No Jobs, No New Products, still Apple Profits Climb Up

apple400Apple 2Q profit gains 15 percent, beats Street

SEATTLE — Strong sales of the iPhone helped Apple Inc. lift its quarterly profit 15 percent, well ahead of Wall Street's expectations Wednesday despite the global economic downturn. The company also said co-founder Steve Jobs still plans to return from his medical leave as scheduled.

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Bodies of Indian Software Professionals shot dead in California brought home

The bodies of a software professional, his wife and baby daughter, killed by his Indian American brother-in-law in California last month, were brought to their native Ayyankolli village in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district Friday for the last rites. The bodies of Ashokan, his wife Suchitra and their daughter Ahaana, were brought to Bangalore by a flight early Friday and then to Ayyankolli in the district, 550 km southwest of state capital Chennai, by road, family sources said.

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10 killed as boat sinks in Indonesia’s Java Sea

JAKARTA - At least 10 people were killed, 17 rescued and an unspecified number reported missing after a small boat capsized on the sea off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday morning, officials said.

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