Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Ukraine on April 22 to stress US support for Kiev and steps to improve its energy security amid a crisis with neighboring Russia. During his meetings with government leaders and civil society groups, Biden will…
Browsing: April
Football grounds all across England fell silent on Saturday to mark the looming 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. The tragedy, which took place on April 15, 1989, saw 96 Liverpool fans die as a result of a crush at the Leppings Lane end…
The Catholic weekly Credere (Believe) has been caught in a delayed April Fools’ prank about the Vatican recruiting a hawk to protect the pope’s doves after two were killed by a crow and a seagull. The publication said a bird of prey named “Sylvia”,…
Here’s an interesting development. According to a Reddit post, a digital copy of Hitman: Absolution is now free for the Xbox 360 whether you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription or not. The game was originally a Games with Gold title for April 1-…
ON SATURDAY, April 5th, South Africa was Africa’s largest economy. The IMF put its GDP at $354 billion last year, well ahead of its closest rival for the crown, Nigeria. By Sunday afternoon that had changed. Nigeria’s statistician-general announced…
As you probably know by now, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP—a version of its operating system that’s been around since 2001, making it a twelve-year-old OS—on April 8. That’s next week. The company’s been making a big push to get…
Eagle Publishing Concepts at eaglepublishingconcepts.com, announces the addition of two new books for sale by independent authors. Boko Haram: Between Myth and Reality and A Cup of Verse. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) April 04, 2014 Boko Haram: Between Myth…
So far, this has been one bad week to make announcements on the Internet. Tuesday was April Fool’s Day, making it hard to separate the facts from the fiction. And yesterday, Amazon stole the show by announcing Fire TV, a major reveal in both the media…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 3, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — THIRD SESSION OF THE AFRICAN UNION Conference OF AFRICAN MINISTERS…
As you probably know by now, April Fool’s Day tends to be something of a lousy day to try and catch up on news via the Internet, with websites deciding that they can GETCHA with their clever articles and fake reports. The result, of course, is tons…
Despite the fact that today is April 1, to the best of my knowledge, this is not a joke. A post on ZDNet today reports that at this week’s Build conference in San Francisco, Microsoft may give us some details regarding the next iteration of its flagship…
Looking to add to your video game collection? From April 6 through April 12, Target will make it pretty cost-effective for you to do so. The retailer plans to offer a Buy 2, Get 1 Free deal on “over a thousand titles across all game systems.” You…
An independent Scotland would drive on the right, replace the queen’s head on coins and bring in UN peacekeepers with purple berets — if Britain’s newspapers were to believed on April Fool’s Day. The Scottish independence referendum on September 18…
The chief executive of London’s Heathrow will stand down from the job later this year, the airport announced Tuesday. No immediate reason was given for the departure of Colin Matthews from the post, which he has held since April 2008. Matthews said…
Greece will receive 6.3 billion euros ($8.7 billion) from its pending EU bailout fund at the end of April, Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday. “A first tranche of 6.3 billion euros at the end of April will allow Greece to meet its debt…
As part of its annual April 1st overhual, Gmail has been updated with some hot new features everyone has been waiting for. Above all, though, Google’s free-to-use email service now allows you to share those oh-so-loved selfies of yours with the masses…
With April 1 fast approaching, Microsoft’s Major Nelson has revealed the next two games in the “Games with Gold” program: Hitman: Absolution and Deadlight. The two games stay true to the recent Microsoft formula: an Xbox 360 title paired with…
The latest Batman video game series has been held in high regard; especially the titles developed by Rocksteady Studios. One of those, Batman: Arkham City, will be available as a free PlayStation 3 download for PlayStation Plus subscribers starting…
THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 is now available to pre-order, with handsets set to launch on 11 April. We already knew that the phone went up for pre-order at the Samsung store and various other outlets like Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4u at midnight Friday…
The judge overseeing Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial adjourned the case on Friday — the day the Paralympian was expected to take the stand for the first time — because a top court official was sick. “One of my assessors is not well,” said Judge Thokozile…