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Why Democrats don't mind losing Senate finance vote

La convocation d'élections législatives durant la première quinzaine de juin paraît à présent très probable.

The memoir of George W Bush, due for release in November, will detail his "flaws and mistakes" as well as achievements, say the publishers.

Le 11 mars, Skander Vogt a mis le feu à son matelas dans sa cellule du pénitencier de Bochuz. L'administration pénitentiaire serait responsable de sa mort.

A l'origine, la Californie a voté en 2005 une loi interdisant la vente et la location de jeux vidéo "violents" aux personnes âgées de moins de 18 ans, et obligeant les fabricants à apposer un avertissement sur ce type de jeux.

The rise and fall of cricket impresario Lalit Modi

Europe's Planck telescope traces the dust and gas that fills the great space between the stars in its latest release of pictures.

Le président soudanais est le premier chef d'Etat en exercice au monde à faire l'objet d'un mandat d'arrêt émis par la juridiction internationale.

Aucun des partis en lice pour les élections législatives ne devrait obtenir de majorité absolue. Les travaillistes et les conservateurs lorgnent sur les voix des libéraux-démocrates de Nick Clegg, qui pose ses conditions.

The chairman of Nigeria's governing party, Vincent Ogbulafor, is charged with fraud, as the party considers its presidential candidate.

François Fillon aurait évoqué avec les responsables du Conseil français du culte musulman, un délai de "six mois ou plus" entre le moment où sera votée la loi et celui de son application.

C'était l'un des symboles de l'informatique domestique : les disquettes 3,5 pouces, utilisées par la plupart des ordinateurs durant les années 1990, ne seront plus fabriquées.

Le double champion du monde a souscrit un contrat d'assurance auprès de Banco Santander, principal sponsor de la Scuderia.

Artima.com has posted another article/demo from my book Flex 4 Fun. Check out States and Components in Flex 4 to see an example of the simple new state syntax in Flex 4 for including and excluding objects in different states of an application.

Flex 4 leaves a lot of components out such as DataGrid, DateChooser, all the Charting components etc. Those are some rather complex components to re-write. Presumably they’ll be included in an update to Spark someday. But <mx:Spacer /> was left out? How much more simple could a component be? Turns out that it wasn’t left out [...]

About 1 month ago I wrote a blog post regarding Scotch On The Rocks Award Nominations. It seems that some people misunderstood  that only EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) entries are accepted and I also have some people telling me that they only know US ColdFusion developers blogging – ouch! So to help a bit [...]

An influential Egyptian businessman stands trial again after being found guilty of killing a popular Lebanese singer in 2008.

Hi, I’m pleased to announce that HFCD 4 is now officially available. HFCD 4 for Flash Builder achieves better Flex (full and incremental) build performance than Flex 3 and Flex 4 by utilizing: all of the Flex 4 compiler performance improvements multicore processor technology techniques to build Flex apps in the background. and allows builds [...]

Though Apple adamant about not supporting Flash on the iPad and iPhone, though many of them still complain that Flash web pages are slow as a snail, Flash websites more and more get popular among internet world. We introduced some Flash Menu Buttons, Vertical Flash Navigation Menus and Horizontal Flash Navigation Menus in previous [...]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown tells the Royal College of Nursing no-one in England will wait more than a week for cancer test results, if Labour is re-elected.