Mexican cult delays school start

Mexican cult delays school start


Mexican cult delays school start

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:47 AM PDT

Authorities are negotiating with a religious cult in southwestern Mexico, trying to persuade leaders to allow public schools to operate in the isolated community, state media reported.


A 'sound' idea to reduce poverty

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:31 PM PDT

It's a new idea which could resonate with communities across the developing world -- a biomass stove which also generates electricity using sound waves.


Tenuous nature of heroism

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:58 PM PDT

Zeno Franco says Armstong is a figure who brought us closer to the essence and the limits of the human endeavor. If we revel in his fall we no longer have to challenge ourselves to perform at those limits


Samsung to fight court ruling for Apple

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:53 PM PDT

Samsung plans to challenge a U.S. court ruling that recommends more than $1 billion in damages to Apple over a patent dispute.


VIDEO: Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:29 PM PDT

A US jury has ruled that Samsung should pay Apple $1.05bn (£665m) in damages in an intellectual property lawsuit.


5 Things to Know Before You Play Guild Wars 2

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:34 PM PDT

Guild Wars 2 (GW2), ArenaNet's upcoming MMO, is a game that promises fun, pretty, and most of all, exciting gameplay without a single panda to be found. And it will be launching August 25, 2012, a few hours from now, for those who have pre-purchased the game, while other players can jump in on August 28.


Facebook Unveils New Campus: Will Workers Be Sick, Stressed and Dissatisfied?

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:33 PM PDT

Facebook just unveiled plans for its new campus expansion, which was designed by world-famous architect Frank Gehry. It will be a single room, stretching 10 acres, where everyone will sit in the open with moveable furniture. As Mark Zuckerberg says in his own status update, "It will be the largest [...]


Powerful typhoon lumbers toward Japan's Okinawa

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:02 PM PDT

A man walks down a lane of water damaged furniture from heavy rains brought by Typhoon Tembin in Pingtung county, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The typhoon crossed over southern Taiwan on Friday morning, causing flooding and wind damage but largely sparing the island's heavily populated areas. (AP Photo) TAIWAN OUTA powerful typhoon packing winds up to 215 kilometers (134 miles) per hour was lumbering toward Okinawa on Saturday and was projected to be the strongest typhoon to hit the southern Japanese island in several years.



VIDEO: Mexico prisoners marry en masse

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:30 PM PDT

More than 100 inmates have married at a Mexican border prison in a collective ceremony at Ciudad Juarez.


Al-Qaeda followers call for death of SEAL who wrote Osama bin Laden book

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:49 PM PDT

An official al-Qaeda Web site on Friday identified the former U.S. Navy SEAL who wrote a book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and readers called for the author's death.

The site posted a photograph and the name of the commando, who had written under a pseudonym but whose name was revealed Thursday on Fox News. The site called him "the dog who murdered the martyr Sheikh Osama bin Laden."

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Officials Pursued Armstrong for Years

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:05 PM PDT

The case against Lance Armstrong underlines the difficulties that antidoping authorities faced for years as they tried to build cases based largely on the results of in-competition drug tests.


Apple Wins Over Jury in Samsung Patent Dispute, Awarded $1.05 Billion in Damages (Live Blog)

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:54 PM PDT

Updates to include comments from Apple, Samsung, a legal expert and analyst. A copy of the final, amended verdict is here. The nine-member jury sided almost entirely with Apple Inc. in its patent dispute case with Samsung Electronics Co., awarding Apple nearly $1.05 billion in a "sweeping victory" over claims that the Korean electronics [...]


Apple Wins Over Jury in Samsung Patent Dispute, Awarded $1.05 Billion in Damages (Live Blog)

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Updates to include comments from Apple, Samsung, a legal expert and analyst. A copy of the final, amended verdict is here. The nine-member jury sided almost entirely with Apple Inc. in its patent dispute case with Samsung Electronics Co., awarding Apple nearly $1.05 billion in a "sweeping victory" over claims that the Korean electronics [...]


VIDEO: Mexico prisoners marry en masse

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:30 PM PDT

More than 100 inmates have married at a Mexican border prison in a collective ceremony at Ciudad Juarez.


Mexican police shoot two U.S. Embassy staff in botched chase

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:15 PM PDT

A bullet-riddled armoured U.S. embassy SUV is seen on a road near the town of Tres MariasMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two U.S. Embassy employees were shot at and wounded by Mexican police on Friday after they were caught up in a police chase on the outskirts of the capital, Mexico's Navy said. Police fired on the vehicle in which the embassy employees were traveling, which carried diplomatic plates, after the driver veered out of the way when he saw the officers' weapons. "At that moment those in the ... (police) vehicle opened fire on the diplomatic vehicle," the Navy said in a statement. "Moments later, three other vehicles joined the chase and fired shots at the U.S. Embassy ...



Number of Syrian refugees 'surpasses 200,000'

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:28 PM PDT

UN says Syrians are leaving their homes to seek refuge in neighbouring countries as violence rages across country.


Mexican police shoot two U.S. Embassy staff in botched chase

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:15 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two U.S. Embassy employees were shot at and wounded by Mexican police on Friday after they were caught up in a police chase on the outskirts of the capital, Mexico's Navy said.


Peru Protests Slow Mine Plan, Growth

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:30 PM PDT

Some of the world's biggest gold and copper deposits lie beneath rugged Andean terrain here, but a U.S. firm's plans to mine them face stiff opposition from local farmers, politicians and environmental groups.


Beating Up On The Small Gal.

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:03 PM PDT

Stephanie Burns is the founder and co-owner of Chic CEO – a free resource for female entrepreneurs. You can follow her on Twitter at @ChicCEO. Compete.com on the Expo Floor (Photo credit: SESConferenceSeries) Having a web based business, your livelihood is based upon your numbers. Hitting certain milestones in terms of website traffic can affect certain [...]


Apple Wins Over Jury in Samsung Patent Dispute, Awarded $1.05 Billion in Damages (Live Blog)

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:54 PM PDT

Updates to include comments from Apple, Samsung, a legal expert and analyst.    The nine-member jury sided almost entirely with Apple Inc. in its patent dispute case with Samsung Electronics Co., awarding Apple nearly $1.05 billion in a "sweeping victory" over claims that the Korean electronics maker copied the designs of its iPhone smartphone [...]