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Earthquake rattles Southern California, no damage reported
LOS ANGELES: Earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale struck deep beneath a mountain range in Southern California on Monday, jangling the nerves of tennis stars competing in the nearby… Read more
David Beckham named as ambassador for Chinese Super League
Beijing: Football superstar David Beckham has been named as ambassador for the Chinese Super League, the country’s football association said, a move that has been widely anticipated but also criticized…. Read more
NASA discovers third radiation belt circling earth
Washington: NASA’s Van Allen Probes, which was launched on Aug. 30, 2012, to study two giant belts of radiation that surround Earth, has shown scientists something that would require rewriting… Read more
‘Supermassive’ black hole spinning at speed of light
Washington: The outer reaches of a ‘supermassive’ black hole, more than two million miles across, or eight times the earth-moon distance, is spinning at nearly the speed of light. The… Read more
Suicide attack on Kabul army bus injures six
Kabul: A suicide attacker blew himself up next to a bus carrying army personnel in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, wounding at least six people, officials said. The situation remains… Read more
Yahoo chief bans working from home
Since Marissa Mayer became chief executive of Yahoo, she has been working hard to get the Internet pioneer off its deathbed and make it an innovator once again. She started… Read more
Apple releases ‘malware removal tool’ following computer hack
London: Apple will release a malware removal tool after a number of Mac systems were infected by computer hackers who targeted Facebook last week. Unknown hackers infected the computers of… Read more
Curiosity Mars rover confirms first drilled Martian rock sample
Washington: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images, which confirm that it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet…. Read more
Lance Armstrong refuses to cooperate with US Anti-Doping Agency
Washington: Lance Armstrong said that he will not cooperate with a US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation into dope cheats in cycling but would be willing to help other anti-doping inquiries…. Read more
Webmail service, Outlook.com, is now set to replace Hotmail.com
Washington: Microsoft has announced that its new webmail service, Outlook.com, is now set to replace Hotmail.com. The software giant said that Outlook.com is coming out of beta testing and is… Read more
