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A president-elect’s Cabinet choices provide an early and often-illuminating marker of where the new administration is headed in both tone and policy. The confirmation process is an enduring slice of Washington Kabuki theater, complete with contentious hearings and the thrust-and-parry of politicians scurrying to make their partisan points. But even by the usual standards, Donald Trump’s Cabinet-level selections and their hearings are displaying a stunning level of […]

“We will spend what we need to spend to get this job done,” former prime minister Tony Abbott declared in March 2014, shortly after the multi-country effort to find recently downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. When do you give up on a mystery? The torturous MH370 question Anguish in Beijing as relatives learn MH370 has gone missing on March 9, 2014. Photo: Feng Li/Getty Danica Weeks, whose […]

When it comes to the future of bitcoin, the “holy grail” has emerged as becoming the first to have a bitcoin ETF approved by the SEC. Over three years ago, in 2013, the company of the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, Winklevoss Capital Management LLC, launched the first proposed bitcoin ETF, the Winklevoss Investment Trust, looking to trade on the HFT-dominated BATS exchange. The SEC is expected […]

The government has granted an extension to the board of inquiry investigating Nationalist Party deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami following the publication of an article in Malta Today claiming: ‘Money laundering investigation was not pursued when Fenech Adami’s name cropped up’ The extension was granted following a request by Judge J. D. Camilleri, who requested permission not to submit the report this week but […]

Almost 40 years ago, German audio specialist Sennheiser set its engineers an ambitious task: to create the world’s best headphones, irrespective of cost. By 1991, the task was complete and the legendary Orpheus HE90 launched for sale with a price tag of $16,000 – about $28,000 in today’s currency. Fast-forward two decades, and Sennheiser has done it again. Its updated version of the HE90, the Orpheus HE1, […]

While the rest of the developed world woke up in a cold sweat on the first official morning of the Trump presidency, the Kremlin said that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was ready to meet President Trump but preparations for the possible meeting may take months, not weeks, according to Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “This will not be in coming weeks, let’s hope for the best – that the […]

While tech titans such as Google, Uber, and Apple along with almost every auto maker on the planet have poured resources into the development of autonomous vehicle technology, online retail giant Amazon has been relatively quiet on that front. But a recently approved patent shows the Seattle-based company could be ready to make a big move in the autonomous vehicle space. The patent doesn’t suggest […]

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KUALA LUMPUR: Four women detained by the police to facilitate investigations into the abuse of three children at a nursery in Bangi near here, have been remanded until tomorrow. The suspects were picked up yesterday. Kajang police chief ACP Othman Nanyan said the suspects were the nursery employees and owner. Two days ago, pictures of the children whose hands and feet were tied up and their mouths […]

YouTube recommendations are a prominent example of applying advanced analytics on a massive scale to improve a service, the experience users get out of it, and the bottom line of the vendor behind it — Google. Previously, we explored the rationale behind it and pondered as to how this type of analytics could be classified. It’s time to pick up where we left off and explore how […]

A day of protests on the University of Washington campus turned violent Friday evening after a 32 year old man was shot in the abdomen outside of a Milo Yiannopoulos event. The victim, currently in surgery, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, and the suspect turned himself in,  telling police he fired in self-defense. This comes on the heels of a progressively violent day on campus as Anti-Trump Protesters clashed with police and Trump supporters; throwing rocks, bricks, firecrackers, […]

Newly elected EU Parliament President Antonio Tajani has indirectly rejected claims that he backtracked on his position about the Panama Papers scandal in Malta from almost a year ago, saying that his new position as EP President precludes him from divulging his personal opinion on the matter. He also claimed that he will be willing to speak about the Panama Papers scandal after the […]

Crossroads podcast: Is there a future for sand golf in the UAE? – Ep 19 Parse Error line 0, character 0 January 21, 2017 Known as “the forgotten golf”, sand golf has a rich heritage in the UAE, beginning with the early oil exploration camps in the 1950s. Only a few course remain in the UAE, and some are worried they could soon disappear. Source link

Apple has filed a $1bn lawsuit against Qualcomm accusing the chipmaker of abusing a monopoly position, after the US and South Korean regulators argued it exploited its market dominance at the expense of handset makers. Shares in Qualcomm fell 2.4 per cent to $62.88 just before the markets closed on Friday when the lawsuit was published. This is the first direct challenge by one of Qualcomm’s major […]

As the nation’s capital prepared to celebrate the inauguration of the nation’s 45th President, Senators confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominees for Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Retired Generals James (“Mad Dog”) Mattis and John F. Kelly were approved by votes of 98-1 and 88-11, respectively. Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican, did not vote for either candidate. […]

President Trump’s brief inaugural speech was a declaration of war against the entirety of the American Ruling Establishment. All of it. As Paul Craig Roberts details, Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans’ enemies are right here at home: globalists, neoliberal economists, neoconservatives and other unilateralists accustomed to imposing the US on the world and involving us in endless and expensive wars, politicians who serve the Ruling […]

PETALING JAYA: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is not just about investment in the manufacturing industry alone as the country has outgrown that model, said Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan (pic). In response to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s criticism of the Forest city project, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said in order for Malaysia to progress into a high income nation, the country needs to develop other […]

In the waning months of the Obama administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Civil Rights took modest steps toward repairing its tattered image. The office, which investigates complaints from communities alleging environmental racism, has issued new manuals to govern how cases are handled; given a strong rebuke to a state environmental agency; and rescinded a proposed rule that would have removed deadlines for resolving cases. It […]

Washington Post reporter Dalton Bennett thrown to the ground by riot police. pic.twitter.com/4I442QhEqM — Alex Emmons (@AlexanderEmmons) January 20, 2017 Dalton Bennett, a political video reporter at The Washington Post, was thrown to the ground by police today while covering the protests against President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. According to reporter Alex Emmons, who’s covering the protests for The Intercept, Bennett was trying to record anti-Trump […]

NEW DELHI: India and 29 countries discussed their findings on investigations arising from the Panama Papers, including the role of tax intermediaries such as financial institutions and advisers in tax evasion. The two-day meeting of the Joint International Taskforce on Shared Intelligence and Collaboration (JITSIC) in Paris saw revenue authorities of 30 countries sharing their best practices and information based on legal instruments under the tax treaties […]

Just hours after President Trump was sworn into office, amid Chuck Schumer’s jabs over HUD, the Senate has confirmed retired Marine General James Mattis as defense secretary and retired Marine General John Kelly as homeland security secretary. They were both expected to be confirmed easily, and were, but Democrats promised fights over several other nominees. Mattis was the first to be confirmed by a vote of 98 […]

A driver sits in an Uber self-driving car in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 13, 2016 Evangelists for driverless cars see a bright future coming down the road: thousands of lives saved, countless driving hours freed up, cityscapes transformed with traffic jams vanquished. But the new technology also threatens millions of jobs and raises a slew of ethical dilemmas—prospects that were on the minds of business chiefs and […]

British investigators have opened “fresh lines of inquiry” into bribery and corruption at several companies, thanks to evidence gathered in a four-year investigation into illegal behaviour at Rolls-Royce. Ben Morgan, joint head of bribery and corruption at the Serious Fraud Office, told the Financial Times that information collected on a network of corrupt middlemen operating on behalf of Rolls-Royce and other companies was being pieced together “not […]

It’s official: at exactly noon on January 20, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the US. Supreme Court Chief Justice United States John Roberts administered the oath of office to Trump, as he vowed to “faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States.”  As he took the oath, Trump placed his hand on the Bible used by President Lincoln at […]

By: ANI | Islamabad | Published:January 19, 2017 9:59 am Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son Hussain Nawaz earned USD 1.9 million which he remitted to his father as a gift in 2011. (File) The Pakistan Supreme Court (SC) has directed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son Hussain Nawaz to explain how he earned USD 1.9 million which he remitted to his father as a gift in 2011. […]

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