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Sophia and Aiden lead   Please step down, Isabella. Sophia is taking your place as the most popular girl's name of 2010. Congratulations, Aiden. You've held onto the number-one boy's spot for the sixth year in a row. Welcome to the pack, Liam and Abigail. You're now officially a part of the coveted top 10. Baby Center released its list of the   Top 100 Baby Names of 2010   today. The online parenting and pregnancy destination compiled some 350,000 baby names and combined those that sound the same but have different spellings (such as Sophia and Sofia) to create a true measure of popularity. Top 10 Girls’ Names of 2010 1.     Sophia 2.     Isabella 3.     Olivia 4.     Emma 5.     Chloe 6.     Ava 7.     Lily 8.     Madison 9.     Addison 10. Abigail See the   top 100 girls’ names of 2010 . Top 10 Boys’ Names of 2010 ...

Raza Rumi December 24, 2010 Pakistan ’s electronic media is now a repository of the grand opinion setters of the Urdu press. Almost all channels have employed conservative writers of the Urdu press and given them immense outreach to air their well-known views on nationalism, religion and ‘culture’. Whilst the primary pastime of these wise men is to fan anti-Americanism, their domestic agenda is directly related to what the clergy, since 1947, has wanted Pakistan to be: an unadulterated Islamic state. The only caveat is that none of them can define what an Islamic state and society entails. In recent days, there has been a concerted  campaign to malign Veena Malik, our television starlet who has dared to participate in the famous and brainless Indian reality TV show, “Bigg Boss”. Pakistani artists have continuously defied jingoism and performed across the border. Currently, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Atif Aslam are immensely popular in India and their nationality makes little dif...

Hollywood has a new hero hunting down video pirates By   ARIEH O’SULLIVAN / THE MEDIA LINE     12/26/2010 11:29   New technology developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University detects pirated clips with what they call a "genetic code." Hollywood’s search for a technical elixir that can curb the billions of dollars worth of lost revenue to people downloading television shows and movies from the Internet may now have a solution that mimics the techniques used to map human DNA. Researchers at   Tel Aviv University   say they can hunt down pirates by using what they call the video’s “genetic code.”  The system is designed to search videos as quickly as search engines seek out texts. Its developers say the technology will let film producers’ trawl the vast ocean of the Internet in the search for video pirates.   It works by slapping an invisible grid over the original video and using it to detect changes in color, resolution manipulatio...

Overview India China trade relations   are the most important part of   bilateral relations   between India and China . From a temporary decline in the the influx of   Chinese imports in the Indian markets , the scenario seems to have changed - India is enjoying a positive balance of trade with China . The   India China trade relations   are regulated by the   India China JBC , which ensures a free exchange of products and services between the two nations. India & China signed a Trade Agreement in 1984 which provided for   Most Favored Nation Treatment   and later in 1994, the two countries signed an agreement to avoid double taxation. The   bilateral trade   crossed US$13.6 billion in 2004 from US$ 4.8 billion in 2002, reaching $18.7 billion in 2005. The   India China trade relations have been further developed from 2006, with the initiation of the border trade between Tibet , an autonomous region of China , and...

Relations with India 'fragile', says Chinese ambassador AFP – Zhang Yan, China's Ambassador to India, has said relations with India are "fragile", but … Mon Dec 13, 3:42 am ET NEW DELHI (AFP) – Relations with India are "fragile", China 's ambassador said on Monday, but the two countries can work together to emerge as a "world factory and a world office". Ahead of a visit to India on Wednesday by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, ambassador Zhang Yan said trust was badly needed between the neighbours. "It is a fragile relationship and it needs special care," Zhang said. Taking up the view that Asia can accommodate the rise of both countries peacefully, Zhang stressed how both had different strengths -- China in manufacturing and India in the IT and outsourcing sectors. "The two neighbouring countries should work together as a world factory and world office," Zhang said at a summit organised by an industry body in New...

Candice Crawford  and  Tony Romo  are engaged, upping the excitement in the "How Many  Jessica Simpson Exes Can Get Engaged This Year" sweepstakes. TV news host Crawford, 24, said yes to the 30-year-old Cowboys quarterback's proposal on Thursday in Dallas, where she was celebrating her birthday with family, according to the  Dallas Morning News . The future Mrs. Romo is sister to "Gossip Girl" star  Chace Crawford  and a former Miss Missouri. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, left, and Candice Crawford during an NBA game in Dallas on April 3, 2010. Credit: Mike Fuentes / Associated Press Romo and Simpson broke up in July 2009. The singer's ex-husband,  Nick Lachey , announced his engagement to  Vanessa Minnillo  on Nov. 4. Simpson, 31,  got engaged a week later  to former NFL player  Eric Johnson . So is  John Mayer  even dating anyone? You know, other than  Giada De Laurentiis and  Taylor Swif...

CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO Associated Press The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency's interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding sessions on terror detainees, former U.S. officials said. The secret agreement means taxpayers are paying to defend the men in a federal investigation over an interrogation tactic the U.S. now says is torture. The deal is even more generous than the protections the agency typically provides its own officers, giving the two men access to more money to finance their defense. It has long been known that psychologists Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen created the CIA's interrogation program. But former U.S. intelligence officials said Mitchell and Jessen also repeatedly subjected terror suspects inside CIA-run secret prisons to waterboarding, a simulated drowning tactic. The revelation of the contractors...

Yahoo May Shut Down Some ServicesD December 16, 2010,   3:49 PM By   JENNA WORTHAM As part of its effort to streamline its beleaguered Web business, Yahoo may shut down several well-known Web products, including   Delicious , a social bookmarking tool, and   Upcoming , a social calendar. The news surfaced online Thursday through what appears to be a   leaked snapshot   of a Yahoo presentation that shows several Yahoo services the company is apparently thinking about shuttering or merging with other services. The picture was   first posted online   by Eric Marcoullier, co-founder of MyBlogLog, a social network for bloggers that was acquired by Yahoo in 2007. Mr. Marcoullier no longer works at Yahoo and said on Twitter that he had found the slide on the Web. In addition to Delicious and Upcoming, the slide appears to show plans to merge or shrink several other standalone products, including Yahoo Buzz, a news aggregator, and AltaVista, a search to...

By   MARK MAZZETTI   and SALMAN MASOOD Published: December 17, 2010 WASHINGTON — The   Central Intelligence Agency ’s top clandestine officer in Islamabad was pulled from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced that the officer’s cover was deliberately blown by   Pakistan ’s military intelligence agency. The C.I.A. officer hastily left Pakistan on the same day that an Obama administration review of the Afghanistan war concluded that the war could not be won without greater cooperation from Islamabad in rooting out militants in Pakistan ’s western mountains. American officials said that the C.I.A. station chief had received a number of death threats after he was named publicly in a legal complaint sent to Pakistani police this week by the family of victims of the spy agency’s campaign of   drone   strikes in Pakistan ’s tribal areas. But the officials sa...