4-year-old girl beheaded in Taiwan knife attack
By Tiffany Ap, From CNN On Monday morning, a 33-year-old man attacked the girl with a cleaver in full view of her mother as they were on their way to a metro station in Taipei, the island’s capital, the official…
What will the ALS Association do with that $100 million?
By Todd Wasserman From Mashable The $100 million that the ALS Association raised with its viral Ice Bucket Challenge is certainly an impressive figure. But those who suffer from the disease and those who took the challenge may wonder if…
World’s 10 most stunning airport approaches
From CNN They don’t have airplanes in “Game of Thrones” but if they did, there’d be no finer arrival in King’s Landing than Malta Airport. The spectacular walled city of Valletta, so familiar from the HBO show, rises up from…
WikiLeaks exposes countries that use controversial ‘FinFisher’ surveillance tech
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai From Mashable WikiLeaks published a batch of documents and files pertaining to the controversial surveillance technology company FinFisher, including a list of its customers and actual copies of its spyware. The release, the fourth one in the…
Recipe of the week
Recipe: Chocolate-Glazed Baked Doughnuts with Sprinkles RECIPES FROM THE KITCHN Recipe: Baked I purchased a doughnut pan a few years back for a recipe-testing project I was working on, but after two or three uses, it got squirreled away in…
UK: Newbury MP defends David Cameron after tax leaks
By William Walker From Newbury Today But Richard Benyon will not reveal his own tax returns The Conservative MP for Newbury has leapt to the defence of David Cameron and his family after recent revelations from the ‘Panama Papers’, but stressed…
CRFM and UNOPS seal agreement to advance small- scale fisheries in the Caribbean
Special emphasis directed at flyingfish fishery in the Eastern Caribbean Belize City, Belize, 22 April 2016 (CRFM)—The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) this week sealed an agreement with a UN agency to strengthen governance arrangements for the flyingfish fishery in…
Rescuers had to wait to aid Fla. zookeeper
From CBS News WEST PALM BEACH- For three years, Stacey Konwiser pursued her passion at the Palm Beach Zoo – working with the zoo’s 4 Malayan tigers. On Friday, as she prepared behind the scenes for her routine “Tiger Talk”…
Apple wins patent on transparent cube store design
By Adario Strange From Mashable Those dreams of massive cities full of beautiful Apple store-style glass cube buildings? They’ve been officially been smashed. Apple has won a patent on its glass cube building design, effectively guaranteeing that the only see-through…
HMRC claims billion pound week with win against Jersey firm
By Richard Hubbard From International Adviser The UK tax office has won a judgement against a limited partnership registered in Jersey, the Clavis Liberty Fund 1 LP scheme, which it claimed had tried to create artificial tax losses. HM Revenue…
