As Nokia and Siemens announced plans to merge their telecommunications equipment businesses—the third major industry deal in less than a year—the big unanswered question was not if, but when, the remaining giants would team up.
When forward Brian McBride went to the sidelines Saturday, having taken a vicious elbow in the face, the blood covering his nose and left cheek was worrisome but familiar.
Nokia of Finland and Siemens of Germany announced today that they would merge their telecommunication network equipment businesses in a deal valued at more than $30 billion.
Considering that most humpback whales are the size of a city bus and weigh about 40 tonnes, you would think that it would be easy for researchers to record them on video underwater.
When a person is photographed, the result can often be a ‘‘red eye’’, but when some animals, a dog for instance, get clicked, the photo usually shows ‘‘blue eye’’. Why?
Shares in European Aeronautic Defense and Space, the parent company of Airbus, fell sharply on Wednesday, after another delay in the delivery of the new double-decker A380 airplane raised questions about the company’s management and strategy.
Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the man who put a face on the Iraqi insurgency, is dead, but the question that looms unresolved, however, is how large a blow this deals to the guerrilla movement he helped drive to such bloody limits.
Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, was killed in an American air strike on an isolated safe house north of Baghdad on Wednesday, top United States and Iraqi officials said.
A series of betting and match-fixing scandals in Europe and South America has led soccer’s world governing body to institute extraordinary measures to ensure the legitimacy of the World Cup, which opens Friday at Munich.
Elton John, Prince Albert of Monaco, Boris Becker and Sir Howard Stringer of the Sony Corporation — all are zealous soccer fans, and all are expected to make the trip to Germany for the World Cup.
Arnold Newman, the portrait photographer whose pictures of some of the world’s most eminent people set the bar in the postwar age of picture magazines...
But in the 1958 Sweden World Cup Brazil’s impact was seismic. Thanks to grainy black-and-white images still replayed on TV today, the aftershocks of a goal scored in the final by a 17-year-old named Pele, a spindly unknown, continue to deliver their timeless thrill
