January 14, 2013By Mac William Bishop, Channon Hodge, Pedro Rafael Rosado, Axel Gerdau and Poh Si TengA special report on women’s rights and sexual assault in India after the death of a young woman who was raped in Delhi by several men in a moving b...
Come for a Tour of China’s Unlicensed ‘World of Warcraft’ Theme Park
Label: TechnologyWorld of Warcraft Theme ParkImage credit Francesca TimbersClick here to view this gallery.[More from Mashable: 20 Tweets That Prove Skittles’ Social-Media Team Inhaled the Rainbow]Changzhou, China is home to a bizzarre world of rides, food and fun: A World of Warcraft-style theme park that’s completely unlicensed by Blizzard, maker of the Warcraft series.The park opened in the summer of last year....
Jodie Foster Calls Ailing Mom an 'Amazing Inspiration' After Emotional Globes Speech
Label: Lifestyle 01/14/2013 at 01:45 PM EST Jodie Foster at a Golden Globes party Mike Windle/Getty Jodie Foster brought some to tears when she spoke of her ailing mother during her revealing Golden Globes speech Sunday night – and, backstage, the actress continued to praise her."My mom is an amazing inspiration...
Flu more widespread in US; eases off in some areas
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Flu is now widespread in all but three states as the nation grapples with an earlier-than-normal season. But there was one bit of good news Friday: The number of hard-hit areas declined.The flu season in the U.S. got under way a month early, in December, driven by a strain that tends to make people sicker. That led to worries that it might be a bad season, following one of the mildest...
Apple demand worries weigh on S&P, Nasdaq
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street dipped on Monday as concerns about demand for Apple products sent shares of the tech heavyweight lower and investors faced a busy week for earnings in what is expected to be a uninspiring quarter. Apple lost 3.2 percent to $503.60 as the biggest weight on both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 <.ndx> indexes after reports that the tech company has...
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India Ink: Woman Raped by Seven Men in Punjab, India, Police Say
Label: WorldNEW DELHI — Police said Sunday that a 29-year-old woman had been raped by a bus driver, a bus conductor and five other men in the north Indian state of Punjab, in an incident that recalls the recent attack in Delhi that has caused widespread outrage.The woman boarded a bus on Friday bound for Gurdaspur, to visit her in-laws, the police chief of Gurdaspur, Raj Jit Singh, said in a telephone interview....
Women pry open door to video game industry’s boys’ club
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – When video game developer Brenda Brathwaite Romero started her career in the 1980s, she could count the number of female developers in the industry on one hand.Today, many “Women in Games” roundtables she attends are filled to capacity with new faces. The 46-year-old, sometimes referred to as the longest-serving woman in the video game arena, jokes that these days one can...
Sofia Vergara: You Can't Control Wardrobe Malfunctions
Label: Lifestyle By Dahvi Shira 01/13/2013 at 01:00 PM EST There's no such thing as foolproof fashion for Sofia Vergara.Following a serious wardrobe malfunction that left the Modern Family star exposed at the Emmys last year, you might expect her to come up with a way to avoid a similar situation at Sunday's Golden Globes. Well, you'd be wrong.
"It's very...
Flu more widespread in US; eases off in some areas
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Flu is now widespread in all but three states as the nation grapples with an earlier-than-normal season. But there was one bit of good news Friday: The number of hard-hit areas declined.The flu season in the U.S. got under way a month early, in December, driven by a strain that tends to make people sicker. That led to worries that it might be a bad season, following one of the mildest...
Wall Street Week Ahead: Attention turns to financial earnings
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - After over a month of watching Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue, Wall Street can get back to what it knows best: Wall Street. The first full week of earnings season is dominated by the financial sector - big investment banks and commercial banks - just as retail investors, free from the "fiscal cliff" worries, have started to get back into the markets. ...
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