Global News
DBS boss Gupta faces biggest challenge in Indonesia SINGAPORE (Reuters) - After two years of hard work to improve Singapore's largest bank and lift its underperforming Hong Kong unit, DBS Group c... Read more |
Mixed signals from China's factories in March BEIJING (Reuters) - China's big factories were surprisingly busy in March as a stream of new orders lifted activity to an 11-... Read more |
Japan to support U.S. nominee to head World Bank TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will support Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee for the next World Bank head, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi... Read more |
South Korea March exports fall; U.S. shipments up on FTA SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean exports in March fell 1.4 percent from a year ago, missing a consensus forecas... Read more |
Obama pushes Congress on millionaires' tax WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to increase taxes on millionaires, reviving a proposal he first pitched l... Read more |
Entertainment
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover: Kate Upton, 19 She's a Florida girl who's comfortable in a bikini, and now 19-year-old model Kate Upton is on the cover of the 2012 Sports Il... Read more |
Pop queen Whitney Houston dies on eve of Grammys Whitney Houston, who was pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was tarnished by e... Read more |
Wisconsinite wins 2012 Miss America crown Laura Kaeppeler, Miss Wisconsin, is crowned Miss America 2012 during the Miss America pageant. Kaeppeler won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong ru... Read more |
Blue Ivy Carter Gets $600K (€467,654) Gold Rocking Horse She's just a few days old, but Beyonce and Jay-Z's first child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter, is already being treated like a pri... Read more |
Jennifer Lopez Puts Boyfriend on $10K (€7,776) Weekly Allowance Casper Smart is a 24-year-old backup dancer and, as such, it's not hard to imagine he's not actually rolling in dough. Sick of ... Read more |
Sport
Champions League - Chelsea reach final after heroics Chelsea produced a heroic performance to reach the Champions League final with 10 men after a 2-2 draw with Barcelona in a pul... Read more |
Champions League - Chelsea snatch first-leg win over BarcelonaDidier Drogba gave Chelsea a smash-and-grab 1-0 win over Barcelona in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final at Stamford Bridge.... Read more |
La Liga - Suspect penalty gives Barca win Barcelona rode an almighty scare as Lionel Messi joined Cristiano Ronaldo on the 41-goal mark this season with a 2-1 win at Levante, th... Read more |
La Liga - Real grind down Sporting as records fallCristiano Ronaldo broke his own Liga scoring record as Real Madrid overcame a stubborn test by lowly Sporting Gijon to shade a nervy e... Read more |
Serie A - Serie B star dies after cardiac arrest on pitch Livorno's Piermario Morosini has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during an Serie B game at Pescara on Saturday, promptin... Read more |
Gadgets & Technology
Why iPad Textbooks Are Still Too Expensive for Schools When Apple announced its initiative to bring iPads into schools and provide textbooks in digital format, the reaction among many was enthusiastic... Read more |
After IPO, Facebook will face new profit pressures SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For all the huge numbers in Facebook's IPO papers, a surprisingly small figure stands out: $4.39, the amount the sit... Read more |
3 Ways Facebook Plans to Exploit UsersIn a move hitting the front page of nearly every newspaper in the world, social networking giant Facebook took the first st... Read more |
CES 2012: Windows 8 Demoed on Texas Instruments Tablet Windows 8 will arrive with support for far more processor types than its predecessors. Microsoft said that before, and came to CES 2012 i... Read more |
CES 2012: Shogun Bros Reveals Ballista MK-1 Mouse If you ever wished for a mouse that knew how you wanted it to run, the Shogun Bros Ballista MK-1 may be just w... Read more |
Health & Lifestyle
The Barefoot Shoe Is Trendiest Shoe of 2011 You might think that, with all the celebrity endorsement they get, platform pumps and stilettos are the most popular shoes of the year.... Read more |
US panel urges HPV vaccine for boys Boys should get routinely vaccinated against human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cancer, a US ... Read more |
Mammograms don't save as many lives as women think Many women who have survived breast cancer often say it was a mammogram that "saved their life," a po... Read more |
More evidence that coffee cuts skin cancer risk More evidence that coffee, particularly among female drinkers, has a positive effect against the most common form of skin cance... Read more |
Final word on cell phones and cancer: Reply hazy, try again A new long-term study from Denmark’s Institute of Cancer Epidemiology examined the medical histories of more than 350,000 mobi... Read more |
Automotive
Nissan releases official footage of Juke-R supercar street race in Dubai When is a Nissan Juke not a Nissan Juke? When it's the 480-horsepower, Godzilla-powered Juke-R, that's when. Then it's a superc... Read more |
Mitsubishi Evo Hybrid Confirmed, Coming by 2014 Here we go again, with a new episode of the story in which Mitsubishi fails to understand that desecrating the Evo could have... Read more |
Mazda2 Production Starts in Vietnam Mazda has today announced that production of their Mazda2 has begun today at a new facility in Vietnam. This facility was creat... Read more |
Fast Fords at SEMA: Seven Focus and Three Fiesta Models Ford has a number of house-approved car they want to show to the public at the upcoming SEMA Show in Las Vegas, wher... Read more |
Chevrolet Cruze Diesel to Be Built in Ohio Starting 2013 Chevrolet will offer their Cruze compact sedan with a diesel powertrain in the United States and Canada starting with 2013. Given GM’s u... Read more |