Pussy Riot Detained in Mass Arrest at Anti-Putin Rally
(Reuters) - Russian riot police detained hundreds of Kremlin opponents on Monday, moving swiftly to curb protests over the jailing of activists convicted of attacking police at a rally against...
View ArticleEgypt's Government Resigns, but What's the End Game?
In less than three years Egypt has undergone three constitutions, six rounds of voting, four presidents, and at least six cabinets. A new chapter has begun in Egypt’s wending political process with the...
View ArticleTurkish PM Says Tapes of Talk with Son a Fabrication
(Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused political enemies of shameless fabrication of a telephone tap of him telling his son to dispose of large sums of money on the day police raided...
View ArticleJohn Lefevre, the Man Behind Goldman Sachs Elevator Twitter Feed, Reveals...
Tweets from @GSElevator, a once-anonymous account that publishes “overheards” from the Goldman Sachs elevator, always felt too ridiculous to be true. But for three years, the purportedly uncensored...
View ArticlePope Revolutionizes Vatican by Opening Finances to Scrutiny
(Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday revolutionised the Vatican's scandal-plagued finances, inviting outside experts into a world often seen as murky and secretive and saying the church must use its...
View ArticleBitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Dark After $350 Million Theft Is Alleged
Mt. Gox, the world’s largest online Bitcoin exchange, has gone dark in the wake of claims that it has been the target of a long-term hacking theft to the tune of at least $350 million.That’s according...
View ArticleGoogle Sets Roadblocks to Stop Distracted Driver Legislation
(Reuters) - Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states to stop proposed restrictions on driving with headsets such as Google Glass, marking some of the first clashes over the nascent...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: TabMD
I don't understand the Netflix-Comcast deal. In the New Yorker, Tim Wu says it's a disaster, because... Comcast will eat all of our tomatoes? But venture capitalist and prolate spheroid Marc...
View ArticleHunt for Swedish PM's Killer Takes Stieg Larsson Twist
(Reuters) - Sweden's greatest unsolved murder mystery has taken another twist - revelations that Swedish crime blockbuster novelist writer Stieg Larsson had sent police evidence linking Prime Minister...
View ArticleLeopard on the Loose in India
The big cat was seen in the empty ward of a hospital, a cinema hall and an apartment block before disappearing in Meerut, India NoYesYesWeb
View ArticleCongress Has Long Relied on the Wisdom of Stars, from Elmo to Affleck
Last week we learned that Ben Affleck would testify in front of Congress (specifically, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) as part of a panel of experts on… Congo. A collective “huh??” went up...
View ArticleYou’re Absorbing BPA From Your Receipts, Study Shows
Have you ever wondered why store receipts feel ever-so-slightly powdery? That’s because most receipts are printed on “thermal” paper, which changes color when heated. A thin coating of powder helps...
View ArticleUgandan Tabloid Names 'Top 200 Homosexuals'
Under the headline "Exposed," a Ugandan tabloid published a list of names it says is of gay people NoYesYesWeb
View ArticleVideo: 13 Deaths in Venezuela Protests, but Where's the Press?
As protests against Nicolas Maduro become violent, many in Venezuela are lamenting the lack of international media coverage. NoYesYesWeb
View ArticlePakistan Army Launches New Air Strikes Near Afghan Border
(Reuters) - Pakistan's army launched new air strikes targeting militant hideouts in the tribal region of North Waziristan on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and setting off a wave of refugees,...
View ArticleHagel's Military Budget Cuts Will Start a Fight in the Republican Party
It was like a throwback to the world of Franklin Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh and the fight over America’s entry into World War II. This week, the Pentagon leaked a preview of its 2015 Budget and it...
View ArticleWikipedia Is Edited by Bots. That’s a Good Thing.
Half of all edits to Wikipedia are made by bots. That stat, from a new study monitoring the site’s revisions, might seem like cause for alarm. But according to Wikipedia researchers, it’s key to the...
View ArticleIsmael Zambada Garcia to Take Over the Sinaloa Drug Cartel After 'El Chapo'...
In a rare interview with a Mexican magazine a few years back, the man now tipped to take over Mexico’s largest drug cartel portrayed himself as a simple man making a living from agriculture. The...
View ArticleU.S. House Passes Bill on Mobile Phone 'Unlocking'
(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would give mobile-phone users the right to "unlock" their devices and use them on competitors' wireless networks, although...
View ArticleObama Prepared to Leave No Troops in Afghanistan After 2014
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has told the Pentagon to prepare for the possibility that the United States will not leave behind any troops in Afghanistan after its troop drawdown at the end...
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