STORM

On Monday Research in Motion announced a recall on its just recently minted and extremely hyped-up Playbook tablet computer. Unfortunately this disappointing news doesn't come in a vacuum for the company, but instead follows a series of misstep

Clashes erupt between protesters and security forces at Israeli Embassy in Cairo.

The big money is calling a halt to the surge in stock prices.

The number of malware that aim the Android mobile operating system has gone up by 400 per cent since summer of last year, according to a report by Juniper Networks.

Senator Gabrielle Giffords will be in attendance when the Endeavour launches for the final time into space.

NASA is in countdown mode as the crew prepares for Monday's launch.

A former commander of a Contra Costa County anti-drug task force was the mastermind of a prostitution racket in Pleasant Hill, the lawyer of a private investigator accused of stealing drugs from law enforcement evidence lockers, has alleged.

Allstate Corp said it suffered $1.4 billion in catastrophe losses from April tornadoes, and the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer said it will now make a regular practice of releasing such loss figures.

A hurricane struck the Foshan City in Guangdong Province in southern China for the second time in a month on Friday, killing 4 people and injuring 17 others.

The operation that led to the killing of the world's most-wanted terrorist Osama Bin-Laden was almost nine-month old but surprised the world over its ease and success, due to the crucial role played by the United States Navy SEALs, a wing from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), previously known as SEAL Team Six, under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command, in conjunction with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives.

The operation that led to the killing of the world's most-wanted terrorist Osama Bin-Laden was almost nine-month old but surprised many all over the world with its sudden but successful outcome.

According to a Gallup poll, over half of Americans belief that US economy is in Recession or Depression. More and more people are even preparing themselves and their families to become independent from the system, in order to survive a coming economic collapse, where the distribution of food and energy will break down.

Storm clouds over Research In Motion have darkened with a dismal profit warning, and the company's shares fell sharply on Friday after the company's third jolt of bad news in a month.

President Barack Obama, the governor of Alabama and Mayor of Tuscaloosa and other officials toured the massive wreckage of major thunderstorms and tornadoes that hit the city on Wednesday and vowed to press forward to help in recovery efforts while sounding a hopeful not despite the tragedy.

Barclays Capital expects Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) to announce both new product -- OS6 and possibly QNX -- and software / application at RIM’s Capital Markets Day on May 2 in Orlando. In addition, the PlayBook sales should be the highlight of the analyst day.

The series of tornadoes and thunderstorms that have swept past the southern U.S. state of Alabama and seven others, have claimed at least 311 lives so far and have left the city of Tuscaloosa in ruins, flattening entire city blocks.

More than 1 million customers are without electricity in Southern states on Thursday in the wake of devastating storms with tornadoes which have officially killed 305 people, mostly in Alabama.

The death toll in the South continued to rise to nearly 300 Thursday evening after massive storms with tornadoes ripped through the region a day earlier and first responders continued to search for survivors, with about two-thirds of the victims coming from Alabama.

Tornadoes and thunderstorms, termed catastrophic by U.S. President Barack Obama, that swept across the southern United States the past few days, left a trail of death and destruction - properties worth millions of dollars were damaged, nearly 300 people are dead and hundreds of thousands injured.

NASA officials are optimistic weather won't play a factor into the Endeavour launch tomorrow.

Storms in Alabama have claimed at least 128 people, destroyed many house and buildings, and caused power and traffic disruptions