Finnish mobile phone company giant, Nokia, is to layoff 1,800 of its workers. While releasing a report on its net profits for the months leading to September of 529million Euros translating to $741 million or 471 million pounds, the company made the announcement. At the same period the company’s loss stood at 559M Euros.
Selling over 110 million phones in a year, Nokia remains the largest handset maker in the world and to add to its might has gone up by 2% from last year.
The new phone maker manager, Stephen Elop, …

Tina Knowles, Beyonce’s mother, denied reports that her daughter could be pregnant. During a taping of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, Tina denied the report saying that isn’t true and “not right now.”
US Weekly had quoted on Wednesday some sources to the effect that, the world celebrated singer could be expecting, already within her first ever trimester.
The source claimed that Beyonce was quite shocked by the news, and that as much as she loves to be with kids, the wife to Rapper Jay-Z was not ready for the role of a …

Israeli pressure group claims that Jewish settlers began constructing homes in West Bank since a building freeze expired. The group claims that the construction is at a faster rate than it was before.
The recently re-launched Middle East peace talks are on the verge of collapse due to the construction. The Palestinians have vowed to quit the talks unless of a partial building freeze. The building units are believed to be over 600-plus new homes, some reports indicating the work began in September.
In the view of the Palestine spokesperson, it is …

About a quarter a million Germans have requested Google show dim pictures of their homes on their Street View service. Defending its people, the German government said persons interested should make a request for the service if they are to let Google continue with Street View. In the same statement the government said people’s privacy was being violated if they never had the option to choose.
In getting into Germany, Street View said people will be allowed to use a webform so that their homes could be obscured. German landlords and …

Virginia Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, has through her conservative group known as Liberty Central, reiterated she is ready to face the judiciary and prove her case. It is this light that many believe her husband, Supreme Court Justice and a conservative, is to hold a very key vote in striking down the law.
Mrs. Thomas is busy preparing herself to take to the High Court in what she believes is President Obama’s “unconstitutional” regulation of the health insurance law.
Through her group website, she posted information to the effect that …

China’s economy growth has slowed down in the second quarter, raising concerns about the unsustainable rate at which the economy is growing.
A report by the National Bureau of statistics revealed, Chinese GDP early in the year was a surging 11.9%, and the figure diminished slightly to 9.6% in the third quarter of this year. This is still a great indicator that the country is still doing quite well, a show of rapid growth in comparison to most western countries. The slack in pace though is a cause of concern for …

Iran has received accusations that it’s trying to have banks set up secretly across Muslim countries such as Malaysia and Iraq for their alleged support in terrorism and Iran’s nuclear program, state US officials have claimed.
Iran allegedly set up the same banks in question through the adoption of dummy names as well as flimsy ownership and organizational structures to evade sanctions in a bid to curtail worldwide Islamic banking activities. A total of 16 banks have been accused by the Treasury Department for their involvement and has proceeded to blacklist …

After a couple years have lapsed, a costly and long-waited FBI computerized system aiming to manage the caseload of the Federal Bureau is yet to be completed, risking arriving too late that it will be obsolete, a report from the Justice Department has warned.
The system, Sentinel, was designed to be a paperless and user-friendly manner of managing cases, with expectations of completion expected to be by December 2009, with the cost standing at $425 million. This was bound to replace another earlier computer program, whose cost was $170 million and …

As he closes out a tumultuous and perilous election period for Democrats, the President seems to give his final argument as a choice for Americans to go back to failure or progress.
While critics agree President Obama is talking about Congress control, but there is no way he could escape his own imprint on the entire election.
As he echoes the spirited campaign of 2008, mentioning as much as he can on the work yet to be done and in every photo taken with another candidate, the president is serving another reminder …

Mel Gibson, prolific actor, director and writer will be making a cameo, in the form of a tattoo artist, in Hangover 2.
The role for the Brave Heart star was reported by the media and confirmed on Tuesday through an individual working closely with the production, although requested to be anonymous. He was not given the authorization to brief on the matter on behalf of the production.
Hang Over 2 is a sequel to the successful comedy hit “The Hangover”, released in 2009 and currently commencing the production. The release has been …