VIDEO: Trespassers release footage from top of Shard |
- VIDEO: Trespassers release footage from top of Shard
- At least 6 suspected militants said killed in Russia
- Chinese activist jailed on fraud charges
- Magnitude 5.8 quake hits off west coast of Africa: USGS
- Bruce Springsteen Gives a Master Class at the Garden on Being a Rock Star
- Suicide bomber strikes Afghanistan's Herat region, 9 dead
- Deaths in Afghanistan suicide bombing
- World Bank hopeful vows to focus on jobs
- Pakistanis dead in apparent sectarian attack
- Social Customer Service: Don't Compete Against Machines
- Dior Selects Designer
- Starving in India: A Fight for Life in Bihar
- 16 Questions 'The Hunger Games' Movie Doesn't Answer...That the Book Does
- Electronics Maker Led By Chinese Billionaire Liu Xiucheng Says 1st-Qtr Net Up
- Search Will Still Trump Social in Online Ads This Year
- 10 Guidelines For Choosing An Enterprise Social Network
- Anti-poverty group ONE pushes for G8 food deal
- Anti-poverty group ONE pushes for G8 food deal
- Women Now Negotiating Better Car Deals than Men
- Inspiring Insights by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, The Man Who Built A $1 Billion Startup
| VIDEO: Trespassers release footage from top of Shard Posted: 09 Apr 2012 02:50 PM PDT A group of trespassers managed to break into the Shard - western Europe's tallest building - and scale the pinnacle, it has emerged.
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| At least 6 suspected militants said killed in Russia Posted: 09 Apr 2012 11:08 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Security forces killed at least six suspected militants in a province bordering Russia's volatile North Caucasus on Tuesday, Russian news agencies reported.
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| Chinese activist jailed on fraud charges Posted: 09 Apr 2012 11:07 PM PDT Ni Yulan's sentence seen as punishment for her legal defence of people displaced by real-estate projects in Beijing.
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| Magnitude 5.8 quake hits off west coast of Africa: USGS Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the western coast of Africa on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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| Bruce Springsteen Gives a Master Class at the Garden on Being a Rock Star Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:11 PM PDT Three hours?three freakin? hours? that?s how long ?s show at Square Garden was on Monday night. He gave a master class on how to be a rock star, jamming in songs from his new ?Wrecking ? with an essential selection of hits from his forty year old catalog. What can I say? A show that ...
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| Suicide bomber strikes Afghanistan's Herat region, 9 dead Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:44 PM PDT HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least nine people on Tuesday in Afghanistan's relatively peaceful western Herat province near the border with Iran, officials said.
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| Deaths in Afghanistan suicide bombing Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:57 PM PDT Explosion near headquarters of Guzara district headquarters in Herat province kills police officers and civilians.
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| World Bank hopeful vows to focus on jobs Posted: 09 Apr 2012 04:48 PM PDT Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, one of three candidates to lead the World Bank, said Monday that she would focus on an issue that affects developed and developing nations: job creation. After what she called a "marathon" 31 / 2-hour interview with the World Bank board of directors, Okonjo-Iweala spoke at an event Monday hosted by Washington Post Live and the Center for Global Development. She stressed how her vision for the bank would be shaped by personal experience. Read full article >>   
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| Pakistanis dead in apparent sectarian attack Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:19 PM PDT Banned Sunni group reportedly claims responsibility for raid in Quetta that has killed at least six Shia Muslims.
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| Social Customer Service: Don't Compete Against Machines Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:38 PM PDT Guest post written by David Gutelius David Gutelius is chief social scientist with Jive Software. The recent book Race Against the Machine by MIT's Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee may have given some readers a scare with its descriptions of intelligent machines displacing growing numbers of flesh-and-blood workers. But the authors end on a more ...
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| Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:15 PM PDT French fashion house Christian Dior chose Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new creative director. He succeeds John Galliano, who was fired last year following an anti-Semitic rant.
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| Starving in India: A Fight for Life in Bihar Posted: 09 Apr 2012 08:38 PM PDT India Real Time is publishing a six-part series on starvation in India, one of the nation's little-discussed but brutal realities. In today's essay, Ashwin Parulkar of the Centre for Equity Studies explores the tragic tale of a sharecropping family in Bihar.
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| 16 Questions 'The Hunger Games' Movie Doesn't Answer...That the Book Does Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:12 PM PDT Although I enjoyed the film The Hunger Games, I have a friend who hated it so much that it made him "want to gnaw both my legs off." The movie left him with more questions than it answered???questions that I didn't have, because I had read the novel by Suzanne Collins first. (For the record, I prefer the novel.)
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| Electronics Maker Led By Chinese Billionaire Liu Xiucheng Says 1st-Qtr Net Up Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:03 PM PDT Sanan Optoelectronics, the big Chinese homegrown maker of light-emitting diodes led by billionaire Lin Xiucheng, said today net profit in the first three months of the year??rose to $31 million, or 195 million yuan, from last year's $26 million, or 165 million yuan, amid on an increase in its production. ?? Sanan has lost more ...
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| Search Will Still Trump Social in Online Ads This Year Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:01 PM PDT Facebook may be growing like a weed, making big acquisitions, and prepping for a blockbuster IPO, but a new study indicates????has little to fear for its search ads just yet. The study, due out Tuesday morning from Adobe?s digital marketing business unit (formerly the digital marketing firm Efficient Frontier before Adobe acquired it), also indicates ...
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| 10 Guidelines For Choosing An Enterprise Social Network Posted: 09 Apr 2012 08:46 PM PDT Guest post written by Parsa Rohani Parsa Rohani is CEO of Neudesic, a provider of enterprise social and collaboration software. The enterprise social collaboration road is littered with the corpses of product implementations started with the best intentions but lacking clear goals or connections to overall business goals that would have made them successful. Recently ...
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| Anti-poverty group ONE pushes for G8 food deal Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the world's industrial powers should commit to boost agriculture investments in poor countries and end hunger and malnutrition among the poor when they meet outside Washington in May, a group co-founded by anti-poverty campaigners and rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof said on Tuesday. A new report by ONE Campaign said increased donor support for agricultural investment plans in 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Central America could lift about 50 million people out of extreme poverty. ...
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| Anti-poverty group ONE pushes for G8 food deal Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the world's industrial powers should commit to boost agriculture investments in poor countries and end hunger and malnutrition among the poor when they meet outside Washington in May, a group co-founded by anti-poverty campaigners and rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof said on Tuesday.
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| Women Now Negotiating Better Car Deals than Men Posted: 09 Apr 2012 08:39 PM PDT ? Yes we can negotiate a better car deal! I don?t know how I missed this exciting news from NPR back in February of this year, but it?s what we?ve been saying all along at She Negotiates. Women who prepare for a negotiation by learning what the seller?s needs, constraints, interests, concerns, costs and profit ...
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| Inspiring Insights by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, The Man Who Built A $1 Billion Startup Posted: 09 Apr 2012 08:35 PM PDT Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom is undoubtedly one of the most active startup CEOs on Quora. Over the past two years, Quora users have read the many stories behind the creation of Instagram, one of the hottest startups in San Francisco. The stories are pretty much inside scoops, directly from the CEO and product creator. Today, ...
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