May 30 - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates unveils the Microsoft Surface, a tabletop computer that reacts to touch.The 30-inch display screen is mounted under a plastic tabletop and will initially cost $5,000 to $10,000. It will, at first, only be available in select hotels, casinos, and T-Mobile stores in November.
Jan 23 - Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic showed off models of a spaceship it hopes will take spacetravel mainstream. Trips will initially cost about $200,000 and will eventually go down in price. That's far less than the $20 million reported cost of businessman Dennis Tito's trip on a Russian spacecraft in 2001, considered the first space tourist. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Mar. 13 - The woman who reportedly forced the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer now has a face. The New York Times story about the woman who reportedly forced the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was the among the most popular articles on the newspaper's website Thursday reflecting the public's interest in the woman's identity. Jon Decker reports.
Feb. 22 - At ten weeks of age, little polar bear "Flocke" (Snowflake) is starting to grow into the the predator she was born to be. Zoo keepers looking after her stated the 16-pound bear was trying to shred everything in reach, using her teeth and claws.
Jan 9 - Nuremberg zoo's last surviving polar bear cub is spending some time away from its mother Vera, after one of the zoo's female polar bears ate her own cub.The German zoo bowed to media and public pressure and decided to hand rear the polar bear cub.
Jun. 27 - Early reviews reveal that the iPhone has more features than many popular U.S. handsets, and reveal some of its weaknesses.iPhone testers complain about the relatively slow AT&T Edge network. But the list of issues didn't stop there.Laura Wells reports.
Jan 23 - What began as a US housing problem mushroomed into a crisis that shook stock markets around the world.The global nature of this week's stock market plunge debunks the theory that foreign investors are immune because the U.S. economy is "decoupled" from Europe and Asia. Quite the contrary, says Goldman Sachs International vice chairman Robert Hormats: "It's a recoupling of sorts."
Jul 15 - With Barack Obama planning a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, the presumptive Democratic nominee laid out his vision for Iraq's future.Obama laid out his strategy for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-- prior to talking to U.S. commanders in the region and before visiting Afghanistan for the first time.
Jon Decker reports from Washington.
May 12 - Myanmar receives US aid as the death toll rose to nearly 32,000.The United Nations says the death toll could top 100 thousand. Fred Katayama reports from New York.
June 9. - In Wisconsin, at least three homes were washed away-- into the rapid currents of Lake Delton-- one of the areas of the midwestern U.S. hit hardest by flooding.
May 13 - An American philanthropist who once owned part of the Chaiten Volcano contemplates clean up. American millionaire Doug Tompkins, who for years owned the volcano, and now runs a foundation working to protect it.Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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