Howard Wolfson has become the latest prominent Democrat to join forces with Fox News Channel during the general election, hailing it for its "comprehensive and fair and evenhanded" coverage during the primaries.That's quite an endorsement coming from one of the Democratic party's biggest communications mavens, and not one known for being especially soft-gloved. It's the equivalent of MSNBC suddenly getting endorsed by the likes of Mary Matalin or
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, RPGsWhen Majesco announced last month that it would dedicate the bulk of its 2008 lineup to the Nintendo DS, we took this to mean that the company would do its part keeping store shelves stocked with casual games and cooking sims aplenty. We were unprepared, however, for the Cooking Mama evangelist to take up publishing duties for Away Shuffle Dungeon, the oddly named DS "roguelike" RPG from Mistwalker and AQ Interactive
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The Pittsburgh Pirates battered Runelvys Hernandez for four nightmarish innings before Cecil Cooper finally made it stop. But the Astros couldn?t recover from the damage and lost 10-7 tonight at PNC Park.

The G-8 has been under pressure to secure commitments by wealthy nations to push forward stalled U.N.-led talks on forging a new accord to battle global warming by the end of next year.

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I love that Google just open-sourced Protocol Buffers. Think of Protocol Buffers as a very compact way of encoding data in a binary format. A programmer can write a simple description of a protocol or structured data and Google’s code will autogenerate a class in C++, Java, or Python to read, write, and parse the [...]

In our daily show, Mike Duran discusses the G8, drugs in prison, Palestinian poverty in Jerusalem, medieval climate change and the Kung Fu panda

G8 leaders expressed 'strong concerns' about surging energy costs and warned of increasing economic uncertainty. By Larry Elliott and Patrick Wintour in Hokkaido

The leaders of the G8 made a breakthrough on climate change when they agreed to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a draft communique

Alexandros Petersen: Caspian countries offer sole alternative for the EU and US to a Russian monopoly over energy security

Larry Elliott reports from the Group of 8 world leaders summit in Japan

Filed under: Gaming There's nerd and then there's Commodore 64 nerd. Bring them together in a Commodore 64 LAN party and you've got a nerdstorm of mythical proportions. The world's first Commordore 64 LAN party was held in nerdistan Cincinnati last weekend. It consisted of eight C64s with Ethernet cartridges playing NetRacer off a central, Java-based server. So Geeksta it hurts. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

As with most new parents, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban might have difficulty telling what day it is.

Mel B "definitely" wants children with husband Stephen Belafonte. The former Spice Girls star - who has a nine-year-old daughter Phoenix with ex-husband Jimmy Gulzar and a 15-month-old daughter Angel with actor Eddie Murphy - is keen to expand her family even further with movie producer Stephen.

Uma Thurman says life is "wonderful". The 38-year-old actress - who is divorced from actors Gary Oldman and Ethan Hawke - says she is happier now than she has been in a long time thanks to her engagement to Swiss businessman Arpad Busson.

George Clooney is embarrassed by his eco-friendly car. The 'Michael Clayton' actor - who drives a electric one-seater Tango car - says the vehicle is not only embarrassing in terms of its appearance, it also means he can't drive any of his friends anywhere.

I had a chance to power cycle through the first season of TNT’s “The Closer” over the last few days and I really enjoyed it. It’s not over the top fun like The Shield, but filled with intricate plots and a sizzling cast led by the great Kyra Sedgwick, who has down the Alex [...]

Reuters - The wife of New York Yankees superstar Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez filed for divorce in Miami on Monday, citing the slugger's alleged infidelities.