U.S. real estate market woos foreigners [International Herald Tribune] Strong property companies in Dubai to survive the downturn [Property Wire] Web 2.0 Real Estate Websites [RZ Concepts] Trump seeks early start for golf resort [Financial Times] Hong Kong property prices slashed in global slowdown [AFP] Emaar extends mortgage repayment time period .. more »

All of the networks quickly give Kentucky (and its eight electoral votes) to John McCain and Vermont (with three electoral votes) to Barack Obama. No surprises there. -- Kate Linthicum .. more »

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Barack just concluded his speech underneath the Gatway Arch in St. Louis, in front of a record crowd of over 100,000 people . "All I can say is, wow," Barack said as he took the stage. We need new priorities in Washington. I think its time to give a tax cut to the teachers and janitors who work in our schools; to the cops and firefighters .. more »

Within a month of launching its first international flight, Kingfisher Airlines on Monday decided to put on hold all its US operations. The company also announced to stop Mumbai-London flight scheduled to begin later this month. .. more »

The vote means that the Senate will consider the bailout before the House gets a second turn at the bill .. more »

After troubling NVIDIA in both performance and mainstream segments of graphics card market, AMD is now focusing on budget segment by announcing two new graphics cards that undercut NVIDIA’s... . .. more »

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign just announced that the Democratic presidential nominee, at the behest of President Bush, will head to Washington tomorrow morning to discuss the massive proposed bailout of finance firms. Per campaign spokesman Bill Burton:A few moments ago, President Bush called Senator Obama and asked him to attend a meeting in .. more »

Oil magnate T. Boone Pickens was blindsided by the downturn in energy, and now his hedge funds are down by around $1 billion this year, including $270 million in personal losses. .. more »

Leading venture capital and private equity firm Trident Capital is confident of maintaining its investment tempo in India, although the US financial market goes through its worst crisis ever.. more »

It's hard to know how to feel about Rachel Bilson. On the one hand, she seems to be a completely terrible actress who was in The Last Kiss. And yet, we all admire her style unquestioningly, to the point where it kind of seemed totally logical when she announced she was starting a clothing line. ... 0.. more »

Ganesh (Vinayaka) Songs, Prarthana, Puja, Vandana and Prayers - Online ResourcesOn the occasion of Ganesh Festival, I thought of sharing some good resources on prayers and devotional songs on Ganesha that are available online.Some of these Ganesha songs can be listened online through the most common audio players and some can be downloaded.I am .. more »

The relationship between the Southern stars and politics has its roots in Tamil Nadu and goes back at least five decades. The new breed of Bollywood directors.. more »

From The Hill , Bill Clinton in Denver Again Undercuts Obama by Sam Youngman Let me be clear since he burst onto the political scene some 17 years ago, I have been no fan of Bill Clinton. It is thus confusing and disorienting to be feeling a tingling up my leg nearly every time the former president approaches a microphone these days: DENVER Bill .. more »

Mac OS X only: The free iPhone jailbreak application PwnageTool has updated to support the latest and greatest 2.0.2 iPhone software update. The PwnageTool jailbreak process hasn't really changed since we showed you how to jailbreak your iPhone with PwnageTool the first time around, so head there if you want to follow along. (Just make sure you .. more »

Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday said Russian troops must leave the important Black Sea port of Poti, even as he thanked his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev for keeping his commitment on the withdrawal of troops from Georgia. ... ... .. more »

Attention photo-hungry Top Chef Fans: TC blog Amuse Biatch uncovered a photo of a "goatee'd, vaguely toothsome" cheftestant, posing with Miss Universe during the shooting of an ep on August 6. See if you can ID him. [Amuse-Biatch] ... .. more »

The rupee weakened to 43 per dollar on Thursday for the first time since July 18, as higher oil prices threatened to widen the country's trade deficit... more »

Oil prices plunged further on Tuesday, August 12 on worries about slowing global demand and a stronger dollar.Light, sweet crude for September delivery fell USD 1.44 to settle at USD 113.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).Gasoline futures fell 2.34 cents to settle at USD 2.8432 a gallon. The retail price of a gallon of regular .. more »