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Tom Davis, a moderate Republican from Virginia, has emerged as a leading candidate for the Obama Administration’s newly created position of cybersecurity czar. Sources familiar with the White House’s deliberations on the subject say Obama officials feel a Washington power player would make a better candidate than a tech guru
A security guard for a provincial police chief was killed Saturday in a suicide bombing in western Iraq, state-run media reported. Seattle-based mega-yacht rental business CEO Expeditions usually charges around $100,000 a week to charter their 100+ foot yachts, however, they have introduced a deal waiving the charter fees — so guests will only need to pay for the running of the vessel.
It is a boarding pass unlike any other. It’s a memory of a day that nearly was his last on earth. When a FedEx package arrived at Barry Leonard’s home recently, he had no idea it contained items from his flight that ended up in the Hudson River.
The Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor, the Palme d’Or, went on Sunday to Michael Haneke for his film The White Ribbon — both establishing it as the best movie of the festival and triggering the annual debate among critics and fans over whether the award was a revelation or a gross miscarriage of justice on the part of the Cannes jury. ‘Twas ever thus. Between 1939-1954, Cannes’ highest accolade was called the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
German champions Bayern Munich have sacked coach Jurgen Klinsmann and appointed the experienced Jupp Heynckes as his replacement for the final five games of the Bundesliga season. Klinsmann’s fate was sealed after a meeting with club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, general manager Uli Hoeness and director Karl Hopfner on Monday morning. The 44-year-old took charge of Bayern last July, after leading an unfancied Germany side to the 2006 World Cup semifinals on home soil.
A CNN.com journalist has begun his bid to "tweet" the London Marathon — but admits he has no idea whether his plan will work. Pete Wilkinson, a digital news producer at CNN.com in London, plans to update his Twitter page during Sunday’s race via text messages from his cellphone but said that typing and running at the same time was “incredibly hard.” Wilkinson hopes to complete the iconic 42.1 kilometer (26.2 miles) race in four hours or less and said he planned to tweet without stopping
The race will be hard enough without the rain that’s in the forecast, but one participant in Sunday’s London Marathon is challenging himself further by planning to "tweet" while he runs. Pete Wilkinson, a digital news producer at CNN.com in London, says he has no idea whether his plan will work — and whether he’ll even be able to type out the updates into his mobile phone and send them to his Twitter account, but he’s going to try anyway
President Obama currently has the polls on his side. In numerous surveys, Americans have said they are pleased with Obama’s performance thus far and confident the president can fix the economy, acknowledging this will take some time.
James Dobson, the influential evangelical leader of the Christian ministry Focus on the Family, has stepped down as board chairman, he announced Friday.
Democratic former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s brother asked Roland Burris to contribute or help raise up to $10,000 in campaign cash before Burris was named a U.S. senator on December 30, according to a Burris spokesman