Short Seller James Chanos Targets China's Casino Industry
Famed investor James Chanos is increasingly training his skeptical eye -- and multibillion-dollar war chest -- on China’s casino industry.Chanos, a household name on Wall Street who runs Kynikos...
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Hong Kong's Student Protesters Want Democracy—At Any Cost
Sitting in a Hong Kong café, Oscar Lai looks like many of Hong Kong’s young people: slight, bespectacled, with an earnest expression. It’s only when he gets up does it become clear he’s been doing more...
View ArticleIndian Temple 'Purified' After Official From Low-Caste Visits
PATNA India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The government in India's northern state of Bihar has ordered an investigation after reports that a Hindu temple was cleaned and its idols washed after a...
View ArticlePutin Is More Dangerous Than ISIS and 1,000 Al Qaedas Says Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov, the world’s most renowned chess master, has branded Vladimir Putin “the most dangerous man in the world” in a passionate interview with Yahoo News, in which he stressed that the Russian...
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As Dark Money Floods U.S. Elections, Regulators Turn a Blind Eye
With apologies to the cast of Cabaret, dark money makes the political world go round.Confusing rules and a regulatory void in campaign finance have unleashed a tsunami of cash from anonymous donors...
View ArticleEllo, the Anti-Facebook, Targeted by Denial-of-Service Attack
Invitation-only social media site Ello suffered its first major disruption in service Sunday, leading to an announcement that it had experienced its first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack....
View ArticleHong Kong Leader Defiant as Umbrella Revolution Protesters Await Holiday...
Pro-democracy demonstrators have continued to occupy a long section of the main road outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters, in defiance of a renewed call from the city's cheif executive, Leung...
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Videos from Hong Kong Show Magnitude, Spirit of Pro-Democracy Protests
Photos and videos documenting Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests have been continuously broadcast from the city since protestors began gathering en masse several days ago. The videos illustrate the...
View ArticleLondoners Agree to Hand Over Their First Born For Internet Access
Do you read the terms and conditions before agreeing to connect to public Wi-Fi? If not, you are not alone. But here is a reason to start:As part of an experiment in June, Europol and a Finnish...
View ArticleNFL Says Muslim Player Husain Abdullah Shouldn't Have Gotten Penalized for...
Early in the fourth quarter of a game against the New England Patriots Monday, Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah intercepted a pass from Tom Brady and scored (see play here). To celebrate his...
View ArticleHong Kong Protesters Flock to Underground Messaging App, Fearing Mobile Shutdown
Protesters in Hong Kong are reaching for FireChat, an underground messaging app which allows users to communicate in the absence of internet or mobile network, and to avoid remote detection from the...
View ArticleTwo Numbers: The Gender Pay Gap
For decades now the pay gap between men and women has been debated in the United States. Does the gap really exist or can it be explained away by the choices women make in their education, careers and...
View ArticleCatalonia Suspends Formal Campaign on Spain Independence Vote
MADRID (Reuters) - Catalonia's regional government said on Tuesday it would temporarily suspend formal campaigning for a referendum on independence from Spain, after Madrid filed a legal appeal to stop...
View ArticleThe Deep Web Drug Market Bounces Back After Silk Road
It used to be, if you wanted an Amazon.com for illegal drugs, there was only one place to go: a site called the Silk Road, run by an enigmatic handler operating under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate...
View ArticleBig Blew: How Michigan Football Got So Bad, So Quickly
When the University of Kansas fired head football coach Charlie Weis last Sunday morning, the college football Twitterati reacted with mild surprise. Surely, if a portly gridiron CEO at a Midwest...
View ArticleMen-Only Conference on Domestic Violence Will Include Women After All
When news broke Monday that a conference focusing on violence against women was going to be held at the United Nations next year, organizers suffered a barrage of criticism for excluding one group of...
View ArticlePhelps Apologizes After Arrest for Drunk Driving
The world was just hit with Michael Phelps apology déjà vu.In 2004, Phelps was arrested on drunken-driving charges. In 2008, he said sorry for smoking a bong—an event that was captured on camera by a...
View ArticleCDC Reports First Case of Ebola Diagnosed in the United States
Updated | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed late afternoon Tuesday the first case of the Ebola virus diagnosed in the United States.The unidentified patient recently returned to...
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Let’s Revisit the Highly Publicized Vegan Dinner Party Lena Dunham Held in...
On the occasion of Lena Dunham’s $3.7 million memoir—and just weeks after the Gray Lady published its 4,000-word Dunham profile—let’s revisit the Girls creator’s very first New York Times profile.It...
View ArticleUniversity of Georgia Smoking Ban Fans Flames Amongst Students
Georgia hopes to “clear the air” on its public school campuses with a smoking and tobacco ban that goes into effect Wednesday. But students are sending up mixed signals from campus about the move.“If...
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