Wednesday, August 14, 2013

'Bloodbath' In Cairo As Troops Move On Morsi Supporters

In what looks to be the bloodiest day since the July 3 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, dozens of people in Cairo were killed Wednesday as government forces moved to clear Morsi's...

IT'S OFFICIAL: THE EUROZONE HAS RETURNED TO GROWTH

It's official. The Eurozone recession is over.
And we're not talking about "official" in the offhanded way that it's sometimes used to make a point, but in the actual way of this is what the facts say.
For Q2, the Eurozone grew 0.3%, showing growth for the first time in 18 months...

Tricksters pretend ice cubes in parcels are iPads (plan melts)

For a plan to be successful, it needs good conception, fine execution, and a touch of good fortune.
Please, like judges on "Iron Chef," score the following plan according to these three criteria.
Here's the plan. We'll take some ice cubes. We'll stuff them into parcels. Next, we'll take the parcels to our local post office.
Now here's the clever part. We'll say they're...

Scientists build human stem cells into a beating heart

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania have used human stem cells to build a heart that beats.
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine may have just moved us one step further away from relying on donor organs and towards growing replacements in the lab. Using human stem cells, a team led by senior investigator Dr Lei Yang...

Baby monitor hacked, spies on Texas child

Marc and Lauren Gilbert were terrified when they heard a strange voice calling out to their 2-year-old daughter Allyson, through a baby monitor in her room. The Texas family learned the hard way that almost anything connected to the...

GOOGLE: If You Use Gmail, You Have 'No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy'

Mountain View CaliforniaIf you happen to be one of the 400 million people who use Google's Gmail service for sending and receiving emails, you shouldn't have any expectation of privacy, according to a court briefing obtained by the...

Nexus 7 owners plagued by yet another major bug (video)

Nexus 7 Touchscreen BugThe problem with the coming wave of low-cost tablets may be that you get what you pay for. Following news of a pesky GPS bug that was causing problems for early Nexus 7adopters, more recent reports suggest many...

Samsung Hennessy is official: a dual-screen flip-phone with a quad-core CPU

Samsung Hennessy is official: a dual-screen flip-phone with a quad-core CPUWhile we'd like to feign surprise at Samsung's official reveal of another dual-screen Android flip phone, yesterday's leak gave us ample warning. Samsung's Chinese website has...

2014 Mercedes-Benz GLA officially revealed

 2014 Mercedes-Benz GLA officially revealed

Mercedes-Benz has officially revealed the 2014 GLA, ahead of the car's public debut scheduled for September at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Looking just like we expected, the GLA is a high-riding A-Class with a more muscular body, bigger alloys, roof rails, a dual...

Mαύρη επέτειος - 39χρόνια απο την β' τουρκική εισβολή

Άλλη μία μαύρη επέτειο θυμάται σήμερα ο κυπριακός ελληνισμός. 39 χρόνια συμπληρώνονται από τη δεύτερη φάση της τουρκικής εισβολής...

Τραγωδία «Ηλιος»: Οκτώ χρόνια από τη μέρα του εφιάλτη

Οκτώ χρόνια συμπληρώνονται σήμερα από την ημέρα που πάγωσε ολόκληρη η Κύπρος, την ημέρα του εφιάλτη. Οκτώ χρόνια απουσίας, πόνου και αγώνα. Στις 14 Αυγούστου του 2005, ο «Ήλιος» έκοψε τόσο άδικα το...

Πρόκληση ή επιτάχυνση τοκετού αυξάνει τον κίνδυνο αυτισμού

Τα παιδιά των οποίων οι μητέρες χρειάζονται φάρμακα για να ξεκινήσει ο τοκετός, έχουν αυξημένες πιθανότητες να εμφανίσουν αυτισμό...

Μπλόκο από ΗΠΑ στoν «γάμο» US Airways-AMR

H Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή μπορεί να έδωσε την περασμένη εβδομάδα το «πράσινο φως» για τη συγχώνευση των αμερικανικών αερομεταφορέων US Airways Group και American Airlines, το υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης των ΗΠΑ, όμως, έβγαλε χθες... «κόκκινη κάρτα» στο deal που, εάν τελεσφορήσει, θα...

Spanish town posts dog mess back to offending hound owners

Spanish town posts dog mess back to offending hound owners A Spanish town has come up with an ingenious way to keep its streets clean of dog mess – by sending the offending deposits back to the owners in an official box marked 'Lost Property'.


The council of Brunete, a small town some...

Mountain Villa Atop Beijing Highrise Ordered to Come Down

A Chinese tycoon who spent six years building a villa of trees, bushes and fake boulders atop a 26-story highrise has been ordered to tear it down by Chinese officials who say the villa was built against...
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