Apple’s iOS 7 has been slammed on social media for being difficult to use Users complained about Android-style menus and updated app problems Many of the iOS 7 features are completely new, with some hidden away After thousands of Apple users struggled to download the latest iOS 7 operating system yesterday, conversation on social media has turned to how difficult the software is to use once it is successfully installed. […]

JPMorgan Chase agreed Thursday to pay about $920 million in fines to U.S. and U.K. regulators to settle charges related to the “London Whale” trading debacle. With the penalty, the bank is acknowledging that it violated banking rules by not properly overseeing its trading operations. In legal language, regulators said that the bank engaged in “unsafe and unsound practices.” As a result of those inadequate risk controls, a team of […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Srey Powers, a former Khmer refugee, was adopted from Cambodia at the age of six She was left in an orphanage without explanation of what was happening to her Twelve years later she traveled with her adoptive mother to find her Cambodian family She found her grandmother, who said: “Forgive me for giving you away” Srey Powers, 19, was adopted by her Long Island parents from Cambodia at […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Reduced population following the hurricane left most of the water sitting Chlorine levels in the unused water plummeted, allowing organisms to thrive Louisiana officials say water is safe to drink, but keep it away from the nose A rare brain-eating amoeba that killed a 4-year-old boy in Louisiana may be a result of Hurricane Katrina. Tests of St. Bernard Parish water supply confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri. […]

  STORY HIGHLIGHTS Tarikuwa Lemma: When she was 13, she went to the U.S. thinking she would be studying abroad Inside a few weeks, it became clear her family had been misled about her American “adoption” Lemma: “All the lies and deception comes down to money” Now a college student, she hasn’t seen her family in Ethiopia for seven years Editor’s note: Tarikuwa Lemma, 19, was “adopted” from Ethiopia seven […]

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Rebels in Jobar have been pictured using an iPad to aim shells Troops from the same area were filmed using a map application to guide shells onto regime forces three months ago They say that necessity is the mother of all invention and need is never greater than at a time of war. So that may account for the unconventional method being used by these Syrian rebels to aim mortar […]

A gunman who died after killing 12 people at a naval installation in Washington DC has been identified as a former Navy serviceman. Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, died in a gun battle with police during the rampage at Washington Navy Yard. Eight others were injured in the attack, which began at around 8:20 local time (12:20 GMT) on Monday. US President Barack Obama ordered flags be lowered […]

When U.N. weapons inspectors left their hotel to investigate claims of chemical weapons use in the suburbs of Damascus in late August, most of the experts travelling in the convoy of armoured SUVs were not United Nations staff at all. In fact, nine of the 12 were inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The OPCW is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), […]

Our world is so full of wonders that new and amazing places are discovered every day, be that by professional photographers or amateurs. Different geographical locations, climatic conditions and even seasons offer the widest variety of natural wonders: pink lakes, stunning lavender or tulip fields, breath-taking canyons and mountains, and other places you can hardly believe actually exist! Some of the pictures in this collection will be of all natural […]