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At one Starbucks in downtown Seoul, customers were asked to pay for their coffee in cash, and lines were forming outside disabled bank machines
Updated 5:25 a.m. ET SEOUL, South Korea Computers networks at two major South Korean banks and three top TV broadcasters went into shutdown mode en masse Wednesday, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyberattack by…
18 on suspicion that he had thrown stones at Israelis
SAEER, West Bank A Palestinian man who died under disputed circumstances in Israeli custody was given a hero’s funeral Monday, with thousands thronging his gravesite and Palestinian police firing a 21-gun salute. Palestinian officials, citing an autopsy, said Arafat Jaradat…
“To make centrifuges speed up past what they’re meant to spin at and to damage them
Updated at 11:22 a.m. ET LONDON The sophisticated cyberweapon which targeted an Iranian nuclear plant is older than previously believed, an anti-virus firm said Tuesday, peeling back another layer of mystery on a series of attacks attributed to U.S. and…
Blair (Leighton Meester) will don a Vera Wang gown for her wedding to Prince Louis of Monaco
(CBS) Kate Middleton, Charlene Wittstock and now, Blair Waldorf. Coming off a year of royal weddings, “Gossip Girl” is having one of its own during the show’s 100th episode, airing Monday night. Blair (Leighton Meester) will don a Vera Wang…
“Portrait of a Man,” painted in the early 1630s, was only recently reattributed to Dutch master Frans Hals
(CBS/AP) Elizabeth Taylor’s collectibles continue to rake in a lot of cash. A 17th-century portrait that once hung in the living room of Taylor’s Bel Air home sold at auction Wednesday for $2 million — a lot more than its…
Season ticket prices are also soaring, with the minimum monthly cost rising from $30 to $50 and the more expensive mounting to $100 from $60
SAO PAULO, Brazil Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Brazilian soccer knows the players who have lit up the field over the last half-century. Pele, Ronaldo, Zico and Romario may go by just one name, but they need no…
The Daily Mail reports that when the episode was filmed in November, Meester (as Blair) was spotted running through the streets of the city – fueling speculation that she might leave her prince at the altar, perhaps in favor of longtime on-again, off-again love Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick)
(CBS) Kate Middleton, Charlene Wittstock and now, Blair Waldorf. Coming off a year of royal weddings, “Gossip Girl” is having one of its own during the show’s 100th episode, airing Monday night. Blair (Leighton Meester) will don a Vera Wang…
Visitors are registered as scientists doing research
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine Traversing old potholed roads past long-abandoned villages surrounding the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, you wouldn’t guess there’s a bustling construction site nearby. The so-called exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was once home…
Ikea spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said meatballs from the same batch had gone out to Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland
Last Updated 11:56 a.m. ET STOCKHOLM Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe’s widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries…
Kerry urges Syrian opposition to join Rome talks
LONDON U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tried Monday to patch back together a conference with Syrian opposition leaders that was to be the centerpiece of his debut overseas trip, urging Syrian rebel leaders not to boycott the meeting and…