St Andrew's Day celebrated with new Google Doodle

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The traditional multi-coloured Google logo has been temporarily displaced with a tribute to Scotland created for St Andrew's Day on November 30, celebrated by those with Scots lineage all over the world.
St Andrew was a fisherman and one of the disciples of Jesus responsible for spreading the new faith throughout Asia Minor and Greece.

He was killed by the Romans in Patras, Greece, by being crucified on an X-shaped cross, the diagonal shape of which is said to be the basis for the Cross of St Andrew, which appears on the Saltire.
St Andrew is also the patron saint of fishmongers, singers, spinsters, maidens, old maids and women wishing to become mothers.

iTunes 11 launches after delay from Apple

A visual redesign is the main feature of the latest update, with a focus on album covers that expand to show your own songs combined with other tracks from Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Improved integration with Apple's iCloud syncing service and better search funtions are also key components of the new software.

A revamped mini player allows you to search for songs, albums, and artists without needing to switch back to the full version.

The iTunes 11 update was slated for release a month ago, with Apple claiming it needed a "little extra time to get it right."

iTunes has been criticised in the past for being slow and growing increasingly unwieldy as more and more media types have been added to what used to be simply a music player.


Improving iTunes is seen as crucial for Apple, with new devices such as the iPad Mini seen as key new ways for users to consume iTunes content. "We expect to see Apple take sales away from the Kindle family of devices and the Kindle app itself, as Apple will be marketing the tablet as an iBook, iTunes consumption device," said mobile computing analyst Salman Chaudhry.
In a statement, Apple told technology site AllThingsD: "The new iTunes is taking longer than expected and we wanted to take a little extra time to get it right.

Microsoft Windows 8 makes lukewarm debut: sales tracker

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Consumer sales of Windows-powered personal computers fell 21 percent overall last month, figures released by a leading retail research firm showed on Thursday, indicating a lackluster debut for Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 operating system.
Many in the industry said Windows 8 might revive slack PC sales, but a report by NPD Group, which tracks computer sales weekly using data supplied by retailers, dampened those hopes.
On the same day, Microsoft announced pricing for its latest device designed to break Apple Inc's stranglehold on the tablet and lightweight laptop market. It is offering the Surface tablet running the full version of Windows 8 from $899, pitching it somewhere between Apple's latest iPad and MacBook Air laptop.

The new YouTube app: way better than the one Apple kicked off the iPhone

I love YouTube—everything about it. So I am bound to praise the YouTube app for iPhone and iPad, which was updated last month. And I will praise it without reservation. The YouTube app looks nifty, steers like a BMW, has swift navigation and lavish sharing features. But most of all I’ll praise it because the YouTube app is YouTube.

YouTube is a Fort Knox of digital video: It seems clear by now that no company will match YouTube’s staggeringly successful combo of invaluable content and impeccable code. It’s a massive public service—and ad-supported, so free to users. Seventy-two hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Every month, people watch more than four billion hours of video on YouTube. YouTube just is video, the way Amazon is books. If you like video or film—and if you ever even once need or want to see a news clip, a comedy clip, a music video or just about any moving picture—you will turn to YouTube. Chances are good that, maybe without knowing it, you will turn to YouTube today.

And yet YouTube needs love. We take the miraculous, intergalactic video depot for granted, as if it were air or the Internet itself. And YouTube deserves at least as much credit as the Ivy League Facebook or the fancy-teacup iPhone for kicking off the Internet’s glorious second and third acts.

Microsoft Surface Pro battery will last roughly four hours

Not only is Microsoft’s (MSFT) Surface Pro tablet running Windows 8 expensive starting at $899 for a 64GB model, but it’ll also have a less-than stellar battery life, according to the company’s Surface Twitter account. Fielding a question regarding the battery life of the Surface Pro, Microsoft said “#Surface pro will have approximately half the batter [sic] life of Surface RT.” The Surface RT can last about eight hours on a single charge, which means the Surface Pro will only last about four hours. The battery life might seem low at first, but remember, the Surface Pro has an Intel (INTC) Core i5 processor and higher 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution touchscreen display. While the third- and fourth-generation iPad with Retina display can easily get 10 hours of battery life despite pushing more pixels, they aren’t powered by a laptop/desktop processor.

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Two people win share of $580 million Powerball lottery

The numbers drawn on Wednesday night are: 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6.
A lottery official said late Wednesday that the jackpot increased to $579.9 million by the time of the drawing.

The drawing Wednesday night's prize followed 16 consecutive drawings that produced no top winner, boosting the Powerball to become the second-largest potential lottery payout in US history.

Tickets were selling at an average of 130,000 a minute across the United States in the hours before the drawing, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game. That equates to players buying 7.8 million tickets an hour, spending $15.6 million an hour for a chance at the huge jackpot.

The huge sales volume, which was about six times the rate of the week before, prompted game officials to boost the jackpot twice in two days.


There had been no Powerball winner since Oct. 6, and the jackpot was initially posted at $425 million, which was a record for the game. However, it was revised upward on Tuesday to $500 million when brisk sales increased the payout.

New York records rare day with no violent crime

From 10.25pm on Sunday until 11.20am on Tuesday, no gun crime or knife attacks were reported to police, marking the most peaceful 24 hours in the Big Apple in decades.
Just once gun shot was reported to the authorities, but the incident involved a 16-year-old accidentally shooting himself in the thigh.
Paul Browne, a police spokesman for the city, told the New York Daily News that lull in violent crime was a nice way to start the week.
While days without any serious violent crime are rare, the number of murders in New York have been steadily falling. So far there have been 366 murders in the city this year, compared to 472 in 2011. If the trend continues, the city is on track to record its lowest murder rate since 1960. New York's murder rate hit a peak of 2,245 in 1990 before a concerted effort by the mayor's office to clean up the streets with a zero tolerance policy on crime.

Source: New York Daily News, AP

Via:-Telegraph

Afghanistan: teenage girl killed by spurned suitors

The girl, Geesa, was attacked earlier this week by two men from the spurned family as she went to collect water from a stream in her village in northern Afghanistan.
The attack came after her father, Mohammad Rahim, had turned down a marriage offer for the girl, saying she was too young to be engaged.

"At this stage it looks like they wanted to marry her and the father refused, so they killed her," said Syed Sarwar Hosseini, police spokesman for Kunduz province.

Two men, named as Massoud and Sadeq, have been arrested on suspicion of the murder, in Kulkul village of Imam Sahib district, he said. The two men were relatives of Geesa and lived in the same village.
The provincial director of women's affairs said the province had been hit by a wave of violence against women.


Nadira Giah said 11 girls and women had been killed this year, up fivefold from last year.
In January, a young woman was reportedly murdered in the province by her husband and her mother-in-law for giving birth to a daughter. The 22-year-old woman called Stori was strangled after giving birth to a third daughter, when her husband wanted a son.

Source:-Telegraph

Ricky Ponting retires: Australia's former captain calls time on distinguised career after 17 years

A batsman and captain whose natural instinct was to attack, whatever the situation, he leaves the game as one of its greats and arguably its toughest competitor.
He will play the last of his 168 Tests where it all began back in 1995, at the WACA, the announcement coming earlier today at a press conference attended by the entire Australian team and their teary captain, Michael Clarke. Sports teams generally like to do their grieving in private but Ponting is held in such high regard by players of all generations in Australia, that a public display was felt more appropriate.


There were tributes from opponents too and Kevin Pietersen, enjoying a short break with England in Mumbai, tweeted: “Ricky Ponting - one of the greats. I always got excited playing Australia so I could watch him bat up close. Well done Punter. Legend.”
Opinion about him wasn’t always that complimentary. As one of the most talented teenage batsmen Rod Marsh had ever seen pass through Australia’s Academy, Ponting was picked for his first Test at the age of 20.

iPod inventor Tony Fadell on Apple, Steve Jobs and Nest

What do you do after inventing the iPod? Steve Jobs and Apple may have got all the credit for building the product that led to the all-conquering iPhone and iPad, but it was Tony Fadell who touted his plan for an MP3 player round various companies, tried Real Networks first and approached Apple in 2001. So Fadell’s next challenge is… thermostats. Could anything be less sexy?

Fadell is keen to talk about Nest, his thermostat for a smartphone generation. It learns your habits and adjusts your energy usage accordingly. Ten million Americans alone replace their thermostats each year; a man who by his own admission “doesn’t need to work again” has built a team of other Silicon Valley millionaires and is working on a market sector he says is “bigger than refrigerators, bigger than video games”.
But isn’t everyone much more interested in Apple, not least because no former executive ever talks about the secretive, multi-billion dollar market leader? Yet Fadell – perhaps it’s to promote Nest – isn’t shy of talking about his former employer. It’s an in-joke among journalists that there’s no difference between talking to Apple employees past or present, on or off the record because there’s never a story. But Fadell talks as though there’s nothing he wouldn’t say.

RIM faces BlackBerry sales ban in fight with Nokia

Nokia said on Wednesday a Swedish arbitrator had ruled that "RIM was in breach of contract and is not entitled to manufacture or sell WLAN products without first agreeing royalties with Nokia."
Nokia disclosed the victory in a US court filing seeking enforcement of the ruling, potentially including a sales ban.
Wireless local access network (WLAN) technologies, usually marketed under the WiFi brand, are used across BlackBerry devices and by most other smartphones.
Nokia, which is trying to boost its royalty income as its phone business slides, said it had filed cases in the United States, Britain and Canada to enforce the arbitrator's ruling.
"This could have a significant financial impact to RIM, as all BlackBerry devices support WLAN," IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo said.

Two bombs kill 28 people in Iraq Shi'ite cities

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombs in two majority Shi'ite Muslim cities in southern Iraq killed 28 people on Thursday, police and hospital sources said.

Scores were wounded in the blasts, which struck during a month Ashura, a holy month for Shi'ites who are often targeted by al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate and other Sunni Muslim insurgents.

Two explosions near a restaurant in the city of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, killed 26 people.
In the city of Kerbala, a car bomb near a bus terminal where Shi'ite pilgrims usually gather killed another two people, a spokesman for the local health office said.

Violence in Iraq has eased since the carnage of 2006-2007, but Sunni Islamists still launch frequent attacks, seeking to reignite sectarian strife and undermine the Shi'ite-led government's efforts to provide security.
On Tuesday, car bombs targeting Shi'ites in mourning processions killed 14 people in Baghdad.
(Reporting by Ali al-Rubaie; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Audit firms sued in HP's Autonomy acquisition

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new shareholder lawsuit over Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of British software firm Autonomy has named Big Four audit firms Deloitte and KPMG as defendants, alleging they missed numerous red flags about Autonomy's accounting.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, California, also named HP's board of directors, officers, and former executives, alleging breach of duty and negligence for their role in HP's acquisition Autonomy.

HP is expected to face a barrage of lawsuits by investors seeking to recoup losses. Its shares fell 12 percent to a 10-year low last week after it announced an $8.8 billion write-down on its acquisition of Autonomy.
HP Chief Executive Meg Whitman has repeatedly said that the company relied on audits of Autonomy, done by the UK arm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, when it paid $11.1 billion for Autonomy last year.
HP last week blamed the majority of its $8.8 billion write-down on improper accounting at Autonomy.
Whitman also said HP relied on KPMG's audits of Deloitte's work.

U.N. set for implicit recognition of Palestinian state, despite U.S., Israel threats

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government.

A Palestinian resolution that would change the Palestinian Authority's U.N. observer status from "entity" to "non-member state," like the Vatican, is expected to pass easily in the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly.
Israel, the United States and a handful of other members are planning to vote against what they see as a largely symbolic and counterproductive move by the Palestinians.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been leading the campaign to win support for the resolution, and over a dozen European governments have offered him their support after an eight-day conflict this month between Israel and Islamists in the Gaza Strip, who are pledged to Israel's destruction and oppose his efforts toward a negotiated peace.

Samsung takes aim at Japanese rivals with Android camera

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co is taking aim at its Japanese rivals with an Android-powered digital camera that allows users to swiftly and wirelessly upload pictures to social networking sites.

The Galaxy camera lets users connect to a mobile network or Wi-Fi to share photographs and video without having to hook up the camera to a computer.

While it's not the first to the market, Samsung's financial and marketing clout suggest it could be the biggest threat to Japanese domination of a digital camera industry which research firm Lucintel sees growing to $46 billion by 2017 and where big brands include Canon Inc, Sony Corp, Panasonic Corp, Nikon Corp and Olympus Corp.

"Samsung has a tough row to hoe against the likes of Canon and Nikon in the camera brand equity landscape," said Liz Cutting, senior imaging analyst at research firm NPD Group. "Yet as a brand known more in the connected electronic device arena, Samsung has a unique opportunity to transfer strength from adjacent categories into the dedicated camera world."

Syria launches air strikes as combat rages in Damascus

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian war planes attacked towns in the country's north and east and killed at least five civilians in a strike on an olive oil press as fighting raged in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, opposition activists said.

The latest fighting follows recent battlefield gains by the rebels in their struggle to topple President Bashar al-Assad, but it is far from clear if a strategic breakthrough is likely.
More than 90 people were killed on Tuesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group.

Rebels trying to make inroads into the capital battled government forces in the suburb of Kfar Souseh on the edge of the centre of the capital, activists said.

In Aleppo province in the north, rebels shot down a military helicopter, according to video footage posted on YouTube that showed what appeared to be a missile hitting the aircraft.

Egyptians challenge Mursi in nationwide protests

CAIRO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Egyptians rallied on Tuesday against President Mohamed Mursi in one of the biggest outpourings of protest since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow, accusing the Islamist leader of seeking to impose a new era of autocracy.
Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths in streets near the main protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, heart of the uprising that toppled Mubarak last year. Clashes between Mursi's opponents and supporters erupted in a city north of Cairo.

But violence could not overshadow the show of strength by the normally divided opponents of Islamists in power, posing Mursi with the biggest challenge in his five months in office.

"The people want to bring down the regime," protesters in Tahrir chanted, echoing slogans used in the 2011 revolt.

Protesters also turned out in Alexandria, Suez, Minya and other Nile Delta cities.
Tuesday's unrest by leftists, liberals and other groups deepened the worst crisis since the Muslim Brotherhood politician was elected in June, and exposed the deep divide between the newly empowered Islamists and their opponents.

White House blasts Republican ‘obsession’ with Rice and Benghazi

The White House sharply escalated its attacks Tuesday on Republicans trying to stop Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice from succeeding Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. Press secretary Jay Carney described GOP lawmakers as being gripped by a politically fueled "obsession" with a series of television appearances Rice made shortly after the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in which she wrongly suggested the attack had stemmed from a demonstration over an anti-Muslim video rather than a terrorist assault.

Carney's comments came after Rice met privately on Capitol Hill with Republican senators who have said they intend to block her nomination if President Barack Obama chooses her to replace Clinton as the nation's top diplomat. Rice also acknowledged for the first time, in a written statement issued by her office, that her initial public comments on the Benghazi assault were wrong because there had been no protest outside the compound.

SEC's Walter may take similar path to ally Schapiro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the past four years, Elisse Walter stood out at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for her deep loyalty to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro.
Now the veteran regulator and SEC commissioner - one of two Democrats on the SEC - is moving to the fore at the powerful agency, taking over the chairmanship after Schapiro steps down next month. The promotion is prompting regulatory watchers to talk about whether Walter will blaze her own path.
"She has been very loyal to Mary Schapiro, and there are times when I thought she prioritized her loyalty to Mary over sometimes even her own positions on an issue," said Barbara Roper, the director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America.

"It will be interesting to see what she is like when she comes out of Mary's shadow. Will it be more of the same? Or ... will her own style and views become more apparent?"
Walter's and Schapiro's strong working relationship has carried through their closely intertwined career paths to their nearly uniform agreement on controversial regulations.

'Two and a Half Men' actor apologizes

NEW YORK (AP) — Teenage actor Angus T. Jones of the comedy "Two and a Half Men" apologized Tuesday for a series of interviews denouncing his own show, an episode that has rivaled former colleague Charlie Sheen's meltdown as an off-screen oddity.
Speaking to religious media outlets, the 19-year-old Jones has called the CBS comedy "filth" and "very inappropriate" and talked about how his religious awakening has affected his attitude toward life and work.
"Two and a Half Men," television's third most popular comedy, remains heavy on sexual innuendo even with Ashton Kutcher replacing bad-boy Sheen following his firing for drug use and a subsequent public meltdown. Jones, who started on the show when he was 10, plays Jake Harper, son of the uptight character portrayed by Emmy winner Jon Cryer.

Cyber Monday sales best ever, for Amazon's Kindle too

 Internet sales jumped more than 30 percent on Cyber Monday, making it the biggest online shopping day ever, according to data released on Tuesday.
Walmart.com, the online division of Walmart U.S., had its best sales day in history, a spokeswoman said.
Cyber Monday also was a record day for sales of Amazon.com Inc's Kindle devices, the online retailer said, without specifying the number sold.

Still, eBay Inc, operator of one of the largest online marketplaces, outperformed its arch rival Amazon.com over the crucial first five days of the holiday shopping season, according to one closely watched measure.
Cyber Monday has been the biggest online shopping day in recent years, as workers return to offices and make holiday purchases on their computers. This year, the boom in smart phone and tablet adoption has added extra fuel to online shopping.

Government minister warns: 'We must develop a third more land' to meet housing demand

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More than 1,500 square miles of open countryside — an area twice the size of Greater London — needs to be built on to meet housing demand, the Government’s planning minister will warn on 
Wednesday.



Nick Boles, a Conservative minister appointed in the September reshuffle, wants to increase the amount of land built on in England by a third.
He insists that he wants to ensure the countryside is not filled with unattractive modern housing by “lazy” builders.
He says that, rather than fight all development, people have to recognise that some buildings could be more beautiful than nature itself. But his comments come as much of England and Wales has been hit by flooding, which in some parts has been made worse by planners allowing development on natural flood plains which are meant to fill with water.
In an interview with BBC Two’s Newsnight tonight, Mr Boles says nine per cent of England has been built on so far – and this should be increased to 12 per cent to meet demand.
This would mean the amount of land paved over would increase from 4,531 sq m to more than 6,000 sq m. The 1,510 sq m increase is more than twice the 607 sq m area covered by Greater London.

Chelsea 'regret' treatment of referee Mark Clattenburg after complaint of racist abuse towards John Obi Mikel

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In a joint statement issued by Chelsea, the Premier League and the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, the club said they regretted the speed with which they publicised their allegations, and the impact on Clattenburg and his family.
Their failure to apologise unequivocally for bringing the allegation of racism will not satisfy critics of the club, who believe the claims against Clattenburg were hasty and lacked evidence.
Chelsea reported the referee to the Football Association after the home league defeat by Manchester United, alleging that Clattenburg said “shut up, you monkey” to midfielder John Obi Mikel. They also alleged he had called Juan Mata a “Spanish t---”, a claim they later retracted.
The club believe they cannot apologise for bringing the racism allegation because Ramires, the only player who claimed to have heard the comments, still believes he heard Clattenburg use the offensive words.
To apologise fully would, they believe, expose Ramires and suggest they do not believe him. The club maintain they acted in good faith and followed FA procedures in reporting the incident as quickly as possible.

New iMac confirmed for November launch by Apple

The iMac was launched at the same press conference where Apple unveiled the iPad Mini, and the radical redesign of the desktop computer has been largely overshadowed by Apple’s new tablet and iPods. Observers, however, have suggested that the eighth incarnation of the iMac is its most impressive yet.
The design, which features no optical drive, was greeted with shock at the unveiling. “There were gasps in the auditorium when people saw how thin the new iMac is,“ reported The Telegraph’s Shane Richmond. “It's astonishingly thin at the edges - 5mm, though it does bulge a little at the back.”
The 21.5” model will be available from 30 November and the larger, 27” model will ship in December.

Privacy watchdog says Facebook will change Instagram data policy

Facebook will change a controversial new privacy policy that grants it more control over how it uses members’ personal data, government officials have said.

The new rules, announced last week and due to come into force after a consultation closes on Wednesday, are designed to allow Facebook to blend details of members activities with personal data from Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app it acquired earlier this year. The resulting single profiles of people across multiple services could result in more accurate targeted advertising.

Today, the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which is most responsible for regulating Facebook in Europe because its operations are based in Dublin, said it had asked for the proposed policy to be changed. It indicated that officials believe a greater level of consent to use personal data in new ways was required, and that they expected Facebook to comply.

Global first: Brit visits all 201 states without flying

A British adventurer has become the first person to travel to all 201 sovereign states in the world without flying, ending his four-year odyssey early Monday when he arrived in South Sudan, the world’s newest nation.

Graham Hughes has used buses, boats, taxis, trains, and his own two feet – but never an airplane – to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days, spending an average of less than $100 a week.
“I love travel, and I guess my reason for doing it was I wanted to see if this could be done, by one person traveling on a shoestring,” Mr. Hughes tells the Monitor Monday by telephone from Juba, South Sudan’s capital. “I think I also wanted to show that the world is not some big, scary place, but in fact is full of people who want to help you even if you are a stranger.”
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Hughes, 33, set out from his home in Liverpool in northern England on New Year’s Day 2009.
Since then, he has visited all 193 United Nations member states plus Taiwan, Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo, Western Sahara, and the four home nations of the United Kingdom.

NASA Discovers Cracks in Deep-Space Orion Capsule

WASHINGTON — NASA's first orbital flight-model Orion crew capsule will have to be repaired before its planned 2014 debut after its aft bulkhead cracked during recent pressure testing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a NASA spokeswoman said Nov. 19.
The cracks were discovered during a proof pressure test the week of Nov. 5. Proof testing, in which a pressure vessel is subject to stresses greater than those it is expected to encounter during routine use, is one of the many preflight tests NASA is performing on Orion to certify the craft is safe for astronauts, agency spokeswoman Rachel Kraft said.
"The cracks are in three adjacent, radial ribs of this integrally machined, aluminum bulkhead," Kraft wrote in an email. "This hardware will be repaired and will not need to be remanufactured."
It took Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver about a year to make the vehicle that was damaged. Kraft did not say how long it would take to repair the capsule, built as part of a program intended to take astronauts to destinations beyond low Earth orbit. [Photos: NASA's Orion Spaceship Test Explained]

Arafat's grave opened for poison tests.....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Forensic experts took samples from Yasser Arafat's buried corpse in the West Bank on Tuesday, trying to determine if he was murdered by Israeli agents using the hard-to-trace radioactive poison, Polonium.
Palestinians witnessed the funeral of their hero and longtime leader eight years ago, but conspiracy theories surrounding his death have never been laid to rest.
Many are convinced their icon was the victim of a cowardly assassination, and may stay convinced whatever the outcome of this autopsy. But some in the city of Ramallah where he lies deplored the exhumation.
"This is wrong. After all this time, today they suddenly want to find out the truth?" said construction worker Ahmad Yousef, 31, who stopped to watch the disinterment, carried out behind a wall of blue plastic near the Palestinian presidency headquarters.

Mursi opponents rally in Cairo's Tahrir

CAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents of President Mohamed Mursi rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a fifth day on Tuesday, stepping up calls to scrap a decree they say threatens Egypt with a new era of autocracy.
The protest called by leftist, liberal and socialist groups marks an escalation of the worst crisis since the Muslim Brotherhood politician was elected in June and exposes the deep divide between newly empowered Islamists and their opponents.

LG Optimus G2 specs leaked

LG Optimus G2 specs leaked it has, 1080p display, 2GHz quad-core CPU......

LG is going to ho head to head against Samsung Galaxy SIV, new rumor just surfaced that suggests LG Optimus G2 is going to be ready in spring 2013. Alleged Optimus G2 will launch with high-end specs, including quad-core CPU clocked at 2GHz, 5-inch 1080p dispaly(similar as in DROID DNA). There’s no details what kind of camera will be on board or how much there is RAM. As Optimus G2 is going to have Full HD 1080p display, it’s highly believed that there will be massive battery to keep that beast alive. Also it’s rumored that Optimus G2 will run next generation Android version.

Nokia unveils Asha 205 and Nokia 206 phones with dedicated Facebook button!

Nokia has just unveiled two new phones to it’s line-up. Those phones are Asha 205 and Nokia 206. Asha 205 have dedicated Facebook button, which takes user straight to Facebook profile page where you share your status updates, check-in places and photos.

Google acquires wireless Internet network provider ICOA for $400 million

In a move that could expand its broadband presence beyond its Fiber project, Google announced today it has acquired wireless Internet network provider ICOA Inc. for $400 million, an deal that will see the Internet giant “further diversify its already impressive portfolio of companies.”

ICOA provides wireless and wired networks in high-traffic public locations in the US, adding WiFi hotspot zones to airports, restaurants, universities, travel plazas, and many other public venues. As part of the deal, Google is set to pick up 1,500 of ICOA’s broadband access installations across 45 US states.

Samsung's report on Chinese suppliers makes for grim reading, especially between the lines

On the face of it, Samsung's latest report on working conditions at the factories of its Chinese suppliers follows just the kind of careful, lawyer-scrutinized language we'd expect from a big multinational. It repeats the manufacturer's earlier insistence that no children have been employed, while at the same time admitting that there have been "several instances of inadequate practices at the facilities" concerning workers being made to do too much overtime, not being given proper contracts, and being fined if they turn up late or are absent -- issues which had already been revealed at one supplier, and which Samsung promises to fix by the end of 2014.

Google Nexus 4 coming to Three, minus bargain price-tag

Three will begin selling the LG Google Nexus 4 on December 13th, when O2's one-month exclusive deal comes to an end

Mobile operator Three UK has announced it will be carrying the new LG Google Nexus 4 handset, but don't expect to be able to pick it up on the cheap.

The network is selling the handset off contract for £399.99 (plus a top-up), which far exceeds the market-defying £239.99 (£279.99 for the 16GB model) Google had been offering the SIM-free device for through its official Play store.

3D Printer Store Sheds Light on New Tech

NEW YORK – The world's first 3D printer retail store has been open for two months now. Makerbot store operator Jason Schapiro has noticed that about half the people who come in are getting the chance to see a 3D printer in real life for the first time.

3D printers create objects by printing successive thin layers of molten plastic, building objects up layer by layer. Certain industries, such as airplane makers, have used them to print one-of-a-kind parts for years now. Meanwhile, several companies, such as Makerbot Industries, Ultimaker and Cubify, are working to sell 3D printers to the regular folks at home.