- Indian is First Female Amputee to Climb Everest
- 2013-05-22 14:00
- An Indian woman who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest.
- How Our Brains Miss the Obvious
- 2013-05-22 13:20
- After the high-profile kidnapping in Cleveland, some wonder: How could so many people miss obvious signs?
- Europe closes in on tax havens; Austria agrees to swap bank ...
- 2013-05-22 13:17
- BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe moved closer to ending banking secrecy on Wednesday after Austria dropped objections to sharing data on foreign depositors and the EU focused on negotiating a similar agreement with Switzerland.
- Amazon CEO's Saturn V rocket engines conserved in Kansas
- 2013-05-22 13:00
- NASA to fund world’s first 3D food printer
- 2013-05-22 13:00
- UK opposition party leader says Google tax behavior "wrong"
- 2013-05-22 12:52
- LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs came under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labour party accused the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax.
- Phone companies selling customer information
- 2013-05-22 12:41
- What to Build to Survive a Tornado?
- 2013-05-22 12:30
- How do you protect yourself from a tornado that reaches 2 miles wide with wind gusts above 200 miles per hour?
- EU leaders shine spotlight on Amazon, Google over tax policy
- 2013-05-22 11:40
- BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders will discuss how to combat aggressive tax avoidance by major companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple at a summit on Wednesday, and cut the estimated 1 trillion euros a year the EU loses to tax evasion or avoidance.
- Prehistoric Dog Lovers Liked Seafood, Jewelry, Spirituality
- 2013-05-22 11:00
- Burials suggest that some hunter-gatherers saw some of their dogs as being nearly the same as themselves.
- Entertaining change: Sony to look at activist's spin-off ide...
- 2013-05-22 10:35
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Few foreign activist investors have made much headway in forcing change in Japan, where a conservative corporate culture favors long-standing ties with banks, business partners and workers rather than shareholders seeking value.
- Sony to assess spin-off plan; cuts targets for cameras, smar...
- 2013-05-22 07:30
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp lowered its sales target for digital cameras to 1.3 trillion yen ($12.7 billion) for the fiscal year to end-March 2015, from a previous estimate of 1.5 trillion yen.
- Heinrich Rohrer, Physicist Who Won Nobel, Dies at 79
- 2013-05-22 04:22
- Dr. Rohrer helped invent the scanning tunneling microscope, which made it possible to see individual atoms and move them around.
- Jet Stream Causing Tornado Outbreak
- 2013-05-22 03:59
- First, the jet stream caused a cold snap by bringing Arctic air farther south than normal, but when it shifted north, it allowed tornado-causing moist air to move into the Midwest
- What Explains the Recent Outbreak of Tornadoes?
- 2013-05-21 13:00
- A pocket of cold air has run into warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, this coupled with a southern jet stream creates the conditions that typify tornado season.
- F.A.A.’s Concerns Hold Up Use of Wildfire Drones
- 2013-05-22 02:15
- While federal firefighters explore the use of drones to map a wildfire’s size and speed, safety requirements of the F.A.A. is holding up testing and implementation.
- Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
- 2013-05-22 02:12
- LONDON (Reuters) - Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has hinged on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs.
- Chinese Bear Bile Farming Draws Charges of Cruelty
- 2013-05-22 00:43
- An extract from the gallbladder of bears is believed to have medicinal benefits, but animal welfare advocates aim to convince Chinese consumers of the barbarity of bile farming.
- UK opposition party leader says Google tax behavior 'wrong'
- 2013-05-22 00:10
- LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs will come under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labor party accuses the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax.
- Video: First look at the Xbox One
- 2013-05-21 23:52
- Microsoft unveiled its next generation entertainment system during a special event featuring new game footage, improved voice recognition and a new Kinect.
- Storms that spawned deadly Oklahoma tornadoes seen from spac...
- 2013-05-21 23:11
- The beginnings of Monday's disastrous tornado in Oklahoma were caught from space by a weather satellite in orbit






