By CNBC
In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity rates, the tiny Emirate has once again outdone the world in flashy extravagance by tantalizing dieters with a one-time offer: a gram of gold for every kilogram (2.2 pounds) lost over the course of a one-month challenge.
The novel weight loss initiative has struck a chord.
By Brock Vergakis
A super-powerful gun that shoots rounds more than 160 kilometres away — at several times the speed of sound — is being developed for Navy warships.
By Tom Harper and Jonathan Owen
Hundreds of millions of people across Europe will be forced to change completely the way they use the internet, according to one of Google’s key advisers.
The era o…
As the latest attempt to stop the Gulf spill fails, a tide of anger is swamping the oil giant
BP acknowledged last night that its latest attempt to plug the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well had fail…
By Robert Lenzner
Focus hard on this shocking Wall Street reality: The top six bank holding companies earned an aggregate of $51 billion in pretax income in 2009. We’re talking about JPMorgan Chase…
The Lottery of Life
The Economist | 21 November 2012
Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact …
Apple Drops WikiLeaks App, Google Keeps It
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