How to start streaming movies with Netflix

Post by Michael Arcand: Netflix started out as a mail-order DVD rental service, adding instant streaming as a side benefit for some of its subscription plans. As streaming became more popular, the company introduced a streaming-only subscription option to its lineup. With this option, you can stream an unlimited amount of video from Netflix's vast array of offerings. Interested? Keep reading to find out how to get started.

Asus Eee Pad Transformer sells out online on day one

Apparently, the iPad isn't the only tablet in town capable of selling out. While the Asus Eee Pad Transformer might not have the big-name appeal of its Apple rival, the $399 16GB Honeycomb tablet managed to sell out online at Best Buy's website in its first day on sale.
We doubt the Eee Pad Transformer's bizarre show spoof ad is behind the tablet's sales success: at $399, the Transformer is the cheapest way to get a taste of Android's Honeycomb OS — not to mention that the thing can pull an Atrix-like trick by docking into a keyboard station to turn into a makeshift laptop.
Of course, the Eee Pad Transformer's good looks and under-the-hood Honeycomb might not be the only explanation. Since Asus reportedly put more emphasis on the tablet's U.K. debut, U.S. inventory numbers were likely on the small side to begin with.
[Via: Android Police]
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• T-Mobile offering limited-time $100 discount on G-Slate tablet
• More about Android 3.0, Honeycomb
• More about tablets

SETI Shuts Down Search for Alien Life Due to Lack of Funding

The SETI institute has hibernated its Allen Telescope Array, which scans the sky for clues on extraterrestrial life, due to lack of funding. The telescope array, which consists of 42 20-foot-wide telescopes spread across a field 300 miles north of San Francisco, was originally funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated $25 million to the project. However, state budget cuts have all but halted the project, which will for the time being be unavailable for normal use and run by a significantly reduced staff.
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The shutdown is (hopefully) only temporary, as the institute tries to collect the $5 million it needs to restore operation, which is planned to happen in 2013.
The name SETI has become synonymous with search for extraterrestrial life in geek culture. Thousands of users participate in SETI@home, the part of the project which requires donating the CPU processing power of your computer to help interpret the vast amount of data collected by SETI's telescopes.
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You can donate to the SETI institute here.

Ericsson Q1 profit surges on mobile broadband demand

STOCKHOLM – Telecoms gear maker Ericsson blasted past first-quarter core profit expectations thanks to surging mobile broadband sales and said it would take until the third quarter to resolve Japan quake supply problems.
Ericsson's shares jumped almost 9 percent to their highest since last July, as sales soared on the back of a recovering tech gear market and cost cuts offset currency headwinds and margin pressure from competition.
Ericsson said growth had been particularly strong in the United States, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and China.

Sony Playstation suffers massive data breach

TOKYO/NEW YORK  – Sony Corp suffered a huge breach in its video game online network that allowed the theft of names, addresses and possibly credit card data belonging to 77 million user accounts, in one of the largest Internet security break-ins ever.
Sony said it learned of the breach in its popular PlayStation Network on April 19, prompting it to shut down the network immediately. Sony did not tell the public about the stolen data until Tuesday, hours after it unveiled its first tablet computers in Japan.

Hackers swiped PlayStation Network user data: Sony

 
SAN FRANCISCO  – Sony warned that hackers stole password, birthday and other data about users of its PlayStation Network that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to online games, films and more.
PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music service were turned off April 20 in the wake of an "external intrusion," according to Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold.

Nokia says to cut 4,000 jobs, outsource 3,000

 
HELSINKI  – The world's leading mobile phone maker Nokia said on Wednesday it will cut 4,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2012 and transfer a further 3,000 employees to consulting firm Accenture.
Nokia said it would outsource to Accenture the activities of its Symbian smartphone platform, including 3,000 employees, by the end of this year.

Chinese Twitter-like Service Looks to Add Other Languages

One of the biggest Twitter-like microblogs in China will likely add other languages besides Chinese to its service, starting with an English language interface for its iPhone app.
The microblog, launched by Chinese news portal operator Sina in August 2009, has already grown to more than 100 million users. That's about half the users of Twitter.

Blagojevich jury selection drags into 4th day

 
CHICAGO – Questioning of would-be jurors in the retrial of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was dragging into a fourth day Wednesday, with the judge apparently devoting more time to the jury-selection phase than he initially anticipated.
The first trial ended with a hung jury last year, with a single hold-out juror preventing conviction on several key counts. That outcome has emphasized just how vital jury selection is to both sides in Blagojevich's do-over trial.

New iPad game Snooker Club is a real looker

If you want to simulate going to a club that's full of women in revealing dresses to play some snooker, then Snooker Club is for you! It combines great graphics, both 2D and 3D, with a realistic and satisfying snooker experience at the low price of free.
For those of you who don't know, snooker is a game very similar to pool, though not nearly as popular or widespread (at least in the US). The balls are colored instead of numbered, and you must hit a red ball before you can hit any other color, until the red balls are all gone. Definitely read the rules if you are unfamiliar. Other than the rules, the game is played quite like pool.
The app seems to be a pretty accurate depiction of the game in terms of physics. The controls are easy to learn, and you'll be pocketing those balls in no time. Unfortunately for you, the computer opponent AI is ruthless. I once sat idly by and watched as it accrued more than 50 points without making any mistakes, unable to do anything about it. The game is unforgiving, which is unfortunate, because it takes some time to figure out how to aim the ball properly. This makes the early game rather annoying.
Luckily, you can play with a friend by passing the iPhone/iPad back and forth, which is much more like a real game experience, as you are both likely to be terrible at first. There is no online multiplayer yet, but it is supposedly on the way. The game also offers Game Center achievements and leader boards, which should keep things interesting.
Despite the most hateful and sinister AI since GLaDOS, this app offers a good game experience with awesome graphics, completely for free. There's no reason not to check it out.
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LG Electronics posts 2nd straight quarterly loss

 
SEOUL, South Korea – LG Electronics reported its second straight quarterly loss, hit by investments in affiliates and falling sales, though the size of the red ink sharply narrowed amid improvement in its mobile phone and television businesses.

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Which Tablet Is Best for You?

Apple iPad 2 is no doubt the best-selling tablet--but does that mean it's the best tablet?
To find out, I spent a few weeks testing some of the iPad's leading competitors. I learned that in a surprising number of areas, including navigation, e-mail handling, and Web browsing, the other tablets actually beat out the iPad.

MIPS Porting Google's Android 3.0 OS for Its Processors

MIPS Technologies on Tuesday said it was porting Google's Android 3.0 operating system, code-named Honeycomb, to work with its microprocessors.
The port could lead to the faster release of Honeycomb tablets running on MIPS processors, said Art Swift, vice president of marketing and business development at MIPS. Customers asked for Honeycomb support, and porting the OS could speed up tablet development, Swift said.

Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops

 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Amid all the free food and other goodies that come with a job at Google Inc., there's one benefit a lot of employees don't even know about: a cluster of high-tech workshops that have become a tinkerer's paradise.
Workers escape from their computer screens and office chairs to weld, drill and saw on expensive machinery they won't find at Home Depot.

Motorola DROD BIONIC page pulled from Moto's website

If you go to the Consumers section on Motorola's website, the DROID BIONIC is still rotating there with its own Flash-animated promo. Click on it, however, and it takes you to a generic page with Moto's phones, where before it listed the BIONIC's overview and spec sheet.

This is just another hint that we won't see the Motorola DROID BIONIC ship anytime soon, and, as our own sources indicated, we won't see it ship at all in its original form.

Rather, the company's first LTE handset will most likely be the Motorola Targa that we saw leaked a while ago, and will probably still appear under the BIONIC title, with the power management and other kinks worked out during the summer.

Thanks for the tip!

source: Motorola

Full HD 1080p video samples with the HTC Sensation start to emerge

HTC Sensation has started to appear in pre-production form around tech blogs on the Old Continent. Naturally, everyone is first trying out the Full HD 1080p video capabilities of the 8MP camera sensor coupled to a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon chipset.

It allows the HTC Sensation to record Full HD video with 30fps, something that only the Samsung Galaxy S II can do so far, if we don't count the 3D-enabled handsets.

On one of the videos. the HTC Sensation is compared to a Full HD sample taken with the LG Optimus 2X after the firmware update that patched the white balance and exposure compensation while shooting video:

On the other, the various features of the camera software while shooting video were demonstrated, such as autofocus, live zoom, and touch-to-focus:

The videos look great, the contrast is pretty bumped up to make them appealing for the mass user, and, above all, they run smooth, despite the units still being prototype. We can't wait to get our hands on a final version, and compare the Full HD capabilities. After all, that's the main gain from having a dual-core chipset for now, until multicore-friendly apps start to appear in mass quantities.

Thanks, Philip!

source: YouTube

Samsung Droid Charge benchmark tests

In our third video, we wanted to see how well the Samsung Droid Charge would stacked-up next to the HTC ThunderBolt when running some benchmark applications.

The first benchmark app ran was Quadrant, and we noticed that it was running a bit faster on the HTC ThunderBolt and also finished a few seconds earlier with a score of 1811. Meanwhile, the Samsung Droid Charge got a surprisingly low score of 1037, which is even less than the Motorola DROID X. We're not sure why the Quadrant score is so low on the Droid Charge, but we have ran the test several times and the highest score we've got is 1050.

We also ran the AnTuTu System Benchmark program, which tests 8 areas of performance, and got a score of 1886 on the Droid Charge, but again the ThunderBolt did better with a score of 1991. Lastly, we ran the NeoCore graphics benchmark app, and got 56.8fps on the Droid Charge and 59.2fps on the ThunderBolt.

Despite the HTC ThunderBolt achieving better benchmark score all around, we found that the actual use of the Samsung Droid Charge was quick, and we didn't notice any lag on either of the two devices when moving between the 7 home screens, opening the app menu, or loading apps.

T-Mobile to launch HTC Flyer in early July?

The nation's fourth largest carrier has just launched the T-Mobile G-Slate. With an 8.9 inch display, the tablet is loaded up with high-end specs including a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, and features Android 3.0 under the hood. Now speculation has the carrier offering the HTC Flyer, a more down to earth device. The Flyer is more Chevy to the G-Slate's Caddy with a 7 inch screen, a 1.5GHz single-core processor and Gingerbread running the show. HTC has said that it will upgrade the device to Honeycomb at some point.

One feature that is unique to the Flyer is the HTC Scribe Technology which is a pen-type stylus that allows the user to write on a capacitive screen. Besides taking notes on anything that can be seen on the display, the user can highlight text, draw captions on pictures or even take notes during a meeting or presentation. And if you can't read your own handwriting, the Flyer has software that will take you back to the specific point in time when you created the undecipherable notes and allow you to listen to a tape recording of the actual words so that you can figure out what you were trying to write. And with the 7 inch screen, the HTC Flyer can be taken anywhere where note taking is a necessity.

The current speculation is that the HTC Flyer will get launched by T-Mobile in early July. Right now, the tablet can be pre-ordered at Best Buy. The big box retailer has a $499 price listed for the device. With the HTC Sense UI on board, the HTC Flyer will compete with fellow 7 inch tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Scott Anderson, head of merchandising for Best Buy Mobile, said, "We are excited to be the only national store where you can pre-order and purchase the Wi-Fi version of the HTC Flyer. There is a tremendous amount of excitement and curiosity about tablets in our stores and adding the HTC Flyer to the mix will drive even more interest."

source: BestBuy via IntoMobile

Samsung Droid Charge 4G LTE speed tests

Since the Samsung Droid Charge is now the second 4G LTE smartphone for Verizon Wireless, we were interested to see how its web and data speeds would compare to the HTC ThunderBolt.

We ran the SpeedTest.net app on both devices, and connected to the Miami, Miami Beach, and Naples Florida servers. The Samsung Droid Charge got on average 4-6 Mbps download and 3-4 Mbps upload, while the HTC ThunderBolt showed slightly faster downloads at 5-7 Mbps. Please not that we had to use the older version of the SpeedTest.net app, as the new updated version is having issues and will only show downloads of 0.5 Mbps.

Up next we used the web browser, and loaded the PhoneArena.com web site. It took about 30 seconds to fully load on the Samsung Droid Charge, but the HTC ThunderBolt was quicker at about 24 seconds. One thing we noticed on the Droid Charge, was after we rotated the screen, so that web pages were in landscape mode, the browser began to lock-up and would not scroll (you can see this on the video below). But after we turned the phone off and back on, it seems to have resolved the issues, though we will keep an eye on it while we prepare our full review.

Samsung Droid Charge unboxing

On April 28th, Verizon will release its second 4G LTE smartphone, the Samsung Droid Charge SCH-i510, which will sell for $299.99 (after rebate) with a 2-year contract.. We recieved our review unit a few hours ago and so far we have been pretty impressed with what we've seen.

The large 4.3" Super AMOLED Plus display at WVGA resolution shows crisp text and images with good color saturation. With the brightness turned all the way up on the Droid Charge, it is easy to view outside on a sunny day, where the TFT display on the HTC ThunderBolt is dark and hardly visible.

We also like that there are physical button on the bottom of the Samsung Droid Charge, similar to the Motorola DROID X, which cuts down on them being pressed accidentally. The overall size of the Droid Charge is pretty close to the ThunderBolt, though the ThunderBolt is slightly thicker and a bit heavier. But one thing we do prefer is the soft-touch coating on the back of the ThunderBolt, which gives it a nice grip, instead of the slick plastic back on the Droid Charge.

Included with the Samsung Droid Charge is a 1600mAh battery, 32GB Class 2 microSDHC memory card, wall charger with a detachable 1-meter microUSB cable, and user guides.

Below is our unboxing video, and be sure to check back for our upcoming full review of the Samsung Droid Charge.

Royal wedding: Dress rehearsal on London streets

London:  As thousands of tourists arrive in London for the royal wedding on Friday, nearly 1,000 members of Britain's armed forces today conducted a pre-dawn dress rehearsal on the streets of London in full ceremonial clothing.

Asbestos, Japan tsunami's other hidden danger

Sendai, Japan:  Inside the chunks of slate and wallboard smashed and scattered by Japan's tsunami hides a health risk that has been overshadowed by contamination from a leaking nuclear plant: the odorless and nearly invisible threat of asbestos.

Activists have found the cancer-causing, fibrous material in the air and debris collected from the devastated northeastern coast.

Twin polar bear cubs find a mother in breeders

Dalian City, China:  Twin polar bear cubs were introduced to the cameras on Monday at a wildlife park in northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The bear cubs, a male and a female, were rejected by their mother just hours after they were delivered and have been hand reared by staff at the Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park for the past three months.

Afghan pilot fires on troops at Kabul airport, several dead: Reports

Kabul:  Several people are reported to have died as an Afghan pilot opened fire on foreign troops at the airport in Kabul on Wednesday.

Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, said the officer opened fire on NATO troops after an argument, reports the Associated Press.  The gunman too was killed in the shooting.

The incident occurred inside a facility used by the Afghan Air Force.

It is the latest in a spate of deadly incidents that have occurred inside government or military installations in Afghanistan.

He's been elected to take over Dalai Lama's political role

Dharmsala:  Legal expert Lobsang Sangay has won an election to become head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, taking over the Dalai Lama's political role.

Chief election commissioner Jamphel Choesang said Wednesday that Sangay received 55 percent of the votes cast by tens of thousands of Tibetans around the world.

The Dalai Lama has said he would give up politics but will remain the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.

The change, yet to be written into the exile constitution, reverses 300 years of tradition in which the top monk also guided the Tibetan government.

Sangay, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School, has said if elected he would move to the northern Indian town of Dharmsala, where the parliament-in-exile is based.

iPad 2: Obama's Choice

There's an Apple in the Oval Office. US President Obama uses a BlackBerry smart phone, but his tablet of choice: the all conquering iPad 2. He takes it everywhere, in a grey Smart Cover.

He famously complained about the limited functionality available on his BlackBerry due to security reasons, but chances are he has no such issues with his iPad 2

President Obama is known to be fussy in matters of technology, especially technology used in the White House which he recently described as "30 years old"

In all likelihood, President Obama uses the iPad for viewing many official documents and would have some security blanketing on the device but we are guessing that won't stop him downloading some cool apps. Angry Birds, Mr President?

iPad 2 may be available in India in two days

The wait is over for India. A Twitter post from Vijay Sales, a large electronic dealer, says the iPad 2 will be 'officially' available in the country in the next two days. There were no details on price.
 

Sony says PlayStation hacker got personal data

Christopher Miller's PlayStation Portable game console had been broken for most of two years. So when his parents got him a new one for his 25th birthday on April 18, he was elated -- but only briefly.

Last week, Sony's online network for the PlayStation suffered a catastrophic failure through a hacking attack. And since then, the roughly 77 million gamers worldwide like Mr. Miller who have accounts for the service have been unable to play games with friends through the
Internet or to download demos of new games.

YouTube may offer film rentals soon

A two-year effort by YouTube, owned by Google, to get major Hollywood studios to offer their new-release movies for rental is coming closer to reality.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Brothers have agreed to rent movies via YouTube, according to two studio executives who spoke on condition of anonymity because they said YouTube wanted to make the announcement. Rental fees are expected to be comparable to those charged by rivals like iTunes.
 

Protect your WiFi or be a pedophile

Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.

That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.

Software helps parents oversee children on Facebook

Internet security firm Check Point on Tuesday launched software that lets parents watch over offspring on Facebook without being "friends" at the online social network.

ZoneAlarm SocialGuard alerts parents to signs of trouble in a child's Facebook account without them being privy to all posts, comments, pictures, videos or other digital content shared between friends at the website.

Internet goes crazy for first online royal wedding

The first British royal wedding of the Internet age is generating one mention every 10 seconds online and will be streamed live to an estimated audience of several hundred million viewers.

Internet users can even sign a virtual book of congratulations for Friday's marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

On the website The Internet Forum alone, there have been almost 113,000 posts on the subject of the wedding.

Amazon.com's profit tumbles more than expected

Amazon.com said Tuesday that its net income fell 33 percent in the latest quarter, a steeper drop than Wall Street expected as the online retailer poured more money into expanding its operations.

While Amazon's profit was a disappointment, its revenue topped expectations. The company's management says that the stronger sales mean Amazon needs more warehouses and upgraded technology, which require bigger investments that cut into earnings.

Sony: Credit data risked in PlayStation outage

Sony Corp. said Tuesday that the credit card data of PlayStation users around the world may have been stolen in a hack that forced it to shut down its PlayStation Network for the past week, disconnecting 77 million user accounts.

Some players brushed off the breach as a common hazard of operating in a connected world, and Sony said some services would be restored in a week. But industry experts said the scale of the breach was staggering and could cost the company billions of dollars.

US Army Chooses Google Android Over Apple iOS

Google Android has been chosen to power an intelligent mobile communications device for battlefield situations that has been developed by US Army's the Joint Battle Command Platform program.

Previously, the US military had contemplated using Apple's iOS for the proposed smartphone, with many high ranking US generals in favour. It seems that Android's open architecture has been the deal breaker as with iOS the US army would have been tied in to Apple's closed ecosystem.

Sony announces plans for two tablet computers

Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp. on Tuesday unveiled its first tablet computers, codenamed S1 and S2, in a direct but belated challenge to Apple's iPad.

The "Sony Tablet" S1 has a single screen and is for home use while the portable S2 has two screens, Sony told a news conference. The tablet devices will have access to online content to buy and download videos, music and other entertainment and be compatible with existing PlayStation games, Sony official Kunimasa Suzuki said. Digital books can also be downloaded and read on the multimedia computers that are Wi-Fi and 3G/4G compatible for email and Internet access.

Acer's Liquid Metal Mini now in India

Acer has launched the new Acer Liquid Mini smartphone, the younger sibling to the new Acer Liquid Metal, in India. Just like its bigger avatar, the Acer Liquid Mini runs Google Android Froyo (2.2) operating system. The Mini is powered by a 600MHz Qualcomm processor unlike the 800MHz Qualcomm supported by the original Acer Liquid Metal.

Email from Jobs: Apple doesn't track; Google does

Steve Jobs has reportedly issued one of his typically terse email replies regarding the location tracking database that resides unencrypted on all iOS devices, according to MacRumors. In an email exchange that came to light Monday, Jobs (or whoever answers the sjobs@apple.com email) told a concerned user that Apple doesn't track location info, but its competition, on the other hand, does.

Iran claims being hit by second cyber attack

Iran's civil defence chief has said the country has been hit by a second cyber attack in the past eight months, the Mehr news agency reported.

The head of the Iranian Passive Defence Organisation, Gholam Reza Jalali, described the software as an "espionage virus".

"Luckily, our young specialists detected the virus and sent it to a lab for testing," Jalali said Monday.

Facebook launches deals program, rivals Groupon

What happens when you cross the world's largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out.

Facebook is launching a deals program Tuesday in five U.S. cities, following on the popularity of Groupon and other services that offer deep discounts -- for example: $50 worth of food at a local eatery for $25.

Abuse prompts United star to sign off Twitter

Manchester United midfielder Darron Gibson was forced to cancel his newly-created Twitter account on Monday after just two hours when the Irish international was subjected to a tirade of abuse.

The 23-year-old, who was born in Northern Ireland but has won 16 caps for the Republic of Ireland, was also targetted for his controversial switch of national allegiance.
Some of the messages posted on his Twitter page included: "Darron Gibson is on Twitter, a traitor to his country".
Another one said: "You are an abysmal excuse for a footballer. You're a one trick pony - a s(expletive) one at that. What Fergie sees in you I do not know..."

Yahoo! buys TV show sharing startup

Yahoo! on Monday said it has bought a freshly launched startup that lets television viewers instantly share what they are watching with friends at Twitter or Facebook.

Yahoo! did not disclose how much it paid for IntoNow, which launched on January 31 in the Silicon Valley city of Palo Alto, California.

Facebook adds 'Send' button

Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their friends knowing about it.

A "Send" button that lets people share website links with selected cadres instead of all Facebook friends was among enhancements being rolled out to a "Groups" feature launched in October of last year.

Afghan forces recapture 65 from Kandahar jailbreak

Kandahar:  Afghan forces have recaptured at least 65 of the prisoners who escaped from the south's largest prison, the government said Tuesday as it scrambled to recover from the massive security breach that allowed 480 inmates to be spirited out in a stunning jailbreak.

Prison officials discovered early Monday morning that the convicts - nearly all of them Taliban militants - were missing from their cells, and then found the tunnel through which they appeared to have made their getaway.

Indian student pilot attacked in Melbourne

Melbourne:  A TV channel in Melbourne reports that an Indian student was attacked and beaten till he fell unconscious.

7NEWS says that Rajat Tyagi, who was a trainee pilot, was attacked by five men as he left his apartment on Sunday morning.

In an interview to the channel, Mr Tyagi, who is from Delhi, described the men as African.

He said they used knuckledusters while beating him.

An article on the channel's website states, "He said he has heard no more from police since they arrived half-an-hour after the assault, and told him he was one of several similar assaults that night." (Read entire 7News article)

Account of Osama's escape from Tora Bora

London:  World's most-wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden escaped US and British forces, closing in on his cave-haven hacked into the mountainside, with the help of a Pakistani warlord who provided guides to take him to safety in northeastern Afghanistan.

The Al-Qaida supremo's successful flight from Tora Bora mountains in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan has long been seen as one of the key early lapses of the international military effort in Afghanistan and though various theories have floated, no firm account of how bin Laden evaded the US forces has yet emerged.

Two Indian students drown in Australia

Kangaroo Island, Australia:  Two Indian students drowned on Sunday after being washed off rocks in South Australia.  The men were part of a tour group visiting Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island.