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Nominations for the ’51st Annual Grammy Awards’ were announced, British acts have dominated the top categories in the nominations for the US Grammy Awards, which were announced in a star-studded special concert broadcast aired first time during a nationally televised concert special live on CBS.
Two-time Grammy Award winner LL Cool J and recent Grammy [...]

This is the start of festival season and these days are busiest retail shopping days of the year in United States. Due to recent recession of US economy, the mood of market is not positive but there are chances of increases the number of potential shoppers. Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the [...]

Total of 22 American banks have collapsed this year so far, and uncertainty over banking giant Citigroup, struggled this week to save itself from becoming number 23 in this fast growing long list , on Friday, three US banks collapsed with two of them being in California and the third one in Georgia.

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Hillary Clinton, who has represented New York in the US Senate for eight years, will have to give up her seat to become Secretary of State. That would make her only the third woman in US history to hold that post, after Condoleezza Rice and Madeline Albright.

New York Senetor Hillary Clinton has accepted [...]

A 19-year-old committed suicide while broadcasting live on Justin.tv. He apparently took the pills before he started broadcasting and let the camera run for hours until he died. The police arrived to shut the camera off. A teenager committed suicide on a webcam while others watch, this is the first incident of its own, a [...]

Barack Obama has received an apology from Verizon Wireless, which is the Number 2 cell phone service provider in terms of number of subscribers, after some of its employees were found to have gained unauthorised access to his mobile phone records. Personal cell phone account owned by Barack Obama which has been inactive for several [...]

Eric Holder could be America’s first African-American attorney general. Washington lawyer Eric Holder has emerged as the top contender for the post in Barack Obama’s administration.
He served as the first black deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration.
But Holder could face some obstacles because of a controversial Clinton pardon.
He had faced criticism for not speaking [...]

Late Friday afternoon, 47-year old Jing Hua Wu, the recently fired lead product testing engineer of Siport (a semiconductor chip company), walked into the offices of his former employers, and shot to death the top management of the company. Among the victims was 56-year old Sid Agarwal, the CEO of Siport, an ex-IITian (IIT-Kanpur, 1974, [...]

Kissel, 46, was facing at least 10 years in prison for real estate fraud, and his marriage was failing. His wife had left him just two days before the murder, taking his two daughters with her.
Kissel was brutally stabbed to death; his body was discovered in the basement of the mansion he was renting. Adding [...]

Barack Obama, as the next President of the world’s largest economy, will get an annual salary of 4,00,000 dollars — an amount 10 times more than the emoluments being paid to the Indian President.
In Indian currency, the annual salary for the First Citizen of the world’s largest economy translates into about Rs 2 crore per [...]