LONDON (Reuters) – Gold steadied on Thursday as the dollar fell following minutes from the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting showing the U.S. central bank was unlikely to raise interest rates in June.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Maria Luisa de Martinez is one of the staunchest defenders of the memory of slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero…. - Source
Google has confirmed that it is making changes to its Google Maps service to stop racist terms and other inappropriate words from displaying location search results. The issue blew up this week after searches for “n*****” or “nigga” were found to pull up the White House and other locations associated with African Americans and other ethnic minorities. Read More
As the Modi government completes one year, railway minister Suresh Prabhu talks to Sagarika Ghose about the achievements and missteps so far. - Source
SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean appeals court ordered the release on Friday of a former Korean Air Lines executive convicted after an outburst over the way she had been served macadamia nuts, suspending her jail sentence.
ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) – The mobile technology that helps Walt Disney Co theme park guests beat lines and pay for Mickey Mouse ears at the company’s flagship resort in Florida will expand in some form to other Disney resorts, Chief Operating Officer Tom Staggs said.
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady and slightly revised up its assessment of the economy on Friday, signalling that it sees no need to expand stimulus again on the near-term horizon.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Oil ministry has set interim rules that exempt state-run upstream companies from giving any discount on crude and refined fuel sales if global oil prices average up to $60 a barrel this quarter, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The Nubia Z9, which was made official by ZTE earlier this month and is only available in China, was sold out in just 10 minutes, according to a GizmoChina report. The device went on sale in the country yesterday.
The handset is available in three versions – Classic, Elite, and Exclusive – which are priced at CNY3,499 ($565), CNY3,999 ($645), and CNY4,499 ($726), respectively. It’s worth mentioning that the Classic and Elite variants are also up for international pre-orders from online retailer OppoMart.
The news comes just a few days after the company launched the Nubia Z9 Mini in India, where it is priced at INR 16,999…
Of course by letting a machine do your fruit peeling for you, you lose a good amount of the orange and don’t get that fresh citrus scent on your hands but you do get an orange that’s ready to eat in seconds! I have to say though, I’d love to see this machine tackle more miserable fruits that aren’t even meant to be peeled.
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When Madame Tussauds nails a wax sculpture, they really nail it. And for Star Wars at Madame Tussauds in London, they perfectly recreated pretty much every character in the saga in such lifelike detail that it looks like the sculptors and artists are just applying makeup to the real actors in this behind the scenes footage.
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Up to 21,000 gallons of crude oil reached the sea near Santa Barbara after a leak in a pipeline linking a large offshore rig to refineries.
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The investment bank, eager to court technology businesses while a boom is luring billions of investor dollars, held its annual meeting in San Francisco.
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