US stocks on Thursday moved lower in the first trading session of 2014 following a mediocre report on Chinese manufacturing activity. About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 76.74 points (0.46 percent) to 16,499.92. The broad…
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US actor James Avery, most famous as Uncle Phil in hit 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” died on New Year’s Eve aged 68, his publicist said. With a deep baritone voice, Avery regularly played judges, professors or doctors in TV shows in the…
The US Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to throw out a challenge from a nuns’ group against a birth control mandate in the Obamacare health reform law. The Little Sisters of the Poor had asked the US high court to exempt it from…
Blackberry Ltd. said Friday it had filed a suit in a California court against Los Angeles firm Typo Products for violating its patents with a Blackberry-like keyboard made for Apple’s iPhone. The struggling Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone…
A group of nuns in Spain got a New Year surprise when they checked their answerphone machine to discover they had missed a call from the Pope, who left a message asking why they didn’t pick up. “What can the nuns be doing that stops them answering the…
The Governor of Delta State has been named The Man of The Year by another renowned Nigerian tabloid- Vanguard Newspaper. The election for Man-Of-The-Year 2013 which is usually carried out by Vanguard Board of Editors, had an overwhelming majority of votes in favour of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Executive Governor of Delta State. According to Vanguard It was not just the Governor’s efforts in the passing year that won him the honour, noting the he has run the affairs of Delta State for 78 months, and largely succeeded in dousing the burning dichotomy between the two major sections of the…
Vine just launched its much anticipated web profiles for its over 40 million users. Vine, which is owned by Twitter, first announced plans for web profiles in mid-December, and allowed users to reserve their preferred vanity URL ahead of launch.…
A post on CNET today reports that users have filed a lawsuit against social networking giant Facebook over privacy concerns. Specifically, two men named Matthew Campbell and Michael Hurley filed their suit against Facebook in California, alleging that…
BlackBerry continues to tighten its purse strings and clean house–even top executives and global recording stars aren’t safe. Alicia Keys will depart her role as “global creative director” for the smartphone, software and services provider…
Syrian rebels in opposition-held areas were engaged in fierce battles with Al-Qaeda-linked elements Friday in what activists say is growing resistance to the jihadists’ brutal grip in many places. Elsewhere in northern Syria, an unidentified group seized…
Southampton striker Dani Osvaldo was fined £40,000 ($65,000, 48,0000 euros) and suspended for three matches on Friday for his part in a touchline brawl during an ill-tempered Premier League clash at Newcastle. Osvaldo, an Argentina-born Italy international…
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is raring to start as coach of Cardiff City and sees Saturday’s third-round FA Cup clash at Newcastle as the perfect starting point. With Premier League survival top of the Welsh club’s agenda, Solsjkaer could be forgiven for looking…
Charlton Athletic, from England’s second-tier Championship, on Friday confirmed they had been taken over by Belgian entrepreneur Roland Duchatelet. The 67-year-old’s company, Staprix NV, will acquire 100 percent of the shares in the club, subject to…
BRUSSELS, Belgium — After five years of economic headlines dominating Europe, politics could be back in 2014. The states of southern Europe will be hoping their fragile signs of recovery after years of recession will firm up in 2014, but no one’…
Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest home and mobile operating system for desktops, laptops and tablets, has been out for nearly two years. And unlike Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer, web company Mozilla has still yet to release its native FireFox browser…
A high profile French comic, who could be slapped with a rare ban from the national stage, ironically began his career fighting racism before falling from grace as a “trader of hate”. Dieudonne, the burly and bearded comedian known by one name, is no…
Egyptian police found a murdered Swiss couple buried in the garden of their house in the Red Sea resort town of Hurgada, an Egyptian security official said Friday. The security official said preliminary investigations revealed the two Swiss citizens…
This past fall, Microsoft took a look at its foundering Surface tablet fortunes and decided to double down with a follow-up, the aptly named Surface 2 line of devices. While the company hasn’t released any information about the Surface 2’s sales…
An Al-Qaeda-linked Saudi suspect detained in Lebanon is being held in a military hospital because “he is in poor health”, a medical official told AFP Friday. Another official familiar with the investigation said the interrogation of Majid al-Majid “…
The number of people uprooted by conflict in the Central African Republic is nearing one million, with half of the residents of the capital Bangui driven from their homes, the United Nations said on Friday. “The humanitarian situation in the Central…