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Irvine Robbins, who as co-founder of Baskin-Robbins brought Rocky Road, Pralines ‘n Cream and other exotic ice cream concoctions to every corner of America, has died at age 90.
In another step in the worldwide march of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inked a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries starting later this year.
Ecuador’s president has agreed to renew the operating concession for the local unit of mobile phone giant America Movil.
Crisp bacon, TiVo and round-the-clock Internet service are just a few of the reasons why Hillary Rodham Clinton loves America.
Liam McGee, Bank of America’s president of global consumer and small business banking, chatted with The Associated Press about his thoughts on leading his bank’s retail growth and customers’ perceptions of the conversion from the LaSalle Bank brand.
President Bush says the slow growth of the economy is “not good enough for America,” but new rebate checks will inject some life and spending soon.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is hailing Irish-American ties in a speech to the U.S. Congress just days before he steps down, telling Congress, “To be Irish is to be at home in America.”
Don Katz has a vision for the kids of America: He wants to take the technology that brings the Jonas Brothers to their ears and use it to deliver the Brothers Grimm.
An overpowering bad odor at a Bank of America branch office in New Milford prompted an emergency response from state environmental officials who discovered a bad check. It wasn’t a check that was fake. It was smelly.
The self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America” has been making forays into Phoenix and nearby Guadalupe and sweeping up illegal immigrants, drawing howls of protest from the cities’ mayors and other community leaders.
It’s an undeniable fact that Chinese food is pretty close to becoming America’s national cuisine! Why has this cuisine taken over the American tastes buds isn’t my concern. But since it has proven its supremacy, its time we start cooking these...
Iran, Iraq and America have long been involved in a series of battles since the Gulf war and I suffice it to say that hegemonic American attitude and opportunism made the atmosphere hostile, along with the already existing animosity between these...
Celebrity singer-song writer Toni Braxton was diagnosed with Pericarditis some years ago and is again said to have suffered from chest pain, following which she was admitted in Vegas hospital on Monday. The famous singer, who has so far won six...
The way we communicate has certainly changed much in the last decade. It’s all about internet and mobile phones now. Results of a recent survey determined that Americans want their cellphones more than anything else and the closest second option...
‘Equality’ is exactly what came out of this ‘Super Tuesday’ and if anything, it has only made the Democratic race a lot more interesting than it was before. In what was dubbed as being the decisive night for the Democratic nominees to face off...
According to a report by the US Climate Change Science Program, the Bush administration’s climate research arm, North America’s ability to absorb global gases created by the USA, Canada and Mexico is smaller than previously thought and is likely to...
The U.S. Census Bureau reported on Tuesday that the number of Americans without health insurance grew to an all time high of 47 million people last year. That is a sharp increase of more than two million people from 2005. The number of children...
America, the world’s most powerful economy is reeling the impact of the costs of its recent war against terror. The costs of the war is reaching a saturation point and is estimated at an overarching figure of about $2.4 trillion (Rs.960,000 crore)....
Despite the recent spate of kidnappings of German contractors and aid workers in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the lower house of the German parliament extended the deployment of the 2,800-odd troops. This was approved completely against the opinion of the...
American interrogation methods are surreal, but not against rule of law, President Bush seems to be clarifying. After a lot of hullabaloo over the US methods of interrogation not being within the precincts of law, President Bush defends his country’s...
CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent Soledad O’Brien (left) and Grammy Award-winning artist Patti LaBelle (right) appear together at the Fifth Annual Lupus Foundation of America Awards Gala on May 7 in Washington, DC. The event raised nearly $1.5...
