January 18, 2014
WASHINGTON DC: The malware used to steal the personal data of 70 million Target customers was an altered version of an “off-the-shelf” hacker tool known as “BlackPOS” that apparently was used to infect the computer networks of six other retailers, a computer security firm reported Friday.
January 18, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO: The iconic statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro has been damaged during a storm.
Officials said on Friday that the right thumb was chipped, apparently by a lightning strike on Thursday night.
The middle finger of the right hand had been chipped during a storm last month.
January 18, 2014
NEW DELHI: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of junior human resource development minister Shashi Tharoor, died an "unnatural, sudden death" with her body bearing "injury marks", said a doctor on Saturday.
Tharoor was later hospitalized after he complained of chest pain.
January 18, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO: Intel plans to trim more than 5,000 jobs from its workforce this year in an effort to boost its earnings amid waning demand for its personal computer chips.
Intel to reduce workforce
January 17, 2014
BEIJING: China has developed its own mobile operating system aimed at easing the stranglehold of the Google and Apple, even as skeptics doubt its efficacy.
China's mobile operating system
January 17, 2014
NEW DELHI: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union minister Shashi Tharoor, has reportedly been found dead in a five-star hotel here.
Sunanda Tharoor found dead in Delhi hotel, post-mortem today
January 17, 2014
NEW DELHI: The Indian hockey team pulled off a sensational come-from-behind 5-4 win over Olympic champions Germany after Mandeep Singh slammed a brilliant hat-trick in their fiercely-contested 5-8th place classification match of the Hero World League Finals on Friday.
January 17, 2014
China's recent test of a hypersonic vehicle should not unduly alarm the United States or any other nation, Chinese military officials say.
This Air Force illustration depicts the X-51A Waverider scramjet vehicle during hypersonic flight during its test on May 26, 2010
January 17, 2014
NEW DELHI: A handout for new teachers at this city's exclusive American Embassy School, an academic oasis for children of American diplomats and other expatriates, offers some unusual guidance to female teachers whose husbands will also be teaching at the school.
US Embassy in Delhi
January 17, 2014
LONDON: The US National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million mobile phone text messages a day from around the world, a report said on Thursday, in the latest revelations from the Edward Snowden files.
