in New York City (+video)
The World Trade Center (WTC) will edge out the Empire State Building (at 1,250 feet) as the tallest building in New York City Monday.
By David B. Caruso, Associated Press / April 30, 2012
Aerial views of the World Trade Center, expected to pass the Empire State Building as New York's tallest building Monday.
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - 34 minutes ago
By Vicki Hyman/The Star-Ledger If you want a chance at the flashbulbs when Sofia Vergara is around, you gotta pull out the big guns.
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The Seattle Times - 13 minutes ago
This undated image taken from video released by Qatar's Al-Jazeera televison broadcast Oct. 5, 2001, purports to show al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, left, and his top lieutenant, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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Zee News - 14 minutes ago
New York: The World Trade Centre tower built to replace the destroyed Twin Towers was set to become New York's tallest skyscraper Monday, surpassing the venerable Empire State Building.
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London: In a new study, that shows for the first time that wind farms are already pushing up temperatures, scientists have revealed that this new technology can cause climate change.
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Detroit Free Press - 19 minutes ago
NEW YORK -- The site of an accident Sunday that killed seven was listed as one of the state's most most-accident prone stretches of road last year.
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Los Angeles Times - 38 minutes ago
By Tiffany Hsu What's more exciting than James Cameron re-releasing “Titanic” in 3-D? When an even richer man - Australia's Clive Palmer - tries to bring the ill-fated ship to life.
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Washington (CNN) -- The head of the Environmental Protection Agency's office in Dallas has resigned over comments he made in 2010 that became the focus of political condemnation last week.
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MarketWatch (blog) - 12 minutes ago
By Cody Willard So how about that big investment in Barnes & Noble by Microsoft which valued the B&N Nook tablet/e-reader business at $1.7 billion?
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Washington Post - 13 hours ago
BEAVER, Pa. - Police say two teenage girls who fell asleep while sunbathing on a rural Pennsylvania road have been struck by a car.
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ESPN (blog) - 1 hour ago
By ESPNBoston.com In his team-by-team instant evaluation of the NFL draft, ESPN guru Mel Kiper Jr. gives the Patriots a combined B-, though they did receive an A- for filling needs.
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New York Daily News - 13 minutes ago
Google Street View had an eye on more than just city streets - it also once collected emails, passwords, Internet search histories, medical records and more from millions of people around the world, new documents show.
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Fox News - 52 minutes ago
"Marvel's The Avengers" (L to R) CAPTAIN AMERICA (Chris Evans) and TONY STARK (Robert Downey Jr.)© 2011 MVLFFLLC. TM & © 2011 Marvel.
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Herald Sun - 31 minutes ago
FEMI-nasties should keep away from Kate Middleton. As the new Duchess of Cambridge and her husband celebrate their first wedding anniversary, a chorus of criticism has sprung up.
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The Australian - 3 hours ago
BARACK Obama came under pressure yesterday to demonstrate his administration is not weak in confronting China's human rights abuses, guaranteeing protection for dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng as officials from both countries worked frantically to ...
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San Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour ago
LG says it has no plans to make any Windows Phones in the near future. The company told the Korea Herald that “The total unit[s] of Windows Phone sold in the global market is not a meaningful figure,” and said that it's taking a step back from ...
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The Guardian - 27 minutes ago
Barack Obama's re-election campaign has unveiled a short film with a new slogan: 'Forward'. The seven-minute video begins by recalling the stock market crash of 2008, and revisits the end of the war in Iraq and the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Wall Street Journal (blog) - 27 minutes ago
By Robert Lee Hotz In the largest imaging study of the adolescent brain ever conducted - involving 1896 14-year-olds - scientists report in Nature Neuroscience that some teenagers may be more inclined to experiment with drugs and alcohol, ...
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The Guardian (blog) - 14 minutes ago
SPOILER ALERT: Don't read on unless you have watched the fifth episode of Game of Thrones season two, shown on HBO at 9pm ET on Sunday 29 April and due to be shown on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Monday 30 April For the purposes of this blog we are also ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer - 45 minutes ago
STEVE PEOPLES, AP Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the Portsmouth Fish Pier in Portsmouth, NH, Monday, April 30, 2012.
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PC Magazine - 1 hour ago
By Sascha Segan Oh, how RIM has fallen. Once the undisputed master of the American smartphone landscape, the BlackBerry maker is plummeting daily in market share and consumer esteem. |
