US officials in Japan to examine Dreamliner

US officials in Japan to examine Dreamliner


US officials in Japan to examine Dreamliner

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:30 PM PST

Aviation experts to inspect Boeing 787 forced to make an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport due to battery problems.

India has jurisdiction to try Italian marines for fishermen deaths: court

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:18 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two Italian sailors charged with killing two Indian fishermen lost on Friday their Supreme Court bid to be tried on home soil, a victory for India in a diplomatic tussle over jurisdiction that has strained ties between the countries.

India has jurisdiction to try Italian marines for fishermen deaths: court

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:18 PM PST

Italian sailors Girone and Latorre leave the police commissioner office in KochiNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two Italian sailors charged with killing two Indian fishermen lost on Friday their Supreme Court bid to be tried on home soil, a victory for India in a diplomatic tussle over jurisdiction that has strained ties between the countries. The sailors, members of a military security team protecting a cargo ship, Enrica Lexie, say they mistook the fishermen for pirates off the southern Indian state of Kerala in February 2012. The Supreme Court ruled that a special court should be set up to try the marines, lawyers who attended the hearing told reporters afterwards. ...


Bolshoi's artistic director attacked in Moscow

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:24 PM PST

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police say the artistic director at the legendary Bolshoi Theater has been attacked with acid in Moscow.

Palestinians despair over likely Netanyahu win

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:18 PM PST

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials largely view Benjamin Netanyahu's expected re-election with despair, fearing the Israeli hard-liner's ambitious plans for settlement construction over the next four years could prove lethal to their dreams of a state.

Majoring In The Humanities Might Soon Cost You More In Florida

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:12 PM PST

In May 2012, Florida Governor Rick Scott commissioned a task force to assess the state's higher education system for quality and efficiency. So task force chair Dale Brill, who teaches marketing at Florida State, said he and the others started asking a simple question: what creates value?

Lance And Oprah Sittin' In A Tree

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:04 PM PST

Hubris can do strange things to people. Most dangerous, you start to believe your own bullshit. It is not easy for me to imagine the mind of a man who would sue an organization for libel and defamation, collect money, all the while fully cognizant their claims were accurate. It is the mind of a person with a conscience so sedated with narcissism that morality and right from wrong is rendered subordinate to self. The Sunday Times of London is seeking recovery of $500,000 paid to Lance Armstrong plus attorney fees and interest and if a pocket of justice exists in our ambivalent world, they will be remunerated in full.

Inside the Ruins of Lance Armstrong's Business Empire

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:04 PM PST

Facebook Exposes 10 Million Previously Hidden Profiles To Its New Graph Search

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 09:43 PM PST

A grab bag of changes Facebook announced last month to its privacy settings has come under new scrutiny in the wake of this week's announcement of Graph Search.

Are You Smarter Than a House Cat?

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 09:29 PM PST

A few years back, a popular TV quiz show posed this question in its title: "Are You Smarter Than a 5th-Grader?"

Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 09:28 PM PST

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. "Seed investments" are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 million) made by either Angels or venture capitalists, or both. This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.

China's Economy Grew Faster Last Quarter, Notching Up 7.8% Annual Gain

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 08:56 PM PST

China said Friday that its economy ended 2012 on a stronger note with 7.9% growth in the final quarter. This matched or beat analysts' expectations and lifted full-year growth to 7.8%, above the official forecast. The quarterly pick-up in growth was the first in two years after government stimulus spending spiked growth in 2009-10. The quarterly data supports other indicators of accelerating industrial output and stronger demand for goods, leading some to predict that China has turned a corner. This has broad implications for the world economy, which sagged last year and still face headwinds in Europe and North America. Japan recently unveiled its own stimulus plans that could support exporters in Asia, including China. That said, China's 2012 economic growth was the lowest in 13 years and economists don't expect a sharp acceleration this year. Most banks have predicted full-year growth of 8% or so. That's positively euphoric in comparison to Western economies, but China has to keep generating huge gains because the fruits are distributed so unequally. Shares in Shanghai rose 0.5% Friday morning.

As We Creep Closer To The Debt Ceiling Limit, Is Your Tax Refund At Risk?

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 08:54 PM PST

Every one of us has had that moment when we've had to shuffle the cards a bit to make sure all of the bills get paid. That's exactly the situation our country is finding itself in right now. And what's in the stack of "to pay later"? It could be your tax refund.

VIDEO: Thieves dig hi-tech tunnel to bank vault

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 08:38 PM PST

Pictures have emerged of a tunnel that was built by thieves to break into a bank in Berlin earlier this week.

Pick-Up In China's GDP Growth To 7.9% Lifts Shares In Hong Kong, Mainland

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 08:51 PM PST

The pick-up in China's economic growth rate announced by the government today helped to lift share prices in Hong Kong and the mainland this morning.

Lance Armstrong and Oprah: Destroying What Was Left of His Reputation

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 08:23 PM PST

Lance Armstrong admitted a lot of wrongdoing during his 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey tonight, but he did almost nothing to win back the sympathy of the world. In fact, he said  things that are bound to offend people deeply.

Inside the Ruins of Lance Armstrong's Business Empire

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 08:23 PM PST

US officials join 787 investigation in Japan

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 08:20 PM PST

U.S. officials, center, inspect a All Nippon Airways jet which made an emergency landing Wednesday, at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. An official with Japan's transport safety board says four U.S. officials, including two Boeing Co. representatives, have arrived at the airport in western Japan to inspect the troubled Boeing 787 jet. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCETOKYO (AP) — U.S. safety officials and Boeing inspectors joined a Japanese investigation Friday into the 787 jet at the center of a worldwide grounding of the technologically advanced aircraft.


Lance Armstrong and Oprah: Too Much of a Not-So-Good Thing

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 07:54 PM PST

Here's the verdict: Oprah Winfrey's still got her fastball.

Final Fantasy All the Bravest: A DLC-Laden Abomination?

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 07:52 PM PST

Square Enix's Final Fantasy All the Bravest for iOS is crafted from the stuff dreams are made of.  The concept is simple - Characters, classes, bosses, music, and backdrops from the Final Fantasy universe in a fast-paced combat soiree mashup.  The combat is eye candy, the pixels are perfect, and the game evokes a sense of nostalgia that even a franchise neophyte can enjoy.  Everyone attacks, there's no thinking or planning, just tap (or in this case, run your finger across a row) each character as they come off cooldown and let them cut loose with familiar abilities from ages past.  So where do things go wrong?  The devil is in the DLC.

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