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Singer Rihanna is reportedly suing high street fashion chain Topshop for $5 million over t-shirts bearing her likeness.

Singer Rihanna is reportedly suing high street fashion chain Topshop for $5 million over t-shirts bearing her likeness.

kabul  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan’s disputed border with Pakistan. Kabul’s overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a new government led by two-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif...

It's high drama as a man attempts a third-floor escape from the window of his lover whose jilted husband has just come home.

Persistently high inflation may prevent incoming Bank of England Governor Mark Carney from attempting radical monetary policy to help the recovery reach "escape velocity", an influential consultancy has warned.    

British high streets were significantly busier than either out-of-town retail parks or shopping centres last month, providing hope for a retail industry that has been shaken by a series of corporate collapses.    

One-off tax surcharge cited for exceptionally high tax bills

The fight for wrestling includes the fight to keep the Olympic spirit alive in the unlikeliest of places, such as the gym where Jacob Curby practiced and competed as a teen at Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois.

We only wish this High School musical included Zac Efron, LOLz! Otherwise, this performance was pitch perfect!! High School was not the best time in many people's lives, but it may have been the best performance of the night at the Billboard Music Awards! Ch-ch-check out the video (above) to see Nicki Minaj & Lil' Wayne get us [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, according to a consumer watchdog...

Amid grumblings of a “general fatigue” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness. Today’s news headlines about the technology tend to focus on the extreme possibilities in being able to print objects on demand – from the terrors of things like a...

BrandYourself is expanding its efforts to take on the big names in the online reputation market (particularly Reputation.com) with the launch of a new version of its service. The company started out as a fairly simple self-service tool for trying to improve your presence online, for example by creating a website and other content to push down undesirable results when...

It’s been a little over a year since Google started teasing something it called “Project Glass.” The futuristic, wearable computer that would change the way that you interact with the world was nothing more than a series of rumors for months before it was “formally introduced” in April 2012. Not known for hardware and not having a current bonafide physical device...

Lets say you've come up with a brilliant idea for some shiny new piece of hardware. You brush up your coding chops, scratch out a design, and set out to build a prototype. First, you'll need a programmable chip to act as the brain. Because of the relatively gentle learning curve and friendly community, you go with the Arduino. The problem: your hardware idea requires...

Joshua Pearce, PhD, is a researcher at Michigan Tech who rearches open source and low-impact solutions to engineering problems. He is also the founder of the Printers For Peace contest, an effort to bring together clever 3D-printed ideas that have loftier aims. You can win one of two 3D printers if you submit the winning project.

If you've ever had your smartphone feel too hot after a long bout of Facebook, email, and taking photos or video, NEC hopes to solve that with its new liquid-cooled smartphone. The NEC Medias X 06E sports a liquid cooling pipe behind the display and next to the processor. NEC said this will transfer heat away from the phone's processor through repeated evaporation and...

Debtors with high interest rates on their federal student loans would refinance into cheaper loans under proposed legislation to be unveiled this week, in a move that would lower borrowers’ burdens and potentially hurt private lenders and investors.The plan sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) would force the U.S. Secretary of Education to automatically refinance...

Parts of the vast High Plains Aquifer are so low that crops can’t be watered and bridges span arid stream beds.    

NEW YORK (AP) -- The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision in law enforcement: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must pull the trigger....

Singer Rihanna is reportedly suing high street fashion chain Topshop for $5 million over t-shirts bearing her likeness.

A single winning ticket for the $590.5 million Powerball jackpot was sold in Florida, though the winner of the record-high prize has yet to come forward.

Two twisters were spotted on Saturday evening near Rozel, a sparsely populated area in central Kansas. No serious damage, deaths or injuries were reported so far.

Rafa Benitez chose not to participate in Chelsea's end-of-season guard of honour despite their 2-1 Premier League victory over Everton ensuring his final competitive match at the club ended on a high.

Liverpool finished their season on a high as Philippe Coutinho scored the only goal of the game against QPR at Anfield. He hit a wonderful 25-yard strike in the first half.

Benjamin Netanyahu raised the prospect of further Israeli strikes on Syria today, amid claims that Bashar al-Assad's regime has installed high-tech weapons aimed at hitting Tel Aviv.    

We are making it more and more difficult for Canadians to step forward and serve.

A daily miscellany of information by Michael Kesterton

A lot had to go right for L.A. to get Kershaw with the No. 7 pick in 2006 draft — including just enough going wrong in his last high school start seen by scouts.A lot had to go right for L.A. to get Kershaw with the No. 7 pick in 2006 draft — including just enough going wrong in his last high school start seen by scouts.    

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The latest high-stakes court hearing for O.J. Simpson in the glitzy capital of big gambles has come to a close with the former football star's defense team feeling confident that their client is closer to getting out of prison....

A recent Delhi high court order allowing the merger of Vodafone Essar's tower assets into Indus Towers will finally clear all legal hurdles for the tower company - a joint venture between India's top three private mobile operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular originally proposed in 2008.    

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Financial trading in world markets has grown so lightning-fast that effective regulation is growing tougher by the second, increasing the threat of crashes sparked by hoaxes, electronic glitches or yet-unknown causes.

The Wall Street Journal is now reporting via Twitter that the rumored $1.1 billion cash acquisition deal for social blogging site Tumblr has been approved by Yahoo's board of directors. The Tumblr acquisition was rumored last week, with a price tag reportedly north of $1 billion, which appears to be accurate if the WSJ's sources are correct.

Google Glass may have stolen the show at Google I/O this year, but Glass wasn’t the only pair of smart glasses displayed at the event. Enter Epson Moverio Epson used used I/O as a place to showcase its Moverio BT-100 smart glasses, with an exhibit in the YouTube Developers Sandbox showing the high-tech glasses running a virtual YouTube wall. Unlike Google Glass, which...

It was the end of the road for chargesheeted ministers Dharmana Prasada Rao and Sabita Indra Reddy with chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy making it clear to them on Sunday night that the Congress high command prefers they stay out of the state cabinet until their names are cleared.    

A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives than the parents.The pattern goes against any notion that moving to America improves every aspect of...

They say hindsight is 20/20, but according to Paul Krugman it may actually be much worse than that when it comes to economic policy-making. The Nobel-Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist wrote in a blog post Sunday that current policymakers are basing their decisions to cut spending, leading in many cases to high unemployment, on the false notion that the...

Singer Rihanna is reportedly suing high street fashion chain Topshop for $5 million over t-shirts bearing her likeness.

Michelle Obama moved more than 200 students and staff at Nashville's Martin Luther King Jr High School with her commencement speech today. Her appearance comes as the Tennessee high school battles to get more funding and improvements to their campus which they say is in a shocking state.

An amazing timelapse video of Dubai takes viewers on an incredible four-minute journey through its streets, high-speed rail, the breathtaking skyline and the visually stunning sunsets and sunrises.

Nuffield Health, the charity that runs gyms and private hospitals, is the second organisation within a fortnight to offer small investors a high-paying bond.

Editor's note: Glenn Solomon is a partner with GGV Capital. Some of his recent investments include Pandora, Successfactors, Isilon, Domo, Square, Zendesk, Quinstreet, and Nimble Storage. Stanford-born and Seattle-based Tableau Software (DATA) enjoyed a tremendous debut on the public markets on Friday, closing on its first day of trading at over $50/share,...

Prof James Hansen rebukes oil firms and Canadian government over stance on exploiting fossil fuel, which he says would make climate problem unsolvableMajor international oil companies are buying off governments, according to the world's most prominent climate scientist, Prof James Hansen. During a visit to London, he accused the Canadian government of acting as the industry's...

Man, who has not been named, was skiing along ridge with friend near Aiguille du Midi when he fell during high windsA UK citizen died after a skiiing accident in the mountains around Mont Blanc on Saturday evening.The man, who has not been named, was on a ridge near Aiguille du Midi when he fell.A second man who was with him managed to reach the nearest ski-lift.He told...

Things got a little wet and wild on the Cannes red carpet this weekend. A rainstorm hit the French fest on Saturday, presenting difficulties for arrivals at the "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" premiere.Eva Longoria experienced the weather's challenges firsthand, as the petite actress' dress dragged when she made her ascent to the red carpet. Eva's seafoam...

Most of us didn't go to high school with any royals -- we're going to guess about 99.9 percent -- but that doesn't mean we can't imagine where they'd fit in the pages of our yearbooks. Here, we've rounded up some notable queens, princes and princesses and gave them the superlatives we think they would've gotten if they were in our senior class."Most Popular" --...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President Jacob Zuma to use an air force base to land.

Singer Rihanna is reportedly suing high street fashion chain Topshop for $5 million over t-shirts bearing her likeness.

Saturday night's SA Music Awards ceremony, the Samas, was a tale of two halves for former high school friends Malehloka Hlalele and Bongeziwe Mabandla, both first-time nominees.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan. Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a new government led by two-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to take...

Seven seniors from East Carter High School in Grayson, Kentucky were informed that they were not allowed to attend their graduation over the weekend following their involvement in releasing up to 10,000 crickets as part of a prank.

Saturday's MLS action contained a bit of the good and a whole lot of the bad. While Jack McInerney continued his hot streak in front of goal and the Sounders battled to a hugely entertaining win over FC Dallas, the league also saw an unusually high number of red cards issued across all but one of its six games.

America's public education system could be on the brink of a once-in-a-generation revolution. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.

Singer Rihanna is reportedly suing high street fashion chain Topshop for $5 million over t-shirts bearing her likeness.

Saturday night's SA Music Awards ceremony, the Samas, was a tale of two halves for former high school friends Malehloka Hlalele and Bongeziwe Mabandla, both first-time nominees.

ROME  - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession. “We hope that this government will finally start listening to us because we are losing our patience,” said Enzo Bernardis, who joined the sea of protesters...

LAHORE - FBR Chairman Ansar Javaid on Saturday directed all tax collectors to broaden the tax net and make all-out efforts to achieve the revenue targets. While chairing two separate high level meetings of all tax collectors based in Punjab province, the FBR chief reviewed thoroughly their targets and the pace of recovery of pending taxes. Chief Collector Customs Lutfullah...

The Justice Ministry notifies the High Court of its decision in response to a 2010 petition by the Palestinian owners.

The odds of someone winning tonight's $600 million Powerball jackpot are high as nearly all the possible number combinations have been bought.

Lance Stephenson scored nine of his playoff career-high 23 points during a late 11-2 run, leading Indiana past New York, 106-99

“The X-Files” remains a moody and mysterious hallmark of science fiction television, even as the show celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. But amid the conspiracies and monsters-of-the-week, there were famously funny moments, too. The episode “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” from the series’ third season remains a high point in terms of showcasing the...

Nerval's Lobster writes that a survey from the Uptime Institute "suggests something it calls 'green fatigue' is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener. 'Green fatigue' is exactly as it sounds: managers are getting tired of the increasingly difficult race to chop their PUE, or Power Usage Effectiveness. The PUE is a measure of a data center's efficiency....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Lance Stephenson scored a playoff career-high 25 points and led a late 11-2 run Saturday night, leading the Indiana Pacers past the New York Knicks, 106-99 and into the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2004....

Tennessee State University Howard C. Gentry Complex Nashville, Tennessee 1:24 P.M. CDT  MRS. OBAMA:  Yes!  (Applause.)  Wow.  Good afternoon, everyone!  Yes.  I am thrilled to be here.  And go, Royals.  You all are awesome.  (Applause.)  So proud of you.  This is very touching.  This is the only high school graduation I’m doing this year,...

Editor's note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIF’s 2013 report, "The Whole Picture: Where America’s Broadband Networks Really Stand." We’ve all heard the story: America’s broadband networks are second-rate. We pay exorbitant prices for shoddy service because broadband...

It might not be uncommon for workers to fake a sick day just to skip work, but some apparently feel the need to get a little more creative, according to a recent study.In fact, the excuses employees give their bosses for missing work can be so outlandish that 60 percent of managers say they often don't believe the reasons workers give for being absent, according to a survey...

A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.    

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Elvis Andrus had a career-high five hits, Mitch Moreland homered and Texas roughed up Anibal Sanchez in the Rangers' 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night....

Sanral's public notice on the Winelands tolling project was unlawful because the national roads agency never took a proper board decision committing to the project, the Western Cape High Court heard.

Singer Rihanna is reportedly suing high street fashion chain Topshop for $5 million over t-shirts bearing her likeness.

Saturday night's SA Music Awards ceremony, the Samas, was a tale of two halves for former high school friends Malehloka Hlalele and Bongeziwe Mabandla, both first-time nominees.