According to the Wall Street Journal Asia, Jobs and Co are in Japan working out the details for a domestic iPhone launch. It’s no surprise then that Jobs was rumored to have just met with NTT DoCoMo’s president, Masao Nakamur, to discuss the deal with the largest carrier in the world’s second-largest economy. As usual, [...]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Turkish troops that entered Iraq early Tuesday have returned to the Turkish side of the border, according to Kurdish Regional Government spokesman Jamal Abdullah. The troops crossed into northern Iraq apparently in pursuit of Kurdish rebels two days after the Turkish military launched an air and missile assault across the border. [...]
KIEV, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukraine’s parliament elected pro-Western former premier Yulia Tymoshenko as its new prime minister on Tuesday, the Ukrinform national news agency reported. Tymoshenko won the vote with the minimum number of 226 votes, Ukrinform said. She had failed to win the election a week earlier after receiving only 225 votes, but the [...]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Lebanese man was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday for last year’s failed attempt to bomb German trains but three other defendants were acquitted, judicial officials and the defense lawyer said. The four were charged with planting crude bombs on two trains at the Cologne station on July [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide. Dating Web site Match.com, owned by media mogul Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp conglomerate, plans to launch two new features this week that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than [...]
