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(Reuters) – After four decades carrying millions of New Yorkers, 44 of the city’s subway cars are now home to millions of fish. The worn-out cars were dumped on Friday into the Atlantic Ocean, 21 miles off the Maryland coast, to create an artificial reef, designed to attract fish for the state’s lucrative sport-fishing industry. “These reefs provide quality habitat for marine life off our coast which benefits not only the environment but also local […]
(Reuters) – Oracle Corp won a legal victory against Google Inc on Friday as a U.S. appeals court decided Oracle could copyright parts of the Java programming language, which Google used to design its Android smartphone operating system. The case, decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, is being closely watched in Silicon Valley. A high-profile 2012 trial featured testimony from Oracle’s chief executive, Larry Ellison, and Google CEO Larry Page, and the legal issues […]
(Reuters) – Ukrainian acting President Oleksander Turchinov told eastern regions gripped by a pro-Russian uprising that they would be courting catastrophe if they voted “yes” in a separatist referendum on Sunday. Turchinov, who deems the vote in the Russian-speaking Donetsk and Luhansk regions illegal, urged the population to accept “round table” talks on greater autonomy. But, in reference to fighters who have seized police and government buildings, he said “terrorists” could not be included. The […]
Tensions are rising as China demands the release of a Chinese fishing boat and its crew arrested by Philippine authorities for alleged poaching of “pawikan”
Philippine and US troops engaged in maritime surveillance exercises in a military facility in Zambales, aiming to strengthen security ties between the two nations.
The Iglesia Ni Cristo held an evangelical mission dubbed as “lingap pamamahayag” in Amoranto Sports Complex in Quezon City.
Russia has staged a massive Red Square parade of troops, tanks and a military flyover to celebrate the victory of the former Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
Authorities in the State of Oklahoma in the US agreed to a temporary moratorium on the death penalty after the botched execution of a convicted rapist.
In the movie premiere of her movie ‘Maleficient” in London, Angelina Jolie grab the opportunity to speak up against the kidnapping incident in Nigeria as well as the crisis in Ukraine.
Philippine shares hit a 10-month high, boosted by an upgrade in credit ratings as well as continuing political unrest in Thailand.
Thailand continues to lose economic ground in the international market as political unrest continue to wrack the country.
A surge of tension in the South China Sea threatens to widen divisions between Southeast Asian nations at the summit this weekend, posing a severe test for the host country, Myanmar, as the newly democratic country seeks to manage the region’s growing alarm over China.
