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The Times Editorial: The pictures of rebel soldiers in the Central African Republic driving captured South African military vehicles rammed the message deep into our open wounds.

Ivan Lendl still has a flight booked from America to Paris this week as Andy Murray keeps alive his chances of playing in the French Open, which begins next Sunday.

Chile's Mark Tullo hit a four-under-par round of 68 to wrest the overall clubhouse lead from Craig Lee on the penultimate day of the Madeira Islands Open.

Simon Hughes: Joe Root's innings added to the impression he can open with Alastair Cook.    

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mikejuk writes "The new Arduino robot looks a bit like a robot vacuum cleaner, but it has a lot more going for it and it certainly doesn't suck — well not unless you add an air pump to it. As always, the Arduino Robot is completely open source and comes as an easy to assemble kit involving no soldering, just some plugging in of components. It consists of two circular...

See, inspiration goes beyond what you get after watching your favorite celebrity perform for thousands of fans at a concert. If you really open up your eyes and pay attention to the people around you, you'd realize we are literally drowning in inspiration every day.

ROME (AP) -- Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will renew their rivalry in the Italian Open final Sunday - exactly a week before the French Open starts....

Morocco is ploughing ahead with a programme to boost wind energy production, particularly in the southern Tarfaya region, where Africa's largest wind farm is set to open in 2014.

The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway. Startup incubators had been a highly visible part of the dot-com crash, and Silicon Valley was still skeptical of the concept nearly a decade later. So YC set out to be something different -- a community of hackers building companies...

Did Google's conference succeed? It launched dozens of products in its 205-minute keynote, but did the world understand them? I saw some of the smartest journalists in technology struggling to handle the information density. But what's the alternative? Break it up across multiple days, or even multiple conferences? Google's breadth presents it with a challenge unique among...

It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200m+ monthly active users, and 600bn messages – but Hike’s growth is impressive when...

"Facebook was not originally created to be a company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012. "It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." In the year since the Facebook IPO, some things haven't changed: Zuckerberg still sports...

Rom (SID) - Im Finale des ATP-Masters im Rom kommt es am Sonntag zum Top-Duell zwischen dem siebenmaligen French-Open-Sieger Rafael Nadal (Spanien) und dem Schweizer Grand-Slam-Rekordchampion Roger F...

Police say member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party ambushed by two bikersA senior female member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party (PTI) was shot dead outside her home in Karachi on Saturday.Reports suggested that Zahra Shahid Hussain, who was senior vice-president of the PTI, was killed while resisting an attempted robbery in the upmarket Defence neighbourhood...

Review by Organisation of American States on illicit drugs 'could mark beginning of the end' of prohibitionEuropean governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a "gamechanging" report on global drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for blanket prohibition.Publication of the Organisation of American States (OAS)...

La creciente importancia de la comunidad hispana ha impulsado este ambicioso proyecto

Serena Williams says she hopes to improve her game for the French Open after easing into the Rome Open final with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Simona Halep.

The Times Editorial: The pictures of rebel soldiers in the Central African Republic driving captured South African military vehicles rammed the message deep into our open wounds.

The retailer's new Williamsburg, Brooklyn, location, which will open soon, has applied for a full liquor license and is expected to have a full bar within the venue.

ROME (AP) -- A week out from the French Open, Serena Williams is only one victory away from winning her fourth straight tournament....

VIENNA (Reuters) - Alpine, the Austrian unit of Spanish construction group FCC , will hold talks with its owners on how to meet its financing needs and has many options open, Chief Executive Arnold Schiefer said.

The Times Editorial: The pictures of rebel soldiers in the Central African Republic driving captured South African military vehicles rammed the message deep into our open wounds.

Take-up of the bond has raced through its £15million target as investors flocked to the offering, which the UK racecourse owner created to raise money for the redevelopment of its flagship Cheltenham course.

London five-year-old Chloe Johnson dies in water park of Coral Sea Waterworld hotel in Sharm el-SheikhA five-year-old girl from south London has drowned in a hotel pool at an Egyptian resort in Sharm el-Sheikh.Chloe Johnson, from Forest Hill in south London, died in a water park at the Coral Sea Waterworld hotel while on a family holiday.Her grandmother told Sky News on...

The Times Editorial: The pictures of rebel soldiers in the Central African Republic driving captured South African military vehicles rammed the message deep into our open wounds.

Hundreds expected to attend 3-day festival in Portuguese capital set to open on May 22.

Cherie Blair's multi-million-pound private healthcare venture, with plans to open clinics in supermarkets across the country has been hit by a succession of disappointing setbacks.

Scotland's Craig Lee will take a one-shot lead into the weekend's action at the Madeira Islands Open following a second round that was suspended at one stage by fog.

Rafa Benitez has left the door open for what would be a sensational move for Everton. Benitez managed Liverpool between 2004 and 2010.

Mr. Venturi won the 1964 United States Open, nearly collapsing from heat exhaustion. He later became a chief golf analyst for CBS Sports, where he worked for 35 years.    

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic wasted a chance to serve out the match and was beaten by sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the Italian Open quarterfinals in Rome.    

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82....

Chaz Bono is continuing to open up about his amazing 60-pound weight loss. "I'm feeling really good," Bono, 44, tells People. "Physically, my body feels just so...

Chaz Bono is continuing to open up about his amazing 60-pound weight loss. "I'm feeling really good," Bono, 44, tells People. "Physically, my body feels just so...

The UK’s lax and disjointed listing regime has helped to open the door to questionable overseas entrants, changing the make-up of the indices

OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site. OMICS cites India's terrible Information Technology Act as the basis for its threats. However, it [...]    

Marina Litvinenko speaks out after coroner agrees to exclude material suggesting Russian agencies were involved in killingThe widow of Alexander Litvinenko has launched a blistering attack on William Hague and David Cameron, accusing them of sabotaging the inquest into her husband's murder and hiding the Russian state's role in his death.Marina Litvinenko said she was...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has kept a tight lid on her personal life during her rise to power, but as she seeks a third four-year term in September, she has cracked open the door.    

The Times Editorial: The pictures of rebel soldiers in the Central African Republic driving captured South African military vehicles rammed the message deep into our open wounds.

Barcelona stars Gerard Pique and Alex Song appear to have been scrapping while on top of the team's double-decker bus to celebrate their La Liga triumph.

Rafa Benitez has left the door open for what would be a sensational move for Everton. Benitez managed Liverpool between 2004 and 2010.

People who work for themselves will no longer have to worry about onerous health and safety rules.    

Sitting out Paris to focus on Wimbledon never worked for Ivan Lendl, but is being considered by his pupil, writes Simon Briggs.    

An anonymous reader writes "The Australian government has secretly censored over 1,000 web sites through a hitherto-unused internet censorship law. In April the Melbourne Free University was blocked without any explanation. Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act allows the government to close web sites without warning to "uphold laws, protect public revenue and safeguard...

Novak Djokovic ist in Rom im Viertelfinale gescheitert und befindet sich kurz vor Beginn der French Open weiter im Formtief. Der Serbe unterlag Tomas Berdych mit 6:2, 5:7, 4:6.

All this month, we've been telling you about a fantastic challenge from the Encyclopedia of Life. Called Armchair Taxonomist, it's an opportunity to research and write about different plants, animals, fungi, and microscopic organisms — and, in the process, help move scientific information from places where it's hard for most people to see, to an [...]    

In an urgent, important blog post, computer scientist and security expert Ed Felten lays out the case against rules requiring manufacturers to put wiretapping backdoors in their communications tools. Since the early 1990s, manufacturers of telephone switching equipment have had to follow a US law called CALEA that says that phone switches have to have [...]    

Dispensaries selling cannabis bath salts, 'bud-tenders' advising on blends, even a marijuana university. As Colorado gears up for legalisation, we get the dope on Denver's 'green rush'I'm being driven around Denver by America's first professional stoner. William Breathes is the marijuana critic for the award-winning local paper Westword. Every week for the past three years,...

Number of primary schools with more than 1,000 pupils has risen by 60% in past three yearThe number of supersize primary schools – some of which have more than 1,000 pupils – has soared by 60% in three years, triggering a fierce debate among educationists about whether tens of thousands of young children are getting the attention they need.Department for Education...

Nelson Mandela said to be furious with daughters for trying to manipulate trusts to advance their businessesNelson Mandela was "furious" that two of his daughters went behind his back to meddle in the management of his personal wealth, his lawyer has claimed in a case that exposes ugly battles over the lucrative Mandela brand.Makaziwe and Zenani Mandela allegedly amended...

Novak Djokovic ist vor den French Open noch nicht in Form. Mark Cavendish gewinnt seine vierte Etappe bei der Giro d'Italia, Bradley Wiggins muss die Rundfahrt beenden. Hannover 96 verlängert mit Kapitän Cherundolo.     

Owning firm with indicted husband does not make Cristina criminally responsible, says Balearics' top lawyer

His friendship with ex-PM José María Aznar was a key factor in his appointment

The Times Editorial: The pictures of rebel soldiers in the Central African Republic driving captured South African military vehicles rammed the message deep into our open wounds.

Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere

You want more than just an autograph? Go to Hallmark.

The announcement comes less than 10 days before the start of the French Open.

Barcelona stars Gerard Pique and Alex Song appear to have been scrapping while on top of the team's double-decker bus to celebrate their La Liga triumph.

Maria Sharapova withdraws from Italian Open due to illness, just days before the defence of her Roland Garros title.    

An anonymous reader writes "A meta-study published yesterday looked at over 12,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate science that appeared in journals between 1991 and 2011. The papers were evaluated and categorized by how they implicitly or explicitly endorsed humans as a contributing cause of global warming. The meta-study found that an overwhelming 97.1% of the papers...

dp619 writes "The tactic of patenting open source software to guard against patent trolls and the weaponization of corporate patent portfolios is gaining momentum in the FOSS community. Organizations including the Open Innovation Network, Google and Red Hat have built defensive patent portfolios (the latter two are defending their product lines). This approach has limitations....

Wednesday, May 22 * White House – As part of their “In Performance at the White House” series, the President and First Lady will host a concert in the East Room honoring singer-songwriter Carole King, who will be awarded the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.  President Obama will present the award as he did when the Library...

May 17, 2013 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Modernizing Federal Infrastructure Review and Permitting Regulations, Policies, and Procedures Reliable, safe, and resilient infrastructure is the backbone of an economy built to last. Investing in our Nation's infrastructure serves as an engine for job creation and economic growth, while...

Researchers have shown that, by using global positioning systems (GPS) to measure ground deformation caused by a large underwater earthquake, they can provide accurate warning of the resulting tsunami in just a few minutes after the earthquake onset. For the devastating Japan 2011 event, the team reveals that the analysis of the GPS data and issue of a detailed tsunami...

Shares in JM Financial Ltd rose as much as 10 percent at the pre-open on Friday after the company said former Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit was buying a stake in the Indian financial services company.

Now that Defense Distributed is on the defensive, it's time to think a bit harder about what 3D printing really means. To that end, Michigan Tech is sponsoring a Printers For Peace contest that is encouraging designers and engineers to make amazing stuff using a 3D printer that can change the world for the better. "Unfortunately, the only thing many people know about 3D...

I like little notebooks. I need a place for my introspective musings. Moleskine notebooks are fine. But now there's DODOnotes, a clever little notebook *slash* iPhone holder that could soon earn a place in my pocket. This contraption is from DODOcase, the same San Francisco-based startup that created the make-a-tablet-look-like-a-book craze. DODOnotes costs $13.95 and...

The U.S. Department of Defense has officially approved Apple's iPhones and iPads for use on its networks, as expected. In an announcement issued Friday morning, the agency said it has certified iOS devices running iOS 6, granting them the same security approvals it issued to BlackBerry and Samsung last week. A crucial endorsement, and one that should open the door to lucrative...

Rom (SID) - Der Weltranglistenerste Novak Djokovic ist beim ATP-Masters in Rom im Viertelfinale gescheitert und befindet sich neun Tage vor Beginn der French Open (26. Mai bis 9. Juni) weiter im Form...

Coroner upholds Foreign Office application to withhold material as critics claim move subordinates justice to UK trade with RussiaThe inquest into the death of Alexander Litvinenko is close to collapse after a coroner partially upheld an application by William Hague to keep crucial evidence secret.The coroner, Sir Robert Owen, reluctantly agreed to exclude material from...

Inquest hears that British construction worker died from a single gunshot wound to the head on 8 March 2012, months after being kidnapped in NigeriaA British construction worker was murdered by his kidnappers just minutes after a joint UK and Nigerian rescue operation stormed into the compound where he was held, an inquest has heard.Chris McManus, a quantity surveyor from...

Centrist politician opened the party to society, but at the cost of electoral clout

It was the Popular Party that fuelled the property bubble