Five people were arrested Monday following a global “cyber heist” in which hackers stole $45 million by overriding the cash withdrawal limits of prepaid debit cards, US officials said. According to the US Justice Department, those arrested were said to be members of the New York cell of...
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Justice Dept. arrests five in $45 million ‘cyber heist’
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Alabama school apologizes for ‘Trail of Tears’ football sign
An Alabama high school principal has issued a public apology after the school’s cheerleading squad invoked the Indian Removal Act of 1830 during a football game, Native News Online reported on Monday. Cheerleaders for McAdory High School in McCalla, 21 miles from Birmingham, used the sign...
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Bitcoin supporters testify before U.S. Senate
Bitcoin supporters told a US Senate hearing the virtual currency unit should not be viewed negatively by authorities despite its links to crime. The currency has been linked to a series of high-profile criminal cases in recent months, most notably in the raid on the Silk Road website, dubbed the...
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Sarah Silverman tells Chris Hayes: ‘I think vaginas really, really scare people’
While MSNBC host Chris Hayes went to great lengths on Monday to talk about comedy’s role in addressing a sensitive issue like abortion, comedian Sarah Silverman defined the issue much more bluntly for him. “I think vaginas really, really scare people, honestly,” Silverman told...
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‘Selfie’ tops ‘twerk’ as Oxford’s word of the year
Selfie is the 2013 word of the year, Oxford Dictionaries announced Tuesday, edging out some stiff competition from twerk. Usage of the word has increased 17,000 percent over the past 12 months, said Oxford Dictionaries, which publishes the mammoth Oxford English Dictionary (OED), styled as the...
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Tribes from 17 countries converge on Brazil for Indigenous Games
Leaving a cloud of dust in his wake, a burly warrior of a man rushes into view carrying a huge log on his shoulder. His face painted and grimacing with the effort, he heaves it on to a teammate and keeps running as if his life depended on it as he chases a victory for his tribe in Brazil’s...
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Frenchman deemed too fat to fly gets plane ticket
A Frenchman deemed too fat too fly has finally secured a plane ticket back to Europe after an alternate plan to return by ship fell through, his father said. Kevin Chenais — who has a hormone imbalance and came to the United States for treatment — is due to take an evening Virgin flight...
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Indonesia reviews cooperation with Australia after spy claims
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Tuesday that Indonesia is reviewing cooperation with Canberra following allegations that Australian spy agencies tried to listen to his phone calls and those of his wife and ministers. He said in a tweet that Jakarta is “reviewing the bilateral...
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Jon Stewart rips Chris Wallace for comparing Obamacare to Katrina: ‘You might be out of your f*cking mind’
While Jon Stewart went to town on Monday on media outlets for parroting Republicans and comparing the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) troubled implementation to Hurricane Katrina, he stopped for a second to address Fox News Chris Wallace for saying Katrina “ended within a week,” while...
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‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is to get sequel 60 years later
Follow-up planned to Christmas classic starring James Stewart, with sequel drawing on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Feelgood 1946 Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life is to get an unlikely sequel more than 60 years on, it has been revealed. It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the...
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For Pope Francis the liberal, this promises to be a very bloody Sunday
Francis is the poster pope for progressives. But canonizing a genocidal missionary like Junípero Serra epitomizes the Catholic history problem. He is a pin-up for liberals and progressives, “the obvious new hero of the left“. So says the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland of Pope...
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Surviving members of Monty Python to reunite for live stage show
Five surviving Python members to reveal the Holy Grail of comedy reunion plans at press conference on Thursday. The five surviving members of the Monty Python team are to reform for a stage show, bringing to an end years of will-they-won’t-they speculation about one of the most popular and...
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The feminist principles behind International Men’s Day
Men already dominate political and corporate hierachies, but feminism, currently healthier than ever, is doing solid work to support fathers who choose to stay at home with their children. Do men face discrimination? I don’t mean gay men or black men or poor, uneducated men or even short men....
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Accuracy questioned in new Alan Turing film ‘The Imitation Game’
Film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley accused of romanticizing pioneering scientist’s life Alan Turing’s niece Inagh Payne has questioned the accuracy of The Imitation Game, the forthcoming biopic of her uncle, the codebreaker and pioneering computer scientist, starring...
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China praises Korean assassin whom Japan calls a ‘criminal’
China and South Korea are to cooperate on a memorial to a Korean national hero who assassinated a Japanese official a century ago, provoking a diplomatic row Tuesday. Relationships between all three neighbours are heavily coloured by history, while both Beijing and Seoul are embroiled in separate...
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Kenya’s Westgate mall attackers spent four month’s planning in Nairobi
All four gunmen who attacked Kenya’s Westgate mall trained in Somalia before crossing into Kenya four months before the September massacre in which they also died, a Western official said Tuesday. crowded complex, firing from the hip and hurling grenades at shoppers and staff. Somalia’s...
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Rare oolong could fetch $129,000 at Hong Kong’s first tea auction
Rare teas more than half a century old will take centre stage at Hong Kong’s first tea auction, with a prized narcissus oolong variety expected to fetch HK$1 million ($129,000), organisers said Tuesday. More than 40 lots of vintage tea leaves from private collectors in mainland China, Hong...
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Obama to ask Senate to postpone Iran sanctions
President Barack Obama will personally urge powerful US senators Tuesday to hold off on imposing more sanctions on Iran, to allow high stakes nuclear talks to succeed. Obama will meet leading members of key Senate committees on the eve of the next round of talks between world powers and Iran in...
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Tests show actress Brittany Murphy may have died from rat poison
Father commissions reports after 2009 death of troubled 8 Mile actor initially ruled as caused by pneumonia A toxicology report commissioned by Brittany Murphy’s father has suggested that the 8 Mile actor did not die from natural causes, as was previously thought. After Murphy’s death...
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Google Maps will speed up efforts to replace satellite image depicting slain teen’s body
Google will fast-track its efforts to replace a satellite image from its map service that shows the body of a slain California teenager. The Google Maps image shows police standing near the body of 14-yeart-old Kevin Barerra, who was found shot to death in 2009 along some railroad tracks in...
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