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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
©Reuters/Stephen Lam Apple buys analytics firm for $200 mn: report Apple has acquired social media analytics firm Topsy for more than $200 million, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
03 December 2013
Supermodel Kate Moss. ©Reuters/Neil Hall Fashion honours iconic Moss as Playboy cover revealed Iconic supermodel Kate Moss was on Monday honoured by the British fashion industry for her 25-year career, shortly after her Playboy cover celebrating the magazine's 60th anniversary was revealed.
03 December 2013
©Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader Mice research brings male contraceptive pill closer A contraceptive pill for men has moved one step closer after Australian researchers successfully made male mice infertile.
03 December 2013
The prices of gasoline, ethanol and diesel fuel are shown at a gas station at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro November 29, 2013.©Reuters/Ricardo Moraes Despite rising demand, Brazil ethanol sector struggles Hobbled by rising production costs and low prices, Brazil's ethanol sector is in crisis, with many sugar mills closing despite rising demand.
01 December 2013
N. Korea confirms US man held, publishes 'confession' North Korea confirmed Saturday that an American veteran of the Korean War has been detained for "hostile acts" against the communist country and said he had released a written apology confessing to his alleged crimes.
30 November 2013
©Reuters/Mark Blinch Canada let NSA spy on G20, G8 summits: report Canada allowed America's National Security Agency to spy on G20 talks in Toronto in 2010 and at the G8 summit days earlier, according to documents cited by public broadcaster CBC.
29 November 2013
©RIA Novosti China media urges countermeasures against Japan planes China's state media called Friday for "timely countermeasures without hesitation" if Japan violates the country's newly declared air zone, after Beijing sent fighter jets to patrol the area following defiant military overflights by Tokyo.
29 November 2013
©Reuters/Kevork Djansezian Walmart to open stores in US capital despite protest Walmart, the biggest retailer in the United States, is opening its first-ever stores in the US capital -- but some aren't giving it a warm welcome.
29 November 2013
US drone strike kills two in NW Pakistan A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed at least two suspected insurgents in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Friday, officials said.
29 November 2013
©Tengrinews.kz Kazakhstan cardio surgeons appreciated by American colleague American surgeon Oscar Frazier M.D. gave high praise to the professional level of Kazakhstan surgeons.
29 November 2013
Photo courtesy of medportal.ru Belgium close to agreeing euthanasia for children Eleven years after making euthanasia legal for adults, Belgium came a step closer to extending mercy-killing to terminally-ill children Wednesday after an intense public debate on the ethical issues at stake.
29 November 2013
Comet ISON vanishes as it circles the sun Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the fiery surface, astronomers said.
29 November 2013
Japan's Abe appoints first ever female PM aide Japan's Shinzo Abe on Friday named the country's first ever female aide to the prime minister, just weeks after Caroline Kennedy arrived as the first woman US ambassador to Tokyo.
29 November 2013
John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney animation studios, greets cast member Kristen Bell at the premiere of "Frozen". ©Reuters/Mario Anzuoni Disney gives folk tale cool makeover in 'Frozen' Disney has given a chilly makeover to a traditional fairy tale in its latest animated release "Frozen," which could be in the running for an Oscar.
29 November 2013
©Reuters/Mario Anzuoni Hollywood film-shoots boost struggling Spanish islands Barefoot young men in ragged clothes disembark from a 19th century-style whaling ship bobbing in the bay off the Spanish island of Gomera. Despite their shipwrecked appearance, they are here on business.
28 November 2013

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