Trees and telephone poles littered the streets and houses were missing doors and roofs, as residents of Los Palacios, western Cuba, despaired today at Hurricane Gustav's path of destruction.
The raging Category 4 cyclone tore over the island nation the previous evening after claiming at least 81 lives in its sweep across the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
Los Palacios, in the western tobacco-growing Pinar del Rio province, was one of Cuba's first municipalities to be thrashed by Gustav late yesterday.
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With Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform getting all the press these days, it’s easy to forget that another company, Nokia, is still by far and away the worldwide leader in mobile sales. It is a sleeping giant. And with the two noisy newcomers in its cave, it has awoken — and it’s hungry.
Not even a day after the buzz-worthy purchase of the location-based mobile social network, Plazes, Nokia has made a much larger move. One that will continue to evolve the mobile landscape: It has bought the Symbian mobile operating...
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AT LEAST 17 American high school students, many aged 16 and younger, are expecting babies after apparently making a "pregnancy pact".
Officials in the Massachusetts city of Gloucester say nearly half those who became pregnant appeared to have made a pact to have their babies together over the year.
A group of high school students have allegedly made a pregnancy pact. At least 17 girls at one Massachusetts high school are expecting.
"Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Gloucester High School...
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Paramount Pictures has snapped up a pitch titled Atari from writers Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star. The actor will also produce via his Appian Way banner, reports Variety.
The film is a biopic about entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari and one of the founding fathers of the videogame industry.
Although Bushnell’s life rights had long been pursued by various suitors, Hecker and Craig Sherman convinced the gaming pioneer that they could do his unique story justice. Bushnell and Ted...
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The movie this clip is from is called Adhsaya Piravi / Adhisaya Piravi / Athisaya Piravi which ever way you want to spell it. The language they are speaking is Tamil. This movie was made by the Tamil movie industry, usually called Kollywood, and probably not Bollywood because Bollywood is for typically Hindi movies. The song they are playing is Holiday Rap by MC Miker G and DJ.
The founder of a Christian school is confronted after 13 Undercover catches him soliciting sex from a parent, who's trying to get her daughter a high school diploma.
At graduation ceremonies he talks about God, but you'll hear the founder of a Houston-area Christian school not only talk about sex, but ask for it on tape.
It's the middle of the day when a white pickup truck pulls into the back of a motel on 1960. Then it goes to the very back to park for a long while. We already know who the driver is. His name is LaVern Jordan and he...
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Yahoo and AOL are close on finalizing a deal that would combine parts of both companies. The deal would bridge Timer Warner's Internet operations with Yahoo by folding the AOL unit into Yahoo. In return, Time Warner would make a cash investment of about 20% of the combined entity, valuing AOL at about $10 billion.
The possible Yahoo-AOL tie-up is part of a threefold plan by Yahoo to present shareholders with an alternative to Microsoft's unsolicited offer. Yahoo would also propose repurchasing billions of dollars of its own shares and is...
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A German passenger jet carrying 137 people has had a narrow escape in an incident reminiscent of the Heathrow crash landing in January.
Gale-force crosswinds tilted the Lufthansa plane around 30 degrees as its wheels touched down at Hamburg Airport, causing one wing to hit the runway.
Amateur footage of the accident that emerged this morning showed the A320 from Munich wheeling wildly across the runway, before the pilot abandoned the landing and took off again.
"Those few seconds were indescribable," one passenger told German...
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Toshiba put HD-DVD out of its misery today. Reuters confirmed this afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan's NHK public broadcasting network.
This leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. It now must face up to the real competition: the continuing success of DVD and the growing popularity of downloads, both on the internet and on-demand cable TV.
The end comes only a day after Wal-Mart announced it would no longer carry HD-DVD stuff. This...
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A Danish citizen of Moroccan descent and two Tunisians were arrested in Denmark on Tuesday over a plot to murder one of 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused worldwide uproar in 2006.
The Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said the arrests near Aarhus in western Denmark were made after lengthy surveillance to prevent a "terror-related killing" that was in an early stage of planning.
PET said it expected the 40-year-old Danish citizen to be released pending further investigation. The Tunisians will remain...
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