In Europe and Canada cards already have smart chips installed and readers are used at retailers and restaurants, making it harder for thieves to profit from the sort of massive data breach that hit Target during the holiday shopping season.The attack led to the theft of tens of millions of credit car...
An 18-year-old Florida student is set to return to class Wednesday after he says he was suspended when school officials learned of his pornographic online photos and videos. Marucci, 18, says he took the job to help pay bills at home. Teen was threatened when other students found videos, his mothe...
Chinese lawyer Xu Zhiyong is currently on trial for campaigning against corruption. Xu Zhiyong is charged with "gathering crowds to disrupt public order". His lawyer Zhang Qingfang says that a fair trial is "unlikely" and calling on five witnesses to testify have been r...
Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license after police saw the pop star street racing early Thursday morning, Miami Beach police said."What the f*** did I do? Why did you stop me?" Bieber asked the police officer who pulled him o...
At least four people have been shot dead and hundreds injured amid ongoing clashes with police over new laws limiting the right to protest in Ukraine. Interior Ministry says 195 police officers have been injured, 84 hospitalized. The controversial new protest laws have sparked concerns they coul...
This is a story about a golf putter and its inventor, that's probably mostly of interest to golfers, and also a story about journalistic ethics and appropriateness in dealing with personal and sensitive information, which is - or should be - of interest to all of us, living as we do in a world where so mu...
Iraq has executed 26 people convicted of "terrorism" offences, according to officials.The deaths came despite international criticism of the country's increasing use of capital punishment.The justice ministry said Adel al-Mashhadani - allegedly a leader of a local Sunni militia...
South Africa's government has ordered sculptors to remove a bronze rabbit they hid in the ear of a Nelson Mandela statue, unveiled after the former president's death last month. Do you think this was disrespectful? Should they take it off the statue?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-2...
Richard Sherman submitted an op-ed (an opinion editorial) to a website called MMQB (Monday Morning Quarterback), "To Those Who Would Call Me a Thug or Worse..." explaining his perspective/position/rationale regarding his postgame comments on Sunday night. It quickly became, by f...
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