A Florida man has disappeared into a 30-foot-wide, 20-foot-deep sinkhole that collapsed the bedroom portion of his home overnight, according to police.The hole opened up at around 11 p.m. Thursday night in the Brandon, Fla., neighborhood, authorities said."[The family] heard a sound that they described as a car crash emanating from the bedroom in the back of the house," Hillsborough...
Kerry to chide Turkish PM over Zionism comments
Labels: WorldANKARA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry will upbraid Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Friday for his description of Zionism as a crime against humanity, comments which could overshadow his first trip to a Muslim nation since taking office. Kerry is meeting Turkish leaders in talks meant to focus on Syria's civil war and bilateral interests from energy security to counter-terrorism....
Growing calls for abolishment of China's labour camps
Labels: Technology SHANGHAI: A hot issue likely to be discussed at China's upcoming National People's Congress in Beijing is one that is not often talked about - re-education labour camps.The system allows for detention of up to four years without trial -- and there are growing calls for it to be abolished.26 year-old Ren Jianyu was arrested and held in police custody for 36 days in Chongqing, after allegedly...
Feb
28
Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco caught in the Dish-CBS crossfire
Labels: Lifestyle"The Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco doesn't mind making a few extra dollars endorsing products. Tweeting an ad to her 1.2 million Twitter followers is an easy way to pick up some spare change. Just as long as she isn't tweeting at Dish Network's behest about its ad-skipping Hopper DVR.As first reported by TheWrap, Cuoco, or her representatives, deleted the following tweet after TheWrap inquired...
Manning makes sudden admission in WikiLeaks case
Labels: Health Updated at 12:14 p.m. ET FORT MEADE, Md. An Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history offered guilty pleas Thursday to 10 of 22 charges against him and a military judge said she would allow the soldier to read a statement explaining his actions. "I believe that if the general public ... had access to the information ... this could spark a domestic debate as...
Benedict Departs Vatican for the Last Time as Pope
Labels: Business Pope Benedict XVI bade his final farewell to the faithful today, lifting off from the Vatican in a white helicopter as the first pope to resign in six centuries.Just before 5 p.m. local time, Benedict, 85, walked out of the Vatican for the last time as pope, waving to a cheering crowd in the Courtyard of San Damaso as he entered a black Mercedes for the short drive to a nearby...
U.S. to give Syrian rebels medical, food aid, not arms
Labels: WorldROME (Reuters) - The United States will send non-lethal aid directly to Syrian rebels for the first time, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, disappointing opponents of President Bashar al-Assad who are clamoring for Western weapons. But in a change of emphasis, the mainly Western and Arab "Friends of Syria" group meeting in Rome "underlined the need to change the balance...
N. Korea's Kim, Rodman watch basketball game: Xinhua
Labels: Technology BEIJING: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un watched a basketball game with former Chicago Bulls' star Dennis Rodman on Thursday, Chinese state media reported.In a dispatch from Pyongyang, China's official Xinhua news agency said that Kim and Rodman watched a game consisting of players from North Korea and the Harlem Globetrotters, a famed goodwill team from the United States.Xinhua, which...
Feb
27
Mobile oddities: Delve into the stranger side of MWC
Labels: LifestyleFujitsu's New Generation GPS Cane puts directions at your fingertips.(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)Imagine waking up, reaching for the tablet on your nightstand, and turning on your coffee maker from bed. You catch a few more winks before it alerts you that your hot java's ready. If Qualcomm's concept Wi-Fi coffee maker ever goes into production, your mornings may never be quite the same. The coffee maker,...
Anti-virus firm makes new revelation on Stuxnet
Labels: Health Updated at 11:22 a.m. ET LONDON The sophisticated cyberweapon which targeted an Iranian nuclear plant is older than previously believed, an anti-virus firm said Tuesday, peeling back another layer of mystery on a series of attacks attributed to U.S. and Israeli intelligence. The Stuxnet worm, aimed at the centrifuges in Iran's Natanz plant, transformed the cybersecurity field because it was the...
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