TUNIS: Tunisia's premier has pledged to form a government of technocrats ahead of new elections, after the murder of opposition leader Chokri Belaid sparked deadly protests and attacks on the ruling party's offices.Furious demonstrators built barricades in central Tunis on Wednesday and clashed with police, and four opposition groups including Belaid's Popular Front bloc said they were...
Microsoft goes after Google with attack on Gmail privacy
Labels: LifestyleMicrosoft takes aim at Gmail.(Credit:Screenshot by Steven Musil/CNET)Microsoft is ratcheting up its attacks on Google with a campaign urging users of the Web giant's e-mail service to dump Gmail for its own Outlook.com over privacy concerns.In its national campaign titled "Don't get scroogled by Gmail," Microsoft dredges up an old issue with Google's free e-mail service: Google scans users' e-mails...
Blizzard could dump 2 feet of snow in New England
Labels: Health CONCORD, N.H. A blizzard heading to New England could make travel nearly impossible and dump up to 2 feet of snow on a region that has seen mostly bare ground this winter. The snow will start Friday morning, with the heaviest amounts dumped on the region that night and into Saturday as the storm moves through New England and upstate New York, the National Weather Service said. CBS News weather...
Armstrong May Testify Under Oath on Doping
Labels: Business Facing a federal criminal investigation and a deadline that originally was tonight to tell all under oath to anti-doping authorities or lose his last chance at reducing his lifetime sporting ban, Lance Armstrong now may cooperate.His apparent 11th-hour about-face, according to the U.S. Anti Doping Agency (USADA), suggests he might testify under oath and give full details to...
Feb
05
Stabbing at Ecuador campaign rally not politically motivated: Correa
Labels: WorldQUITO (Reuters) - A knife attack in Ecuador that killed two government supporters was perpetrated by a man under the influence of drugs and alcohol and was not politically motivated, President Rafael Correa said on Tuesday. The man killed two Correa supporters and injured five more at a campaign rally on Monday, about two weeks before a presidential election that the leftist leader is...
Walking School Bus to ensure safe, enjoyable route for kids
Labels: Technology SINGAPORE: Some pre-school children will be walking to and from school, in what's called the Walking School Bus.They'll take a safe and enjoyable route, accompanied by adults.The walk can be an informal affair or a structured arrangement with meeting points, a timetable and a schedule.Children from PCF Tanjong Pagar-Tiong Bahru in Kim Tian Road are the first to try out the Walking School...
DreamWorks CEO Katzenberg sees big profit in small screens
Labels: LifestyleConsumers will eventually pay less for entertainment streamed to smaller devices, with studios and distributors basing prices on the size of the destination device, movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg predicted today.A tiered pricing market, in which people paid less to see a movie on a cell phone than a theater, would result in greater consumption in developing markets where people depend more on their...
Sandy storm victims react to proposed home buyout
Labels: Health (CBS News) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - One hundred days ago, the Northeast was hit by a left hook from superstorm Sandy. This week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed spending $400 million to buy up and demolish thousands of those homes, so the property can be turned back into wetlands. Homeowners have mixed feelings about the proposal. For 11 years, Joe Monte worked two jobs and spent weekends renovating...
Lance Armstrong Under Criminal Investigation
Labels: Business Federal investigators are in the midst of an active criminal investigation of disgraced former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, ABC News has learned.The revelation comes in stark contrast to statements made by the U.S. Attorney for Southern California, Andre Birotte, who addressed his own criminal inquiry of Armstrong for the first time publicly on Tuesday. Birotte's...
Feb
04
Syrian opposition chief says offers Assad peaceful exit
Labels: WorldBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on Monday to start talks for its departure from power and save the country from greater ruin after almost two years of bloodshed. Seeking to step up pressure on Assad to respond to his offer of talks - which dismayed some in his own opposition coalition, Alkhatib said he would...
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