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Poll: Ontario, Canada, is worst for dogs

Winnipeg -- A Canadian pollster said two-thirds of respondents in an online poll picked Ontario as the least dog-friendly province in the nation.

Sean Simpson, senior research manager for Ipsos Reid, said at least half of those polled June 10-14 in each province picked their own location as the most dog-friendly, complicating the results, Postmedia News reported Friday.

"The tendency is to say yours is the best," Simpson said.

However, he said a large portion of the 1,017 respondents agreed Ontario was the least dog-friendly.

"You had 13 possible choices -- all the provinces and territories," Simpson said. "And one-third picked Ontario as the worst. That's pretty strong."

Goerges downs Bacsinszky for Gastein title

Austria -- Germany's Julia Goerges downed Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-1, 6-4 Saturday to claim the Gastein Ladies tennis tournament in Austria.

BAD GASTEIN, Austria, July 25 (UPI) -- Germany's Julia Goerges downed Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-1, 6-4 Saturday to claim the Gastein Ladies tennis tournament in Austria.
Goerges had to record a pair of wins Sunday in addition to the final she had to play a semifinal match-up postponed from Saturday due to rain.

Goerges defeated France's Alize Cornet 6-1, 6-4 in the early match to advance. By then downing the second-seeded Bacsinszky in the title match, she became the second consecutive German to win the Gastein title.

Asteroid impacts subject of Congress bill

Washington -- The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to establish a commission to study the threat of an asteroid collision with Earth and how to prepare for it, lawmakers say.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is titled, "To establish a United States Commission on Planetary Defense and for other purposes," SPACE.com reported Monday.

The bill is before the Committee on Science and Technology where Rohrabacher is a member.

"We need to take the next step," Rohrabacher said. "I am more confident than ever in our ability to identify potential threats from asteroids and comets, but it is critical to the future of humanity that we develop the capabilities to protect ourselves from those threats."

Obama congratulates Yankees at White House

Washington -- U.S. President Barack Obama Monday welcomed the 2009 World Champion New York Yankees to the White House, congratulating the team on its 27th title.

Noting the presence at the event of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood -- both Yankees fans -- Obama praised the Steinbrenner family, which owns the team, as well as General Manager Brian Cashman and players for their victory in last season's World Series triumph over the Philadelphia Phillies.

"Now, it's been nine years since your last title -- which must have felt like an eternity for Yankees fans," Obama said. "I think other teams would be just fine with a spell like that. The Cubs, for example."

Library of Congress gets Twitter archives

Washington -- The Library of Congress in Washington says Twitter has donated its entire digital archive of public tweets.v

Twitter is a social networking service that enables users to send and receive messages of up to 140 characters.

The company said it processes more than 50 million tweets per day from people around the world.

The Library said it expects to receive all the public tweets -- which number in the billions -- from the 2006 inception of the service to the present.

Obama congratulates NCAA champs UConn

Storrs -- U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday congratulated the University of Connecticut women's basketball team on its NCAA Tournament victory.

Obama called Huskies team members and Coach Geno Auriemma from the Oval Office to register his admiration for their second straight NCAA championship, achieved Tuesday in a 53-47 victory over Stanford, the White House said.

UConn's win completed a second straight undefeated season and ran its unbeaten streak to 78 games.

Administration officials said Obama commended Auriemma and the team on their achievement, adding he was looking forward to seeing all of them at the White House again soon.

Replacement ballots bear new typos

Birmingham -- Officials in an English city apologized for typos in voting cards mailed out to replace a previous round of misprinted cards.

Birmingham City Council officials confirmed the cards, sent out to replace 60,000 ballot cards bearing an incorrect return deadline, misspelled the city's name as "Birmingam" in the return address and contained the sentence, "Make it is not left where someone else can pick it up," omitting the word "sure," the Birmingham Mail reported Wednesday.

The officials said the cards bore the correct return deadline, April 29, 2010, and the typos do not warrant another round of replacements. The original cards gave the deadline as May 29, 2009, the deadline date for last year's European elections.

U.S. census forms start arriving in mailboxes

Mon, 03/15/2010 - 21:55 by Neha Gupta

As per the once-a-decade population survey policy of the U.S government, more than 120 million census forms have been posted to the residents throughout the nation.

Three possible Fed governors named

Washington -- A White House official Friday named three leading candidates to fill the three empty board seats at the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The New York Times identified the source as a "senior administration official" who said Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco, was the top pick who would likely be asked to fill the position of vice chairwoman at the Fed.

The official also named Peter Diamond, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is considered an expert on Social Security and taxation, as "under consideration" for another seat on the board. The third candidate named was Sara Bloom Raskin, the Maryland commissioner of financial regulation.

New York Rep. Eric Massa resigns over ethics issue

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 18:35 by Samia Sehgal

Eric Massa has decided to step down from his seat on Mar. 8. This decision of the New York Democratic Representative has come following a harassment complaint by a male staffer.

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