South China Morning PostThat, perhaps, is why the following is widely believed in town: whoever solves Hong Kong’s long-standing housing problem can win hearts and minds and be considered a good leader. Now that Leung…
Fox NewsFormer NFL safety Darren Sharper turned himself into Los Angeles police late Thursday, after being charged in an arrest warrant in New Orleans alleging he and another man raped two women in the Louisiana…
MiamiHerald.comA not-so-subtle trend has emerged recently for the Heat. The two-time defending champions are destroying every team they play. The Heat finished off its best month of the season Thursday night with a 26-point rout…
CNETIn a response to a shareholder suggestion that Apple stop its environmentally friendly initiatives, the typically temperate Apple CEO draws a blunt line in the sand. Nick Statt. by Nick Statt. February 28, 2014 5:04…
Daily MailHundreds of babies have been rescued by police in China after a crackdown was launched on trafficking infants. The nationwide bust saw 1,094 people arrested as officers acted on information relating to four major…
CBS NewsTechnology can solve big problems — the least of which is falling asleep during a movie and losing your place. Thankfully, Netflix staffers have created a solution for this by hacking a Fitbit device….
CNNSimferopol, Ukraine (CNN) — [Breaking news update 8:20 a.m. ET]. (CNN) — Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovuych said Friday at a news conference in Russia that he was not overthrown but was forced to flee…
Huffington PostIt’s not for anyone who identifies as LGBT. The movie is resolutely not about them. Is it for homophobes, who can learn from the movie’s example that maybe you can give someone a hug…
TIMEAfter the jaw-dropping success of The Lego Movie—which has raked in $280.5 million worldwide since its release three weeks ago—Warner Bros. has made moves to turn another beloved franchise into a movie by buying the…
TIMEAmid increasing tensions over territorial disputes and Japanese World War II atrocities, the social media arm of China’s state-run People’s Daily has released an online game called ‘Shoot the Devils,’ in which players shoot Japanese…
USA TODAYSEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Unidentified armed men who may belong to the Russian military are blockading an airport near Sevastopol Friday in an escalation of tensions between the neighboring states that Ukraine’s interior minister is…
TIMEMila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are about to tie the knot, People and E! News report. The celebrity couple hasn’t confirmed the engagement, but according to anonymous sources quoted on People and E! News, the…
Guardian Liberty VoiceAnyone looking for a cost-effective physical trainer then a date with Moov needs to be set at the earliest. Moov, a wearable device that not only works like a fitness tracker but also…
abc7news.comSAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — From Fitbits to FuelBands, the future of exercise is looking more and more tied to wearable technology. Most of the trackers count calories and steps that you take. But on Thursday…
Christie Aides Joked About Jamming Traffic at Rabbi’s HouseTIMEThe exchange between former deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly and former transportation official David Wildstein took place Aug. 19, the New York Times reports, just…
Financial TimesGCHQ, Britain’s electronic spying agency, intercepted and stored images of 1.8m Yahoo users taken from their personal webcams even though most of them were not suspected of wrongdoing, documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward…
Christian Science MonitorThe former governor of the region, Serhiy Kunitsyn, suggested that the group could be made up of former members of the government riot police, known as Berkut, who were involved in the deadly…
New York TimesFrancesco Schettino, the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, went back aboard as part of his trial. Credit Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters. the main story. the main story. the main story Share This Page.Costa…
State ColumnFor International Polar Bear Day, Google released new street view images of the “polar bear capital of the world”, Churchill Manitoba. The State Column, Justin Beach | February 27, 2014. Tweet. Churchill Manitoba has…
TIMETime to break out that catnip you were saving for a special occasion. Saturday marks the opening of London’s first-ever kitty café, appropriately called Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium, where patrons can sip drinks and mingle…
DailyTechGoogle’s Android operating system offers a high level of software customization in smartphones, but Google wants users to be able to customize smartphone hardware as well. According to TIME, Google could have a modular smartphone…
Oscar Nominated Documentary ‘The Square’ Takes on Political Life of Its OwnTIMEEarlier this month, Ukrainian protesters braved sub-zero temperatures in Kiev’s Maidan square and saw a dubbed version of the movie. The viewing took place…
ForbesArizona has hosted two Super Bowls, and of course it loves the money and attention that comes with the biggest event in American sports. On Tuesday, before Brewer’s veto, the NFL issued a statement about…
BusinessweekTembusu Terminals Pte set up what may be Singapore’s first automated tele-exchange machine for buying Bitcoins days after a Tokyo exchange for the virtual currency was shut amid concerns about possible theft. The ATM was…
Wall Street JournalIt has been more than a week since Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was last seen in Thailand’s capital, and now war drums are sounding in the north of the country as frustrations grow…
VentureBeatThe dream of piecing together a smartphone like Lego blocks no longer seems far-fetched. Google announced today that it will host three developer conferences this year for its Project Ara modular smartphone concept, with the…
Times of IndiaWASHINGTON: Google has refuted reports that it approached WhatsApp for an acquisition before Facebook grabbed it. Senior vice-president in charge of Chrome, Android, and apps, Sundar Pichai said that it was ‘simply untrue’…
RegisterGoogle says it is planning a series of three developer conferences this year in support of Project Ara, the modular mobile phone design being developed by its Motorola Mobility division. Announced last year, Ara is…
New York TimesBRUSSELS — Listening to the Western defense officials gathered at a NATO meeting here on Wednesday, it would be easy to think that the United States and the rest of the international military…
Fox NewsThe lead singer of Grammy-nominated metal band As I Lay Dying pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife. Timothy Lambesis, 32, remains free on $2 million bond until…
BBC NewsThe red carpet for Sunday’s academy awards was rolled out late Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. Organisers arranged for it to be laid a day early due to Wednesday’s threat of rain. Approximately 1,500…
TIMEUgandan anti-gay activist Pastor Martin Ssempa (C) leads anti-gay supporters as they celebrate after Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed a law imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality in Kampala February 24, 2014. Email
Kansas City StarWarning: This story contains spoilers about Tuesday night’s episode of “The Bachelor.” Keep your besitos to yourself! Andi Dorfman became yet another “Bachelor” contestant to dump Juan Pablo Galavis this season.The Bachelor’s Chris…
CNNWashington (CNN) — We’re not bluffing, the Obama administration told Afghanistan on Tuesday in announcing it has started planning for the possible withdrawal of all U.S. troops by the end of the year if no…
CBS sports.com (blog)The Olympics have this strange quality to breeze by but at the same time feel like they take a month to complete. In all, it’s 16 days. And with a lot happening at…
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BBC NewsTurkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has angrily condemned as fabricated an audio recording that appears to show him talking to his son about hiding large sums of money. He said the recording, allegedly tapped…
Just Jared Jr.Sources tell the site that Justin‘s team believes they can get a better deal due to inconsistencies in the police report. Cops said he smelled of alcohol, but Justin only blew a .014…
TMZ.comEXCLUSIVE. 0222-justin–bieber-getty-02 Justin Bieber will REJECT the plea deal prosecutors in his Miami Beach DUI case have offered … and a big reason is because he doesn’t want random drug testing. TMZ broke the story…
TIMEThai hospital workers evacuate an injured villager following an attack near an anti-government rally in Khao Saming, Trat province on February 23, 2014. A five-year-old girl was killed and many people were wounded after gunmen…
Seattle Post Intelligencer[WARNING: The following contains spoilers from the Season 4 finale of Downton Abbey. Read at your own risk.] We are grateful to have Downton Abbey in our lives, but our devotion to the…
ReutersMAZATLAN, Mexico (Reuters) – He was once on Forbes magazine’s billionaires list, but after more than a decade on the run, Mexico’s most wanted drug lord Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman was finally caught in a modest…
Washington PostNetflix has agreed to pay Comcast, the nation’s largest home Internet carrier, to ensure its online videos are streamed smoothly. The arrangement highlights the vast power of Comcast, which is in the middle of…
Fox NewsAfter narrow escapes from the military, law enforcement and rivals over 13 years on the run, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is back in Mexican custody. Now, what is likely to be a lengthy and…
ESPN (blog)But when Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay draft hopeful stood before a huge array of cameras, digital recorders and smartphones sending his image to Twitter on Saturday at the NFL’s scouting combine,…
TIMEFormer Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will attend a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association meeting in Boston this week with embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Romney’s attendance at the Thursday fundraiser, first …Chris…
Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Tries To Outshine New Jersey’s Chris Christie In DC VisitTIME (blog)Chris Christie. In the swanky J.W. Marriott hotel just blocks from the White House, which both governor’s have hopes to soon occupy,…
TIMEShare. Read Later. Send to Kindle. FASHION-ITALY-MOSCHINO. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images. A model presents a creation for fashion house Moschino as part of the Milan’s Women’s fashion week Autumn/Winter 2014 collections on…
TIME(KIEV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian president’s office says a deal intended to end violent battles between police and protesters is to be signed later Friday, but European mediators involved in talks wouldn’t confirm it. Yanukovych’s office…
TIMEGoogle has unveiled a new phone that makes real-time, 3-D maps of its environments. Its “customized hardware and software” includes sensors that gives it the capability to make over a quarter of a million measurements…
TIMEMatt Rutler (L) and Christina Aguilera attend a basketball game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on March 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Email
TIMELiu Han, one of the richest businessmen in China and ex-head of the mining giant Sichuan Hanlong Group, has been charged with murder, intentional injury, organizing a crime gang, illegal detention, extortion and casino crimes….
China Rules the Summer Olympics. Why Isn’t It Striking More Gold at Sochi?TIMEBut a seasonal enthusiasm for winter sports — if you can call ice-chairing a sport — hasn’t yet translated into China’s dominance of…
San Francisco ChronicleWhen “Up” (2009) became the first animated film since “Beauty and the Beast” to be nominated for best picture, the total box office benefit was: $0. The May release had been out of…
BusinessweekIt was almost three years ago that Steve Perlman began courting controversy by promising something of a wireless technology panacea. A relentless entrepreneur and inventor, he unveiled a prototype called DIDO in this magazine’s pages….
Times of IndiaCHENNAI: A day after the Supreme Court commuted death sentences of three men convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Tamil Nadu cabinet on Wednesday decided to release them and other convicts…
Wall Street JournalA protester throws a petrol bomb towards Interior Ministry members during clashes in Kiev on Feb. 18. Reuters. KIEV, Ukraine—Three weeks of uneasy truce between the Ukrainian government and Western-oriented protesters ended Tuesday…
The AustralianNORTH Korea runs a vast torture and extermination apparatus whose human rights abuses are comparable to those of the Nazis. That’s the finding of a UN Commission of Inquiry into North Korea, which recommended…
NBCNews.comSEOUL, South Korea — An orphan who was caught trying to escape from North Korea told NBC News how he was “treated like an animal” in one of the country’s notorious labor camps. The head…
Wall Street JournalMOSCOW—Two former members of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot, who became international human rights symbols after being jailed for two years for an anti-Kremlin protest, said Tuesday that they had been…
