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Kerry on Gulf tour pledges backing for Syria rebels US Secretary of State John Kerry has promised to "empower" Syria's opposition, while warning arch-foe Iran that time for talks on Tehran's nuclear ambitions could run out.
05 March 2013
Photo courtesy of cinemasoldier.com 'Jack' slays N. America box office Big-budget action-adventure "Jack the Giant Slayer" crushed all rivals in its debut weekend, easily topping the North American box office.
04 March 2013
US Vice President Joe Biden. ©REUTERS/Tim Shaffer Biden marches with US civil rights leaders in Alabama Vice President Joe Biden marched with black civil rights leaders Sunday in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the "Bloody Sunday" beating of voting rights marchers 48 years ago.
04 March 2013
Photo courtesy of andoexperimentando.com.br TED Talks take wing online as enclave ends As a week of mind-bending TED Conference talks ranging from animal necrophilia to fighting poverty ended Friday, inspiring presentations from the renowned gathering were spreading.
03 March 2013
©REUTERS US suggests Keystone pipeline won't harm environment The US State Department suggested Friday that a $5.3 billion Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline would have no major impact on the environment, but stopped short of recommending it be approved.
03 March 2013
Syria, Moscow condemn US aid to rebels Syria and ally Russia denounced a US pledge to provide direct non-lethal aid to rebel fighters, saying it will fuel more violence in the two-year conflict.
02 March 2013
©REUTERS Judge slashes $1 bn Samsung-Apple penalty in half A judge on Friday cut $450 million from a $1 billion award to be paid by Samsung in a landmark patent lawsuit from Apple, saying a jury had wrongly calculated the damages.
02 March 2013
Peter Gabriel wants to talk with animals online Peter Gabriel joined big thinkers and one of the Internet's founding fathers Friday in launching an "Interspecies Internet" for animals to communicate with us and each other.
02 March 2013
©REUTERS $85 billion austerity hit lines up US economy An $85 billion dollar austerity time bomb was to detonate against the US economy Friday, as President Barack Obama blamed a Republican refusal to compromise for a failure to avert "dumb" spending cuts.
02 March 2013
Russian boy's Texas death ruled accidental The death of a young boy adopted from Russia at his Texas home was an accident and the bruises found on his body were self-inflicted, a coroner ruled Friday in a case that ignited a diplomatic row.
02 March 2013
Video games zap their way into top New York museum Pac-Man and other legends from the video game world became the latest and perhaps most unlikely additions to the Museum of Modern Art's illustrious collections in New York on Friday.
02 March 2013
Asian markets mostly down, weak China data Asian markets were mostly lower on Friday as traders took a breather after healthy gains in the previous session while Chinese data showed growth in manufacturing activity had slowed.
01 March 2013
US, South Korea launch major joint exercises Thousands of US troops converged on South Korea Friday for the start of annual joint military exercises, a report said, as tensions run high on the peninsula following North Korea's third nuclear test.
01 March 2013
The world's first space tourist Dennis Tito. ©REUTERS First-ever space tourist plans Mars mission The world's first space tourist, US multimillionaire Dennis Tito, unveiled plans Wednesday to send a manned mission to Mars and back, targeting a launch date less than five years away.
01 March 2013
Wang goes for 'modern elegance' in Balenciaga debut New York fashion star Alexander Wang presented his much anticipated first show for Balenciaga with a collection praised as "elegance, modernity, structure".
01 March 2013
©REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz US film, music industries roll out anti-piracy program A new "copyright alert" system has begun rolling out this week in the United States in an effort to curb online piracy.
01 March 2013
US pledges first direct aid to Syria rebel fighters The United States has announced it will provide direct aid to Syrian rebels, but not the arms they had hoped for, as well as $60 million in extra assistance to the political opposition.
01 March 2013
Facebook buys advertising firm from Microsoft Facebook agreed Thursday to buy Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft as part of an effort to boost ad revenues at the massive social network.
01 March 2013
©REUTERS Glasses.com turns heads with 3-D iPad app Jonathan Coon turned heads Wednesday with iPad software that lets people try on sunglasses by manipulating 3-D images of themselves from the neck up.
28 February 2013
©REUTERS New study finds anti-nausea drug safe for pregnancy Morning sickness is an all-too-common side effect of pregnancy, and a new study out Wednesday said a medication used to treat the most serious cases is safe for fetuses.
28 February 2013

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