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Minor raped video uploaded on social media
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Rajasthan's Alwar town and the video of the crime then uploaded on a social networking website, police said Tuesday. According to police, the victim's father registered a first information report (FIR) Tuesday with a police station at Alwar, some 150 km from Jaipur. "The man says that a youth befriended his daughter on Facebook. He raped her a few ...
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Michelle Obamas bangs at G8 Summit slammed on Twitter
Michelle Obama, who headed to Belfast for this year's G8 summit, is facing backlash on Twitter for her fringes. Onlookers apparently were more concerned with the ill-received styling of her bangs than her speech, the Huffington Post reported. The first lady seems to be growing out her blunt trim and transitioning it to a side-swept style. ...
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Nawaz Sharifs million dollar watch rumours go viral on Twitter
Twitter reports of a PPP leader wearing a 'million dollar watch', have been confirmed that it was none other than Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who reportedly wore a 'Meteoris' watch during the national budget presentation. The price of the Louis Moinet 'Meteoris' watch has been estimated to be a whopping 4.6 million dollars. According to the Dawn, calling the budget to be anti-people ...
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Facebooks mysterious big idea Thursday event has netizens buzzing
Social media giant Facebook has created a mysterious event for Thursday, which is speculated to be the one where, the company would add video feature to its Instagram smartphone picture sharing service. Facebook acquired Instagram last year, but made it impossible for the users to integrate their images into tweets, following which Twitter launched Instagram-style smartphone photo sharing ...
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Exclusive - Facebook reaches one million active advertisers
Reuters © A smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, in this photo illustration, May 2, 2013. REUTERS/Dado ...
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Lady in the Water
Not since John Boormans ambitiously misguided and deranged 1977 sequel to The Exorcist has there been a film of more straight-faced metaphysical silliness than M. Night Shyamalans Lady in the Water. And rarely has a film so deserved an auteurist possessive credit b ... ...
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Tor users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic
Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Users of the Tor traffic anonymizing service are currently locked out of Facebook after a flood of dodgy traffic triggered an automatic lockdown by the social network's security systems. Given the paranoid post-PRISM times we live, in the outage on Tuesday caused a certain amount of online panic. A report ...
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Facebook Organ Donor Initiative Sets Record Rates For New Donors
leave users feeling both good and bad about themselves, researchers recently reported Facebook can also make users more generous with their internal organs. A new study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found when users were allowed to broadcast their organ donor status, new donor registration increased 21-fold. These results are published in ...
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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Facebook With Samsung
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 conference on September 11, 2012 in San Francisco, in his first public interview since the massive public offering on May 18 that was hotly anticipated but ended up being a flop. Facebook is not building its own mobile phone, despite some reports to the contrary, Zuckerberg said, adding the phone would be ...
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Facebook Kills Sponsored Search Results
Inside Facebook revealed sponsored search results were among the features to be cut. "In keeping with the goal of streamlining our ad products, starting in July advertisers will no longer be able to buy sponsored results," Facebook told Inside Facebook. "We’ve seen that most marketers were buying sponsored results to advertise their apps and games, and we already offer ...
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Oceanside Chamber gets spotlight for being ‘Social Media Friendly’
OCEANSIDE -; David Nydegger, president and C.E.O. of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, recently announced that the Oceanside Chamber has been recognized as one of ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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