Washington - Alex Rodriguez, arguably the greatest US baseball player and an icon for the sport, admitted Monday to taking performance-enhancing drugs for three years while playing for the Texas Rangers.
The shocking confession came in an interview with US sports network ESPN. Rodriguez, or A-Rod, said he started using steroids in 2001 after signing a 252-million-dollar contract with Texas, which at the time was the most expensive in baseball history.
"I was stupid for three years. I was very, very stupid," said Rodriguez.
San Francisco - Amazon released a new version Monday of its highly successful electronic book reader Kindle, just days after Google said it would make available large parts of its vast catalogue of scanned books to smartphone users.
On Sunday a well known paper put forward the latest piece of news that Microsoft Corp is mulling to provide new programs and services for mobile phones, including an "online bazaar" for software. 
Despite efforts of scientists all over the world there has been no cure for AIDS. The U. S. government is motivating scientists to find a cure against HIV. The need to find a new cure for this deadly disease has been intensified after Merck & Co.'s Ad5 vaccine, the most promising effort to date that flopped in 2007. HIV virus affects 2.7 million new patients each year
Los Angeles - The mother of the woman who gave birth to octuplets has slammed her daughter's actions as "unconscionable" and said that the single mother has no way to support the babies and her six other children.
New York - Plunging demand and restructuring costs eroded earnings for the world's largest appliance maker Whirlpool Corp, which Monday reported a 75 per cent drop in profits to 44 million dollars in the final quarter of 2008.
