MOSCOW ? Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia’s richest tycoons and the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, said Monday he will run against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March presidential election. Prokhorov, whose wealth the Forbes magazine has estimated at $18 billion, has been cautious not to cross Putin’s path in the [...]

Blackjack, also called the twenty-one game, is very popular for its combination of skill and chance. Thanks to its appeal, the online Blackjack game has been drawing a more number of players than any other casino game. Though the game is a bit difficult to play, the basic concept is simple to understand: securing the [...]

LONDON (AP) ? One thing is for sure: You will be able to spot the London Olympic volunteers in a crowd. Olympic authorities on Tuesday unveiled the uniforms for the volunteers ? also known as Games Makers ? drawing on the influences of the scarlet tunics of the Grenadier Guards combined with a heaping dash [...]

The company known as SpaceX is considering building a rocket launch pad in the area near Brownsville, Texas. Expansion-minded rocket venture Space Exploration Technologies Corp. may add a small Texas town on the Gulf of Mexico to its list of rocket launch sites. Skip to next paragraph The Hawthorne, Calif., company, better known as SpaceX, [...]

The Android operating system is under assault. By comparison, Apple’s iOS is in pretty good shape.? It is very hard to escape Android phones this year. While Apple’s iPhone remains the most coveted phone this Christmas, and RIM’s BlackBerry handsets sink into early retirement, Google’s Android operating system continues to gobble up shares of the [...]