Why Facebook's Graph Search Is A Very Big Deal

Why Facebook's Graph Search Is A Very Big Deal


Why Facebook's Graph Search Is A Very Big Deal

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:44 PM PST

MENLO PARK, CA - JANUARY 15: Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg introduces Graph Search features during a presentation January 15, 2013 in Menlo Park. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Online pundits almost immediately declared Facebook's new Graph Search, announced Tuesday morning after days of frenzied media hype, to [...]

Young Afghan musicians to tour US

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:33 PM PST

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Not so long ago Fakira roamed the mean streets of the Afghan capital, hawking magazines for 13 U.S. cents apiece to support her poverty-stricken family.  Next month, the 15-year-old cellist appears in America's most prestigious concert halls, performing alongside other former street children and orphans of Afghanistan's decades of violence.

Emergency landing grounds Boeing 787 jets in Japan

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:27 PM PST

An All Nippon Airways flight sits at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan after it made an emergency landing Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. The flight to Tokyo from Ube in western Japan landed at the airport after a cockpit message showed battery problems, in the latest trouble for the Boeing 787 TOKYO (AP) — Boeing Co.'s 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet.


Workers at South Africa's Amplats down tools: labor leader

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:46 PM PST

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Workers at the Rustenburg operations of South Africa's Anglo American Platinum refused to go underground for overnight shifts to protest company plans to close mines, a labor leader said on Wednesday.

FDA Releases St. Jude Warning Letter

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 04:38 PM PST

The FDA on Tuesday released the full text of a warning letter sent last week to St. Jude Medical. The company had previously disclosed the existence of the letter in an SEC filing but did not make clear the full extent of the FDA warning. The letter from the FDA is the latest in a [...]

Pakistan says to protest to India over new Kashmir killing

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:29 PM PST

Indian BSF soldiers walk during night patrol near the fenced border with Pakistan in AbdullianISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani army said on Wednesday it will protest to India over the killing of a Pakistani soldier in Kashmir, the fifth fatality in hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbors this year. Indian troops shot dead the soldier at a position called Kundi during firing from the Indian side of the Line of Control in the disputed Himalayan territory, Pakistan's army said in a statement. The Indian defense ministry declined to comment. ...


Israeli watchdog rips Netanyahu over settlements

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:14 PM PST

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli watchdog says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement policies during his four-year term show intent to make a Palestinian state impossible to create.

VIDEO: Passengers rescued from Dreamliner

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:58 PM PST

A Boeing 787 aircraft operated by All Nippon Airways (ANA) has made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport after a battery malfunction.

VIDEO: Behind the scenes at Yugoslavia trials

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:16 PM PST

A BBC exclusive behind the scenes access to the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia).

Pakistan turmoil deepens as court orders PM's arrest

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:05 PM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister on Tuesday on corruption allegations, ratcheting up pressure on a government that is also facing street protests led by a cleric who has a history of ties to the army.

Pakistan turmoil deepens as court orders PM's arrest

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:05 PM PST

Supporters of Sufi cleric and leader of Minhaj-ul-Quran Qadri gather around as he addresses them on the second day of protests in IslamabadISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister on Tuesday on corruption allegations, ratcheting up pressure on a government that is also facing street protests led by a cleric who has a history of ties to the army. The combination of the arrest order and the mass protest in the capital, Islamabad, led by Muslim cleric Muhammad Tahirul Qadri, raised fears among politicians that the military was working with the judiciary to force out a civilian leader. ...


U.S. pushing for North Korean sanctions at U.N.

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:46 PM PST

North Koreans pay their respects in front of the statues of the North's founder Kim Il-sung and late leader Kim Jong-il on the first day of new year in PyongyangSEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is pushing hard for tough sanctions against North Korea, one of its top envoys for Asia said on Wednesday, although diplomats at the United Nations said it appeared unlikely that the North's ally, China, would support them. Washington, along with South Korea, Japan and European Union states, want to punish North Korea for its December rocket launch with a United Nations Security Council resolution and tougher sanctions against Pyongyang. "We anticipate formal steps in the Security Council in the immediate future," Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. ...


Star Wars: The Old Republic 'Gay Planet' Controversy Gets Its Own Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 03:43 PM PST

Last week, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) announced players could romance NPCs of the same gender in their soon-to-be-released expansion, "Rise of the Hutt Cartel." But this step into the 21st century was catapulted back to a long time ago with the news that same-gender romances would be confined to one planet.

U.S. pushing for North Korean sanctions at U.N.

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:46 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is pushing hard for tough sanctions against North Korea, one of its top envoys for Asia said on Wednesday, although diplomats at the United Nations said it appeared unlikely that the North's ally, China, would support them.

VIDEO: Sri Lanka Chief Justice fears for life

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:37 PM PST

Sri Lanka's first ever female Chief Justice has said her life is in danger after President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government evicted her from office and swore in a replacement.

Japan's Abe turns to SE Asia to counter China

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:03 PM PST

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at his official residence in TokyoTOKYO/JAKARTA (Reuters) - The last time he was prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe's inaugural foreign trip was to China. In the job again 7 years later and relations with Beijing now chilly, Abe is turning first this time to the rising economic stars of Southeast Asia. A hawkish Abe wants them to help counterbalance the growing economic and military might of China at a time when Japan needs new sources of growth for its languishing economy and is debating whether to make its own military more muscular. ...


Boeing 787 jets in Japan grounded after problems

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:27 PM PST

An All Nippon Airways flight sits at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan after it made an emergency landing Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. The flight to Tokyo from Ube in western Japan landed at the airport after a cockpit message showed battery problems, in the latest trouble for the Boeing 787 TOKYO (AP) — Boeing Co.'s 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet.


Japan's Abe turns to SE Asia to counter China

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:03 PM PST

TOKYO/JAKARTA (Reuters) - The last time he was prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe's inaugural foreign trip was to China. In the job again 7 years later and relations with Beijing now chilly, Abe is turning first this time to the rising economic stars of Southeast Asia.

Pakistan says to protest to India over new Kashmir killing

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:29 PM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani army said on Wednesday it will protest to India over the killing of a Pakistani soldier in Kashmir, the fifth fatality in hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbors this year.

VIDEO: Another victim in America's murder capital

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 07:41 PM PST

The BBC's Mark Mardell meets the mother of one of the 506 people killed in Chicago, America's murder capital, in 2012.

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