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- ANSA: Draghi,da Omt benefici a tutta eurozona
- ANSA: Petrolio: chiude in rialzo a 96,53 dlr
- ANSA: Mps:assemblea per fine limite voto 4%
- ANSA: Borsa: Tokyo rimbalza, chiude a +1,94%
- Financial Times: Galleries and museums’ spending shielded
- Financial Times: Tucker joins Hester in heading for exit
- Financial Times: Shift in military balance forces Obama to change policy
- Financial Times: Honours list gets back to business
- Aljazeera: Facebook and Microsoft reveal data requests
- Aljazeera: Soldiers killed in Benghazi clashes
- Aljazeera: Pakistan founder's home hit in rocket attack
- Aljazeera: Mandela 'recovering well' from infection
- Huffington Post: Senators Skip NSA Briefing: Only 47 Meet With Top Officials On Surveillance
- Huffington Post: Chris Brown's New Song To Include Gay-Friendly Message In Connection With Singer's 'Unity Campaign'
- Huffington Post: Mahendraparvata, 1,200-Year-Old Lost Medieval City In Cambodia, Unearthed By Archaeologists (VIDEO)
- Huffington Post: Countries, Communities With Strong Social Ties Fare Better In Crisis, Study Finds
| ANSA: Draghi,da Omt benefici a tutta eurozona Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:29 AM PDT Effetti positivi anche per risparmiatori tedeschi |
| ANSA: Petrolio: chiude in rialzo a 96,53 dlr Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:48 AM PDT Quotazioni salgono dello 0,68% |
| ANSA: Mps:assemblea per fine limite voto 4% Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:51 AM PDT Soci decidono su sospensione consigliere Briamonte |
| ANSA: Borsa: Tokyo rimbalza, chiude a +1,94% Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:22 PM PDT Indice Nikkei a 12.686,52 |
| Financial Times: Galleries and museums’ spending shielded Posted: 14 Jun 2013 05:49 AM PDT Arts to be given new powers to borrow money and set employees' salaries as the Treasury offers cultural institutions more financial autonomy |
| Financial Times: Tucker joins Hester in heading for exit Posted: 14 Jun 2013 11:53 AM PDT Second high-profile departure in a dramatic 48 hours for the City as George Osborne seeks to reshape Britain's financial landscape |
| Financial Times: Shift in military balance forces Obama to change policy Posted: 14 Jun 2013 02:19 PM PDT The White House said its decision to arm the rebels was based on its new assessment that Syrian forces used chemical weapons 'multiple times' recently |
| Financial Times: Honours list gets back to business Posted: 14 Jun 2013 02:31 PM PDT Hedge fund boss Michael Hintze and John Lewis chairman Charlie Mayfield knighted as honours list puts focus on achievement in business |
| Aljazeera: Facebook and Microsoft reveal data requests Posted: 15 Jun 2013 12:13 AM PDT Facebook says US requests related to 18,000 to 19,000 user accounts and covered criminal and national security issues. |
| Aljazeera: Soldiers killed in Benghazi clashes Posted: 15 Jun 2013 03:18 AM PDT At least four troops reported dead and one civilian killed as special forces clash with armed fighters. |
| Aljazeera: Pakistan founder's home hit in rocket attack Posted: 15 Jun 2013 04:32 AM PDT Three rocket-propelled grenades slam into former Balochistan residence of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, killing a policeman. |
| Aljazeera: Mandela 'recovering well' from infection Posted: 15 Jun 2013 05:58 AM PDT Grandson of 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero says his grandfather is "looking good", after hospitalisation last week. |
| Huffington Post: Senators Skip NSA Briefing: Only 47 Meet With Top Officials On Surveillance Posted: 15 Jun 2013 07:19 AM PDT Only 47 senators attended a closed-door briefing on the National Security Agency's surveillance programs Thursday. More than half of the 100 United States senators opted out of a meeting with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA Director Keith Alexander and other officials. A Senate aide confirmed the number of senators in attendance at the briefing to The Huffington Post. This was the third classified briefing in a week on the NSA surveillance programs, according to Politico. Read More... More on Video |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2013 07:19 AM PDT Chris Brown used to be prone to homophobic slurs. Now he's singing a different tune: one that's decidedly pro-gay. Brown issued a series of tweets Friday that revealed he will release a new single on Monday in conjunction with what he calls his "Unity Campaign." The move feels unprecedented for a singer who's known for his physical and verbal assaults. Brown wrote: |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2013 07:29 AM PDT A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said. In what it called a world exclusive, the Sydney Morning Herald said the city, Mahendraparvata, included temples hidden by jungle for centuries, many of which have not been looted. A journalist and photographer from the newspaper accompanied the "Indiana Jones-style" expedition, led by a French-born archaeologist, through landmine-strewn jungle in the Siem Reap region where Angkor Wat, the largest Hindi temple complex in the world, is located. The expedition used an instrument called Lidar -- light detection and ranging data -- which was strapped to a helicopter that criss-crossed a mountain north of Angkor Wat for seven days, providing data that matched years of ground research by archaeologists. It effectively peeled away the jungle canopy using billions of laser pulses, allowing archaeologists to see structures that were in perfect squares, completing a map of the city which years of painstaking ground research had been unable to achieve, the report said. It helped reveal the city that reportedly founded the Angkor Empire in 802 AD, uncovering more than two dozen previously unrecorded temples and evidence of ancient canals, dykes and roads using satellite navigation coordinates gathered from the instrument's data. Jean-Baptiste Chevance, director of the Archaeology and Development Foundation in London who led the expedition, told the newspaper it was known from ancient scriptures that a great warrior, Jayavarman II, had a mountain capital, "but we didn't know how all the dots fitted, exactly how it all came together". "We now know from the new data the city was for sure connected by roads, canals and dykes," he said. The discovery is set to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. Damian Evans, director of the University of Sydney's archaeological research centre in Cambodia, which played a key part in developing the Lidar technology, said there might be important implications for today's society. "We see from the imagery that the landscape was completely devoid of vegetation," Evans, a co-expedition leader, said. "One theory we are looking at is that the severe environmental impact of deforestation and the dependence on water management led to the demise of the civilisation ... perhaps it became too successful to the point of becoming unmanageable." The Herald said the trek to the ruins involved traversing rutted goat tracks and knee-deep bogs after travelling high into the mountains on motorbikes. Everyone involved was sworn to secrecy until the findings were peer-reviewed. Evans said it was not known how large Mahendraparvata was because the search had so far only covered a limited area, with more funds needed to broaden it out. "Maybe what we see was not the central part of the city, so there is a lot of work to be done to discover the extent of this civilisation," he said. "We need to preserve the area because it's the origin of our culture," secretary of state at Cambodia's Ministry of Culture, Chuch Phoeun, told AFP. Angkor Wat was at one time the largest pre-industrial city in the world, and is considered one of the ancient wonders of the world. It was constructed from the early to mid 1100s by King Suryavarman II at the height of the Khmer Empire's political and military power.  Read More... More on Unearthed |
| Huffington Post: Countries, Communities With Strong Social Ties Fare Better In Crisis, Study Finds Posted: 15 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT The idea of man as a social animal prescribes that humans derive pleasure and happiness from interacting with others. But, as a new study suggests, that's not where it ends: We're not only social but "pro-social" beings, meaning that doing things with others for others makes us happier, and helps us to better deal with crises on a societal level. In the face of adversity, strong communities that stay together thrive better, according to the study, published in the Journal of Happiness Studies. Researchers from the University of British Columbia found associations between a country or community's "social capital" -- meaning its level of social engagement and networks -- and how it fares in economic crisis. For the study, researchers examined the social capital of 255 metro areas in the U.S. They found that the more social engagement the communities had and the higher their happiness levels, the less their "life evaluations" were affected by rising rates of unemployment. Read More... More on Health News |
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