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Google+ now open
to teens but with ‘selective sharing’
Washington, Jan 27: Google+ has opened up to teenagers, a
move that Google hopes will help it challenge Facebook’s
popularity.
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Indian restaurant owner buys fighter
jet to deliver his curries to celebs
London, Jan 27: A Curry boss has bought himself a fighter jet to deliver his
spicy takeaways to celebrity clients across the world.
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Twitter can now censor tweets
nationally rather than globally
Washington, Jan 27: Micro-blogging site Twitter has said it will now be able to
censor tweets in specific countries rather than blocking them globally.
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Modern humans
settled in Arabia before spreading around the world
Washington, Jan 27: A new study, which uses genetic analysis
to study the earliest human migrations, suggests that when
modern humans first migrated out of Africa over sixty
thousand years ago, they settled in Arabia on their way to
the rest of the world.
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US wants Pakistan to drop Iran
pipeline project
Washington, Jan 27: The United States is working with Pakistan to help it deal
with the consequences if it agrees to abandon the Iran pipeline project, the US
State Department has said.
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Now, FBI wants a social network map
alert application
Washington, Jan 27: Seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material
‘scraped’ from social networks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants
an application that provides information about possible domestic and global
threats superimposed onto maps ‘using mash-up technology’.
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Three of nine
rockets fired on Abbottabad hit Pak Military Academy outer
wall
Islamabad, Jan 27: Nine rockets were fired on the wall of
the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad early Friday
morning, near the place where former al-Qaeda leader Osama
bon Laden, was hiding, with three hitting the outer wall,
DCO Abottabad Imtiaz Hussain Shah has said.
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Abu Dhabi cricket
pitch “nightmare” for fast bowlers: Shoaib Akhtar
Islamabad, Jan 27: Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar
has said the cricket ground in Abu Dhabi, where Pakistan and
England are engaged in a Test match, is not at all suitable
for fast bowlers.
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75% Pak children
unable to read single sentence in English: Report
Islamabad, Jan 27: Seventy-five percent of children in
Pakistan are unable to read a sentence in English, a survey
report launched by South Asia Forum for Education
Development has found.
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After 73 years together couple dies
within hours of each other
London, Jan 27: Living side by side for decades and devoted to each other, an
elderly couple in US died just within hours of each other.
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Presence of
friends eases effects of unpleasant experiences
London, Jan 27: Having a friend around in times of crisis
has real physiological and psychological benefits on kids, a
new study has suggested.
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Don''t use our
software, says Symantec
New York, Jan.27: Security firm Symantec is advising
customers to disable one of its products, after hackers
revealed the theft of the underlying code powering the
software earlier this month.
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Indian batting
greats not has-beens: Kohli
Adelaide, Jan.27: India''s ageing batting kings shouldn''t
be treated as has-beens for their flops in Australia,
century-maker Virat Kohli has said.
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High expectations
from employers may lower worker job satisfaction
Washington, Jan 27: Increased expectations from employers
may have a negative impact on employees’ job satisfaction
and well being, a new study has revealed.
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11 new solar
systems hosting 26 planets discovered
Washington, Jan 27: The Kepler space telescope science team
has confirmed the discovery of 11 star systems piled with 26
exoplanets.
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