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US daredevil completes Grand Canyon tightrope walk US daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first man to cross the Grand Canyon on a tightrope Sunday, completing his latest record-breaking feat in just under 23 minutes.

24 June 2013

Africa finally gets its turn with Obama visit Barack Obama will visit Africa living a paradox: its blood runs in his veins, yet he has given the continent only passing notice as US president.

24 June 2013

Fugitive US leaker in Moscow, seeks Ecuador asylum Washington was scrambling to stop fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden as the former IT contractor was Monday expected to head for asylum in Ecuador after arriving in Moscow.

24 June 2013

Chinese buy up Canada farms; is Beijing behind it? With too few farms in China to feed a burgeoning population, Chinese immigrants have started buying up agricultural lands in Canada and shipping produce to Asia.

23 June 2013

US leaker Snowden charged with espionage: official US authorities have filed espionage charges against rogue intelligence technician Edward Snowden and have asked Hong Kong to detain him.

23 June 2013

Film reveals life in US for undocumented immigrants Two years ago this weekend, Philippine-born journalist Jose Antonio Vargas came out publicly in the New York Times as an undocumented American, a term he prefers to the loaded phrase "illegal immigrant."

23 June 2013

US cuts prison term of disgraced Enron CEO Skilling A US judge cut 10 years off the prison sentence of disgraced former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling on Friday after he spent years fighting his original 24-year jail term for fraud.

23 June 2013

'Privacy' search engines see jump after NSA row Internet users are taking a fresh look at "privacy" search engines that do not store data or track online activity, in light of the flap over US government surveillance.

23 June 2013

Obama meets privacy board on spy programs President Barack Obama held a "candid" meeting with a privacy watchdog board, as he makes the case his White House has not abused power with Internet and telephone surveillance programs.

23 June 2013

Rousseff says Brazil can do better, slams violence Embattled president Dilma Rousseff admitted in a televised address that Brazil can do better and pledged to do more to fight corruption.

23 June 2013

US state in new alert over nuclear waste leak Heightened radioactivity levels were found outside a nuclear waste tank in the US state of Washington, officials said Friday, in a new alert about a site used to make Cold War-era bombs.

23 June 2013

Kim, Kanye named newborn North West Rap star Kanye West and reality TV star Kim Kardashian have named their newborn North West, prompting an outbreak of wisecracking Friday on Twitter.

22 June 2013

Facebook admits bug shared 6 mn users' contact details Phone numbers and email addresses belonging to some 6 million Facebook users have been improperly shared due to a software bug.

22 June 2013

Hershey pays $4 mn fine for chocolate price-fixing US candy maker Hershey on Friday pleaded guilty to participating in a chocolate price-fixing scheme and paid a CAN$4 million (US$4.2 million) fine.

22 June 2013

Pixar goes back to class with Monsters prequel Pixar sends its Monsters back to class this weekend with "Monsters University," the first time the animation giant has made a prequel to a member of its stable of hit franchises.

22 June 2013

Wine producers go hi-tech to outsmart fraudsters Making sure a glass of wine is everything it promises on the label was once a relatively simple process: hold against the light, tilt and observe the shade, swirl a little and give it a good sniff.

22 June 2013

US to sell military helicopters to Thailand The United States plans to sell six Lakota military helicopters to Thailand worth an estimated $77 million.

22 June 2013

100,000 flee flooding in Canada Flooding forced the evacuation on Friday of some 100,000 people in the western city of Calgary and nearby towns in the heart of the Canadian oil patch.

22 June 2013

Facebook adds video sharing to Instagram Facebook on Thursday added smartphone video-sharing to its Instagram photo-based social network, in a move challenging Twitter's popular Vine service.

22 June 2013

US Navy's cereal scandal: Cap'n Crunch not a captain? A veteran naval officer who has saluted from cereal boxes for 50 years -- Cap'n Crunch -- may not be a real captain after all.

21 June 2013

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