News: In Canada, A Cautious Debate on Afghan Role

TORONTO, April 10 -- Canadian lawmakers joined Monday in a show of patriotic support for the nation's troops in Afghanistan, tiptoeing around public opinion polls that show deep division over the increase in the force there and distrust of involvement with the U.S. military operations. ...

Internet: The Internet As the New Local Newspaper?

According to a new study by The Kelsey Group and ConStat, Inc., 70 percent of U.S. households now use the Internet as an information source when shopping locally for products and services -- an increase of 16 percent since October 2003. This puts the Internet on par with newspapers as a local shopping information resource, with the Internet likely to surpass the impact of newspapers in the very near future. ?Most of the Internet?s growth for shopping research can be attributed to large search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves, the usage of which increased significantly, from 47 percent in 2003 to 55 percent in 2005,? said Tim Trickett, vice president of business development at ConStat. ?Further, the research shows that the increase in usage of the major search engines has been powered by broadband users exclusively.? ...

Sports: Sharks mit Goc und Ehrhoff festigen Playoff-Platz

Phoenix (dpa) - Nach dem fünften Sieg in Folge rücken die NHL-Playoffs für die deutschen Eishockey-Nationalspieler Christian Ehrhoff und Marcel Goc immer näher. ...

Leisure: Domrep: Bacardi-Feeling

Schon auf dem Flughafen hört man diese exotisch erotischen Klänge. Auf der Straße, im Bus, in den Bars. An so manchem Strand und später in den Diskotheken. Die Körper wiegen sich zu heißen Rhythmen: Merengue heißt der Tanz - und in der...

Finances: Vertriebsprofi (m/w) - PLZ 4 ++ SIGNAL IDUNA

Wenn Sie nicht auf halbem Weg stehen bleiben wollen, kommen Sie zur SIGNAL IDUNA, eine der ersten Ad......