BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels took full control of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on Monday after fighting raged for days in the district on the southern edge of President Bashar al-Assad's Damascus powerbase, rebel and Palestinian sources said. The battle had pitted rebels, backed by some Palestinians, against Palestinian fighters of the pro-Assad Popular Front for the Liberation...
Asian markets mostly higher on US fiscal hopes
Labels: Technology HONG KONG: Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday, taking a lead from Wall Street as dealers grow confident US lawmakers will reach an agreement to avert the fiscal cliff.Continued weakness of the yen helped send Japanese shares surging for a second straight session as Shinzo Abe prepares to take over as prime minister, vowing to press a more aggressive policy of monetary easing.Tokyo rose...
DARPA wants to build 100Gbps wireless military network
Labels: LifestyleDefense researchers are looking to update the wireless platform currently used for military communications to deliver 100Gbps connections.While fiber-optic cables provide the long-haul backbone for most data and voice communications networks without issue, radio signals often face electronic interference and degradation over long distances, resulting in reduced communications efficiency to soldiers...
More details about Newtown school gunman emerge
Labels: Health NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Like a lot of people who interacted with Lanza, Dot Stansy said he was "just quiet" Adam Lanza./AP Photo "On one side, he did something unspeakable, but on the other, that's not how I remember him," Stansy said. "I remember him as the nice kid that, you know, I sat near to in class. We'd joked, he'd laugh, that kind of thing." Investigators probe life of mass-murderer Adam LanzaIn...
Gunman's Computer Damaged, Drive Possibly Ruined
Labels: Business A computer at the Connecticut home where Newtown, Conn., school shooter Adam Lanza lived with his mother was badly damaged, perhaps smashed with a hammer, said police who hope the machine might still yield clues to the gunman's motive.The computer's hard drive appeared to have been badly damaged with a hammer or screw driver, law enforcement authorities told ABC News, complicating...
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U.N. chief alarmed by escalating violence in Syria
Labels: WorldUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm on Sunday at the worsening violence in Syria, including the reported mass killing of Alawites and alleged firing of long-range missiles on Syrian territory, Ban's spokesman said. "The Secretary-General is alarmed by the continued dramatic escalation of violence in Syria over the past several days, and the grave...
Mind-controlled hand offers hope for the paralysed
Labels: Technology PARIS: Pentagon-backed scientists on Monday announced they had created a robot hand that was the most advanced brain-controlled prosthetic limb ever made.The mind-powered prosthesis is a breakthrough, the team of neurologists and bio-engineers reported in The Lancet.With further development "individuals with long-term paralysis could recover the natural and intuitive command signals for...
Cisco rumored to be putting Linksys up for sale
Labels: LifestyleCisco Systems is said to be in the works of selling off home wireless router-maker Linksys, according to Bloomberg. Cisco has reportedly tapped financial services company Barclays to help it find a Linksys buyer. According to Bloomberg, the hope is that TV set makers may be interested in purchasing the company. The networking-equipment maker bought Linksys for $500 million in 2003 as a way to facilitate...
Newtown church evacuated after phone threat
Labels: Health NEWTOWN, Conn. Police say there's no danger at a Connecticut church following a phoned-in threat days after 20 children and six adults were massacred at a school.Deborah Metz, a Trumbull police officer on the scene, gave the all-clear after an hour in which armed police in SWAT gear searched the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church and adjacent buildings.The evacuation unnerved worshipers in the...
Obama Visits Families of Conn. Shooting Victims
Labels: Business President Obama has started visiting with families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, in which a gunman killed 20 young children and six adults in the school.A White House official told ABC News that the president was meeting with the families devastated by this tragedy in classrooms at Newtown High School.Assuming a consoling role that has become all...
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