Countering China, Obama Backs India for U.N. Council
By endorsing India for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, President Obama on Monday signaled the United States’ intention to create a deeper partnership of the world’s two largest democracies that would expand commercial ties and check the influence of an increasingly assertive China.
'Twilight' leads People's Choice Awards nominees
The Twilight Saga" has a chance to eclipse the competition at the 2011 People's Choice Awards. Nominations were announced Tuesday, and the vampire love story and its stars racked up a leading eight bids.
Ask.com : The End of an Era for Search
Today marks the end of Ask.com as a search engine; the once-mighty search giant will lay off the vast majority of its engineers and concede its small piece of the search market to Google and Microsoft.
Oil spill probe finds no 'conscious decision' to cut corners
Workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon were pushing to complete the well at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill before the disaster, but no "conscious decision" to cut corners on safety has been discovered, a presidential commission reported Monday.
