China media train fire on U.S. food giants over chicken scare |
- China media train fire on U.S. food giants over chicken scare
- Israel removes Palestinian encampment outside East Jerusalem
- China media train fire on U.S. food giants over chicken scare
- Official refuses court order to arrest Pakistan PM
- Best Gift for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday? Social Impact
- Four killed in Kenyan town on Somalia border
- Israel removes Palestinian encampment outside East Jerusalem
- Aaron Swartz and the Corrupt Practice of Plea Bargaining
- Thousands evacuated amid Jakarta floods
- Graph Search: What tweeters say
- Myanmar: An aid worker's diary
- Floods paralyze Indonesian capital, heavy rains continue
- Air India halts flights of Boeing 787 aircraft
- Gatecrash Preview: Unexpected Results
- Why It Feels So Terrible To "Be Managed" - and 2 Things You Can Do About It
- Ourpalm Tops Forbes China's Ranking Of Publicly Traded Up-And-Coming Companies
- Real Life Saul Goodman Has Rough Day In Tax Court
- Free Calling For iPhones: Is This The Real Facebook Phone?
- Firebrand cleric raises fear of "soft coup" in Pakistan
- Floods paralyze Indonesian capital, heavy rains continue
| China media train fire on U.S. food giants over chicken scare Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:09 PM PST SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Just weeks after Chinese authorities cleared Yum Brands Inc and McDonald's Corp of charges they had served chicken laced with excessive chemicals, local media are again attacking the iconic American firms, while barely reporting on the chances of Chinese restaurants selling similar meat. |
| Israel removes Palestinian encampment outside East Jerusalem Posted: 16 Jan 2013 09:59 PM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces removed Palestinian protest tents on Thursday from land earmarked for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, having evicted activists from the encampment earlier this week, police said. "The area was cleared of all tents," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. "There were no disturbances. ... |
| China media train fire on U.S. food giants over chicken scare Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:09 PM PST
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| Official refuses court order to arrest Pakistan PM Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:13 PM PST
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| Best Gift for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday? Social Impact Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:38 PM PST Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that acts of service were the great equalizer. "Everybody can be great," he noted, "because everybody can serve." That's why Dr. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, once said that "the greatest birthday gift my husband could receive is if people of all racial and [...] |
| Four killed in Kenyan town on Somalia border Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:15 PM PST Shooting at Garissa restaurant is latest in string of attacks on civilians and Kenyan police along tense border. |
| Israel removes Palestinian encampment outside East Jerusalem Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:00 PM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces removed Palestinian protest tents on Thursday from land earmarked for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, having evicted activists from the encampment earlier this week, police said. |
| Aaron Swartz and the Corrupt Practice of Plea Bargaining Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:50 PM PST Carmen Ortiz, the federal prosecutor who hounded Aaron Swartz in the months before his Friday suicide, has released a statement arguing that "this office's conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case." She says that she recognized that Swartz's crimes were not serious, and as a result she sought [...] |
| Thousands evacuated amid Jakarta floods Posted: 16 Jan 2013 09:53 PM PST At least four people dead and 20,000 evacuated as a result of intense rain storm which has hit the Indonesian capital. |
| Graph Search: What tweeters say Posted: 16 Jan 2013 09:47 PM PST Facebook's new "Graph Search" promises to let users sift through the network's vast trove of posts and photos to produce more helpful results. |
| Myanmar: An aid worker's diary Posted: 16 Jan 2013 09:38 PM PST With a steady hand, Myanmar Red Cross volunteer Tin Tin Wae, 22, measures out chlorine powder, adds it to a large bucket of water and begins to stir. This will eventually reach some of the 100,000 displaced people in Rakhine state who have been forced from their homes after violence swept through their communities in 2012. |
| Floods paralyze Indonesian capital, heavy rains continue Posted: 16 Jan 2013 07:54 PM PST
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| Air India halts flights of Boeing 787 aircraft Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:19 PM PST NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government ordered Air India to ground its fleet of six Boeing 787 aircraft Thursday after the jets were forced to halt flights in Japan and the U.S. because of safety concerns. |
| Gatecrash Preview: Unexpected Results Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST When you're dealing with Simic science, one never knows whether the next experiment will turn out to be a shark frog or crocodile ooze. While the "new" Simic has eschewed the practices of Momir Vig and his bioengineers, magic is still employed for essential evolutionary experimentation. Our Magic: The Gathering [...] |
| Why It Feels So Terrible To "Be Managed" - and 2 Things You Can Do About It Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:46 PM PST "Being managed" is - generally - no fun. You can make it better. |
| Ourpalm Tops Forbes China's Ranking Of Publicly Traded Up-And-Coming Companies Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:17 PM PST Ourpalm, a developer and operator of mobile phone games, topped an annual ranking of publicly traded up-and-coming Chinese businesses published in the latest issue of Forbes China, the licensed Chinese-language edition of Forbes. The magazine this year included rankings of 100 up-and-coming listed companies and 100 up-and-coming unlisted companies. (Click here [...] |
| Real Life Saul Goodman Has Rough Day In Tax Court Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:17 PM PST "Even drug dealers need lawyers, right? Especially drug dealers." – Saul Goodman You may know Goodman as the fast-talking criminal attorney who caters to Albuquerque's seamy underbelly. And while his face may be plastered on every bus and bench in the city, he's no run-of-the-mill ambulance chaser; rather, he gets paid [...] |
| Free Calling For iPhones: Is This The Real Facebook Phone? Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:49 PM PST Facebook Messenger app After testing a free voice calling feature for its Messenger app in Canada recently, Facebook has quietly made the feature available in the U.S. as well--to iPhone users, anyway. Now, according to The Verge, iPhone users can make free calls using a WiFi connection, with no carrier data [...] |
| Firebrand cleric raises fear of "soft coup" in Pakistan Posted: 16 Jan 2013 07:48 PM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - To Pakistan's ruling party, a firebrand cleric camped outside parliament with thousands of protesters is looking more and more like the harbinger of their worst fear: a plan by the military to engineer a "soft coup". |
| Floods paralyze Indonesian capital, heavy rains continue Posted: 16 Jan 2013 07:54 PM PST JAKARTA (Reuters) - Heavy monsoonal rains triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday, with many government offices and businesses forced to closed because staff could not get to work. |
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