Monthly Archives: January 2017

(CNN)A dog who was captured on video while chained to the top of a trailer traveling along a Florida interstate is OK. Brenna Cronin and her boyfriend were driving near the Flagler exit on Interstate 95 on Wednesday when they saw the “shocking” sight. A dog was standing atop a crate carrying another animal.

Attorney says 77-year-old, who has maintained his innocence for 30 years after being convicted of a double murder, could soon die without treatment Krishna Maharaj, a British national who has maintained his innocence over more than 30 years of incarceration in a Florida prison, is being denied emergency medical care, according to his lawyer, and […]

(CNN)A naked elderly woman jolted with a Taser. Fatal shots fired at an unarmed man. Boys handcuffed after shooting hoops on an officer’s property. The cases are among those revealed by the US Justice Department’s 13-month review of the Chicago Police Department. The agency announced Friday it uncovered a pattern of unconstitutionally excessive and deadly […]

(CNN)With two bad marriages behind her and debt that came with them, Cara Brookins needed a place to stay for her and her four kids. But Brookins, who writes young adult novels for a living, didn’t have the money to hire builders. So she built one by herself — using YouTube tutorials.

How much can a koala bear? Not too much when it comes to the intense heat of an Australian summer, it seems. One particularly overheated koala has been filmed battling the weather by drinking straight from a hose, its little hand adorably wrapped around it. The video was first uploaded by Courtney Jade Harvey from […]

Image: getty images For first-time founders, theres a lot of new territory to navigate. Pretty quickly, you need to figure out product-market fit, customer acquisition costs, and a realistic business model. You need to add to your team and make your first big hires. And you need to understand important legal matters like intellectual property, […]

It can take many millions of dollars and a decade or more to turn an idea into a successful product. The ITC recently concluded that certain radiotherapy (the use of high-energy rays to treat cancer and other diseases) devices made by the Swedish firm Elekta AB infringed on six patents owned by Varian Medical Systems, […]

(CNN)Driving to the Jardin Majorelle, there can be little doubt of its impact on Marrakech. It’s not unreasonable to argue the garden is among the most famous in Africa — certainly north of the Sahara. Shops and cafes surrounding the garden riff on its name, their signs colored in a distinctive cobalt blue that became […]

Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, named as writer of Donald Trump memo, is highly regarded professional His denials at least some of them were emphatic, even by the standards that Donald Trump has come to be judged by. The dossier, he said, was a confection of lies; he compared it to Nazi propaganda; it was fake […]

The new machine seeks to merge the handheld and home console experiences. Now it needs to find an audience In 2013, Nintendo opened a new research and development facility in its home town of Kyoto, Japan. Usually, a consumer technology manufacturer opening a new office wouldnt be news, but this was different: the $350m building […]