PARIS – Authorities have recorded France's first death from the European E. coli outbreak.
Health officials in Bordeaux said the 78-year-old woman died early Saturday morning.
She had been hospitalized in Bordeaux since June 24 with hemolytic uremic syndrome — the rare kidney condition that the most seriously ill victims of the outbreak are suffering from.
Move over Nintendo and Sony. The iPhone 4 and Apple's App Store nabbed a few gaming titles in the Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer's Edition.
The iPhone 4 was named the "Fastest-Selling Portable Gaming System" after selling an estimated 1.5 million units when it launched on June 24, 2010.
Guinness compares the iPhone 4's numbers to that of the PSP, which sold 200,000 units at launch in 2005 and the DS which sold 500,000 consoles during launch week in November 2004.
Apple's App Store also received high marks, earning the title "Most Popular Application Marketplace." Guinness notes that as of September 2010 the store hosted about 260,000 apps, 61 of which are "flatulence simulators, a genre that includes such masterpieces as Fart Machine, Fart Ocarina andiFart -- Epic Rip Edition."
Cheap humor aside, Guinness World Records Gaming Editor Gaz Deaves said the iPhone was a game changer in both video game and mobile space.
"The release of the iPhone has not just changed the mobile industry, but the video game world too," Deaves said in a statement. "With the never-ending App Store selection and an intuitive device, Apple has created a gigantic new space for itself in the casual games genre that literally brings e ntertainment to users wherever they may be."
A few staple casual game Apps also made it into book.
Angry Birds was named the "Top Paid-For App Store Game in Most Countries," Plants vs. Zombines was named the "Fastest-Selling iPhone/iPod Strategy Game," and Tap Tap Revenge was named the "Most Popular iPhone Game Series."
Nearly 3,000 pages of documents released by an Arizona community college that Jared Loughner attended show how school administrators struggled to keep up with a flood of media requests and protect its own image after the January shooting rampage in Tucson.
EnlargeClosePima County Sheriff's Dept., APNearly 3,000 pages of documents released by an Arizona community college that Jared Loughner attended show how school administrators struggled to keep up with a flood of media requests and protect its own image after the January shooting rampage in Tucson.
In the thousands of emails and documents released by Pima Community College on Friday, none was dated before the Jan. 8 shooting and most were requests by members of the media for information on Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the shooting that killed six and wounded 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.Requests included questions about whether the college ever sought to get Loughner a mental health evaluation when he was a student at the college, or whether he threatened to kill anyone on campus. The college either refused to answer questions or released short, prepared statements.Loughner began attending classes at the college in 2005, but was eventually kicked out because of behavior campus police considered disturbing. He was told to get a mental health evaluation or not return.In one email, college Chancellor Roy Flores told all employees that national news media organizations had sent teams of reporters to campus looking for anyone who knew Loughner. He instructed them not to delete any emails mentioning Loughner so the college could comply with public records laws.
