Nov
06
2009
Jobs and Crude Tumble; Droid Is A Question Mark
- Oil prices tumbled Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983.
- The U.N. General Assembly approves what has become an annual measure criticising North Korea for having one of the worst rights records in the world.
- The IAEA director-general is convinced that Iran is pursuing what is often called the “break-out option” — the capability to produce nuclear weapons should it ever decide it needed them. He is not convinced, they say, that Iran has taken a decision to follow North Korea’s example and build an actual weapon.
- A respected Old Testament scholar and author, Professor Ellen van Wolde, claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book of Genesis, never intended to suggest that God created the world — and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.
- The new Motorola Droid got a sleepy reception on Friday morning when it officially went on sale across the country in Verizon Wireless stores starting at 7 a.m. in some places.
- Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is unsurprised by allegations made Wednesday by New York’s attorney general that Intel has illegally tried to maintain its monopoly. “Where there’s smoke there’s probably fire. It blows my mind that’s it’s taken this long,” Huang said in an interview Thursday.
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