A little history at Roland Garros today: Li Na defeated defending champ Francesca Schiavone of Italy to win the French Open and claim China’s first Grand Slam title, reports Bloomberg . The 29-year-old is part of a burgeoning crop of female tennis players from China nicknamed the “Golden Flowers” by state…
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Watch India vs West Indies t20 2011 India vs West Indies Highlights T20, 04/06/2011 TEN CRICKET HD hashipl says: RT @dhavalpgk : There is India vs West Indies T20 match going on. Nobody is tweeting about it. #IPL has screwed up everything
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Continue reading …The specter of imprisonment usually doesn’t include poolside parties, dance clubs, weapons galore, and easy access to BlackBerries. But San Antonio penitentiary, located on Venezuela’s Margarita Island, isn’t usual. Though its 2,000 inmates risk being shot by guards if caught venturing outside the walls, the New York Times reports…
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Popping ballons is fun, but this dog takes things to the next level. Bunk, as he is called in the video, is a 2-year-old pup who gets a very special birthday surprise. It seems to be the thrill of a lifetime for him. You have to check out the video (which is starting to go viral on Reddit) where he goes absolutely nuts over a room filled with balloons, stopping at nothing to take down as many as he can. If only simple things like this brought us all as much joy as it brings Bunk. WATCH:
Continue reading …Operation Cupcake: British Spies Hack Al-Qaeda’s Magazine to Replace Bombs With Cupcakes
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Molotov cocktails? More like mojito cupcakes. In a cyber-warfare operation, British spies successfully hacked al-Qaeda’s English language magazine, Inspire, and replaced bombmaking instructions with a list of cupcakes. Victory has never tasted so sweet. (MORE: The New Pentagon Cyber-Strategy) The magazine is published quarterly and distributed as a pdf file. But as a result of
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Ross Rubin contributes Reserve Power , a column focused on personal perspectives and products. Last week’s Reserve Power introduced six handset stands for propping up your miniature movie theater. This week’s column takes on a half-dozen more, names my favorites, and concludes with a chart detailing which phones fit which stands. Continue reading Reserve Power: Stand Off, Part 2 Reserve Power: Stand Off, Part 2 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only career U.S. foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, died Saturday. He was 80. Eagleburger died in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a short illness, according to a family friend. Two of his one-time bosses, former President George H.W. Bush…
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Two rare cubs – called ligers – were recently born to a male lion and a female tiger in a zoo in eastern China. The cubs were abandoned by their mother, and they now are being nursed by a dog there, along with four other white tiger cubs. (June 4)
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