Banks still broken, Geithner tells impatient overseers as they press for timetable, costsWASHINGTON — America’s banks are still broken despite all their bailout billions, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told impatient rescue overseers Tuesday as they pressed him on when things will get better and how much it will cost. A bleak new report estimated U.S. banks and other financial institutions could lose a stunning $2.7 trillion in all. CIA to close secret prisons used to torture al Qaeda operativesWASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency has said that it would decommission the secret overseas prisons where it subjected al Qaeda prisoners to brutal interrogation methods, bringing to a symbolic close the most controversial counter-terrorism program of the Bush Administration. Robot being readied for first lunar construction projectLONDON - Researchers are readying a robot with the help of an artist to place a little red cottage on the moon, as a symbol of what humankind can achieve. Biblical scholar to co-host Discovery channel series on Jesus ChristWASHINGTON - A University of Illinois at Chicago biblical scholar will co-host “Who Was Jesus?,” a new Discovery Channel documentary series that explores the life of Jesus and life in the first century. TiE launches Stree Shakti to empower women entrepreneurs across IndiaMUMBAI - The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the world’s largest non-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship, announced today the launch of India’s first Women Entrepreneurship platform - TiE Stree Shakti (TSS). Log on to www.alpha60.de/research/muc/ to read love poetry from world’s first computerLONDON - The first task for the world’s earliest computer - the Manchester-built Mark One - was to compose romantic verse. And now, an expert has recreated the “love poetry generator” on the Internet. |