Over the past year drivers in the UK have seen significant rises in their automobile insurance costs. According to the AA, there has been a 13.4% increase in the average quoted car insurance premiums for comprehensive cover this past year. In addition, there’s been a 19% increase in third party fire and theft [...]
Japanese spending has been pushing the most indebted industrialized nation in the world close to insolvency and Naoto Kan, Japan’s latest prime minister, wants to do something about it. His predecessor, Yukio Hatoyama, quit the position within 10 months. In that time he committed to borrowing approximately US $500 billion to pay for [...]
Google feels the Vietnamese government may be trying to track user activity and block access to specific websites. On Thursday Google said that new regulations that were passed in April will require all of Hanoi’s retail Internet locations to install special software on their server computers by the end of this year.
Google policy analyst [...]
On Thursday a US government panel doubled its estimate of how much oil is spewing from BPs out of control oil well. Now the official estimates are that between 25,000 to 30,000 barrels a day are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico and heading towards US shores.
This far exceeds the previous estimate of 12,000 [...]
Authorities said that Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, two New Jersey men, were arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport on Saturday before being able to board planes that would take them to a jihadist group in Somalia. The two, who were en route to join the jihadist group, were previously [...]