engines and vehicles.
Washington, Oct. 4 : Barack Obama has decided to use punch lines to get under Republican rival John McCain’s skin in the run-up to the November 4 presidential poll.
Obama has taken to mocking McCain for stocking his campaign with ex-lobbyists while also promising to end their influence in Washington.
"If you think those lobbyists are working day and night to elect my opponent just to put themselves out of business, well, I''ve got a bridge to sell you in Alaska," Obama riffs.
Washington, Oct 4 : Boss’ dominating behaviour at workplace may be a part of humans'' evolutionary biology, according to an Australian study.
The research conducted by University of New South Wales (UNSW) suggests that the way male managers dress, posture and exercise power might be linked to the prehistoric behaviours, such as protecting what is perceived as their "turf" and ostracising those who do not agree with the group.
Washington: After Congress gave final approval to the emergency finance rescue package, US President George W Bush popped next door to the pillared Treasury building to shake hands with his treasury secretary Henry Paulson.
New York, October 4 : An artist in New York City is offering people a chance to fake going caribou hunting with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in picture forms.
New York, Oct. 4 : An anti-blasphemy resolution passed by the United Nations has been criticized in certain quarters as attempting to curtail the right to freedom of speech.
London - Europe's carmakers are to ask the European Commission to lend the industry up to 40 billion euros (55.4 billion dollars) to help them develop more environmentally friendly vehicles, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
Washington, Oct. 4 : Barack Obama has decided to use punch lines to get under Republican rival John McCain’s skin in the run-up to the November 4 presidential poll.
Washington, Oct 4 : Boss’ dominating behaviour at workplace may be a part of humans'' evolutionary biology, according to an Australian study.
