CNN breaking news is airing the rescue of Chilean miners live, as officials made a capsule descend in a test run. The first of the 33 trapped miners is to be Florencio Avalos followed by Mario Sepulveda, Juan Illanes, Carlos Mamani, and Jimmy Sanchez. The last man out will be Luis Urzua , after Pedro Cortez and Ariel Ticona are winched out from their ordeal.
Shift leader Luis Urzua has scripted a heroic survival story of gritty endurance, that has gripped nor just Chile but the whole wide world. He …

If you are into Naked Lunch by William Burroughs “where the days glide by strung on a syringe with a long thread of blood”, Alkermes will snap the mood of your psychedelic LSD haze.
The addiction drug Vivitrol from Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Alkermes Inc is already used in the United Stated for treating alcoholics, and the biotech firm said the FDA had approved the drug for broad-spectrum use. Vivitrol is a naltrexone formulation that is currently an albatross losing money, so the approval may just turn …

Cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar is ageing like wine. In another peak in his towering career, he became the first ever to scale the 14,000 mount in Test cricket.
During the five-day test against Australia at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Sachin tonked a boundary on off-spinner Nathan Hauritz ’s ball, to achieve the awe-inspiring feat. More than number crunching, it is the sheer staying power of the cricket God that astounds, a glorious two decades ruling the roost in international cricket.
84% of Aussies polled said that the sportsman …

Being it into your bedroom if you have an icky partner, and you never will need the headache excuse again. The Sony Google TV is the one shot bedroom action killer if you need one.Geeks rejoice, Sony has unveiled its latest range of Internet-enabled TVs, boasting of the much-hyped Google TV software. Anticipation is running high surrounding the product that brings the giants together.
At a news conference in the Big Apple, Sony brought forth the idiot vox revelation that brings Twitter, YouTube ,Netflix and Hulu into one swish LCD …

Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, the leading stars of “Love Story” will be reuniting on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in the Tuesday edition. The 1970s’ stars will talk about their personal lives along with their respective love lives and also about their famous on screen chemistry.
The iconic onscreen couple who worked together to take Love Story to iconic heights will be reunited after 40 years of the infamous drama. Still after so many years, O’Neal says that he still has feelings for MacGraw and she will always be his first …

Eric Stoltz must be one comedian seething with rage. For the 25th anniversary of Back To The Future, a snippet of his firing is being used as publicity material , added in DVD and Blu-Ray versions to be out on October 26, 2010.
It looks like a rotten gesture from the marketing div, digging dirt on a respected veteran actor. The clip shows how five weeks into the job, Eric Stoltz got sacked for being too sombre and unfunny as the original Marty McFly, and replaced by Michael J. Fox. They …

Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini, at the earnings conference for its best quarter ever, patted Apple’s iPad on the pack, but said that Intel ultimately intends to relegate every other contender in the tablets category to the bin.
Intel is on a high after reporting record earnings of $11.1 billion, a spike of over 50%, of which the profit alone accounts for $3.0 billion. In the iPad segment, it looks like Intel has thrown down the gauntlet and the stage is set for an epic war, which will see users spoilt for …

After 5 weeks of NFL action, the power rankings for this week remain more or less the same with the top three remaining intact with a new entry in the top 5. Week 5 turned out to be a rather entertaining and dramatic week in which some of the best teams performed badly while the mediocre ones stepped up the pedal.
So, the rankings are as follows..
1.      Baltimore Ravens (4-1) – Ravens have been the best team this season. They defeated the Broncos easily and thus retain the top position.
2.      Pittsburgh …

The new Gap logo has turned out to be a big flop and this has led the company to reconsider their decision and return back to their traditional older logo.
This development came within one week of the unveiling of the new design and the famous store had to make an announcement via Face book that they were going back to the traditional logo and the classic mode was the best way fitted for it.
The unveiling of the new logo brought about a huge amount of wrath from the general audience …

Pfizer finalised a $3.6 billion deal and added King Pharmaceuticals Inc. (KG) as their new partners. King Pharmaceuticals are specialists of pain-reliefs and this news came in just before the opening session of Tuesday.
According to the deal KG will get $14.25 in cash for each share from Pfizer. This is a 40% premium to the figures closing on Monday. The company is expecting an increase of 2cents per share in the 2011 and 2012 earnings while an increment of 3 to 4 cents per share per year from 2013 …