1.One year ago, on July 3, 2008, oil prices settled at a record high -- a once-unthinkable $145.29 a barrel.On Thursday, it settled at $66.73, less than half the record price, following a $2.58 decline.
2.A Chinese businessman named Zhao Danyang paid a record $2.1 million in a charity auction on eBay last year to win a lunch date with Warren E. Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha.
3.Johnson & Johnson the health care giant, will pay $1 billion to the Irish biotechnology company Elan to gain access to Alzheimer’s disease treatmentS.
4.The images from NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal a moon bathed in light and shadow in a region know as Mare Nubium, or the Sea of Clouds.
5.Revenge of the Fallen.'Transformers 2' wins Friday box office, becomes highest grosser of 2009.(director Michael Bay )...The Incredibles asPixar's second highest grossing film ever.)
6.Hallmark Channel is owned by NBC UNIVERSAL.(EXCEPT US)
7.HILTON HOTELS recently launched a brand in the name of "DENIZEN".
8.Chicago’s iconic Sears Tower is to be renamed As "WILLS TOWER".
9. NINTENDO Company started in Kyoto by Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889 to make Japanese playing cards.
10.HARBHAJAN SINGH has licensed his name,for a restaurant chain called 'BHAJI Da Dhaba' .
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