NEW YORK (AP) ― Alibaba’s financial results in its first quarter as a publicly traded company highlight its strategy of plowing its profit back into investments, particularly in mobile commerce and marketing.The Chinese e-commerce powerhouse said net income fell 39 percent in the July-September period despite a 54 percent surge in revenue on strong user demand.The results released Tuesday show that Alibaba has a similar strategy as U.S. e-commerce retailer Amazon: Invest profit back into the com

The finals of British TV talent show “Britain’s Got Talent” held Saturday were marred when a backing musician threw eggs at judge Simon Cowell during a performance.The 30-year-old viola player, who was performing with a backing group for contestants Richard and Adam Johnson, abruptly broke away from the group and started pelting eggs at the music mogul. The smiling musician was hauled away by security soon after the stunt.Criticism piled against the musician, decrying her for sabotaging the John

A Cambridge University drinking society announced Tuesday that it is ending its “traditional” jelly wrestling ritual after students complained the event displayed sexism.According to British news reports, Cambridge student Nina de Paula Hanika recently started a petition to protest the wrestling event hosted by the Wyverns Society, an all-male drinking society of the prestigious British school. The annual event had bikini-clad women fighting in a pool of jelly for a cash prize. It is part of a s

Three American women who went missing separately about 10 years ago were found on Monday inside a house in Ohio where they had been held captive, local media reported.According to CNN and AP, a woman who identified herself as Amanda Berry called the police emergency dispatch and said she had been kidnapped. She pleaded to the police to pick her up before her captor returned.Authorities went to the house and found Berry, who disappeared on April 21, 2003, a day before her 17th birthday. They also

A 15-centimeter-long mummified skeleton with a deformed shape has been confirmed to have human DNA.Garry Nolan, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, and his colleagues have analyzed the specimen and found that there is no evidence that it originated from an extraterrestrial source.“Every nucleotide I’ve been able to look at is human,” Nolan told Livescience.com. He added that why the skeleton has been deformed in such way remains a mystery. About 9 percent of

A Texas man living in a cave dismissed allegations he has been seen wandering the area in the nude.The man, who declined to give his name, was the subject of complaints from a group of hikers who said they found the man‘s furnished cave Sunday in El Paso’s McKelligon Canyon and were chased away from the area by the man, who they said was nude, KVIA-TV, El Paso, reported Tuesday.Residents of a nearby apartment complex said the man is often seen wandering the area nude and can sometimes be found b

The New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services is investigating the family of a 2-year-old who wandered into a supermarket on his own late at night. Employees at the A&P in Hoboken found the toddler at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, The Jersey Journal reported. They called police who located the child's family at their home about a block away. Police Sgt. Sam Williams said the toddler apparentl

A 77-year-old Chicago man is facing charges for allegedly stealing an ambulance from a hospital he had just left, police say.John Neal is accused of walking out of MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn Tuesday night, hopping in an apparently idling ambulance and driving off. He had gone about 10 miles and was 2 miles from his home when officers caught up with him. They said Neal told them he took the emergency vehicle because, “I needed a ride. I needed to get home,” the Chicago Tribune reported.It wasn‘t

Beekeepers in northern France said a nearby M&M‘s factory may be to blame for their bees producing blue and green honey.Alain Frieh, president of the Union of Beekeepers of Ribeauville, said beekeepers were baffled when their honey came out in shades of blue and green, Euronews reported Friday.“We looked at the hives found the phenomenon was growing, everything pointed to something in the environment,” Frieh said.The union soon discovered bees had been swarming at a nearby Mars plant, where they

A Nebraska man accused of pushing his wife onto a bed and rubbing a sandwich in her face has been sentenced to five days in jail.Larry Spurling, 50, of Melbeta pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of disturbing the peace stemming from the Sunday incident and was sentenced to five days in jail, KETV, Omaha, reported Thursday.Spurling‘s wife, whose name was not reported, told police her husband was angry at her for “making him live in the county” and he was upset about “being bored since there is

A small farming town in Romania is reeling Friday after learning angry pigs knocked a farmer's wife unconscious and began eating her.The Sun of London reported Irma Molnar, 56, somehow fell into the animals' sty in Brasov, and likely frightened them badly.Her husband, Sandor, found her badly maimed and rushed her to a local hospital where she died."Her ears and half her face were missing. Her fing