VIDEO: France prepares for parliamentary vote

VIDEO: France prepares for parliamentary vote


VIDEO: France prepares for parliamentary vote

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:57 PM PDT

France prepares for parliamentary elections, the first of two rounds starts on Sunday.


VIDEO: Not so rock and roll

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:04 PM PDT

BBC entertainment reporter Emma Jones went along to the Kerrang Awards in London on Thursday night and asked some of the World's biggest heavy metal stars for their most un-rock and roll secrets.


VIDEO: Honeybee decline linked to deadly virus

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:44 PM PDT

A parasitic mite has helped a virus wipe out billions of honeybees across the globe, say scientists.


VIDEO: France prepares for parliamentary vote

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:57 PM PDT

France prepares for parliamentary elections, the first of two rounds starts on Sunday.


Gameglobe Is A Fun Looking Free-To-Play, Browser-Based Sandbox Game

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:19 PM PDT

Browser-based gaming is coming into its own lately, with graphics that are actually more than halfway decent, and maybe even a few reasonably good games in the pipes. Bigpoint and Square Enix are co-publishing Gameglobe, which is a third-person adventure/sandbox game that allows players to create their own levels in what looks to be a ...


VIDEO: Honeybee decline linked to deadly virus

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:44 PM PDT

A parasitic mite has helped a virus wipe out billions of honeybees across the globe, say scientists.


How Online Retailers Get You to Spend, and 5 Ways to Avoid This

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:12 PM PDT

Online shopping can be VERY hazardous to our wallets, and yet we often only think about its virtues.


PlayStation 4 Reportedly Comes With AMD Fusion CPU/GPU, 2GB RAM

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:06 PM PDT

European gaming site, PSX-Sense,??reports that they?ve gathered a comprehensive list of hardware specs for Sony?s upcoming next-gen console, code-named ?Orbis.? Here?s what they came up with: AMD Fusion APU ? Codenamed ?Liverpool? AMD x86 Quad Core at 3.2 GHz ATI r10xx (3rd generation) 1843??GFLOPS at 800 MHz ? Codename ?Tahiti? Unified 2GB of memory (still ...


Insight: In Greece, a painful return to country roots

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:20 PM PDT

To match Insight GREECE-COUNTRYSIDE/KONITSA, Greece (Reuters) - Thirteen years after abandoning rural Greece for a career in graphic design, Spiridoula Lakka finds herself in the last place she expected to end up - watering a patch of lettuce and herbs in her sleepy village. As Greece sank into its worst economic crisis since World War Two, Lakka had already given up her dream of becoming a web designer. Even waitressing seemed impossible. She faced a simple choice: be stranded without money in Athens, or return to the geriatric village where she grew up plotting to escape. ...



Insight: In Greece, a painful return to country roots

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:08 PM PDT

KONITSA, Greece (Reuters) - Thirteen years after abandoning rural Greece for a career in graphic design, Spiridoula Lakka finds herself in the last place she expected to end up - watering a patch of lettuce and herbs in her sleepy village.


Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks ??? June 8

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:23 PM PDT

Investors in China's main financial district are talking about the following before the start of trade today:?? The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, cut its key one-year lending rate by 0.25 percentage point to 6.31% effective today amid worries about a slowdown in economic growth.?? The move, which also includes a cut in ...


Could Cloud Computing Help Restore Our Trust in Banks?

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:09 PM PDT

Could cloud computing help restore our trust in the banking system??? That?s a tall order, since the responsiveness and stability of our financial system rests on many factors, from adroit management practices to proper and measured fiscal and monetary policies. But some financial technology experts say technology ? particularly cloud computing ? can help repair ...


Europe's East Braces for Possible Greek Exit

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:03 PM PDT

Authorities in Europe's emerging economies are girding for the possibility of serious market turmoil in the event of a Greek exit from the euro zone, which could drive down currencies, tighten credit and slam the brakes on export-driven growth.


Euro speculation: betting odds and squad values

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:25 PM PDT

At the club level money usually wins. Manchester City proved it this season, as Chelsea proved a few seasons ago, and Real Madrid have proved year after year. Bayern Munich's resurgence in Europe in the last few seasons (pace this year's mishaps) also tends to show this fact. It's a fact because teams spend to ...


Fourteen dismembered bodies dumped in northern Mexico

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:21 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fourteen dismembered bodies were found in a truck in the center of a town in northern Mexico on Thursday in what appeared to be the latest atrocity committed by rival gangs battling over drug-smuggling routes, local media said. The bodies of 11 men and three women were discovered in the sugar-cane farming town of Ciudad Mante in the south of Tamaulipas state, which borders on Texas, daily Milenio reported on its website. Officials at the state attorney general's office could not immediately confirm the report. ...


Three French tourists killed in Dominican bus crash

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:44 PM PDT

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A bus packed with French tourists plowed into a freight train in the Dominican Republic on Thursday, killing at least three French nationals and injuring 15 others, authorities said. Civil defense officials said the accident occurred near the city of Higuey, about 100 miles east of the Caribbean nation's capital, Santo Domingo, when the bus slammed into the train loaded with sugar cane at a railway crossing. The fatalities, described as two men and a woman, were not identified by name, but Civil Defense spokesman Amado Avila said they were all French citizens. ...


Singapore Bans More Locals From Casinos

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 06:25 PM PDT

Singapore will bar about 15,000 more citizens and permanent residents, including low-income and unemployed people, from entering its casinos.


Is Spain's 'La Roja' Greatest Team Ever?

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:14 PM PDT

Not just the best in soccer: the best of all time in any sport. Why the Spanish national team could make history.


Three French tourists killed in Dominican bus crash

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:44 PM PDT

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A bus packed with French tourists plowed into a freight train in the Dominican Republic on Thursday, killing at least three French nationals and injuring 15 others, authorities said.


Browsing at a Rolls-Royce Showroom

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:14 PM PDT

? Perhaps you've noticed ? there are not many places to go shopping for a new ???? motor car. In fact, there are only 37 dealers in all of North America. Last week I visited the largest showroom in North America (and second largest in the world) in Jericho, during the dealership's opening party. Tucked ...