Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:20:08 +0100 (AP) - Actor Bradley Cooper, right, smiles with actor Dennis Quaid, left, during a news conference for 'The Words' during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)
Men share a bicycle on an empty street in Kathmandu Valley caused ...
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Men share a bicycle on an empty street in Kathmandu Valley caused by a shutdown called by students protesting against the Nepal Oil Corporation's (NOP) decision to hike prices on major petroleum products, including petrol, diesel, kerosene and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), in Kathmandu January 25, 2012. According to local media reports, NOP, a state-owned trading company, increased petroleum prices by an average of over 11 percent, the biggest-ever oil price hike in Nepal in monetary terms in recent history. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST ENERGY)
Sen. Grassley's Twitter account hacked over piracy bills
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:50:08 +0100 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley's Twitter account was hacked on Monday with bogus tweets attacking his stance on Internet anti-piracy legislation, his office said. Grassley, an Iowa Republican and prolific tweeter, had at least eight false tweets posted as he was on a flight heading from Iowa to Washington, spokeswoman Jill Kozeny said. His staff noticed his Twitter account had been broken into a few minutes after the first false tweet was posted and called Twitter to have the password changed, his office said. ... (Source: Reuters)
Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir arrives at the Old Bailey ...
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir arrives at the Old Bailey courthouse in London January 23, 2012. Nadir appeared at court on Monday for the start of his trial on theft and fraud charges, linked to the failure of his Polly Peck fruit-to-electronics group, which folded in 1990 with debts of 1.3 billion pounds, one of Britain's biggest business failures. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS CRIME LAW)
Epic clash: Silicon Valley blindsides Hollywood on piracy
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:30:11 +0100 (Reuters) - The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying. Yet a close look at how the debate unfolded suggests that traditional means of influencing policy in Washington had its place too. The technology industry has ramped up its political activities dramatically in recent years, and in fact, has spent more than the entertainment industry -- $1. ... (Source: Reuters)
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