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©Reuters/Daniel Becerril Mexico uncovers tunnel for smuggling migrants into US Mexican authorities in the border city of Tijuana found a tunnel designed to smuggle people without documentation into the United States, the government said.
14 March 2014
Workers sue McDonald's for stealing wages US workers accused fast-food giant McDonald's of systematically stealing wages through illicit practices like forcing them to work off-the-clock and failing to pay overtime.
14 March 2014
New US lead thrusts Malaysia jet search into Indian Ocean The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean Friday after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago.
14 March 2014
©Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi Black Harvard students target cliches via Tumblr blog Black students at Harvard University, appropriating a line from a celebrated African-American poet, are harnessing social media to challenge racial stereotypes -- and inspiring similar blogs across the Atlantic.
14 March 2014
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. ©Reuters/Albert Gea Zuckerberg says US government threat to Internet Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday he had called President Barack Obama to complain that the US government is undermining confidence in the Internet with vast, secret surveillance programs.
14 March 2014
Walter "Snowball" Williams. Photo courtesy of youtube.com US farmer dies again... this time for real A Mississippi farmer who made global headlines two weeks ago when he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home died on Thursday aged 78.
14 March 2014
©Reuters/Jeff Kowalsky Recalled GM cars linked to 303 airbag-related deaths US safety regulators have tracked 303 deaths after airbags failed to properly deploy in vehicles recently recalled by General Motors.
14 March 2014
©Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk US ends BP contract ban The United States announced Thursday an end to its ban on BP obtaining government contracts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
14 March 2014
Australia to buy surveillance drones to patrol borders Australia announced plans Thursday for a fleet of giant high-tech unmanned drones to help patrol the nation's borders, monitoring energy infrastructure and attempts to enter the country illegally.
14 March 2014
©Reuters/Brendan McDermid Herbalife faces FTC inquiry after activist campaign The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a civil investigation into Herbalife.
13 March 2014
Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org NASA offers KazCosmos to participate in research projects KazCosmos, the national space agency of Kazakhstan - will have joint projects with NASA.
13 March 2014
Ukraine PM says EU accord may be signed next week Ukraine's new leaders will likely sign a long-awaited political accord with the European Union next week, interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday after talks at the White House.
13 March 2014
'Breaking Bad' actor changes gear in 'Need for Speed' Fresh from the success of "Breaking Bad," Aaron Paul has plunged into a very different role in high-octane action movie "Need for Speed," swapping crystal meth for straight adrenaline.
13 March 2014
Move over '123456': passwords go high-tech too Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to identify themselves.
13 March 2014
Three dead, 63 hurt as NY buildings collapse A major explosion caused by a gas leak flattened two Manhattan apartment buildings in a fireball Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 63 others.
13 March 2014
National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Keith Alexander. ©Reuters/Gary Cameron 'Free world' governments among worst for online spying: watchdog Shady agencies at the service of democratically elected governments are among the worst online spies in the world, media watchdog RSF said Wednesday, putting them on the same level as offenders in Iran, China and Saudi Arabia.
12 March 2014
Bollywood to dance into final frontier: America Bollywood is promising a song-and-dance extravaganza as Indian cinema throws its awards ceremony in the United States for the first time, looking to tap into a mature but lucrative market.
12 March 2014
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. ©Reuters/Luke MacGregor Next up from Keith Richards: a book for kids Not content with writing a best-selling autobiography, Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards now is coming out with his first children's book in September, publishing house Little.
12 March 2014
Himalayan cat. ©Reuters/Ina Fassbender Cat takes US family hostage A 22-pound (10-kilo) Himalayan cat attacked a baby boy and then took a US family hostage in their apartment, forcing them to call 911 to get police help.
12 March 2014
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee. ©Reuters/Vincent West Web founder calls for Internet bill of rights A bill of rights should be created to govern the Internet in the wake of revelations about the depth of government surveillance.
12 March 2014

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