China’s last-minute decision to postpone a controversial content-filtering application on computers sold there is the latest example of the trouble that Western technology companies face doing business in the world’s fastest growing economy.
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Ahmadinejad: Neda’s death is ‘suspicious’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called the death of Neda Agha-Soltan "suspicious" and urged the country’s authorities to identify those responsible for it, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday. The 26-year-old’s death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government’s official election results since it was captured on amateur video. Within hours of its being posted online June 20, she had become the iconic victim of the Iranian government crackdown
Farrah Fawcett, sex symbol and actress, dies
Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and "Charlie’s Angels" stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, died Thursday. She was 62.
Iran: UK journalist expelled, news bureau shut
Iran has expelled a BBC journalist who had been based in the capital of Tehran, the network said Sunday.
Can Genetics Help You Find Love?
Remember the famous sweaty-T-shirt experiment? When asked to sniff men’s shirts back in 1995, women who were not on the Pill preferred the scent of men who had certain genes that were more dissimilar to their own
Iran’s Protests: Why Twitter is the Medium of the Movement
The U.S. State Department doesn’t usually take an interest in the maintenance schedules of dot-com startups. But over the weekend officials there reached out to Twitter and asked them to delay a network upgrade that was scheduled for Monday night
Do you suffer from Internet fatigue?
Do you ever get sick of your phone ringing?
Jeff Dunham, Puppet Master
For most people, being caught in an enclosed space with either a terrorist or a ventriloquist would qualify as a hostage situation. But Jeff Dunham, a ventriloquist, is perhaps the most popular stand-up comedian in the U.S. And he broke through by playing straight man to a terrorist — a fiberglass one.
International groups worry over Venezuela’s stance on free press
The United Nations and the Organization of American States said Saturday they are worried over Venezuelan government statements about an independent TV station that has criticized President Hugo Chavez. In a joint release, freedom of expression investigators Frank LaRue of the U.N
Bullying: Suicides Put a Spotlight on a Schoolyard Problem
Last month two 11-year-old boys committed suicide within 10 days of each other.