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Vitalii Sediuk. Photo courtesy of theguardian.com Brad Pitt attacker slapped with restraining order A Ukrainian prankster accused of punching Brad Pitt at a Hollywood red carpet remained behind bars Thursday and was given a restraining order not to approach the star, police said.
31 May 2014
©Reuters/Gary Hershorn Cirque du Soleil takes on 'Avatar' Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron is partnering with Cirque du Soleil to bring his blockbuster film "Avatar" to the stage, it was announced.
31 May 2014
Google opens path in Europe for being 'forgotten' Google began late Thursday letting people in Europe formally request to be "forgotten" by the world's leading Internet search service.
30 May 2014
Paramilitary policemen treat an injured woman after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit Yingjiang county, Yunan province. ©Reuters/Stringer Shallow 5.9 magnitude earthquake hits SW China: USGS A shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 hit southwest China on Friday morning, the US Geological Survey said, with Chinese reports saying 29 people had been injured, five of them seriously.
30 May 2014
Ford recalls almost 1.4 million cars in North America US automaker Ford Motor issued safety recalls Thursday for nearly 1.4 million cars in North America, mostly in the US, to fix potential steering and other problems.
30 May 2014
Teens become first joint US spelling champions in 52 years Two young American teenagers of South Asian heritage made spelling history Thursday when they became the first co-winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee since 1962.
30 May 2014
Liu Xiaobo. Photo courtesy of chinatoday.com Chinese embassy's US street urged renamed for dissident US lawmakers called Thursday for the street outside China's embassy to be renamed in honor of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
30 May 2014
SpaceX unveils capsule to ferry astronauts to space A sleek, white gumdrop-shaped space capsule that aims to carry up to seven astronauts to the International Space Station and return to land anywhere on Earth was unveiled Thursday by SpaceX.
30 May 2014
©Reuters/Regis Duvignau World No Tobacco Day: WHO urged not to snuff out e-cig The e-cigarette was pushed centre stage ahead of World No Tobacco Day, with doctors and policy experts urging the UN's health agency to embrace the gadget as a life saver.
30 May 2014
German Alexander Gerst, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman. ©RIA Novosti Russian, German and US astronauts dock with ISS A crew of Russian, German and US astronauts docked with the International Space Station Thursday as space cooperation between Moscow and the West continues despite their worst standoff since the Cold War.
29 May 2014
Australia rules out swathe of ocean as MH370 crash zone Australia on Thursday ruled out a large swathe of Indian Ocean as Flight MH370's final resting place after a lengthy underwater hunt, as a US Navy official queried whether the missing plane ever went there.
29 May 2014
©Splash Brad Pitt punched in face at movie premiere: police Actor Brad Pitt was punched in the face Wednesday night while signing autographs at the Hollywood premiere of "Maleficent" starring his partner Angelina Jolie, news reports said.
29 May 2014
Edward Snowden. ©Reuters/Vincent Kessler Snowden says he wants to return to US Fugitive self-proclaimed spy Edward Snowden said Wednesday he wants to return home, as he defended his massive leak of US intelligence secrets, saying abuses of constitutional rights left him no choice.
29 May 2014
Merkel tops Forbes 'powerful women' list German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes's list of the world's most powerful women for the fourth consecutive year, followed by US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, the magazine said.
29 May 2014
©Reuters/Robert Galbraith Apple buys music star Beats for $3 bn Apple, seeking to bolster its position in the hotly contested online music sector, said Wednesday it was buying Beats Music and Beats Electronics in a much-hyped deal worth $3 billion.
29 May 2014
©Reuters//Leonhard Foeger Amazon.com 'not optimistic' about Hachette book deal Online commerce titan Amazon.com on Tuesday said it doubted that it would soon bury the hatchet with book publisher Hachette.
29 May 2014
Starbucks comes under 7-Eleven control in Australia The owners of the 7-Eleven chain in Australia have taken control of coffee giant Starbucks' struggling local operations in a bid to turn around its fortunes, the company said.
29 May 2014
Photo courtesy of geforce.com Release of "The Evil Within" video game delayed Video game publisher Bethesda Softworks on Tuesday delayed release of eagerly awaited horror action title "The Evil Within" to October.
29 May 2014
Nursultan Nazarbayev with the leaders of 
foreign diplomatic missions © Danial Okasov Drastic change in the world financial system required: Nazarbayev There is a need to rethink the global financial system, the Kazakhstan president declared at the VII Astana Economic Forum.
28 May 2014
Michelle Obama takes on Republicans over school lunches First lady Michelle Obama made a rare but strident foray into political debate Tuesday, slamming a Republican bid to change US school nutrition standards as "unacceptable."
28 May 2014

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