Hijacking

Young Mariners Get Lesson in Thwarting Pirates
The hijacking of the Maersk Alabama April 8 brought home the importance of anti-piracy training to Massachusetts Maritime Academy students. Instructor Captain Joseph Murphy, above, is the father of Shane Murphy, a crew member on the Alabama and a graduate of the academy.

America GOV

U.S. Must Do More to Help Pakistan
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says he is concerned about the Taliban in Pakistan and believes the United States must do more to help the Pakistani government.

U.S. Government Fights Flu
President Obama discusses the H1N1 flu pandemic and says, “Every American should know that their entire government is taking the utmost precautions and preparations.”

The Best of 2008

Britney Spears is still a fixed size. For years, Internet users searching feverishly for news about the pop star. In 2008 Ms. Spears again occupied front seats in the Jahreshitparaden of the search engines. As above, it is in good company: Pam Anderson and Paris Hilton, both from the net not just to imagine, and local celebrities such as bushido, or Lukas Podolski are in favor of the German users of the search engines of Yahoo and Microsoft far ahead. Superstar Spears made it thanks to an extremely eventful year for Yahoo U.S. still the top search term, 2008, while the German star Podolski Bushido or local celebrities, sports and music categories inhabit. In Germany, Yahoo users - as it was in 2006 - mainly in search of the "weather". Equally popular were the words "Route Planning", "Greetings" and "erotic". The harder varieties of fourth-place search term in the statistics seems to be no light. Microsoft's Windows Live search engine used 2008 as a guide to social networks. "Youtube", "Who knows whom" and "School", the term charts, it landed farther back "StudiVZ" and "Knuddels. In its "Lifestyle" Live users searched primarily for "Horoscope", "hairstyles" and "Birthday". The U.S. President, Barack Obama, the U.S. still ranked three of Yahoo's total ranking behind Spears and WWE wrestling organizer, it creates here at Microsoft and Yahoo in the policy categories in the first place. With the President Elect Angela Merkel landed front and Andrea Ypsilanti. For Microsoft Obama leads in the category of international Poltiker before Cinton Hillary and Al Gore. Yahoo U.S. was 2008, also John McCain and Sarah Palin asked.