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Man mauled by lions in Chilean zoo is recovering, say authorities
Metropolitan Zoo in Santiago fends off criticism for shooting two lions as details emerge of its poor safety record and delusions of man who stripped naked in pen Two zoo lions shot dead after the mauling of a man who jumped into their enclosure have been given a private funeral in Chile while the man […]
Reboot: Adidas to make shoes in Germany again but using robots
Company unveils new factory in Germany that will use machines to make shoes instead of humans in Asia Adidas, the German maker of sportswear and equipment, has announced it will start marketing its first series of shoes manufactured by robots in Germany from 2017. More than 20 years after Adidas ceased production activities in Germany […]
Adventure road: 7 days on Central Asia’s Pamir Highway
(CNN)A weathered sign indicated our altitude on Tajikistan’s Ak-Baital Pass — 4,655 meters above sea level. Barren mountains stretched in every direction, casting shadows over the second-highest international road in the world. China loomed over the eastern horizon. Kyrgyzstan was behind us. To the south lay Afghanistan and the fabled Wakhan Corridor. We were heading […]
Official: Hacker who claimed Clinton server break-in expected to plead guilty to separate charge
Washington (CNN)The Romanian hacker, Marcel Lehel Lazar, also known as “Guccier,” who claims to have illegally accessed Hillary Clinton’s private email server, is expected to plead guilty to at least one of the charges he is facing, according to a law enforcement official. Lazar allegedly hacked into longtime Clinton adviser and friend Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL […]
Brutalism, a revival: From cool to crude and back again
(CNN)And in the fifth decade of Modernism Le Corbusier said “Let there be concrete”: and there was Brutalism. Well, perhaps not quite. However the Swiss-French polymath certainly kick-started what became the most divisive school of architecture in the twentieth century. His buildings from the late 1940s onwards paved the way for a new brand of […]
Trump: suicide of Bill Clinton’s counsel Vince Foster ‘very fishy’ as it happened
Follow live updates from the 2016 campaign trail as news emerges Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is under federal investigation Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/may/23/campaign-president-2016-live-updates-trump-clinton-sanders-polling
Tinder sues threesome app rival 3nder
Smaller, independent app fights back by asking users to tweet pictures of their socks with #TinderSuckMySocks Twos company but threes a crowd according to dating app Tinder, which has launched a legal bid to kill off a rival app aimed at people looking for threesomes. Tinder, owned by global dating firm Match Group, is alleging […]
Facebook to change trending topics after investigation into bias claims
Internal report finds virtually identical rates of conservative and liberal topics, but guidelines updated to exclude possibility of improper actions Facebook has denied allegations that the team responsible for its trending topics section deliberately suppressed conservative views but says it will improve the feature. Allegations have been made anonymously that the team responsible for choosing […]
Raptors hold off Cavaliers comeback to tie Eastern Conference finals
Kyle Lowry scored 35 points, including a layup in the final minute, and DeMar DeRozan had 32 as the Toronto Raptors evened the Eastern Conference finals Kyle Lowry scored 35 points, including a driving layup in the final minute, and DeMar DeRozan had 32 as the Toronto Raptors evened the Eastern Conference Finals by beating […]
Draymond Green not suspended but fined for kicking Steven Adams in groin
NBA fined him $25,000 and upgraded foul to a flagrant 2, which would have resulted in automatic ejection had officials given that ruling when it happened Draymond Green has been fined $25,000 but not suspended by the NBA for kicked his leg up into Adams groin. Though the Thunder felt it was intentional, Green and […]