Microsoft Releases Its First-ever IPhone Application

Microsoft’s first-ever iPhone application is a slick photo viewer with a browsing capability that handles a large number of photos on a mobile device screen.

The Seadragon mobile application is free through Apple’s application store. It a product of Microsoft’s Live Labs division, which focuses on developing Web-based technology and applications.

Seadragon incorporates the Deep Zoom feature, which is also integrated into Silverlight 2, Microsoft’s multimedia tool. It allows a user to quickly magnify a particular area of a photo, regardless of its size.

Microsoft said the aim of the mobile application is to let users view even wall-sized displays on a mobile device, regardless of the amount of bandwidth on the network.

Seadragon renders documents as little thumbnails, and a double-tap brings it into focus. A reverse pinch on the iPhone’s touch screen kicks in the Deep Zoom, revealing sharp detail.

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Russian Economy Has ‘Already’ Entered a Recession

Russia’s economy has “already” entered its first recession since 1998, Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach said today.

“The recession has already begun and, I’m afraid, it won’t end in two quarters,” Klepach said in comments made in Moscow today that were confirmed by his press secretary.

The economy will expand less than the ministry’s forecast of 6.8 percent this year and industrial growth will slow to 1.9 percent in the year, he said.

Gross domestic product growth dropped to 6.2 percent in the third quarter, the slowest pace in three years, as the spreading global financial crisis choked investments and put the brakes on retail and construction growth. Industrial output is expected to shrink in November for the first time since the Federal Statistics Service changed its methodology almost six years ago, as demand for oil and metals plummeted amid the global slowdown.

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US President George W Bush is attacked by an Iraqi reporter with a shoe.





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Thai parliament picks new Prime Minister

Thailand’s parliament chose opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as the country’s new prime minister Monday, drawing angry protests from supporters of the recently dissolved ruling party outside

Mr. Abhisit, 44 , won with 235 votes against 198 for the former national police chief, Pracha Promnok. The new prime minister assembled a coalition in which he will have to depend on some of his most powerful political opponents for support..
The ruling found the PPP guilty of electoral fraud, dissolved the party and barred Somchai from public office for five years. The PPP reorganized as the Puea Thai party, which was created by PPP supporters ahead of the court ruling. It still held the largest bloc of seats in parliament, but enough members broke ranks to give Ahbisit’s coalition a 235-198 majority.

The new government will formally take office when it receives the blessing of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej

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Hala Bol - CF of Kerala Told Majaor Father not even a “dog” would visit his house

He (Sandeep’s father) says that the Kerala chief minister did not come whereas the Karnataka chief minister came in the morning itself…and that Kerala has ignored him. He got all worked up over this,” Achuthanandan told ‘Times Now’ in Thiruvananthapuram

The chief miniser asked “Is there a rule that the chief ministers of Kerala and Karnataka should be there at the same time?

After a pause, the chief minister went on to say “If it had not been Sandeep’s house, not even a dog would have glanced that way.”

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Pacquiao pummels aging De La Hoya * Story Highlights * Pacquiao wins after De La Hoya fails to come out of his corner after eighth round

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Manny Pacquiao dominated his bigger and more famous opponent from the opening bell Saturday night, giving Oscar De La Hoya such a beating he declined to come out of his corner after the eighth round.

The fight was so lopsided and De La Hoya looked so inept that it could spell the end for boxing's richest and most marketable star.

It was only the second time in De La Hoya's 16-year pro career that he was stopped in a fight, and it was made even more shocking because it came at the hands of a fighter who fought at just 129 pounds months earlier. At the age of 35 he seemed not only well beyond his prime, but unable to offer any answer to the punches that Pacquiao was landing almost at will.

De La Hoya's left eye was closed shut as he sat on his stool after the eighth round and the ring doctor, referee and his cornermen discussed his condition. De La Hoya offered no complaints when his corner decided he had enough, getting up from his stool and walking to the center of the ring to congratulate the victor.

"You're still my idol," Pacquiao told him.

"No, you're my idol," De La Hoya said.

Two of the three ringside judges scored all eight rounds for Pacquiao, while a third gave De La Hoya only the first round. The Associated Press scored every round for the winner.

De La Hoya was taken to a hospital for precautionary reasons after the fight.

The fight was lopsided from the beginning, with Pacquiao landing punch after punch while De La Hoya chased after him, trying to catch him with a big punch. Pacquiao was winning big even before the seventh round, when he was pounding De La Hoya against the ropes in his corner and catching him with huge shots that knocked him across the ring.

De La Hoya remained upright, but with one eye closed and his reflexes seemingly gone there was no chance he was going to land the big punches he would have needed to turn the fight around. Ringside statistics showed Pacquiao landed 45 power punches in the seventh round to just four for De La Hoya.

"He's just a great fighter," De La Hoya said. "I have nothing bad to say about him. He prepared like a true champion."

Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 knockouts) came up two weight classes to fight for his biggest purse ever, while De La Hoya dropped down to meet him at 147 pounds. Though De La Hoya (39-6) towered over Pacquiao and had a big reach advantage over him, Pacquiao had no trouble getting inside what few jabs De La Hoya threw to land his shots.

Pacquiao was credited with landing 224 of 585 punches to just 83 of 402 for De La Hoya.

"We knew we had him after the first round," Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach said. "He had no legs, he was hesitant and he was shot."

Roach trained De La Hoya in his last big fight a year ago and said De La Hoya simply couldn't throw punches when he needed in that fight. That was magnified even more against Pacquiao, who not only was as elusive as Floyd Mayweather Jr. but threw punches back that kept De La Hoya off pace.

"Freddie, you're right," De La Hoya told the trainer after the fight. "I just don't have it anymore."

If De La Hoya's career is over, it will be the end of a remarkable story that began when he won the Olympic gold medal in Barcelona in 1992 and went on to become the biggest box office attraction in the sport. But while he sold tickets, there were whispers long before the fight that he had nothing left.

"My heart still wants to fight, that's for sure," De La Hoya said. "But when your physical doesn't respond, what can you do? I have to be smart and make sure I think about my future plans."

De La Hoya not only dropped down to fight for the first time at 147 pounds in seven years, but actually came into the ring unofficially weighing less than Pacquiao. Both fighters got on scales in their dressing rooms and De La Hoya was 147 while Pacquiao was 148 and a half.

Pacquiao earned his biggest purse ever, a guaranteed $11 million, while De La Hoya was expected to make at least twice that in a fight by the time all the pay-per-view revenues are totaled up.

Mumbai Bomb Blast

At least 184 people were killed and around 714 injured, many seriously, as seven powerful blasts ripped through packed train cars and on stations during rush hour here Tuesday evening in the worst terror attack in India in over a decade.

Dazed survivors, blood on their faces, stared blankly at the explosion sites, some trying desperately to speak to their families on mobile telephones held by young men who came rushing from neighbourhood buildings. All this while it kept raining all over the city, making the situation much more grim and difficult.

Terror and mayhem struck Mumbai and Srinagar, two cities 1600 km apart in the west and north of India, killing at least 143 people, the majority of them in suburban trains in the country's financial and entertainment capital.

The targets of bombings in Mumbai during the evening rush hour were the suburban train service that is the lifeline of the city. The stations that were targeted were Khar, Mahim, Matunga, Jogeshwari, Borivili, Bhayandra (Mira Road) and the Khar-Santa Cruz subway.

Indian duo sign for US baseball team

New York, Nov 25: India maybe non-existent in the baseball map but Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, both from Uttar Pradesh, made at least a beginning by signing for five-time World Series Champions Pittsburgh Pirates as "non-drafted free agents" for the team's Minor League Spring Training next year.

Both finds of a TV reality show, the UP duo would now learn the basics of the game and scouts here believe the colts would require at least four years of minor league toil before breaking into the major league.

Announcing the signing, Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said the move was aimed at reaching out to an untapped market that is India.

"The Pirates are committed to creatively adding talent to our organisation. By adding these two young men, we are pleased to not only add two prospects to our system but also hope to open a pathway to an untapped market," he said.

"We are intrigued by Patel's arm strength and Singh's frame and potential. These young men have improved a tremendous amount in their six-month exposure to baseball, and we look forward to helping them continue to fulfill their potential," he added.

Discovered during the Indian leg of the TV reality show "Million Dollar Arm", Rinku, who won the contest, and Dinesh, the finalist, have no previous baseball experience.

Since their arrival here, both trained with University of Southern California pitching coach Tom House and in the tryout earlier this month, they hurled in the low-90s which was enough to earning a Spring Training invitation at the 'Bucs', as the Pirates are known as.

House, meanwhile, made it clear that the Indian duo are not finished products and it might take a while before they really shape up as quality pitchers.

"They still have to learn how to play the game," House said.

"Their talent is the upside, but it's going to take them a while to learn how to play. It's not going to take much to get them to sign, either. If you're looking at it as an organisation, you can really develop these kids.”

"I know they can pitch, but we have to teach them how to play the game. It's well worth the risk," House added.

Both Dinesh and Rinku were javelin throwers in schools.

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Wall Street's crisis could cost 225,000 New York jobs over two years

New York, Nov 25: Wall Street's painful downsizing could cost 225,000 New Yorkers their jobs over the next two years as it recent era of outsize profits may have ended and it adapts to less leverage, the state comptroller said on Monday.

employees could be axed in related fields, such as banking, insurance, and real estate, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli forecast in a new report.

Wall Street seems to have overpaid its employees in the first six months of this year, DiNapoli said adding that total compensation ate up "an unsustainable" 97 percent of net revenues. In contrast, the ratio averaged only 53 percent from 1990 to 2006.

And unlike previous cycles in this traditionally boom-and-bust industry, Wall Street might not revisit its recent mistakes, at least for awhile, because the federal bank bailout includes some new curbs while the new Democratic Obama administration views stiffer regulations as a must.

Further, the new bank holding company model adopted by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley after rival Lehman Brothers was allowed to sink into bankruptcy, comes with regulations that did not apply to these titans when they were investment banks.

"The challenge is that we know that Wall Street is going to look different than before we went into this," DiNapoli said,

The end of the leverage generation could transform investment banking, withering mergers and acquisitions. It also might herald a era of lower but more stable profits, he said.

Wall Street likely will employ fewer people -- and reward them less generously, DiNapoli added, predicting that the past few years of "outsize" profits would not be matched again.

The securities industry lost 16,000 jobs last month on a year-over-year basis, the state Labor Department said last week. Because these workers are paid so generously, an average of almost USD 400,000 last year, these jobs spur hiring in many other sectors, from shops to advertising firms.

That intensifies the pain of Wall Street's breakdown, as each of this industry's jobs could cause two workers to be laid off in New York City and 1.3 employees to be cut in the state, the Democratic comptroller explained.

Securities company executives, moreover, should not reap bonuses because it's "inappropriate to reward poor performance," DiNapoli said, noting that broker/dealer desks of New York Stock Exchange member firms lost almost USD 21 billion in the first six months of this year.

Bonuses now could plunge in half, the way they did in the early 2000s, after the end of the Internet speculative fever and the deadly September 11 air attacks in 2001, DiNapoli said.

That might bring these payments down to USD 16 billion. This will also hurt Wall Street's lower-level employees, who just like investment bankers and top traders, often rely heavily on bonuses. "New York will feel a lot of pain from a shrunken bonus pool," DiNapoli said.

The state and city could lose USD 6.5 billion in tax revenues from Wall Street over two years. New York City gets 12 percent of its tax revenues from this industry, while the state gets 20 percent.

DiNapoli also warned that job "losses could be greater if the economic downturn is deeper and longer than currently forecast."

Wall Street's job force peaked at 200,300 in December 2000. As of last month, this sector employed 171,400 people, according to the state Labor Department.

New York City lost 232,1000 private-sector jobs in the recession that stretched from 2001 to 2003.

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I’ll never do ‘Bigg Boss’ again, says winner Ashutosh Kaushik

New Delhi
, Nov 23 (IANS) Life for young dhaba owner Ashutosh Kaushik has taken an upward swing ever since he participated in television reality shows. But after winning Rs.10 million on “Bigg Boss”, he doesn’t wish to take part in such a programme ever again.”If I get a chance to be a part of ‘Bigg Boss’ again, I will not do it for sure. It’s not that I can’t spend time again there, but I don’t want to do it because I don’t want to snatch someone else’s chance of winning the show,” Ashutosh told IANS over phone from Mumbai.

This year has been pleasantly unpredictable for Ashutosh. He ran a roadside eatery just a year ago but then Lady Luck began to smile upon him and he got selected for adventure reality show “MTV Roadies 5.0? which he later won.

It was followed by his win at “Bigg Boss” Saturday night. He plans to buy a house for himself in Mumbai with the money he got.

“After I won ‘Roadies’, I was still living on the streets. And I had nothing to do. Now I hope that with this money, I am able to avail the basic amenities of life. I will also bring my family here,” he said.

While in the “Bigg Boss” house, Ashutosh was often accused of using foul language. But he says it was because there was nothing to do in the house.

“When we didn’t have anything to talk about, that’s what we used to do - abuse each other. And it was all in good fun. I never abused anyone on the face. If anyone can prove that I abused him or her openly, I’m ready to give the ‘Bigg Boss’ title to that person,” said Ashutosh who was also criticised for his unhealthy living habits.

Although Ashutosh shared a good relationship with almost every participant on the show, he became closer to Rahul Mahajan, son of late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, and former Miss World Diana Hayden.

Ashutosh also won the title of Mr. Honest while in the “Bigg Boss” house.

He now has plans to join Bollywood, a dream he wanted to pursue after he won “MTV Roadies”.

Raja and Zulfi play media men

Raja plays the part of a journalist and Zulfi is the camera man…

They start the news by saying welcome to the Bigg Boss Bulletin, we have loads stuffs happening in the Bigg Boss House to start with:

• The chocolate task that was provided by Bigg Boss was quite exciting and the person who did'nt come to know about the trick that Bigg Boss played on the housemates was Rahul Mahajan!

• The housemates are very happy to have Monica back in the Bigg Boss House except Rahul Mahajan because Monica has changed her behaviour towards Rahul and iIf Rahul tries to come close to Monica she is 10 feet away from him… Raja then calls Monica and Rahul to the Bigg Boss studios and asks them questions regarding the same.

• Further all the housemates are very happy because they have got a good weekly budget.

• Raja says 'the most surprising thing of the Bigg Boss House' is Ahsaan not being nominated for 8 weeks at a stretch and has broken all records of the Bigg Boss House.

• Then he calls Debojit as the angry young man because Debojit got angry and upset with Bigg Boss for not sending Roshguls for Dassera.

Raja concludes the Bigg Boss Bulletin by saying, “Thanks for tuning in.”

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Kumble calls it a day

India captain Anil Kumble has announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect, reports BBC.

The 38-year-old decided to stand down during the final day of the drawn third Test against Australia in Delhi after sustaining a finger injury.

The leg-spinner took 619 Test wickets, including all 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan in Delhi in 1999, in his 18-year, 132-Test career.

Kumble’s successor has not been named but is likely to be Mahendra Dhoni.

The wicketkeeper led India to an emphatic 320-run win in Mohali in the second Test after a shoulder injury had ruled Kumble out.

His replacement Amit Mishra took seven wickets at the PCA Ground, heaping further pressure on Kumble, who had been wicketless in the drawn first Test in Bangalore.

The veteran had previously suggested he would retire on his terms after he faced constant questioning on the subject from the Indian media.

But he admitted a finger injury sustained on day three attempting to catch a difficult Matthew Hayden chance proved to be the catalyst for his decision.

“It was tough, especially after 18 years when you have been so competitive, but the body gave me the decision and the injury helped,” said Kumble, who needed 11 stitches on his little finger of his left hand.

“I had already made the decision yesterday (Saturday), I knew I would not be fit (for the Nagpur Test) and I don’t want to let the team down.”

Kumble stands third in the all-time leading wicket-takers in Test cricket, behind fellow spinners Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan.

He remains the only bowler to emulate Jim Laker’s feat of taking all 10 wickets in a Test innings with a match-winning 10-74 in Delhi nine years ago.

India lead the series 1-0 with one Test match to go, which starts in Nagpur on 6 November
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'Nature loss bigger issue than current banking crisis'

LONDON: A European Union commissioned study has determined that the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis.The study puts the annual cost of forest loss at between 2 trillion dollars and 5 trillion dollars.According to a report by BBC News, the figure comes from adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide.The study, headed by a Deutsche Bank economist, parallels the Stern Review into the economics of climate change.Some conservationists see it as a new way of persuading policymakers to fund nature protection rather than allowing the decline in ecosystems and species.Speaking to BBC News on the fringes of the congress, study leader Pavan Sukhdev emphasised that the cost of natural decline dwarfs losses on the financial markets."It's not only greater but it's also continuous, it's been happening every year, year after year," he told BBC News."So whereas Wall Street by various calculations has to date lost, within the financial sector, 1-1.5 trillion dollars, the reality is that at today's rate, we are losing natural capital at least between 2-5 trillion dollars every year," he added.The review that Sukhdev leads, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Teeb), was initiated by Germany under its recent EU presidency, with the European Commission providing funding.The first phase concluded in May when the team released its finding that forest decline could be costing about 7 percent of global GDP. The second phase will expand the scope to other natural systems.Key to understanding his conclusions is that as forests decline, nature stops providing services which it used to provide essentially for free.So, the human economy either has to provide them instead, perhaps through building reservoirs, building facilities to sequester carbon dioxide, or farming foods that were once naturally available.The Teeb calculations show that the cost falls disproportionately on the poor, because a greater part of their livelihood depends directly on the forest, especially in tropical regions.The greatest cost to western nations would initially come through losing a natural absorber of the most important greenhouse gas. Many in the conservation community believe the Teeb review will lay open the economic consequences of halting or not halting the slide in biodiversity."The numbers in the Stern Review enabled politicians to wake up to reality," said Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Programme."Teeb will do the same for the value of nature, and show the risks we run by not valuing it adequately," he added.

Brit model Sophie Anderton ‘goes bankrupt’

English model Sophie Anderton, who has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons, has gone bankrupt, it has emerged.

According to sources, a bankruptcy order has just been made against the former ‘It Girl’ in the High Court.

The 31-year-old model socialite has battled a string of well-documented problems in recent years, which include the likes of cocaine addiction, revelations of high-class prostitution and a failed relationships with the likes of millionaire playboy Robert Hanson and Crystal Palace FC chairman Simon Jordan.

A spokesman said at the time: “We operate a no tolerance policy towards drug use so feel we have been left with no alternative than to terminate Sophie’s contract.”

In January 2004, the stunner admitted to having sex for 5,000 pounds through a madam in Italy. She set her up on a “date” with a client who left her the money in a Christian Dior handbag, reports the Daily Express.

The model claimed that at the time she was drinking and taking a lot of cocaine and had no money but the experience had “horrified” her.

Sophie first came to fame in the Nineties as a model with lingerie giant Gossard. She was soon earning enough money to fund a lavish lifestyle and became a regular guest on the London party circuit.

During this period she developed an addiction to cocaine and entered into a stormy relationship with footballer Mark Bosnich, who was a fellow cocaine addict.

She has admitted to suffering from bipolar disorder and has been in and out of rehab.

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