VIDEO: Storm chaser captures Texas tornado

VIDEO: Storm chaser captures Texas tornado


VIDEO: Storm chaser captures Texas tornado

Posted: 16 May 2013 07:50 AM PDT

A tornado has ripped through a town in the US state of Texas, resulting in six deaths, officials say.

VIDEO: 'I left engineering to be food hawker'

Posted: 16 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT

Singaporean Abdus Salam started as an engineer, but left his job when he realised that his father needed help in his food stall.

Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan

Posted: 16 May 2013 11:17 PM PDT

In this picture taken on Friday May 10, 2013, Syrian economist Abdullah al-Dardari, a chief economist at the Beirut-based U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and a former deputy prime minister in President Bashar Assad's government, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, In Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Dardari tells The Associated Press in a rare interview that his six-member expert team has been overwhelmed with requests for the reconstruction plan to support the Kerry-Lavrov initiative on the off chance it would succeed. A group of economists led by one of Syria's top reformists are feverishly drawing up a comprehensive post-war reconstruction plan, even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT (AP) — A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight.


VIDEO: 'I left engineering to be food hawker'

Posted: 16 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT

Singaporean Abdus Salam started as an engineer, but left his job when he realised that his father needed help in his food stall.

VIDEO: Homophobic abuse revealed in EU poll

Posted: 16 May 2013 11:00 PM PDT

More than a quarter of gay people surveyed in a major EU poll say they have been subjected to attacks or violent threats in the past five years.

VIDEO: Eurovision: A statistical analysis

Posted: 16 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT

Derek Gatherer outlines the results of his statistical study of how Eurovision votes are cast.

VIDEO: Red Cross museum's 'message of hope'

Posted: 16 May 2013 11:05 PM PDT

The Red Cross museum in Geneva is to re-open on Friday after a renovation lasting almost two years.

Harrison Barnes Suffers Likely Concussion, Plays Anyway

Posted: 16 May 2013 10:27 PM PDT

It's a sad irony that on the same night George Hill became the first NBA player to miss a playoff game because of a concussion, another player--Harrison Barnes of the Golden State Warriors--probably stayed in a game longer than he should have.

Oil falls below $95 on choppy growth outlook

Posted: 16 May 2013 10:20 PM PDT

BANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil fell below $95 per barrel Friday after new signs of a choppy economic recovery in the U.S.

Google Is Very Creepy, and That's What Makes It So Awesome

Posted: 16 May 2013 09:58 PM PDT

Google held its annual Google I/O conference this week in San Francisco. It was highlighted by a lengthy keynote that rambled about at times, in which Google unveiled a dizzying array of new features and services that have awesome potential to transform technology and how we use it...as long as you're willing to grant Google virtually carte blanche access to monitor and manage your life.

'True Grit': What It Takes To Succeed As An Entrepreneur

Posted: 16 May 2013 09:23 PM PDT

I was musing this week with writer and frequent collaborator Tom Lowery about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. He noted that over the years, he's asked multiple of his fellow entrepreneur friends what it takes to be a success in their various endeavors. His circle of friends, as mine, are a diverse and largely creative bunch, and their businesses reflect that: a public relations firm, a restaurant, a pet supply shop, a law firm, a writer's spa and an editing service. One of Tom's friends is a voice-over artist; one is a painter and another is a model.

Exclusive Magic 2014 Preview: Staff of the Mind Magus

Posted: 16 May 2013 09:15 PM PDT

Magic: the Gathering's "lucky charms" have taken various shapes and sizes over the years.  In Magic 2014, it looks like players will be getting a slightly different, more expensive version.  A long time ago, lucky charms looked something like this:   Recently, they've looked like this:   And now, they look like this:

How VOD Is Pushing Movies Toward Cannes-on-Demand

Posted: 16 May 2013 09:14 PM PDT

The 66th Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week with the premiere of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, the most mainstream movie to open the festival since Pixar's Up in 2009. Since Cannes serves a glittery but apt prism through which to view the overall state of the movie business, it's striking to note how many films both at the festival -- and in the general U.S. marketplace -- are becoming available so quickly to the public. The reason: video on demand.

China's Foreign Direct Investment Lags

Posted: 16 May 2013 08:35 PM PDT

Foreign direct investment in China sputtered in the first four months of the year, despite renewed signs of strength from the U.S. and the European Union, showing only a modest 1.21% rise from a year ago.

Canada's Harper Decries 'Softening' Support for Israel

Posted: 16 May 2013 07:04 PM PDT

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticized what he characterized as weakening support for Israel among western nations at an event in the U.S. on Thursday.

Thousands protest against China plant

Posted: 16 May 2013 08:43 PM PDT

People in Yunnan province rally against chemical plant, but government says it will bring economic growth.

Caterpillar Settles With Principals Of Troubled Chinese Acquisition

Posted: 16 May 2013 08:47 PM PDT

Ever since Caterpillar jolted investors in January with a $580 million write down of a troubled Chinese acquisition, questions have lingered over its debt obligations. Caterpillar alleged that Siwei, a mining-equipment firm in Zhengzhou, had falsely inflated its revenues over many years prior to the 2012 acquisition. Now comes news that Caterpillar has settled out of court with the former principals of Siwei. Caterpillar said Thursday that it would pay $29.5 million to the sellers in order to resolve all outstanding issues. This is considerably less than the $164.5 million that Caterpillar was contracted to pay to Emory Williams and James Thompson Jr., who controlled Siwei via a Hong Kong-listed entity, and two other parties. The agreement forestalls the possibility of litigation. But it doesn't quite end the confusion over what Caterpillar did and didn't know about Siwei before it signed on the dotted line.

Asia stocks mixed as holidays thin trade

Posted: 16 May 2013 10:11 PM PDT

A woman watches an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday following dour European economic data that dampened hopes of a recovery there anytime soon. However, losses were limited by another record session on Wall Street. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed in holiday-thinned trading Friday as investors digested a slew of disappointing economic data and corporate results from the U.S.


Euro Zone Trade Surplus Reflects Weak Demand

Posted: 16 May 2013 09:56 PM PDT

The trade surplus for the 17 nations that use the euro hit its highest level in March since records began in 1999, driven by a sharp rise in exports and a decline in imports as well as steadily rising exports.

Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA

Posted: 16 May 2013 08:08 PM PDT

Effective spycraft has long called for cover—a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies' use of social media.

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