US, Japan, South Korea to meet soon over crisis

Seoul, South Korea -- Government ministers from the United States, Japan and South Korea will sit down in Washington early next month to grapple with the tensions in the Koreas, South Korea's Foreign Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry did not provide further details about the date of the meeting, but it comes as China continues to call for an emergency meeting of the six major powers involved in talks about the Korean peninsula. This diplomatic activity reflects efforts to lower anxieties in the Koreas, which have been at a boiling point since last Tuesday, when four people died and 18 others were injured in a North Korean artillery...

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2011 Honda Fit Receives More Standard Features; VSA Added to All Models

Accommodating, versatile and fuel-efficient five-door now includes standard VSA, USB, cruise control and remote entry on all models TORRANCE, Calif. – 11/29/2010 – The Honda Fit offers even more value for the 2011 model year in its already versatile, fun-to-drive and fuel-efficient five-door package.  New for 2011, all models include Vehicle Stability Assist™ (VSA®) as standard equipment, along with more comfort and convenience features. New features on the 2011 Honda Fit (base model) include cruise control, remote entry, a USB audio interface and VSA.  The Fit Sport (non-navigation) also gains VSA for 2011, along with...

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Criminal investigation underway into leak of classified diplomatic documents

resident Barack Obama was not the only one under attack after returning from his Asian trip. It appears that a highly coordinated smear campaign is also being directed against Michelle Obama. First, mainstream news reports have criticized the First Lady for no longer reaching out to people who are not a part of her "inner circle." They also allege that she is defensive and often keeps to herself. Second, it was leaked that Sarah Palin's new book slams Michelle Obama for her statements during the 2008 election in expressing how proud she was of her country because it felt like hope was making a comeback. (On another occasion, she said,...

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Anna Dello Russo, Dior & Beyonce

Vogue Japan editor Anna Dello Russo’s new fragrance Beyond will be on shelves in time for Christmas. The fashion news editor announced on her blog that the Beyond fragrance will be on sale in a unique little golden shoe bottle in time for girls to get it in their stockings. There is also an ad for the vanilla fragrance that shows off the golden bottle in all its girly glory. We told you before that Natalie Portman was the new face of Dior fragrances, now beauty news sites have uncovered that Natalie is filming the first commercial for Dior fragrances in Paris with director Sofia Coppola. Sofia Coppola directed the...

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Inkoom To Be The Face Of G-SHOCK Watches

PRODUCT endorsement deals for world-renowned football stars have become the order of the day with popular players raking in fortunes just by signing on to be the face of several products ranging from fizzy drinks to colourful underwear. The list is endless. Cristiano Ronaldo (Armani underwear), Wayne Rooney (EA Sports), Ronaldinho (NIKE), David Beckham (Pepsi), Stephen Appiah / Michael Essien (MTN) are quite a few. But one player who is gradually making the bucks from his off-the-pitch activities due to his marketing appeal is FC Basel’s Ghanaian defender, Samuel Inkoom. The 21-year-old starlet has been in terrific form for his Swiss club and off the pitch too, he is doing well as he continue to attract major companies to endorse their brands with the latest being world-renowned watch-maker...

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Dell Laptop Uses New Intel Cooling Technology

Dell has announced an ultraportable laptop with a new technology from Intel that sucks in outside air to keep the system quieter and cooler. Dell's Vostro V130 is one of the first laptops to incorporate Intel's Hyperbaric cooling technology, which uses an internal fan that draws air into the laptop to keep it from overheating. With most existing designs, the internal fans are used to push hot air out. The air that's pulled in is channeled toward key components to keep them cool, such as the CPU. The air is drawn in through the left side of the laptop, and the warm air is then expelled out the right. The system...

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Pressure on US as Clinton faces flak at summit

It will get personal very quickly for Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State. While all of Washington scrambled yesterday to contain the fallout from the leak of secret diplomatic cables, she will have some face-to-face explaining to do when she arrives at a European security summit in Kazakhstan tomorrow. Of the many very bad things about this latest round of disclosures of how America conducts foreign policy, one is the timing – at least, for Mrs Clinton. After the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe gathering, she travels to the Middle East, which was a focus of many of the leaked cables. Perhaps with that...

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U.S. behind disclosures, says Ahmadinejad

DUBAI: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the U.S. of masterminding the release of thousands of cables by the WikiLeaks website as part of a “psychological warfare” campaign. At a press conference in Tehran on Monday, Mr. Ahamdinejad said the Americans had released the documents intentionally as part of a well organised plan. Asked to elaborate, he said: “Let me first correct you. The material was not leaked, but rather released in an organised way,” Iran's state-run Press TV reported. A cable of April 20, 2008 released by WikiLeaks cites Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz comparing Iran to the “head of a snake” which needed to be “cut off.” However, in his riposte, the Iranian President stressed that the documents would not affect Tehran's external relations....

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