Barely three days after the final installment of the “Harry Potter” series “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” hit the international market July 21, the book’s Chinese translations appeared online.
At least three groups of volunteers were found to have translated the book and posted the translations online for free. The most influential group calls itself […]
Nokia is offering to replace 46 million batteries for its mobile phones after reports of overheating while charging.
The problems are confined to BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006.
More than 250 million BL-5C batteries made for Nokia by other manufacturers are not affected, the company said.
The mobile giant said there had […]
Global warming is forecast to set in with a vengeance after 2009, with at least half of the five following years expected to be hotter than 1998, the warmest year on record, scientists reported on Thursday.
Climate experts have long predicted a general warming trend over the 21st century spurred by the greenhouse effect, but this […]
It’s a crucial day for Dr Mohammed Haneef as his request for a review of the decision to cancel his Australian work visa, will be heard in a Brisbane court today (August 8).
Haneef’s visa was cancelled by the Australian government soon after he obtained bail — a move challenged by his lawyers. His lawyer Stephen […]
Just when things were looking good for the Chicago Cubs, they suffered a serious setback in last night’s game against the Mets. Not only did they lose the game, but they have now lost their biggest offensive weapon with an injury to Alfonso Soriano.
Soriano was trying to stretch a single into a triple during […]
Not that Bloc Party’s 2005 debut Silent Alarm was anything to top end-of-year lists, but its quick-paced rhythms fronted by singer/guitarist Kele Okereke’s thick Brit-lad accent was somewhat refreshing when set against the perpetual rounds of U2 followers.
But after muddling through this year’s follow-up A Weekend In The City – despite a number of applauding […]
Although the moniker of this Allentown, Penn., band will be better left unsaid (just check out the links below for a better idea of what I’m talking about), their major label debut Hope For Men is one that shouldn’t go unnoticed in this collection of 2007 releases. A mushy mess of garage rock, theatrical goth […]
When the U.K. punk scene was beginning to crawl out of the dank, armpit venues of the London underground and become an accepted phenomenon – streets now littered with ripped leather jackets and shaven heads – art school act Wire tottered between their early punk roots and a spreading east European electronic influence.
While their ‘77 […]
The Mozambique authorities have seized thousands of boxes of counterfeit toothpaste, which they fear may contain a potentially deadly chemical.
The seizures follow a ban on all sales of Colgate Maximum Cavity Protection toothpaste issued last week.
Colgate has denied any link with the products found in the capital, Maputo and around the country.
The boxes are labelled […]
China has banned crude and insensitive slogans such as ‘Raise fewer babies but more piggies’ that have stoked rural anger over the country’s strict family planning policy, state media said on Sunday.
Slogans such as ‘One more baby means one more tomb’ have been forbidden, and a list of 190 acceptable slogans were issued by the […]