Metta won’t shake ‘substitute’ Harden’s hand
Updated: May 13, 2012, 3:44 AM ET By Dave McMenamin | ESPNLosAngeles.com Highlght Of The Night NEXT VIDEO Highlght Of The Night Highlght Of The Night Brown: Lakers Didn’t Get Rattled Brown: Lakers Didn’t Get Rattled Lakers head coach Mike Brown discusses how the Lakers withstood the Nuggets’ run, and how Kobe Bryant’s passing was [...]
Parrot Jokes
Parrots · Passengers · Flying · Complaining On reaching his plane seat a man is surprised to see a parrot strapped in next to him. He asks the stewardess for a coffee where upon the parrot squawks “And get me a whisky you cow!” The stewardess, flustered, brings back a whisky for the parrot and [...]
France’s Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year’s end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not trump a campaign pledge that helped Hollande gain his new job. Obama [...]
Preventable diseases still ravage children: study
AFP – 27 mins ago Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of nearly five million children younger than five in 2010, a paper in The Lancet medical journal said Friday. A total 7.6 million children died in the first five years of their life that year, the authors said, and warned the world [...]
Apple readies iPhone with bigger screen: sources
A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai March 16, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Aly Song By Reiji Murai TOKYO | Wed May 16, 2012 10:05am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to [...]