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Rumor had it that Acer’s latest slate, the Iconia Tab A510 would be hitting the market in April. Well, the Android 4.0-sporting slab just inched closer to its debut by sauntering through the FCC. This particular model comes loaded with Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS, but there’s no 3G or 4G in sight. The ten-inch tablet [...]
A Chinese court on Thursday jailed four referees and an official for their roles in a corruption scandal that brought the country’s football league to its knees, the state Xinhuanews agency said. The four defendants, among them Lu Jun, who officiated at the 2000 Olympic Games and the 2002 World Cup, were the first to be [...]
Angela Merkel’s hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favors, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro zone crisis. In a curt five-minute statement at the Bellevue presidential palace, Christian Wulff said he had lost the trust of the German [...]
For close to two years, Western Pennsylvania has been gripped by the scandalous political saga of the Orie sisters: Jane, the state senator; Joan, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice; and Janine, the fiercely loyal sibling. As the scandal has unfolded – over Bonusgate-like allegations that Jane and Janine made state employees do election chores for [...]
After British whistleblower Michael Woodford was sacked as CEO of Olympus and revealed the Japanese firm had covered up losses of $1.7 billion, he mounted a campaign to get his job back. His effort though went nowhere, with Japanese financial institutions preferring to stick with the remaining board and several disgraced directors, some of them being sued by Olympus itself. Now [...]
A former assistant coach who says he witnessed a boy being molested in a locker room shower is among those paying his respects to the late Joe Paterno. Mike McQueary and more than a hundred invited guests are attending a private viewing Tuesday at a campus spiritual center. Hundreds are in line for a public viewing. Trustees fired Paterno in [...]
Celebrity, scandal and new media converged in Paris Monday as shamed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s wife returned to the spotlight to launch Le Huffington Post, a French take on the US news website. Anne Sinclair insisted her private life would not in any way affect news coverage in the first foreign-language edition of the influential American site that [...]
A probe into a major scandal threatening Pakistan’s president on Tuesday appeared at risk of collapsing as investigators ruled out travelling abroad to hear the testimony of the star witness. American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who implicated PresidentAsif Ali Zardari in a May memo seeking US help to rein in Pakistan’s powerful military, has refused to travel to Pakistan, [...]
Dozens of black-suited investigators, marching double-file, raided the office building of three small Olympus Corp subsidiaries Wednesday, one of 20 sites searched in a probe of a $1.7 billion accounting scandal that threatens the once-proud Japanese medical device maker’s survival. Other teams were seen waiting patiently to be buzzed inside a luxury condominium – the home of a former [...]
Even after all the turmoil 2011 brought to sports, what with the NBA and NFL players and owners huddling with lawyers and accountants, more unsettling reports of brains ravaged by hard hits, and college players being given cash, tattoos, access to strip clubs and pretty much anything else you can imagine, the games still mattered. [...]