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…