2015-05-29 U.S. Spotlight

Den of Geek!   

Doctor Who   
Den of Geek!
Rufus Hound shares his delight about being on board for the new series of Doctor Who! Doctor Who · Terms & conditions Help. The BBC released said video trailing Hound's appearance as Sam Swift in the two period adventures currently scheduled as ...

2015-05-29 U.S. Health

NDTV   

Grandpa, Put That Glass Down: Moderate Drinking May Cause Heart Damage in ...   
NDTV
Grandpa, Put That Glass Down: Moderate Drinking May Cause Heart Damage in the Elderly Moderate drinking may not be so great after all, not for the elderly at least. A new research which appeared in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation ...

2015-05-29 U.S. Science

NBCNews.com   

Gay-Marriage Study Author Admits to Lies, Science Journal Says   
NBCNews.com
The journal Science has formally pulled a widely reported study on changing attitudes toward gay marriage, saying a lawyer for one of the co-authors, a UCLA grad student, had admitted it contained lies. Michael LaCour, the political science PhD student ...

2015-05-29 U.S. Sports

New York Times   

Sepp Blatter Is Defiant on Eve of Election   
New York Times
ZURICH — Soccer's world governing body will hold a presidential election Friday, two days after a group of its leading officials were charged with corruption, its headquarters were raided and the governments of two countries announced they were ...

2015-05-29 U.S. Entertainment

Wall Street Journal   

'San Andreas' to 'Armageddon,' which disaster films survive scrutiny?   
Los Angeles Times
Sometimes it seems as if Hollywood has it out for humanity. In the past year at the movies, mankind has been pummeled by a megalomaniacal robot ("Avengers: Age of Ultron"), global blight ("Interstellar"), rampaging primates ("Dawn of the Planet of the ...

2015-05-29 U.S. Technology

USA TODAY   

Google I/O is latest round in escalating high-tech arms race   
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google fired the latest salvos Thursday in an escalating arms race among tech's Big 5 for the hearts, minds and coding of developers. At the eighth annual I/O conference here, Google laid out a futuristic road map to throngs of 5,000 ...

2015-05-29 U.S. Business

Los Angeles Times   

Broadcom's co-founders built a behemoth as a formidable team   
Los Angeles Times
The Broadcom tale of the two Henrys is a study in contrasts: one man deliberate and reserved, the other anything but. Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli founded the Irvine chip maker in 1991 and went on to become two of Southern California's ...

2015-05-29 U.S. U.S.

TIME   

The Scripps National Spelling Bee Has Co-Champions, Again   
TIME
In a dramatic, flawless final round, two eighth-graders proved to be joint winners at the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee. One a girl and one a boy, one from Kansas and one from Missouri, one a five-time finalist and one a four-timer, 13-year-old Vanya ...

2015-05-29 U.S. World

BBC News   

Young Australian women trying to join IS, say police   
BBC News
As many as 12 young women have tried to leave Melbourne to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group, according to Australian police. The women, aged between 18 and 29, have been recruited on social media. Five of them are now living with IS militants in ...