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Watch: Emma Watson is terrifying in first trailer for Regression

The first theatrical trailer for the Emma Watson, Ethan Hawke-starrer Regression has been released. The psychological thriller comes from the genius mind of Alejandro Amenabar, director of gems like Abre los Ojos, Agora and The Others. Emma Watson plays a girl who accuses her father of committing an unspeakable crime, of which he has no recollection. A renowned psychiatrist (David Thewlis)is called in to help unravel the father’s repressed memories. […]

Video shows officers kill Boston terror suspect

  Usaamah Rahim hits the ground in the parking lot, just as a yellow school bus passes through the foreground of the surveillance video. That much is clear from the footage, obtained from a fast-food restaurant about 50 yards away, showing how police killed the Boston terror suspect last week. Authorities shared the video with media Monday after honoring the family’s request that it not be released until after Rahim’s […]

 
 
 

Watch: Everest first trailer features an avalanche of stars

Everest Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur directs an avalanche of stars including Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clark, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, John Hawkes, Josh Brolin and more in survival thriller Everest. The trailer highlights the chemistry between the ensemble of common people undertaking a brave adventure together. Based on a true story of a real accident that happened in 1996, the film almost looks like a monster movie, the daunting mountain inspiring […]

10 best cities where you can earn a living wage

Millions of Americans would kill for a job that pays them a living wage. So it’s great news that some pockets of the country are creating lots of exactly those kinds of jobs. Since 2010, there are 28 U.S. metropolitan areas where at least half of the new jobs created pay a living wage, according to analysis from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists. That’s encouraging because the economic recovery since […]

India's IT Party is over. Reinvent yourself or suffer

  India’s IT industry is unlikely to remain the amazing job-engine that it has been. For the past two decades, the fastest way to increase your income has been to land a job with an IT company. The industry has provided a ticket to prosperity for millions of young Indians; children of security guards, drivers, peons and cooks catapulted themselves and their families firmly into the middle class in a […]

 
 
 

This Guy Failed His Engineering And Now He Is Co-Founder Of A Million Dollar Company – Watch How Did This

Varun Agarwal is a 25 years old filmmaker, entrepreneur and a bestselling author. He is the co-founder of Alma Mater, India’s biggest college apparel/memorabilia company, author of bestseller ‘How I braved Anu Aunty & Co-founded A Million Dollar Company’, and also the co-founder of Reticular, a social media marketing firm. The pursuit of his interests brought about collaborations with A.R. Rahman, Preity Zinta, and many others. In a world where […]

North Korea's cyber-hacker army 'could kill people and destroy cities', warns the defector who trained them

Thousands of military hackers in North Korea could launch cyber attacks that could “kill people and destroy cities”, a defector has warned. Professor Kim Heung-Kwang saw his brightest computing students picked for Bureau 121 to become “cyber warriors” for Kim Jong-un before he fled the country in 2004. “The size of the cyber-attack agency has increased significantly, and now has approximately 6,000 people,” he told BBC Click. “The reason North […]

Heatwave kills 90 more in Andhra, Telangana; death toll crosses 800

HYDERABAD: The heatwave sweeping through Telangana and Andhra Pradesh claimed 90 more lives in the two states, taking the toll to over 800. While 55 people succumbed to sunstroke in Andhra Pradesh, 35 were killed in Telangana. Andhra Pradesh’s deputy chief minister N Chinna Rajappa on Tuesday said 551 people died till Monday while disaster management officials in Telangana confirmed 215 deaths. The deaths reported on Tuesday have not yet […]

Antarctica Melting So Rapidly That It's Affecting Earth's Gravitational Field

  Experts have discovered an ice region in Antarctica that is melting so rapidly it is affecting the Earth’s gravitaional field. Global warming has altered the wind direction resulting in different current patterns in the sea – shifting warmer waters towards the ice. Up until 2009 the glaciers in the Southern Antarctic Peninsula showed no sign of change, but new research has revealed ice is melting at an alarming rate. […]

My wish to see the world': BC canoeists find ashes with message in a bottle

The ‘Soggy Beavers,’ a competitive canoe team, recently found a bottle bobbing in Victoria’s Inner Harbour. Inside, they found a message and what appeared to be human ashes. “It says something along the lines of, ‘If you find this, please throw it back in the ocean. My last wish was to see the world,’ Russell Henry, a member of the team, told CBC News. “And on the other side is […]