Robert De Niro’s Caribbean resort plan draws criticism
By ELAINE GLUSAC From The New York Times In the year since the government of Antigua and Barbuda and investors led by the actor Robert De Niro announced plans to open a luxury resort on the smaller of the dual-island…
Women lawyers tell US Supreme Court about their own abortions
By Tony Mauro, From The National Law Journal More than 100 women lawyers joined in a brief to tell the U.S. Supreme Court about their own abortions and why their reproductive freedom was pivotal to their personal and professional lives. The…
Lieff Cabraser team sues Fitbit over heart rate readings
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — A team from Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein is aiming for the jugular in a new suit against Fitbit Inc., claiming the company’s wearable heart rate monitors don’t work as advertised. Fitbit’s…
US Federal Circuit casts doubt on Apple-Samsung verdict
By Scott Graham, From The Recorder Apple Inc. may have collected $548 million from Samsung Electronics Co. last month from its first smartphone “trial of the century.” But the $119 million it recovered in a second trial appeared in serious…
WuXi PharmaTech Cayman : and PRA Health Sciences Restructure Relationship in China
SHANGHAI, China and RALEIGH, N.C., 2015-12-08 01:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE:WX), a leading open-access R&D capability and technology platform company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, and PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRAH), a…
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China’s mandate of Communism poisons Dalai Lama’s reincarnation
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling “But of course, religion is poison!” exclaimed Mao Zedong to Tenzin Gyatso, the “Great Fourteenth” Dalai Lama of Tibet.(1) Though initially impressed by China’s first communist leader and promise to modernize Tibet and interest…
Here are the countries with the most generous billionaires
By Akin Oyedele From Business Insider India’s ultra-high net worth people give away the most money for philanthropic reasons. But as a percentage of net worth, the United Kingdom’s filthy rich give away the highest, followed by America’s. These findings were…
North Korea says that it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb
From Business Insider SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has conducted a successful hydrogen bomb test, a surprise announcement. North Korea reportedly detonated the device at the Punggye-ri underground test site in the far northeast, its official Korean Central…
Consumers are buying a super-secure phone that’s not meant for them
By Nathan Ingraham From Engadget It doesn’t even have apps. Let’s get this out of the way right up top: Sikur’s GranitePhone is not for you. Security as a feature is nothing new — BlackBerry’s entire existence rests upon it at…
Beautiful photos show signs of ‘runaway’ stars in the Milky WayBy
By BY MIRIAM KRAMER From Mashable KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Runaway stars speeding through the galaxy aren’t exactly easy to find, but luckily, they leave some clues that space-based telescopes can catch and beam back to Earth. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and…
