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Three gunmen stormed the offices of a French satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo around lunchtime on Wednesday (Jan. 7), brandishing AK-47s and a rocket launcher. The assailants killed 12 people and wounded five others. Among those dead are the magazine’s publisher, Stéphane Charbonnier; three cartoonists: Jean Cabut, Georges Wolinski, and Bernard Verlhac; and writer and economist Bernard Maris. Gérard Biard, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, was in London at the time.
Indonesian search and rescue workers have recovered bodies and debris from AirAsia flight QZ8501, which lost contact with air traffic control on Dec. 28 as it was traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore with 162 people onboard. The wreckage was found in the Karimata Strait, roughly 200 km off the coast of Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, in water less than 100 ft. deep.
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The beauty of Android—Google’s mobile operating system for phones and tablets—is that it comes with a host of the internet company’s services already installed and ready to be used right out of the box. One of those, Google Wallet—a mobile payments product launched in late 2011—has been shunned by the market, thanks to a mix of poor product design, ineffective marketing, and otherwise weak distribution.
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Updated Dec. 10 at 10:15am HKT
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Apple recently had to reveal a rare piece of disappointing news: That adoption of its latest mobile operating system, iOS 8, has been happening more slowly than the previous version last year. But even that is lightning-speed, compared with the adoption rate for Google’s new Android OS release.
To gaze upon the sky and watch majestic birds cut through the wind is both a humbling and a frustrating experience. Humbling because it makes our species realize that we were put on this earth to stand on two heavy pillars locked forever to the dirt, and frustrating because we want what we can’t have and will do everything in our power to obtain it.
Just over a year ago, Michelle Obama unveiled an updated set of dietary guidelines for US public schools. Goodbye pizza Fridays, hello raw carrots and fish nuggets. Portion sizes also were tackled, with a decision to size them according to students’ age, rather than offering the same meal to all grades.
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The situation in Hong Kong is escalating. Protestors have swarmed around two important government buildings. The first is chief executive CY Leung’s residence. The second is the Central Government Complex. Police have issued warnings and are standing by to keep the buildings secure. To help you follow the action as it unfolds, here’s a list of some of our favorite sources:
Not every dog owner likes to clean up after his or her pet. Fecal land mines are menacing enough to some neighborhoods that there are now fines and dog feces DNA tests to nab regular offenders. But just how much damage does a canine friend’s stray bowel movements actually do?
“Dutch courage,” liquid confidence—the value of alcohol as a social lubricant is widely acknowledged, and now science has confirmed its existence. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oslo dug into the phenomenon of “social bravery” induced by alcohol, and found that the effect is more pronounced in men than women, at least when it comes to smiling in social settings.
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