WTO calls meeting on trade finance and economic crisis

Friday, October 10, 2008 The head of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, has called for a meeting to assess the trade finance situation, including the impact on developing countries. The meeting, which is schedule for November 12, will allow credit institutes and government officials to review the current trade credit situation. “A number of…

Netscape navigating the World Wide Web no more

Monday, December 31, 2007 AOL has decided to discontinue development of the Netscape web browser which brought surfing the Internet to the masses, until its user base began to erode during the “browser wars” of the mid-1990s and resulted in the birth of Mozilla project. Tom Drapeau, the director of Netscape inside AOL announced on…

Brief bomb alerts in central London

Wednesday, July 27, 2005 There was a bomb alert in Oxford Circus in central London at 1.20pm BST (1220 UTC) today. All streets around Oxford Circus were briefly cordoned off and pedestrians asked to move down side streets. A similar event occurred that same day at approximately 4.15pm BST (1315 UTC) on Wilton Road, when…

National Hockey League news: March 8, 2008

Saturday, March 8, 2008 There were 5 games played in the National Hockey League on March 7, 2008. Contents 1 Game summaries 1.1 Tampa Bay Lightning @ New Jersey Devils 1.2 Edmonton Oilers @ Columbus Blue Jackets 1.3 Minnesota Wild @ Atlanta Thrashers 1.4 San Jose Sharks @ Chicago Blackhawks 1.5 Nashville Predators @ Calgary…

Mississippi medical board allows embattled physician to keep license

Friday, April 17, 2015 On Wednesday, the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure chose to let Doctor Carroll Frazier Landrum keep his physician’s license, following an investigation sparked by an anonymous complaint. Media reported the Mississippi doctor has been working out of his Toyota Camry for about two years, making house calls to see patients.…

Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005File:Turing1.jpg More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tenth birthday of the award winning A.I. On hand was the founder the Loebner Prize, an annual Turing Test, designed to pick out the world’s most human computer…

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon develops double pneumonia

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Former Israeli prime minster Ariel Sharon, 78, has developed double pneumonia and is being treated with “massive” amounts of antibiotics according to hospital officials. “We are talking about pneumonia that is being treated with massive antibiotics. There is no change in the functioning of the brain tissue and no significant fall…