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Home Alone Actor Dies Aged 71
The actor John Heard, best known for his role in the Home Alone films, has died at the age of 71. Heard was found dead...
Lyft Team Steers Toward Open Self-Driving Tech
US ride-share startup Lyft on Friday dedicated a new team focused on speeding up its effort to create a self-driving...
Solar Eclipse Offers Millions A Chance At Citizen Science
Millions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort to...
‘Mystery’ Signal From Space Is Solved. It’s Not Aliens
Astronomers have finally solved the mystery of peculiar signals coming from a nearby star, a story that sparked intense...
Fugitive Monk Extradited To Thailand For Allegedly ‘raping Girl, 14’
A flamboyant fugitive monk accused of raping a 14-year-old girl has been extradited back to Thailand after fleeing to...
Prof. Kofi Gyimah-Boadi Wins 2017 Martin Luther King Prize
The Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Professor Gyimah Boadi has been awarded the 2017...
Volkswagen Fined $154 Mn More In US For Dieselgate
Volkswagen must pay an additional $154 million to California to settle state environmental charges in the latest...
Dallas Cowboys Defender Lewis To Stand Trial For Domestic Violence
Dallas Cowboys rookie cornerback Jourdan Lewis will stand trial next week on a domestic violence charge, one the NFL...
Words With Friends Will Be Turned Into A TV Show
MGM Television and Zynga are partnering to develop a new television game show based on “Words With Friends,” the...
Thai Court To Charge Disgraced Ex-Monk With Rape
A Thai court was set Thursday to charge a disgraced ex-monk with raping an under-age girl, fraud and money laundering...
Facebook To Test News Story Paywalls
Facebook will test limiting the number of published news stories that can be read for free on its Instant Articles...
Earth Is Becoming ‘Planet Plastic’
US scientists have calculated the total amount of plastic ever made and put the number at 8.3 billion tonnes. It is an...
Kanye Pushes Back Against Fan Suit On Exclusive Album Deal
Kanye West is fighting back against a lawsuit by a fan who says the rapper duped listeners into subscribing to the...
A Disney Man To Infinity and Beyond
When John Lasseter was at high school he borrowed a weighty hardback called "The Art of Animation" and was astonished...
Microsoft Cloud To Help Baidu Self-Driving Car Effort
Microsoft's cloud computing platform will be used outside China for collaboration by members of a self-driving car...
The Top 10 You Never Knew!
There are lots of black Hollywood actors and actresses who are making waves in the international movie scene. We are...
I’m Not Desperate As Delay Who Hops From One Hotel To Another – Nana Tornado
TV Character with numerous facial piercings who starred in Delay’s Afia Schwarzenegger TV Series, Nana Tornado...
California Extends Tough Climate Policy Measures To 2030
California legislators late Monday approved extending the state's tough measures to fight climate change to 2030, a...
Lithuania To Extradite $100 Mn Email Fraud Suspect To US
A Lithuanian man who allegedly swindled $100 million (87 million euros) from tech giants Google and Facebook must be...