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Videogame makers seek footing on shifting landscape
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Videogame makers from around the globe are gathering to seek paths to fortune and glory on a landscape upset by social networks, smartphones, tablet computers, and the Internet “cloud.” More than 18,000 industry insiders are expected to attend the weeklong Game Developers Conference that kicks off…
French foreign minister to resign on Sunday: minister
PARIS (AFP) – Beleaguered French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie will on Sunday tender her resignation after returning from an official visit to Kuwait, a minister told AFP on condition of anonymity. Alliot-Marie has become embroiled in a series of scandals over her controversial links to Tunisia, where she took a…
UN orders sanctions on Kadhafi over crackdown
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The UN Security Council unanimously ordered an arms embargo against Libya, a travel and assets ban on Moamer Kadhafi’s regime and a crimes against humanity investigation into the bloodshed. The council made a new demand for an immediate end to attacks on civilians by Kadhafi loyalists…
Political prisoner freed in Cuba: Catholic church
HAVANA (AFP) – Cuba’s Roman Catholic church announced Saturday that arrangements have been made for the release of a political prisoner who had refused exile in Spain. Diosdado Gonzalez, 48, an electrician by trade, was one of six dissidents left from a group of 75 imprisoned in a 2003 crackdown…
Terror in Tripoli as Kadhafi told to quit
TRIPOLI (AFP) – Residents of Tripoli cowered in their homes Sunday as US President Barack Obama hoped to avert a bloody battle for the Libyan capital by urging a defiant Moamer Kadhafi to step down “now.” Libya’s former justice minister late Saturday announced the formation of a transitional government, which…
Amid fear for family, Libyans in US take to streets
Amid fear for those caught in the bloodshed in Libya, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Chicago Saturday to voice their disgust with Moamer Kadhafi’s deadly crackdown. Dozens of protesters gathered in a downtown Chicago plaza on February 21 in support of a mass uprising to put an…
Obama says Kadhafi must ‘leave now’: White House
President Barack Obama said Saturday that Libya’s leader Moamer Kadhafi needs to “leave now,” having lost the legitimacy to rule, a White House statement said. Obama took the position — his most direct yet — in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to coordinate efforts in response to…
Discovery to dock today with International Space Station
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space shuttle Discovery was approaching the International Space Station on Saturday as part of its final mission, carrying a new module and a robot to the orbiting research lab. The shuttle, which blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, is set to dock…
Humanoids run world’s first robot marathon race
OSAKA, Japan (AFP) – Robovie-PC, a toy-sized humanoid, won the world’s first full-length marathon for two-legged robots by a whisker Saturday, beating its closest rival by a single second after more than two days of racing. Five bipedal machines began the non-stop 42.2-kilometre (26.2-mile) contest on a 100-metre indoor track…
Iran to ‘remove fuel’ from nuclear plant
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said on Saturday it is removing the fuel from the reactor of a Russian-built nuclear power plant, a move seen as a big blow to its controversial nuclear programme. The decision to remove the fuel from the reactor of the nuclear plant in the southern city…
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