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Snapchat valued at $10 bln: reports
US media reported that Snapchat was valued at $10 billion based on funding pumped into the startup by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
27 August 2014
Biotech firm's GM mosquitoes to fight dengue in Brazil
Workers are making an unusual product: genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever at Oxitec.
27 August 2014
Top Colombian drug hitman 'Popeye' set for release
The head of Colombian drug kingpin P. Escobar's hitmen is set to be released from prison after helping prosecutors convict a former justice minister.
27 August 2014
New York risks 'return to bad old days'
New York is hurtling back to "the bad old days of high crime" under current Mayor Bill de Blasio warned, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Democrat.
27 August 2014
Ex-007 Brosnan back as spy in new action thriller
Former 007 star Pierce Brosnan returns to the world of guns and spies in "The November Man."
27 August 2014
Former cyber-security director guilty of US child porn
A federal jury in the United States convicted a former cyber security chief at the US health department on multiple child pornography charges.
27 August 2014
Hurricane churns towards Bermuda, to impact US
A strengthening Hurricane Cristobal had Bermuda in its sights, US meteorologists said, warning of heavy rain, high winds.
27 August 2014
Google buys special effects technology firm Zync
Google announced that it had bought Zync Render, a service that trims costs of special effects by pushing the work into the Internet "cloud."
27 August 2014
World premier of Abai and Shakarim suites in Carnegie Hall in November
The world premier of the Abai and Shakarim suites will open at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 12, 2014.
26 August 2014
Giant fish eats 4ft shark in just one bite
A goliath grouper has eaten a four-foot blacktip shark in just one bite. The video capturing the shark being swallowed by the giant grouper went viral on the Internet.
26 August 2014
Astana Opera House goes global
Kazakhstan's Astana Opera troupe will tour the United States of America, Canada, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
26 August 2014
Fight Golovkin in true Mexican style: Rubio
WBC interim middleweight title holder Marko Antonio Rubio sees Gennady Golovkin as the biggest challenge in his career.
26 August 2014
ADHD study flags pre-natal use of antidepressants
Children born to women who took antidepressants during pregnancy are statistically likelier to develop the mental disorder called ADHD.
26 August 2014
Dinner in White tradition sparkles again in New York
With the setting sun glittering on the Hudson, people turned out for the fourth edition of "Diner en blanc" (Dinner in White), dressed to the nines.
26 August 2014
'Modern Family' makes Emmy history
"Modern Family" made Emmy history, winning the title of best comedy series for a record-tying fifth year in a row.
26 August 2014
Thousands bid farewell to slain US teenager
The black teenager whose shooting by a white officer revived the race debate in the USA was eulogized Monday as a victim of abusive policing.
26 August 2014
Super price of $3.2 mln for first Superman comic book
A near-flawless edition of the first book featuring cartoon hero Superman from June 1938 has fetched $3.2 million at auction.
26 August 2014
Amazon to buy videogame platform Twitch for $970 mn
Amazon said it has agreed to buy the videogame platform Twitch for $970 million.
26 August 2014
Golovkin-Rubio unify middleweight titles: Winner to face Cotto
Kazakhstani Gennady Golovkin (30-0, KOs 27) will face Mexican Antonio Rubio (59-6, KOs 51) in a unification fight.
25 August 2014
Dias Kadyrbayev to get no more than 7 year sentence after pleading guilty
Kazakh student Dias Kadyrbayev has formally pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice in Boston bombings case two weeks before the trial.
25 August 2014