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Karzai: Did 'War on Terror' encourage radical Islam? Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday the Muslim world was "in turmoil" and wondered whether the "war on terror" led by the United States since 2001 was to blame for the radicalisation.
10 June 2013
©REUTERS/Mike Blake Google to buy Israeli GPS app Waze for $1 bln: reports Google is in talks on a deal worth at least $1 billion to buy the Israel-based GPS mobile navigation app Waze.
10 June 2013
©REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski Smartphone life shakes up website world Internet giants from Google and Facebook to Yahoo and Zynga are scrambling to adapt to an online world where people reach for smartphones or tablets instead of traditional computers.
10 June 2013
Texas actress arrested in US ricin case A Texas actress was arrested Friday for mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist.
10 June 2013
New documentary warns against Obama's 'Dirty Wars' A new documentary released Friday portrays US secret raids against terror suspects as a misguided assassination campaign that generates new enemies and tarnishes America's image.
10 June 2013
Photo courtesy of horizononline.org Google, Facebook condemn online spying Google chief Larry Page and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg condemned online spying Friday and called for governments to be more revealing about snooping on the Internet.
09 June 2013
Kerry renews $1.3 bn annual military aid for Egypt Secretary of State John Kerry last month approved $1.3 billion in annual US military aid to Egypt, despite concerns over democratic progress by the country's new government.
08 June 2013
Placard reads "Free Pussy Riot". ©REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin Pussy Riot rockers in US to fight for jailed bandmates Two members of the Russian feminist punk-rock band Pussy Riot on Friday urged the United States to help free their bandmates jailed last year for an anti-government protest performance.
08 June 2013
Obama, Xi urge new relationship in first summit Throwing formality aside at a desert retreat, Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping called Friday for a new approach to forge relations between the US superpower and a rising China.
08 June 2013
Arm Syrian rebels or risk rise of extremism: McCain The United States must deepen its engagement in Syria by equipping the rebels or setting up a safe zone to protect the opposition.
08 June 2013
New York readies major Le Corbusier show Nearly half a century after his death, New York's Museum of Modern Art will pay homage to celebrated French architect and designer Le Corbusier in a major exhibit that opens next week.
07 June 2013
Photo courtesy of blog.kensington.com Internet titans deny opening doors to US spies Apple, Facebook and other Internet titans denied Thursday opening doors for US intelligence agencies to mine data from their servers.
07 June 2013
©REUTERS/Max Rossi Apple clashes with Amazon in e-book case Apple attorneys in the US antitrust case on e-books went on the offensive Thursday, attacking the credibility of government witnesses and seeking to debunk key elements of the government's case.
07 June 2013
US panel wants diabetes drug restrictions eased Independent experts urged US regulators Thursday to reduce restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes drug Avandia, banned in Europe over heart attack risk concerns.
07 June 2013
Photo courtesy of mycredits.in Anxiety over student loans as US lawmakers play politics Recent Northeastern University graduate Greg Dube hopes to launch a bright engineering career soon, but like many young Americans, he is haunted by a looming financial burden: some $150,000 in student loan debt.
07 June 2013
©REUTERS/Thomas Peter Global cybercrime ring targeted by Microsoft and FBI Microsoft on Wednesday said it teamed with the FBI to disrupt armies of hacked computers used to commit more than a half-billion dollars in financial fraud around the world.
07 June 2013
Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill. ©REUTERS/Jonas Ekstromer/Scanpix Sweden Sweden's latest royal couple fail to win over public In their plush Manhattan apartment, Sweden's Princess Madeleine and her future husband, Anglo-American Christopher O'Neill, live a life far away from the Swedish throne.
07 June 2013
Michael Jackson's daughter Paris. ©REUTERS/Phil McCarten Jackson daughter hospitalized after suicide bid Late pop icon Michael Jackson's daughter Paris was rushed to a California hospital Wednesday after trying to commit suicide.
06 June 2013
Google terminal in works at Silicon Valley airport Google jets are getting a home in an $82-million private terminal being built to cater to executives coming and going from Mineta San Jose International Airport in Silicon Valley.
06 June 2013
©REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann US drops plan to allow pocket knives on flights The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), bowing to a chorus of outrage led by flight attendants, abandoned Wednesday its plan to allow pocket knives in carry-on baggage.
06 June 2013

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