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San Francisco (AFP) - Is Apple Watch a dud?

Nearly three months after the launch of Apple's fashionably smart wrist wear, some analysts say it's not a mainstream mega-hit. But others see promise in its popularity with Internet-savvy young people.

Media outlets last week jumped on a study by research firm Slice Intelligence suggesting that, based on a large sampling of email receipts in the United States, orders for Apple Watch have plunged 90 percent since the week that the wearable computing gadget made its debut. Читать дальше...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A Kuwait-born man who shot and killed five service members in Tennessee suffered from depression since his early teen years and also fought drug and alcohol abuse, spending time in Jordan last year to help him clean himself up, a family spokesman said Sunday.

It’s Monday, Japanese markets are closed and the gold price has just suffered a mini “flash crash”.

Under President Xi Jinping , China is succeeding in creating an alternative vision for global leadership designed to challenge Western, and in particular American, dominance.

Beijing (AFP) - Chinese police have detained five people including a young couple over a sex tape shot in a Beijing clothing store that went viral in China, media reports said Sunday.

RAGLAN, New Zealand (Reuters) - Deep in New Zealand's dairying heartland, drone maker Aeronavics tests aircraft designed to corner the fast-growing emerging market for unmanned aerial vehicles in the film and television business.

Slugs aren’t the immediate go-to when you’re thinking of cute, small animals. They are slimy and squidgy and they leave trails of ick wherever they wander. 

Los Angeles (AFP) - Japan's Mitsubishi Materials made a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work in its mines during World War II, seven decades after the conflict.

Wellington (AFP) - AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was back in court in New Zealand on Monday, accused of ignoring an alcohol ban imposed when he was convicted earlier this month of threatening to kill an employee.

Three years ago, one of the strangest criminal cases in recent memory began in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live, when a young woman sent a series of text messages telling her boyfriend that a man had abducted her, followed by a series of texts, allegedly from her captor, taunting her boyfriend with threats of sexual violence. Her story was strange, and the case was fraught with complications from the get-go, but the accused ended up in prison long after the doubts outweighed the evidence.

New home prices in China continued to ease in June, although there were vastly divergent performances across the nation.

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Two major projects have kicked off  in New York City and Chicago, part of a broader global trend toward using high technology — the latest in sensors and infinitesimal tracking and measuring devices — to create "smart cities."

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It takes a lot to power The City That Never Sleeps. In partnership with GE, TransCanada’s Ravenswood power plant has improved its efficiency and reliability so that it can be more responsive to the city's ever growing needs. Читать дальше...

For the last month and a half, I've been running 4-5 times a week in 20-25 minute increments. My initial goal was to slim down, but my scale number hasn't budged.

One of the best visualizations of race in America might be called pointillist. By mapping one dot for every Census-registered human in the country, color-coded for race, a team at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center of Public Service rendered abstract social data painfully personal.

(Reuters) - Barclays Plc plans to cut more than 30,000 jobs within two years after firing Chief Executive Antony Jenkins this month, The Times reported on Sunday.