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©Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn Microsoft leads attack on search traffic thieves Microsoft on Thursday announced it worked with police in Europe and the United States to disrupt a "dangerous" army of virus-infected computers used to hijack searches at Google, Bing and Yahoo.
06 December 2013
Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela dies aged 95 Nelson Mandela, the icon of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a colossus of 20th century politics, died late Thursday aged 95, prompting mass mourning and a global celebration of his astonishing life.
06 December 2013
Norman Rockwell's The Thing to Do With Life is Live It! (Outrigger Canoe)". ©Reuters/Carlo Allegri Three Norman Rockwell works sell for almost $60 mn Three oil paintings by Norman Rockwell, the celebrated 20th century master illustrator of everyday life in America, sold Wednesday for almost $60 million, setting a new record for the artist.
06 December 2013
©Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Move over Dickens: TV series are new academic mainstay Television series, once considered too low-brow to be worthy of academic study, have become a mainstay of university curricula and frequent fodder for critical analysis.
05 December 2013
'Fast and Furious' star died of impact, fire "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker died from 'traumatic and thermal injuries" in a fiery car crash, coroners said Wednesday, fueling suggestions he may have survived the initial impact.
05 December 2013
Street artist Mark Panzarino, 41, prepares a memorial as he writes the names of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims. ©Reuters/Eduardo Munoz One year on, Newtown voices revive pain of massacre One year after a gunman burst into a US school and slaughtered 20 small children and six adults, the voices of their trapped and terrified protectors returned Wednesday to haunt survivors.
05 December 2013
Online game teaches risks of personal data exposure Sexual orientation, private debt, medical records, even your favourite ice cream flavour: do you know much of this personal information is out there and available for sale?
05 December 2013
©Reuters/Toru Hanai Japan Tobacco and Philip Morris buy 40% of Russian distributor Japan Tobacco (JT) and Philip Morris will each buy a 20 percent stake in Russian distributor Megapolis for a total of more than $1.5 billion, as the rivals move to tap the world's second-biggest cigarette market.
05 December 2013
©Reuters/Gene Blevins Third time a charm: SpaceX launches commercial satellite After two delays, private US company SpaceX on Tuesday successfully launched its first commercial satellite, after repairs were made to the Falcon 9 rocket.
04 December 2013
Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson. ©Reuters/Gus Ruelas Katherine Jackson seeks retrial over pop icon's death Michael Jackson's mother Katherine is seeking a retrial against tour promoters AEG Live, who were found not liable over the pop icon's 2009 death, court documents show.
04 December 2013
US aims lucky 'Year of the Horse' greenbacks at Chinese The US Treasury is selling red "hong bao" envelopes with "lucky" dollars bearing auspicious serial numbers to mark the Chinese Year of the Horse next year.
04 December 2013
White House press secretary Jay Carney. ©Reuters/Kevin Lamarque White House steps up bid to thwart new Iran sanctions The White House warned Congress Tuesday that passing new sanctions on Iran -- even with a delayed launch date -- would give Tehran an excuse to undermine an interim nuclear deal.
04 December 2013
Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org With $65 bn in debt, is Puerto Rico America's Greece? Laden with debt, its economy in recession: Is the US territory of Puerto Rico poised to become another Greece?
04 December 2013
Apple iPad Air tablet. ©Reuters/Mike Segar Tablet computer sales losing steam: survey Tablet computers have been one of the hottest items in tech in recent years, but sizzling growth is likely to slow in the coming years, a market tracker said Tuesday.
04 December 2013
Onyango Obama, the uncle of U.S. President Barack Obama.©Reuters/Brian Snyder Obama's uncle given US green card: lawyer A 69-year-old uncle of President Barack Obama was on Tuesday granted the right to remain in the United States permanently after a federal court ruling, his lawyer revealed.
04 December 2013
Photo courtesy of ©youtube.com/hollywoodlife Police warn over stunts at 'Fast and Furious' crash spot Police in the US city where "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker died warned fans Monday against "burning rubber" near the spot where he was killed, as they probed the fatal car crash.
04 December 2013
©Reuters/Andrew Kelly In first, US woman denies Google Glass driving charge A US woman thought to be the first person to get a traffic ticket for wearing Google Glass pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday, her lawyer said.
04 December 2013
©Reuters/Denis Balibouse Men and women's brains are wired differently: study Women aren't very good at reading maps, and men are incapable of multi-tasking.
04 December 2013
Photo courtesy of fansshare.com Fifty Shades of Grey movie begins filming The movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, the bestselling erotic novel by E.L. James, has started filming in westernmost Canada.
04 December 2013
Stars, twerking, Obamacare drive Internet in 2013 It was a year for "twerking," "selfies," and "cronuts" in Internet searching, right up there with Hollywood, pop and reality stars.
03 December 2013
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