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Yahoo Mail accounts breached with stolen passwords Yahoo alerted users of its free email service Thursday that hackers slipped into accounts to loot information using stolen passwords.

31 January 2014

US to seek death penalty for accused Boston bomber The United States is to seek a rare federal death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving young student accused of the Boston marathon bombings.

31 January 2014

Kerry to meet Ukrainian opposition leaders In a major show of support for pro-democracy protesters in Ukraine, US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet top opposition leaders for the first time this weekend.

31 January 2014

Katy Perry rides closer to 50 mn mark on Twitter Pop star Katy Perry was on the threshold Thursday of becoming the first person ever to have more than 50 million followers on Twitter.

31 January 2014

Zynga deals for animation firm in rebound effort Zynga announced Thursday it was buying mobile game and animation firm NaturalMotion for $527 million in a fresh reboot effort for the struggling social games pioneer.

31 January 2014

US admiral nominated to be next NSA chief President Barack Obama has nominated a US Navy officer, Vice Admiral Michael Rogers, to take over as head of the embattled National Security Agency.

31 January 2014

Boy-band One Direction year's best-sellers British pop phenomenon One Direction were on Thursday named as the world's most popular recording artists of 2013 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

30 January 2014

Obama repels new Iran sanctions push... for now President Barack Obama appears to have prevailed, for now, in a campaign to stop Congress from imposing new sanctions on Iran he fears could derail nuclear diplomacy.

30 January 2014

Mad men eye record Super Bowl ad extravaganza What do the Muppets, Greek yogurt and Arnold Schwarzenegger have in common? They're all starring in the most expensive four hours of American television ever.

30 January 2014

Freak snowstorm, cold snap paralyzes US South The usually balmy US South was paralyzed Wednesday by a freak snowstorm that forced thousands of children to shelter in schools overnight and left thousands of motorists stranded on icy roads.

30 January 2014

N.Korea enlarging site for bigger missiles: institute North Korea appears to be expanding its main launch site to permit more advanced missiles which may eventually be able to reach the United States.

30 January 2014

Woman charged with attempted murder following London terror raids London police on Wednesday charged a woman with attempted murder following terror raids on three properties that also led to the arrest of the teenage son of a senior British diplomat.

30 January 2014

Academy kills Oscars nomination over email gaffe Oscars organizers have withdrawn a best song nomination from a composer in a rare move because he emailed voting members to highlight his candidacy, which is strictly banned for Academy executives.

30 January 2014

Google sheds Motorola in $2.91 bn deal with Lenovo Google agreed Wednesday to sell Motorola to Chinese tech giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, after a lackluster two-year effort to turn around the smartphone maker it bought for $12.5 billion.

30 January 2014

$130 billion a year wasted on poor quality education: UN A quarter of a billion children worldwide are failing to learn basic reading and maths skills in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion annually.

30 January 2014

Web gets new neighborhoods with '.guru' and more New online neighborhoods open Wednesday when a US company starts offering Web addresses ending in ".guru," ".bike" -- and even ".singles."

29 January 2014

Give diplomacy a chance, says Obama President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that America must move away from a permanent war footing to give diplomacy a chance to resolve some of the world's toughest problems, such as the nuclear standoff with Iran.

29 January 2014

Karzai suspects US behind Afghan bombings: report Afghan President Hamid Karzai suspects the United States may have backed insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government but has no evidence to support his theory.

29 January 2014

LatAm summit lashes out at US spying Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday railed against US spying as he opened a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders set up by Venezuela's late anti-US leader Hugo Chavez.

29 January 2014

Cuba opens 'megaport' with high hopes for more trade Cuba officially opened its new Mariel "megaport" on Monday, hoping the project will put it on the map as a regional shipping hub despite scant foreign investment and the US economic embargo.

29 January 2014

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