NHL Fight Between Sherry Bassin and Daryl Katz Uglier Than a Tussle in the Rink
Hockey is famous for its in-rink fights in which players might lose tempers, dignity and possibly a tooth or two. A court battle between Sherry Basin, owner of the Erie Otters and the Daryl Katz, who More...
Munich Approves Stolpersteine Holocaust Project
The city of Munich has finally decided to lift a ban on the building of a Holocaust memorial there just in time for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Also, an American appellate court has More...
Carlyle’s David Rubenstein Accepts Honor at Museum of American Finance
At a gathering at the Museum of American Finance, Carlyle Group founder, David Rubinstein, accepted the John Whitehead Award, which is named after the co-chairman of Goldman Sachs who served as More...
Does Ivor Ichikowitz Own FlyAfrica?
Ivor Ichikowitz, the arms tycoon, may be behind a new airline, Flyafrica, which is promising flights between Cape Town and Johannesburg for as little as 50 rand ($4.35). Those in the industry and consumers More...
Judge Dismisses Facebook Request to Drop Class-Action Suit over Scanning Private Messages
A U.S. District Court judge in Oakland, California, has ruled that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating users’ privacy by scanning the content of messages they sent More...
Facebook must face lawsuit over scanning of users’ messages: judge
– Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating its users’ privacy by scanning the content of messages they send to other users for advertising purposes, a U.S. judge has More...
Google Gives Back to San Francisco’s Homeless
– Google is the gift that keeps on giving, and now the gift is to San Francisco’s homeless, as reported by SF Gate. While the company still has the dominant search engine, it still has More...
Jonathan Pollard Denied Latest Parole Request
Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. citizen convicted of spying for Israel in 1985, was denied a parole request, according to an activist group working for Pollard’s release. The Campaign for the Release of Jonathan More...
Jeff Goldblum Marries Gymnast Half his Age
Actor Jeff Goldblum, 62, has just married long-time girlfriend Emilie Livingston, 31. Livingston represented Canada in the rhythmic gymnastics Olympic team in 2000. She has also gone on tour as a dancer/aerialist More...
Genetic Factors for Surviving Ebola Shown in Mouse Study
A newly developed mouse model suggests that genetic factors are behind the mild-to-deadly range of reactions to the Ebola virus. People exposed to Ebola vary in how the virus affects them. Some completely resist More...