SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine/KIEV (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin put 150,000 Russian combat troops on high alert for war games near Ukraine on Wednesday, the Kremlin’s boldest gesture yet after days of sabre rattling since its ally Viktor Yanukovich was toppled as president in Kiev. Moscow denied that the previously unannounced drill in the western military district near Ukraine was linked to events in its neighbor but it came amid a series […]

ClamorWorld: Tell us something about yourself. Mauktik: I was  Born in the US, raised in Jalgaon and Pune in India.  Electronics engineer from PICT, Pune.  Two Masters Degrees – One in Biophysics (UIUC) and one in Neuroscience (Johns Hopkins University)                                                 ClamorWorld: When did you do your first trip? Mauktik: My first solo trip was an 8000 km motorcycle trip in South America (Peru, Chile and Argentina) in 2008.  […]

WhatsApp is currently experiencing an outage. Users around the world are reporting that they haven’t been able to send messages for about two hours, and WhatsApp just confirmed this problems with a tweet stating “sorry we currently experiencing server issues. we hope to be back up and recovered shortly.” sorry we currently experiencing server issues. we hope to be back up and recovered shortly. — WhatsApp Status (@wa_status) February 22, […]

In Pic :Overtime hero Marie-Philip Poulin is all smiles after beating the U.S. for Olympic hockey gold in Sochi Thursday. Every Thursday, I play hockey with Nat, Tee, Goner and about 12 other women. I play goal. I look forward to it more than any other skate, partly because we’re very post-modern — men and women dressing, and sometimes undressing, together — and partly because the players are unlike any […]

Sequoia Capital took a victory lap Wednesday after Facebook Inc.’s $19 billion deal for WhatsApp. The venture-capital firm, which invested $8 million in the smartphone-messaging app in 2011, stands to reap a huge return on that investment following Wednesday’s deal.Facebooks said it will pay $19bn in cash and stock to acquire WhatsApp, a deal that further emphasizes the social network’s mobile push. In a blog post, Jim Goetz, a partner […]

First a Noah’s Ark discovery raised a flood of questions, then there was the much-hyped debate over life’s origins between Bill Nye the Science Guy and creationist Ken Ham. And now this: a scientific report establishing that camels, the basic mode of transportation for the biblical patriarchs, weren’t domesticated in Israel until hundreds of years after Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are said to have wandered the earth. Using radiocarbon dating […]

  Gold medalist, Dara Howell, left, and bronze medalist, Kim Lamarre, both of Canada, celebrate their wins in the Ladies Ski Slopestyle final at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 MEDALS as of Tuesday, 11th February 9:06 ET   Rank Country Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal Total 1   4 3 2 9 2   4 2 4 10 3   3 2 […]

Today, like more garages in Vancouver, it is a garage for intercity buses in a desolate industrial section of Sherbrooke, Que., right next to a provincial prison. There is no plaque, nothing to indicate that more than 70 years ago, an intriguing chapter in Canadian history unfolded within its brick walls. Erwin SchildRabbi Erwin Schild’s family home shortly after a bomb blast in Germany during the war. In 1940, as […]

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Flush from viral video success with a baby polar bear‘s wobbly first steps, the Toronto Zoo has unleashed its latest attempt to take YouTube by storm: Toronto Zoo Giant Panda Enjoys Epic Snow Fall. The video features the zoo’s five-year-old giant panda, Da Mao, being shamelessly cute during an “epic” (for Toronto) snow fall on Wednesday. After the zoo closed early due to the weather, security cameras caught Da Mao […]