An Occupy Wall Street protester can’t stop prosecutors from getting his tweets, a judge has ruled in a clash over the bounds of privacy in an age of living publicly on social networks.In a ruling punctuated with Twitter users’ beloved hashtag marks, the judge said prosecutors weren’t overreaching by seeking Malcolm Harris’ public tweets for weeks before and months after his Oct. 1 disorderly condu

A meteor streaking across the sky in Northern California Sunday caused a sonic boom heard by a number of people, the National Weather Service said.Meteorologist Craig Shoemaker said the loud bang heard across a wide area of the Sierra Nevada mountains originated with the Lyrid meteor shower, an annual phenomenon caused by debris from Comet Thatcher, which passes Earth every year.The event occurred

A Southern California science teacher has been fired for performing in a pornographic video.Oxnard School District trustees voted in closed session Wednesday night to fire Stacie Halas, who taught seventh- and eighth-graders at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School.She had been on paid administrative leave since her appearance on the video surfaced last month. No students are in the video.The vid

Doctors in Pakistan say they have successfully operated to save the life of a baby born with six legs due to a rare genetic condition, hospital officials said Thursday.“A team of five experienced doctors have successfully separated the extra legs and limbs from the baby today. He is very much safe and secure,” said Jamal Raza, the director of National Institute of the Child Health in Karachi.Raza

Apple Inc.’s next iPhone is likely to be introduced in October and will feature a new body design and work with faster wireless networks, according to Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos. who had expected an August release for the top-selling smartphone.In a note today, Munster wrote that October is more probable after chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. announced it is having trouble meeting demand

Female entrepreneur at her office in Tokyo (MCT)The 2 billion women in Asia are still paid less than men for similar work and are extremely underrepresented in top leadership positions, according to a report that estimates limits on female employment cost the region $89 billion a year in lost productivity.The Asia Society survey on women’s status in health, education, economic activity and politic

MCT imageNatasha Marie Harris, a mother of eight children and a fanatic for Coca-Cola, died suddenly in her home in Invercargill, New Zealand.The reason, an inquest has heard Wednesday, was because she consumed too much Coke.According to Harris’s partner Christopher Hodgkinson, “she drank at least 10 litres a day” for the past seven or eight years.The family bought four 2.5 litres of Coke daily, w

The fact that land-bound dinosaurs laid eggs is what sealed their fate of mass extinction millions of years ago while live birthing mammals went on to thrive, scientists said Wednesday. Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buerhle has a chuckle with "Baby T Rex" animated figure which threw out the first pitch before the game against the Detroit Tigers at at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois, Augu

British Prince William's sister-in-law, Pippa Middleton, was photographed in a car in Paris as a male friend allegedly waved a gun at paparazzi, police said.The Sun newspaper in London said Middleton was with three male companions in an Audi convertible when the driver took out the alleged weapon and pointed it at a French photographer following them.The Paris Judicial Police are investigating the

In this March 19, 2011 photo released by the U.S. Navy, crew members look out from the USS Connecticut, a Sea Wolf-class nuclear submarine, after it surfaced through ice in the Arctic Ocean. (AP)To the world’s military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasur

A North Korean choir sings during a concert in Pyongyang on Monday April 16, 2012 to commemorate 100 years since the birth of Kim Il Sung. (AP)North Korea celebrated the 100th anniversary today of the birth of state founder Kim Il Sung, two days after the regime was embarrassed by the disintegration of a long-range rocket that was meant to demonstrate its power.State television broadcast a militar

Han Myeong-sook, the leader of the main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP), said Friday she will step down over her party’s defeat in this week’s general elections.“I will take responsibility for the defeat in the general elections and step down as leader of the party,” she said during a press conference at DUP headquarters in Seoul.“Although I am resigning from the leadership post, I will g

International high-IQ society Mensa said it has accepted a 4-year-old British girl whose IQ is only 1 point less than that of physicist Stephen Hawking.John Stevenage, chief executive of British Mensa, said the organization was proud to welcome Heidi Hankins of Winchester, England, into its ranks after she scored a 159 on an IQ test, putting her just 1 point behind fellow Mensa member Hawking's 16

This is an artist's drawing of one of the twin Mars rovers as it would look on the planet's surface. The rovers have survived more than five years, far beyond their design date. (NASA/JPL/Cornell/MCT)Scientists have concluded from reviewing data of 1976 Mars Viking rovers that bacteria existed on Mars.The original consensus of scientists has been that the experiment found geological, not biologica

The United States and Japan agreed Tuesday to take “appropriate action” against North Korea if it presses ahead with a ballistic rocket launch.“We will be pursuing appropriate action,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters after bilateral talks with her Japanese counterpart, Koichiro Gemba, who is visiting for a G-8 foreign ministerial meeting. She did not elaborate.Clinton underscored

A New Zealand mechanic who designed a motorized couch with a top speed of 37 mph said his creation has been admired by townspeople, even police officers.Josh Steeg of Hastings said he and some friends took the couch for an Easter spin through Napier as part of a scheme to attract business for his mechanical work and perhaps even the couch itself, Hawkes Bay Today reported Monday."Who knows, someon

A teacher in northern India who would not allow a student to cheat in an examination was crushed under a car, allegedly for his refusal, media reports said Monday.Rakesh Kumar, a Hindi teacher at a private school in Haryanastate’s Sonepat city, was walking home Friday when two men reportedly asked him to allow a student to cheat.When Kumar refused, the men ran their car over him twice, broadcaster

News anchor Panagiotis Bourchas was bombarded with furious egging during an on-air newscast earlier this week. During an interview with a guest speaker on Greek TV, a crowd of enraged protestors stormed into the set and started tossing eggs and yogurt at the anchor, shouting “fascist!”The attack came after Bourchas hosted a show featuring spokesman from Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi political organizati

A 10-year-old Colombian girl gave birth to a healthy baby girl, doctors said.The mother, only identified as a young girl from Manaure, delivered her daughter, who weighed 5 pounds, by Caesarean section, ABC News reported Friday.“The baby's head needs to come through a bony outlet. But in a young girl, the pelvis may not be ready or big enough to deliver a baby,” said Dr. Kimberly Gecsi, an OB/GYN

A model displays a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers 'NAH' during a Fashion Week in Bishkek, on April 4 2012. (AFP)Most of us can pair one bold color with another -- it just takes a little confidence. But colorblocking, that’s more of an art, and it’s one to be mastered this spring season.The highest standard of colorblocking was set by Yves Saint Laurent, who transferred the graphic, pop-ar