Video of a protest outside the interior ministry in Tunis on Wednesday from the blog Nawaat.As my colleagues Monica Marks and Kareem Fahim report, there were protests across Tunisia on Wednesday following the assassination of Chokri Belaid, a leader of the secular opposition.Video shot by activist bloggers for the independent Tunisian site Nawaat showed protesters rallying outside the interior ministry...
Feb
06
The Lede: Video of Protests Across Tunisia After an Opposition Leader Is Gunned Down
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Bits Blog: Most Facebook Users Have Taken a Break From the Site, Survey Finds
Labels: Technology Facebook is the most popular social network in America — roughly two-thirds of adults in the country use it on a regular basis.But that doesn’t mean they don’t get sick of it.A new survey by the Pew Research Center‘s Internet and American Life Project, conducted in December, found that 61 percent of current Facebook users admitted that they had voluntarily taken breaks from the site, for as many...
DealBook: R.B.S. to Pay $612 Million Over Rate Rigging
Labels: BusinessLONDON – The Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday struck a combined $612 million settlement with American and British authorities over accusations that it manipulated interest rates, the latest case to emerge from a broad international investigation.In an embarrassing blow to the bank, its Japanese subsidiary also pleaded guilty to criminal wrongdoing in its settlement with the Justice Department....
Feb
05
The Lede Blog: North Korean Propaganda Video Uses 'Call of Duty' and 'We Are the World' to Imagine a Brighter World, Without Manhattan
Labels: WorldLast Updated, 3:52 p.m. |UpdateWhen aliens strike, the climate goes berserk, the Russians invade, an asteroid threatens the Earth, New York City is often the first place to be destroyed. Hollywood has long used the city’s skyline to demonstrate what destruction looks like in action movies and video games. It seems as if North Korea, in seeking to show how an assault on America would play out, also...
Gadgetwise Blog: A Pocket Speaker System Hits a New Low
Labels: TechnologyFor quite a while the FoxL from Soundmatters was the gold standard of pocket-size speakers for its unusual quality-to-size ratio. It pumped out mighty good sound for a speaker so small.But the continued growth of pods, pads and phones brought new competitors, many of them proving to be worthy rivals to the FoxL.Soundmatters has not been sitting still, though. It has introduced a slimmer and sleeker...
SciTimes Update: Recent Developments in Science and Health News
Labels: LifestyleRed Bull Stratos/European Pressphoto AgencyFelix Baumgartner of Austria jumps from 24 miles up in Roswell, New Mexico. Tuesday in science, sharks with an image problem, good teeth get more dates, dog geniuses and remembering your dreams. Check out these headlines and other science news from around the Web. Supersonic Skydiver: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought...
SciTimes Update: Recent Developments in Science and Health News
Labels: HealthRed Bull Stratos/European Pressphoto AgencyFelix Baumgartner of Austria jumps from 24 miles up in Roswell, New Mexico. Tuesday in science, sharks with an image problem, good teeth get more dates, dog geniuses and remembering your dreams. Check out these headlines and other science news from around the Web. Supersonic Skydiver: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought...
DealBook: U.S. Case Details Internal Tension at S.&P.
Labels: BusinessThe subprime loans packaged as complex securities for Standard & Poor’s to rate were already failing at such a fast clip in the fall of 2006 that some analysts at the firm thought they must be seeing typographical errors.At the time, the nation’s biggest rating agency was making record profits, attaching sterling ratings to mortgage-related securities that were increasingly going bad. Inside the...
Feb
04
At War Blog: Veterans in College: Share Your Stories
Labels: World“Graduate, graduate, graduate,” the secretary of veterans affairs, Eric K. Shinseki, recently implored the audience at a conference of the Student Veterans of America. But what, exactly, will it take to ensure that veterans succeed in college?Since the post-9/11 G.I. Bill took effect in 2009, about 877,000 people, mainly veterans and their dependents, have received tuition and other college benefits...
TIMESCAST: Super Bowl Ads Recall Days Gone By
Labels: TechnologyFebruary 4, 2013By Fritzie Andrade, Zena Barakat, Emily B. Hager, Erica Berenstein and Pedro Rafael RosadoTimesCast Media+Tech: The successes and failures of this year’s Super Bowl ads. | Ang Lee on the technology behind “Life of Pi.” | An interactive project encourages action against human trafficki...
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