Dennis Rodman, the controversial NBA player whose on-court and off-court antics earned him the nicknames “Dennis the Menace and “The Worm”, had his number 10 jersey retired yesterday by the Detroit Pistons. In a ceremony held at halftime of the game between the Detroit Pistons and the visiting Chicago Bulls, an emotional Dennis Rodman watched […]
Cabin pressure dropped due to an “in-flight fuselage rupture” that hit a Southwest Airlines plane in mid-flight on Friday. Flight 812 was cruising at an altitude of 36,000 feet when a part of the fuselage ripped open. Oxygen masks fell as the airline plummeted because of the loss of cabin pressure. The airline pilot was […]
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is becoming a real option for clothing retail company American Apparel Inc., the company said today. American Apparel has been losing revenue and had to lay-off workers because of weak demand of clothing as the U.S. economy dipped. It informed the Securities and Exchange Commission through a filing on Thursday that […]
Calorie count in food items will be more common under a new law to take effect next year. The implementing rules of the measure were released Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the guidance of food vendors, restaurants and small eateries affected. Under the new measure, food companies with at least 20 […]
Seat belts, safety features in newer vehicles, and measures against drunken driving are some of the factors being attributed for the drop in road fatalities in the United States. A report from the Department of Transportation showed Friday that 32,788 people died in road mishaps in 2010, dropping 3 percent from a year earlier, and […]
The Cricket World Cup final to be held at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai tomorrow has pushed ticket prices to exorbitant levels as high as $10,000 each. India won over Pakistan in the semifinal to earn the right to battle Sri Lanka for the first all-Asian final in Cricket World Cup history. Sri Lanka and India […]
Unemployment benefit claims declined for the second time in three weeks, dropping by 6,000 to 388,000 last week according to the latest Labor Department report. That may signal that U.S. businesses are retaining more workers and looking to hire additional ones as the economy recovers. The current number of applications for unemployment benefits is near […]
Lung cancer is projected to kill 159,000 people in the U.S. this year and remains the number one cause of cancer deaths in the country and in the whole world. Some 70,500 of those Americans are women, and a new report from the American Cancer Society shows that as a group, there was a less […]
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