Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesRob Wainwright, the director of Europol, at a press conference in The Hague on Monday. Soccer is known throughout much of the world as the beautiful game. But the sport’s ugliest side — the scourge of match-fixing — will not soon go away. With the 2014 World Cup in Brazil drawing closer, a European police intelligence agency said Monday...
Feb
04
Europol Investigation Shows Fixing Is Suspected in 680 Soccer Matches
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Facebook After Death: Who Owns Your Pages When You Die?
Label: TechnologyMost people can’t live without Facebook — but what happens to your Facebook page when you are no longer living? New Hampshire and other states are trying to figure that out.State Rep. Peter Sullivan has introduced legislation to allow the executor of an estate control over the social networking pages of the dead. Last week, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 222-128 to give Sullivan...
Feb
03
Beyoncé's Halftime Show Blows Up Twitter
Label: Lifestyle By Maggie Coughlan 02/03/2013 at 08:55 PM EST Was the Beyoncé Bowl everything you anticipated and more?While the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers prepared to make football history at the Super Bowl, fans counted down the moments until Beyoncé took the stage.
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New rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation's schools.For the first time, the government is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out...
Asian shares edge higher after U.S. jobs, ISM
Label: BusinessTOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares edged higher on Monday, buoyed by U.S. data which maintained expectations for a mild recovery and continued loose Federal Reserve monetary policy to support it, bolstered by solid manufacturing data from Europe and China. The yen hit its lowest since August 2008 against the Australian and New Zealand dollars early on Monday and stuck near lows against the...
Cyprus Complicates German Quest to Save Euro Zone
Label: WorldAndreas Manolis/ReutersBondholders argued with a Bank of Cyprus employee Thursday during a protest in Nicosia. Russian influence has complicated the possibility of a bailout. PARIS — When German officials said they would save the euro zone at all costs, the prospect of bailing out Russian oligarchs was not what they had in mind. But eight months before a crucial election in Germany, Chancellor...
Take-Two delays launch of Grand Theft Auto V video game
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Take-Two Interactive Software Inc said on Thursday it has pushed back the launch of the latest game from its hit “Grand Theft Auto” franchise to September 17 from its previously announced release window of spring 2013.Shares of Take-Two were down six percent at $ 12.31 in early afternoon trading on the Nasdaq.The delay was to allow Take-Two’s Rockstar Games studio, which develops “Grand...
Feb
02
Busy Philipps Feels No Pressure to Bounce Back After Baby
Label: Lifestyle David Livingston/GettyBusy Philipps may be willing to dish out style advice to fellow expectant mamas — but she’s not about to start breaking out the postpartum weight loss lectures.Currently pregnant with her second child, the Cougar Town star admits that while her celebrity status opens her up for public scrutiny, she’s not planning a big bounceback after baby.“Like most things in this business,...
Venezuela's Maduro accuses rival of "conspiring" against country
Label: HealthCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro accused opposition leader Henrique Capriles on Saturday of "conspiring" against the OPEC nation during meetings in neighboring Colombia, stepping up his attacks on his most likely potential election rival. The government is upbeat about President Hugo Chavez's recovery from cancer surgery in Cuba. But the socialist maverick...
Egypt’s Government Apologizes After a Beating Is Televised
Label: WorldTara Todras-Whitehill for The New York TimesA funeral protest on Saturday in Cairo for Mohammed Hussein Korani, 23, who died Friday night in clashes with the police. More Photos »CAIRO — Egypt’s interior minister offered a rare apology on Saturday after officers under his command were seen on television beating a naked man two blocks from the presidential palace. But under what his family said was...
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