The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday drew up a list of urgent recommendations aimed at breathing life into the flagging preparations for the 2016 Olympics. Rio’s Olympics have come under fire recently over construction delays which…
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The outlook for the crisis-battered eurozone brightened Thursday as Germany’s leading economic think tanks raised their growth forecast for Europe’s top economy this year and next year. Greece, one of the hardest-hit euro members, also returned to the…
South Africa’s workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published Wednesday. “The majority of work places are still ‘lilly white’…
As Manchester United’s players trudged from the pitch at Bayern Munich, it was with the knowledge that they will not experience the Champions League again for at least 17 months. United are seven points below the top four in the Premier League, and…
The Facebook Messenger app has been around for a long time, but it’s not been necessary for chatting with your contacts on your mobile device. To do that, you could simply jump into your regular Facebook app and hit the messages tab—easy peasey.…
Google Glass may be still in the “explorer” stage, limited strictly to only those who Google deems worthy enough to get one of the early pre-production ready units. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t doing some pretty incredible things with…
The masterminds of sun-powered plane Solar Impulse formally unveiled their new aircraft Wednesday, a year ahead of their planned round-the-world flight. Solar Impulse 2 is the successor of the original plane of the same name, which last year completed…
The United States said Tuesday it had only low expectations for an upcoming meeting with Russia, Europe and Ukraine on the crisis in the former Soviet republic. “I have to say that we don’t have high expectations for these talks, but we do believe it…
Users of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 may have noticed a rather large OS update yesterday—that’s Windows 8.1 Update 1, if you were wondering. The update brought a whole bunch of new bits and pieces to the table to make the experience of actually using…
A NASA robot has snapped pictures showing glints of light on the Martian horizon, which some UFO enthusiasts have seized on as a sign of alien life on the Red Planet. Not so, said the US space agency. More likely, the images of bright spots taken on…
Speaking English with a Slavic accent, a man known only as “John Smith” because he does not remember his real name is proving a mystery for Norwegian police. The tall, young amnesiac was found helpless in the snow near a carwash in Oslo last December…
Canada’s tax agency shuttered its website Wednesday after warning that encrypted taxpayer data could be vulnerable to the “Heartbleed” bug. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said the decision, which comes only three weeks before the annual income tax…
England striker Wayne Rooney won his race to be fit for Wednesday’s Champions League, quarter-final, second-leg at Bayern Munich despite struggling with a toe injury. United manager David Moyes started Rooney just in front of attacking midfielder Shinji…
English third tier club Tranmere sacked manager Ronnie Moore on Wednesday, a day after he admitted a Football Association charge of repeatedly breaking betting rules. Moore was suspended by the north-west club on February 17 after the FA launched an…
Egyptian owner Assem Allam’s application to change the name of Premier League Hull City to Hull Tigers has been rejected, the Football Association announced Wednesday. The move came as little surprise after the FA’s membership committee had said, three…
The current console war between Microsoft and Sony is barely half a year old, but conventional wisdom says that the PlayStation 4 is winning over the Xbox One pretty handily so far. But Microsoft seems determined to close the gap. During the company…
Gary Oldman (or Commissioner Gordon for all you Batman fans out there) is the star of HTC’s latest ad for its brand new HTC One M8 (see below). The new ad is bold and provocative, it doesn’t use any fancy marketing lingo or list out features and…
A leading Nigerian Islamic group has accused the country’s military of summarily executing Muslims in the name of counter-terrorism, prompting a swift and strongly-worded denial on Tuesday from top brass. The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) umbrella group…
Just making the cut would be a dream for this year’s youngest player at the Masters, 19-year-old Englishman Matthew Fitzpatrick, but he could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Making it into the weekend would mean he would be sure of missing his football…
A Nigerian man was arraigned today on a 31-count superseding indictment charging him with participating in a scheme that used stolen identities to claim phony tax refunds, causing the U.S. Treasury losses of more than $3 million, authorities said. Kole…