JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, was charged on Thursday with shooting dead his girlfriend at his upscale home in Pretoria. Police said they opened a murder case after a 30-year-old woman was found dead at the Paralympic and Olympic star's house in the Silverlakes gated complex...
Xbox founder: Apple TV gaming could ‘simply kill PlayStation, Wii U and Xbox’
Label: TechnologyThe Xbox is one of the best things that Microsoft (MSFT) has going for it right now, but one of the console’s founding engineers thinks the company is in grave danger of getting its hide handed to it by Apple (AAPL)… again. Nat Brown, a former Microsoft engineer who worked at the company until 1999 and who was one of the founders of the Xbox project, has written a long post on his personal blog making...
Feb
13
Stephen Fishbach Blogs: Show's Worst Players Will Make Survivor: Caramoan Great
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch Survivor By Stephen Fishbach 02/13/2013 at 10:15 AM EST Stephen Fishbach was the runner-up on Survivor: Tocantins and has been blogging about Survivor strategy for PEOPLE.com since 2009. Follow him on Twitter @stephenfishbach."Survivor's not meant to be a comedy routine." – Cochran, Survivor: South PacificHere's...
Report: Tracking system needed to fight fake drugs
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting the problem of fake drugs will require putting medications through a chain of custody like U.S. courts require for evidence in a trial, the Institute of Medicine reported Wednesday.The call for a national drug tracking system comes a week after the Food and Drug Administration warned doctors, for the third time in about a year, that it discovered a counterfeit batch of the...
Wall Street rises, S&P hits highest since November '07
Label: BusinessDEAR ABBY: My daughters are attractive young women, both doing well in their professional careers. "Melanie," who is 27, is married to "Sam," an extremely attractive and successful man.My 30-year-old daughter, "Alicia," has been divorced for a year. Her marriage failed two years ago because she and her husband had an appetite for sex outside their marriage. While I was disturbed about that, I was...
Insight: Divided Damascus confronted by all-out war
Label: WorldDAMASCUS (Reuters) - MiG warplanes roar low overhead to strike rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad on the fringes of Damascus, while artillery batteries pound the insurgents from hills overlooking a city divided between all-out war and a deceptive calm. Whole families can be obliterated by air raids that miss their targets. Wealthy Syrians or their children are kidnapped....
Intel’s Streaming TV Box Will Bundle Cable Channels to Cut Your Cable Bill
Label: TechnologyIntel has finally confirmed its much rumored revolutionary TV gadget and, as expected, it will not offer à la carte cable channels. But after a CES letdown the chip-maker has said its Silicon Valley star-studded Intel Media group will build a potentially game-changing set-top box — one that might just end up slashing your cable bill. At an AllThingsD conference this afternoon, Intel...
Feb
12
Westminster's Most Paw-some Moments - So Far!
Label: Lifestyle People Pets 02/12/2013 at 11:00 AM EST You snooze, you lose? Not when you're as adorable as this Bichon Frise Frank Franklin II/AP It may be Fat Tuesday, but as any dog lover knows, the real action is at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.Dogs of every shape,...
Pope shows lifetime jobs aren't always for life
Label: HealthThe world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a culture of constant communication and change.There may be more behind the story of why Pope Benedict XVI decided to leave a job normally held for...
Wall Street flat ahead of Obama speech
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed on Tuesday, hovering near multi-year highs as traders awaited President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. The economy will be one of the main topics of Obama's speech at 9 p.m. (0200 GMT Wednesday). Investors will listen for any clues on a deal with Republicans in Congress to avert automatic spending cuts due to take effect March...
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