http://worldnews.blogmas.com Get News Daily Here... Fastest Information Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:00:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BEIJING, Aug 14, 2008 (AFP) - Lee Chong Wei steamrolled Indonesia's Sony Dwi Kuncoro Thursday to reach the the Olympic badminton men's semi-finals and keep Malaysia's hopes alive of winning its first ever gold medal. With Malaysia's doubles stars and Lee's girlfriend Wong Mew Choo crashing out of these Games, Lee ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/08/15/olympics-malaysias-lee-steamrolls-way-into-badminton-semis/ Rescue workers in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province continue to search for survivors, despite further tremors and bad weather, as officials put the death toll at over 32,000. One man who had been trapped for 139 hours was pulled alive from a collapsed hospital on Sunday, "only slightly bruised", China's state news ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/05/18/tremors-persist-in-china-quake-zone/ A severe tropical cyclone with winds of up to 240km per hour has hit Myanmar, cutting off electricity supplies in the city of Yangon and raising fears of serious casualties. Roofs were reportedly torn off buildings and trees blown over on Saturday, but details were difficult to come by as telephone ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/05/18/cyclone-nargis-lashes-myanmar/ Why Is Hip Hop Dance So Popular? The main reason hip hop dance is so popular is because hip hop music is so popular in today’s society. So that begs the question: why is hip hop music so popular? Hip hop music is popular in part because black culture ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/03/23/why-is-hip-hop-dance-so-popular/ 1 – The Largest Offshore Rig The largest offshore installation of its kind in the world, the Production-Drilling-Quarters platform, is a semi-submersible floating structure with a displacement of 130 kilotons. The topside is the size of 3 football fields. It is capable of treating and exporting ¼ million barrels ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/03/06/top-3-amazingly-powerful-pieces-of-heavy-equipment/ LAS VEGAS - As police tried to piece together how a rare, deadly poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a hospital. Adding to the mystery, police said firearms and an "anarchist type textbook" were found in the same ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/03/01/toxin-mystery-at-las-vegas-motel-deepens/ PUTRAJAYA, Feb 13 (Bernama) - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today announced the dissolution of Parliament to pave the way for the 12th general election. The announcement was made at a media conference at his office here and telecast live on RTM1 at noon. The prime minister also advised all ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/02/13/malaysia-parliament-dissolved-today-for-12th-general-election/ BARCELONA, Spain--Sony Ericsson, which historically has created phones around the Symbian operating system, jumped quietly onto the Windows Mobile bandwagon with the announcement here today of its Xperian X1 smartphone. The X1--the first product in the company's new Xperian brand for high-end smartphones--was the big news at Sony Ericsson's press event ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/02/11/sony-ericsson-unveils-first-windows-mobile-handset/ DILI, East Timor - Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks. President Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace laureate, was injured ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/02/11/east-timor-president-wounded-in-attack/ Kenneth D. Lewis has gambled on bold acquisitions to build Bank of America into the nation’s largest bank. But few of Mr. Lewis’s bets match the one he placed on Friday, when Bank of America announced it was buying the Countrywide Financial Corporation, the mortgage giant brought to its knees ... http://worldnews.blogmas.com/2008/01/13/bank-of-america%e2%80%99s-chief-makes-big-bet/