United States internet search portal Yahoo! has teamed with Canada’s Research In Motion to make its services available on BlackBerry handheld devices, the companies announced on Wednesday. Yahoo! e-mail, searches and content will be available to BlackBerry users as a result of a "strategic global alliance", according to the companies.
A man was sentenced to three years’ probation on Wednesday for releasing an alligator into a Los Angeles lake, sparking a massive hunt for the elusive reptile, prosecutors said. The sentencing of one of two men charged in connection with unleashing the toothy beast came as the alligator, nicknamed Reggie, remained at large in the second largest United States city more than eight months.
Former West African warlord Charles Taylor received his first private visitors on Wednesday, exactly a week after he was arrested, as an international rights group said he must be treated humanely and given a fair trial for crimes against humanity.
Irish playwright Samuel Beckett was a man who weighed his words, a solitary, lonely figure obsessed by silence, whose works struggled to express the absurdity of life. One hundred years after his birth, his tragicomic plays stalked by a host of unforgettable, often grotesque, characters remain among the most important of 20th century theatre.
Hollywood will make a transcendent leap onto the internet on Tuesday when the Oscar-winning <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> becomes the first blockbuster available for permanent download on the same day its DVDs hit the shelves. Two competing download services announced on Monday they will offer downloads of such hit films as last year’s Oscar-nominated <i>King Kong</i> and <i>Memoirs of a Geisha</i>.
The deployment of European troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo should not create an impression that Africa had failed to secure the coming elections in the country, South African Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George said on Wednesday.
The brothers were still in their beige school uniforms when their bodies were discovered in the brush on the outskirts of Caracas: three boys kidnapped on their way to school by men in police uniform and then murdered. On Wednesday, news of the killing of the Faddoul brothers — John Bryan (17) Kevin (13) and Jason (12) — brought an outpouring of grief and rage in Caracas, much of it directed against the authorities.
A rural security company established to create jobs in the San community in the Northern Cape has already secured contracts in three provinces. Gert Schoombie, managing director of Sanda Security, said the first group of security guards consisting of members of the !Xun and Khwe community had received their certificates.
Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375-million years ago. As such, it will be a blow to proponents of intelligent design, who claim that the many gaps in the fossil record show evidence of some higher power.
Attallah Abu al-Sibbah is keen to demonstrate that Hamas is not the Taliban. As the new Palestinian culture minister, he will not be ordering the dynamiting of statues nor forbidding prayers to anyone but Allah. But there are limits — and belly dancing is one of them.