Several news reports have confirmed that Michael Jackson had died. The pop star had been taken to the hospital, where he remained in a coma. He suffered cardiac arrest and passed away. He was only 50.
Jackson was with the pop group the Jackson Five as a kid, and then went on to become one of the most popular recording acts of all time. He is survived by his large extended family and three children.
India ignonimously crashed out of T20 world cup, losing to England by 3 runs. Exposed to some genuine pace bowling, the Indian batsmen yet again showed their frailty against the short and rising delivery, which once again proved to be their nemesis.
Exposed to some genuine pace bowling, the Indian batsmen yet again showed their frailty against the short and rising delivery, which once again proved to be their nemesis. Taking cue from the West Indies, which defeated Indian in the earlier Super8, the English team's fast bowlers managed to soften, contain and removed the Indians.
Chasing 153, India's rising star Rohit Sharma played on Ryan Sidebottom to the stumps and he soon followed by Suresh Raina, who tried to pull the fast bowler but landed one in the hands of deep square leg fielder.
Ravindra Jadeja, often described by many as the future of Indian cricket, came to the crease and struggled to make runs. Jadeja could make only 25 runs in 35 balls, too slow for Twenty20 cricket.
Juniper (Basingstoke, England) is forecasting that, for the next five years to 2014, annual sales of low cost mobile handsets will rise by 22 per cent to over 700 million.
The research house note that efforts by industry players to lower the TCO (total cost of ownership) for devices and services to the sub $5 mark are already reaping the benefits in markets such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.
American actor David Carradine has been found dead, hanging by a nylon rope in a hotel room closet in Bangkok, Thailand, according to a Thai police official.
David Carradine became famous in the 1970s after starring in the television series "Kung Fu."
Carradine became famous in the 1970s when he starred in the television series "Kung Fu."
The rope was believed taken from the hotel room curtains, Bangkok Police Lt. Colonel Pirom Chanpirom said.
Investigators found no sign of a forced entry into Carradine's room, Chanpirom said.
An autopsy was being conducted at a Bangkok hospital, but no results will be available for another day, he said.
A Carradine family spokeswoman issued a short statement saying the family "is devastated by the news of David's passing."
"Circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown, and there will be no further comment until more information can be confirmed," the statement said.
"The family appreciates the many expressions of condolence, and asks for privacy at this time."
Carradine's friends and personal managers said they were in "complete shock" and brushed aside suggestions that Carradine might have taken his own life.
London (PTI): Rohit Sharma tore apart Pakistan's bowling attack with a 80-run blitzkrieg as India bulldozed their arch-rivals by nine wickets with three overs to spare in their final warm-up match of the ICC World Twenty20 here on Wednesday night.
Chasing 159, Rohit and Gautam Gambhir (52 not out) raised 140 runs in just 16 overs for the opening stand to slam the door on Pakistan and India cruised to 159 for one in 17 overs to complete a facile win.
Rohit's was a sublime 53-ball knock, bejewelled with nine fours and two sixes. In contrast, Gambhir played the second fiddle to perfection and was unbeaten after a 47-ball knock that included five hits to the fence.
Earlier, Pakistan got off to a flier before suffering a mid-innings slump even though they eventually reached a competitive 158 for six, thanks to cameos from Ahmed Shehzad (25), Younis Khan (32), Misbah-ul Haq (37 not out) and Yasir Arafat (25 not out).
But with Gambhir getting his mojo back and Rohit continuing his purple patch, India's chase was off to a rollicking start on Wednesday and they never relaxed their grip.
Gambhir flicked the first ball from Umar Gul for a delectable four and ended the over in similar fashion.
Rohit, meanwhile, was not ready to be outshone.
Accordingly, Gul was hit over mid-on for a four, Yasir Arafat was dispatched in the stands for the first six of the match before copping two fours in his next over.
Shahid Afridi also found himself at the receiving end of Rohit's wrath when the batsman smote him over midwicket for a huge six.
Though Rohit eventually fell in the 16th over, by then it was just a matter of formality for India.
Earlier, Pakistan got off to a flier but India's disciplined bowling unit staged a remarkable comeback to restrict them to 158 for six.
Despite losing an early wicket, Pakistan cruised to 45 in just over four overs before losing three wickets without a single run added to the score.
After winning toss, Pakistan captain Younis Khan sent out teen twins Shahzaib Hasan (0) and Ahmed Shehzad (25) to open the innings but Hasan was back in the hut soon after Praveen Kumar's fifth legitimate delivery pegged back his off-stump.
Shehzad's too could have been a brief stay but Harbhajan Singh grassed a sitter at mid-wicket off RP Singh when the batsman was on five and India were made to pay for the clanger.
Shehzad shed all inhibitions and went after the Indian bowlers and suddenly it was raining boundaries at The Oval.
R.P. Singh copped two in the same over and Praveen didn't escape unscathed either as Shehzad pulled and drove with elan.
Shehzad's aggression proved contagious as Kamran Akmal (19) too started freeing his arms to good effect.
It was probably too good to last and Pakistan lost three wickets over five balls with Suresh Raina in the thick of action.
An airborne Raina first did a Jonty Rhodes to swoop on a ball and hit the stumps to remove Akmal and then placed himself under Shehzad's miscued skier in the same Ishant Sharma over.
Shahid Afridi's was a blink-and-miss stay as the swashbuckling right-hander bottom edged Irfan Pathan and Mahendra Singh Dhoni took a diving catch to remove him for a golden duck.
Shoaib Malik (14) started well before Pragyan Ojha snared the former captain in his first over and Pakistan were without their top half when the score reached 63.
Younis (32) and Misbah (37 not out) raised 50 runs in 7.3 overs but boundaries had dried up by then. Harbhajan got rid off Younis but Misbah and Arafat (25 not out) threw their bat at everything to push the score past the 150-mark.
The doomed Air France airliner that crashed into the sea killing all 228 on board may have been trying to return for an emergency landing at the time, aviation experts said today.
Searchers found a plane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were in the middle of the Atlantic.
The debris was spotted from the air about 410 miles north of the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, roughly along the path that the jet was taking before it disappeared, said a Brazilian Air Force spokesman.
There were no signs of life in two sightings of separate debris areas about 35 miles apart.
"The locations where the objects were found are towards the right of the point where the last signal of the plane was emitted," said the spokesman. "That suggests that it might have tried to make a turn, maybe to return to Fernando de Noronha, but that is just a hypothesis."
He said authorities would not be able to confirm that the debris is from the plane until ships arrive in the area tomorrow.
The discovery came more than 24 hours after the jet bound from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went down in an area of massive thunderstorms. Investigators have still no idea why it crashed.
Rescuers were continuing to scan a vast sweep of ocean extending from far off north-east Brazil to waters off West Africa.
The four-year-old Airbus A330 was last heard from at 3.14am Irish time yesterday.
Investigators on both sides of the ocean were trying to determine what brought it down. Potential causes included shifting winds and hail from towering thunderheads, lightning or a combination of other factors.
The crew gave no verbal messages of distress before the crash, but the plane's system sent an automatic message just before it disappeared, reporting lost pressure and electrical failure.
The plane's cockpit and "black box" recorders could be thousands of feet below the surface but will emit radio tracing signals for 30 days.
French transport minister Jean-Louis Borloo said: "The race against the clock has begun".
He added lightning alone, even from a fierce tropical storm, probably couldn't have brought down the plane. "There really had to be a succession of extraordinary events to be able to explain this situation," he said.
France's defence minister Herve Morin said "we have no signs so far" of terrorism, but all theories must be studied.
The Airbus A330-200 was cruising normally at 35,000 feet and 522 mph just before it disappeared nearly four hours into the flight. No trouble was reported as the plane left radar contact, beyond Fernando de Noronha.
However, a line of towering thunderstorms were strung out just north of the equator and bands of extremely turbulent weather stretched across the Atlantic toward Africa.
France's junior minister for transport, Dominique Bussereau, said the plane sent "a kind of outburst" of automated messages just before it disappeared, "which means something serious happened, as eventually the circuits switched off".
The pilot had 11,000 hours of flying experience, including 1,700 hours flying this aircraft.
In 1938 a federal law was passed known as the Wage Earner Plan. It is administered by the same branch of our courts that handle bankruptcy. You must be a wage-earner to use the law - that is the primary requirement. The Wage Earner Plan does not in itself ’wipe out’ debts, but a little-known proviso of your filing requires that your creditors must appear to verify your indebtedness to them. Statistics indicate that 40% fail to appear, in which case, those debts are indeed ’wiped out’. In some cases 100% of the creditors fail to appear, which enables you to wipe out ALL your debts without bankruptcy. If some of the creditors do appear, then the court allows you to spread your payments out over a three year period in smaller amounts so that you can afford to pay.
Once you file under the Wage Earner Plan, you stop bill collectors, lawsuits, judgements, assignments, seized bank accounts, and other actions against you. And to top it off, your credit rating is, in many cases, improved because you made an honest effort to work with the lending firms. Additionally, if the seller used deceptive trade practices to induce your purchase, your debt may be wiped out under the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code. Under the Homestead Act, your residence can be exempted from levy to the extent determined by local law. Check at your local courthouse.
The simple idea behind PayPal -- using encryption software to allow people to make financial transfers between computers -- has turned into one of the world's primary methods of online payment. Despite its occasionally troubled history, including fraud, lawsuits and zealous government regulators, PayPal now boasts more than 100 million accounts worldwide
In this article, we'll show you how to use PayPal, find out how the transactions are made, and learn something about the company's history. We'll also examine some of the complaints about PayPal's business practices. Let's start with the basics.
PayPal is an online payment service that allows individuals and businesses to transfer funds electronically. You can use it to pay for online auctions, purchase goods and services, or to make donations. You can even use it to send cash to someone.
A basic PayPal account is free. You can send funds to anyone with an e-mail address, whether or not they have a PayPal account. They'll get a message from PayPal about the funds, and then they just have to sign up for their own account.
Funds transferred via PayPal reside in a PayPal account until the holder of the funds retrieves them or spends them. If the user has entered and verified their bank account information, then the funds can be transferred directly into their account.
The $47-billion Indian software export industry on Tuesday sought to put up a brave face on President Barack Obama's proposal to disallow tax deduction for company's outsourcing their business, saying the move will hit the US companies with "marginal" impact on India.
IT body NASSCOM said it is still reviewing the tax proposals announced by Obama. However, "prima facie, the proposals appeared to be aimed at addressing the tax rate differentials that exist across the world and if implemented, this would impact American headquartered companies with overseas operations," it said.
It said global companies that earn profits in India are subject to a tax rate of 33.9 per cent (including surcharge and cess) and "the impact of the proposed reforms on them would be marginal."
President Obama had yesterday proposed an end to tax deductions on those US companies which create jobs overseas in places like Bangalore.
Instead, the incentives would now go to those creating jobs inside the US, in places like the Buffalo city—bordering Canada.
"We will use the savings to give tax cuts to companies that are investing in research and development here at home so that we can jump-start job creation, foster innovation, and enhance America's competitiveness," Obama said.
