Embassies on High Alert as Yemen Attacks al Qaeda
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Western embassies in Yemen heightened security measures on Thursday after increasingly bold attacks on foreigners by al Qaeda, even as the militant Islamists lost ground to an...
View ArticleU.S. Banking Regulators Hire Quants of Their Own
(Reuters) - A few years ago, famed financial engineer Andrew Lo built a computer model that allowed one of the biggest U.S. banks to figure out which customers were most likely to fall behind on...
View ArticleAfrican National Congress Party Wins in South Africa Election
PRETORIA (Reuters) - The ruling African National Congress (ANC) swept toward victory in South Africa's fifth post-apartheid election on Thursday, handing President Jacob Zuma the clout to push through...
View Article13 Women in Business to Bet On
1 Darnisha Grant Harrison of Ennaid Therapeutics As many as 400 million people are infected with the potentially deadly dengue virus each year. Right now, there are no vaccines, and the only means of...
View ArticleThis Could Be Awkward: Putin To Join Obama, Merkel at WWII Event
PARIS (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Western leaders for the first time since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis when he attends a World War Two anniversary in France next...
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Today in Tabs: : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ storm
Competitive tickling. More specifically: Competitive Reality Endurance Tickling. Even more specifically: All-Male, Absolutely Non-Gay, Competitive Reality Endurance Tickling. Does this non-gay all-male...
View ArticleThose Barefoot Sneakers Might Be A Total Scam
As it turns out, if you bought into the toe-glove sneaker health craze of the mid-aughts, you might have been swindled.Vibram USA, the company that makes FiveFingers running shoes, has just agreed to...
View ArticleIf the NFL Draft Was Ranked by Headline-Grabbers
Leaves fall in autumn and marquee college football players fall in the spring. The three-day NFL draft, which commences this evening (ESPN, 8 p.m.) will once again demonstrate that mentions on ESPN’s...
View ArticleYahoo, Google and Netflix All Agree on Net Neutrality, but Where Is Apple?
Two weeks after the Washington Postreported that the FCC was considering allowing internet service providers to charge websites extra for faster connections to their customers, nearly 150 Silicon...
View ArticleA Putin Plot in Ukraine for Victory Day?
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said conciliatory remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin made him suspect Moscow was planning some form of "skirmish" to discredit Kiev...
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On War Anniversary, Putin Says Don't Betray Those Who Defeated Fascism
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the Soviet role in defeating fascism on Friday, the anniversary of the World War Two victory over Nazi Germany, and said those who defeated...
View ArticleStanford Pulls Its Coal Investments, but Why Haven't Other Divestment...
On Tuesday, Stanford University became the first major university to divest its endowment—a not insignificant $18.7 billion—from coal-mining companies (though not all fossil fuels).For the students and...
View ArticleFormer Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi Begins Community Service Sentence
CESANO BOSCONE, Italy (Reuters) - A somber and silent Silvio Berlusconi entered a Catholic old people's home outside Milan on Friday to begin community service as part of a one-year sentence for tax...
View ArticleRumors That Apple's iPhone 6 May Come a Month Early
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Apple Inc will unveil the next incarnation of its popular iPhone series in August, one month earlier than industry watchers were generally expecting, Taiwanese media reported on...
View ArticleIsrael Worried About U.S.'s $3 Billion Payments After 2017
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Budget-strapped Israel is pressing the United States to conclude a deal extending defense aid beyond 2017, when Washington's current $3 billion annual payouts to its Middle East...
View ArticleChina Blames U.S. for Stoking Tensions in South China Sea
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry blamed the United States on Friday for stoking tensions in the disputed South China Sea by encouraging countries to engage in dangerous behavior, following...
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Starting 5: A New Carr, Johnny Manziel's Brown Out and the #1 Pick for...
1. Johnny QuestFormer Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, a top-five pick in most NFL mock drafts, fell all the way to 22nd, where the Cleveland Browns snatched him. "I knew that God had a plan for...
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Putin Makes Surprise Visit to Crimea as Ukraine Violence Flares
SEVASTOPOL (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin flew in to Crimea on Friday, marking the Soviet victory in World War Two and proclaiming the success of the peninsula's seizure from a Ukraine that...
View ArticleApple Might Buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is close to paying a record $3.2 billion for Beats Electronics, two people with knowledge of the matter said, an expensive foray into music streaming and headphone gear that would...
View ArticleNigerian President Thinks Abducted Girls Are Still in the Country
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believed 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants last month in an attack that has stirred global outrage are still in his...
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