As the streaming TV wars hot up in the UK, Lovefilm is steadily strengthening its arsenal: its Instant streaming service is already available on 175 devices, and now you can add LG’s April-2011-onwards Smart TVs to that list. Despite the Korean tellies already having over 250 apps, Lovefilm claims its software is the first for [...]
Associated Press Sports updated 9:19 a.m. ET Jan. 31, 2012 SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -Three CSKA Sofia players have been given minimum three-month bans after testing positive for banned stimulants. The Bulgarian Olympic Committee disciplinary commission announced the decisions on Tuesday against Kostadin Stoyanov, Rumen Trifonov and Todor Yanchev. The players tested positive for methylhexanamine after [...]
TOLUCA, Mexico ? Authorities say a mob in central Mexico has beaten three suspected kidnappers to death. Mexico State prosecutor Alfredo Castillo says the mob also set two of the men on fire during the Friday night attack. Castillo said Saturday that 23 people in the village of San Mateo Hitzilzingo have been detained. He [...]
By Carol Loomis, senior editor-at-large Rep. Scott Rigell FORTUNE — After Howard Buffett, a deeply conservative Republican whom his son Warren revered, was elected to the House of Representatives for three terms in the 1940s, Congress voted itself an annual pay raise from $10,000 to $12,500. Judging the raise unseemly, Howard Buffett refused to take [...]
It?s not uncommon for Margaret Thatcher?s name to appear in the present-day political discourse of American politicians. Sarah Palin has talked about how much she admires the former British prime minister, and Rep. Michele Bachmann had said before she dropped out of the presidential race that she hoped to be ?America?s Iron Lady,? a reference [...]