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Life on Skid Row

Life on Skid Row

A girl sits on downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, March 6, 2013. Los Angeles has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow police and city employees to grab or break property that homeless folks leave unattended on sidewalks, pronouncing Skid Row homeless encampments presented a public-future health chance. In keeping […]

 
 

Facebook hopes to lure Instagram, Snapchat users with prettier redesign

Facebook hopes to lure Instagram, Snapchat users with prettier redesign

Supply: arstechnica.com – Thursday, March 07, 2013 Facebook is focusing on feeds, including one for images and one for brands. At a press conference held in Menlo Park Thursday Facebook introduced a redesign for the news feed its users see after they talk over with its website online or use […]

 
 

Strategies for peacetime competition with China

Source: www.aei-ideas.org – Thursday, March 07, 2013 On Tuesday, Congressman J. Randy Forbes (R-VA) delivered remarks to a packed house at AEI . His subject: Peaceable competitors with China and its implications for the United States. In his view, while the United States-China relationship has quite a lot of room […]

 
 

Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack defends actions

Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack defends actions

MOSCOW (AP) — The star dancer accused of masterminding the assault on the Bolshoi ballet chief mentioned Thursday that he gave the go-ahead for the assault, but said he did not order any individual to throw acid on the artistic director's face.

 
 

Exclusive: China wealth fund, Commerce Ministry to get new heads – sources

Exclusive: China wealth fund, Commerce Ministry to get new heads – sources

BEIJING (Reuters) – China will doubtless appoint savvy global dealmakers to run its large sovereign wealth fund and Commerce Ministry in a gentle power push to appease fears over a planned spending spree to boost Beijing's ownership of strategic world assets. Securities regulator Guo Shuqing is tipped to take the […]

 
 

Lion kills worker at California animal park

Lion kills worker at California animal park

A 26-year-old intern was attacked within the animal's enclosure. Go to News Supply

 
 

Villanova tops No. 5 Georgetown 67-57

Villanova tops No. 5 Georgetown 67-57

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jay Wright couldn't break out the excitement at his radio exhibit of a potential NCAA match bid for Villanova.

 
 

Georgia Tech rallies past No. 6 Miami 71-69

Georgia Tech rallies past No. 6 Miami 71-69

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Hurricanes are operating out of chances to win the Atlantic Coast Convention title outright.

 
 

Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack says did not want acid used

Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack says did not want acid used

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused of organizing an attack that just about blinded the Russian theatre's artistic director stated in court docket on Thursday that he didn’t intend for the sufferer to be splashed with acid. Pavel Dmitrichenko indicated he had agreed when the alleged associate accused […]

 
 

James hits winner, Heat top Magic for 16th in row

James hits winner, Heat top Magic for 16th in row

MIAMI (AP) — After a sixteenth straight win was once safely in the books for the Miami Warmth, Shane Battier pulled on a pair of denims, chatted for a couple of minutes and walked into the evening.

 
 

Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights

Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they’re going to hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad's forces pull back from a rise up-held village which has seen heavy contemporary fighting. The seize used to be announced in rise […]

 
 

Analysis: Next Intel CEO to guide new business, maybe Apple deal

Analysis: Next Intel CEO to guide new business, maybe Apple deal

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Intel's subsequent CEO is more likely to shepherd the highest chipmaker right into a growing contract-manufacturing industry, a strategic shift that could lead to a care for Apple Inc and give it a combating chance to make inroads in the mobile enviornment. Manufacturing chips on […]

 
 

China faces social, financial risks in urbanization push

China faces social, financial risks in urbanization push

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's urbanization power could gas social unrest over land disputes and pose financial dangers if money is thrown round recklessly, a senior communist birthday party respectable and a leading economist mentioned on Thursday. Moving individuals from the nation-state to cities is a coverage priority for China's new […]

 
 

Monte Paschi’s spokesman was under pressure over bank probe: reports

Monte Paschi’s spokesman was under pressure over bank probe: reports

MILAN (Reuters) – The spokesman of Monte Paschi di Siena discovered dead on Wednesday was once below drive over an investigation into alleged corruption and fraud that has rocked the sector's oldest financial institution, journalists who knew him said. David Rossi, born in 1961, used to be discovered lifeless on […]

 
 

Indonesian provincial vote suggests religion card weakening

Indonesian provincial vote suggests religion card weakening

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia's most populous province has re-elected its conservative Muslim governor, but via the sort of slender margin that it suggests the spiritual card is also dropping its energy to win votes on the planet's greatest Islamic society. Final week's West Java election, the consequences of that have […]