VIDEO: How to shrink an actor

VIDEO: How to shrink an actor


VIDEO: How to shrink an actor

Posted: 13 May 2012 10:21 PM PDT

David Sillito meets the cast of Snow White and the Huntsman and learned how they were shrunk to fit the part.


VIDEO: Guide to developing mobile games

Posted: 13 May 2012 10:29 PM PDT

With mobile gaming becoming an increasingly lucrative sector, young entrepreneurs are focusing their attentions on this growing industry.


VIDEO: Bodies dumped on Mexico highway

Posted: 13 May 2012 11:42 AM PDT

The mutilated bodies of at least 49 people have been found in Mexico, stuffed into plastic bags and dumped on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey.


Plane crashes at Nepalese mountain airport

Posted: 13 May 2012 10:42 PM PDT

Bodies found but survivors taken to hospital after plane with 21 people onboard crashes at high-altitude Jomsom Airport.


Yao Ming's Latest Venture: China's Big Man Turns To Conservation

Posted: 13 May 2012 10:10 PM PDT

When Yao Ming brought down the curtain on his larger-than-life career in the NBA last year, he said, ?But one door is closing and another one is opening.? Little did we realize at the time that basketball?s 7-foot-6-inch ambassador would be opening lots of doors to a host of new opportunities. The former All-Star just ...


Plane with 21 crashes in Nepal; survivors reported

Posted: 13 May 2012 10:10 PM PDT

A plane carrying 21 people crashed Monday while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in Nepal's northern Himalayas, authorities said.


NATO underplayed civilian deaths in Libya: HRW

Posted: 13 May 2012 09:07 PM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO air strikes killed 72 civilians in Libya last year, Human Rights Watch said on Monday, accusing the western alliance of failing to acknowledge the scope of collateral damage it caused during the campaign that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi. In a report based on investigations at bombing sites during and after the conflict, the New York-based HRW said NATO strikes killed 20 women and 24 children. It called on the alliance to compensate civilian victims and investigate attacks that may have been unlawful. ...


Forty-nine headless corpses found in northern Mexico

Posted: 13 May 2012 09:01 PM PDT

Residents look at shoes of missing people that have been arranged to form the number forty-nine, in memory of the mutilated victims dumped by hitmen in Cadereyta, at the Macroplaza in MonterreyCADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug cartel killers in Mexico dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey, a sickening atrocity that prompted the government to condemn the "inhuman" violence plaguing the country. The corpses of 43 men and six women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez early on Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said. ...



South Korea's Lee Visits Myanmar

Posted: 13 May 2012 09:20 PM PDT

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak flew to Myanmar on Monday to meet its leaders and discuss greater economic cooperation, becoming the latest international leader to visit the country.


Yahoo: Latest Sideshow Over, Time To Fix The Company

Posted: 13 May 2012 09:04 PM PDT

Well, now Yahoo can finally get down to business. With the dual sideshows of a proxy fight and a prevaricating CEO now solved, the struggling Internet pioneer can get back to the business of fixing what ails the company. Before I theorize on what it all will mean, let?s review exactly what happened today. CEO ...


NATO underplayed civilian deaths in Libya: HRW

Posted: 13 May 2012 09:07 PM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO air strikes killed 72 civilians in Libya last year, Human Rights Watch said on Monday, accusing the western alliance of failing to acknowledge the scope of collateral damage it caused during the campaign that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi.


AdVoice: How to Fail your Call Centers

Posted: 13 May 2012 08:41 PM PDT

Last week I had words with an automotive customer service rep named Anne. The "run flat" tires on my car had proven to be a spectacular failure. Instead of enabling Mrs. Leaper to get home safely after a run-of-the-mill puncture, they fell apart???and I mean that literally???after only six of the fifty miles they were ...


Speedy Ways to Move Enterprise Data

Posted: 13 May 2012 08:18 PM PDT

The SCSI Trade Association (STA) is a trade group promoting the use of SCSI storage interfaces.?? The SCSI interface (and its cousin SATA) is the most widespread enterprise storage interface.?? Because Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and SATA interfaces are often used together there are very close associations between these two dominant storage interfaces used in ...


Forty-nine headless corpses found in northern Mexico

Posted: 13 May 2012 09:01 PM PDT

CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug cartel killers in Mexico dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey, a sickening atrocity that prompted the government to condemn the "inhuman" violence plaguing the country.


What Does Lying on a Resume Say About a Man

Posted: 13 May 2012 07:39 PM PDT

By Mark Radcliffe ? Mark Radcliffe wonders to what degree a resume matters when it comes to a person being able to properly perform a job. When I read about the resume scandal surrounding Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson (who added an extra degree he never truly earned to his resume???a 2nd degree in computer science, ...


Today's Forbes Health Stories: May 14, 2012

Posted: 13 May 2012 07:27 PM PDT

A round up of today's Forbes health stories.


Austerity blow for Merkel in German state election

Posted: 13 May 2012 07:13 PM PDT

German Chancellor Merkel arrives for the German DFB Cup final soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich in BerlinDUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany's most populous state, a result which could embolden the left opposition to step up attacks on her European austerity policies. The election in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), a western German state with a bigger population than the Netherlands and an economy the size of Turkey, was held 18 months before a national vote in which Merkel will be fighting for a third term. ...



Colombia rebels set to release French reporter: Red Cross

Posted: 13 May 2012 07:52 PM PDT

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC guerrilla group has decided to free a French reporter they kidnapped two weeks ago, although they have not given a date for his release, a Red Cross official said on Sunday citing a statement from the rebels. Heavily armed members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kidnapped Romeo Langlois, a reporter for France 24, during a firefight with troops carrying out an anti-drug raid in Caqueta, a rebel-stronghold in the south. ...


Resource-Rich Canada Looks to China

Posted: 13 May 2012 08:49 PM PDT

For almost a century, Canada's economy has been firmly tethered to its much larger southern neighbor. Now, Canadian officials and executives also are betting their future on China.


Colombia rebels set to release French reporter: Red Cross

Posted: 13 May 2012 07:53 PM PDT

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC guerrilla group has decided to free a French reporter they kidnapped two weeks ago, although they have not given a date for his release, a Red Cross official said on Sunday citing a statement from the rebels.