Tashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province. It was from here, when she was a toddler, that she moved with her father Gulzar 25 years ago to Saudi Arabia, where he became more deeply religious, more conservative and more hardline, according to a family member.
Read moreBy David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court heard arguments on Friday over the legality of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, in a case that may ultimately determine how consumers get access to content on the Internet. The fight is the latest battle over Obama administration rules requiring broadband providers to treat all data equally, rather than giving or selling access to a so-called Web “fast lane.” A three-judge panel, in a hearing that lasted over three hours, questioned lawyers for the FCC and broadband backers about whether the FCC properly extended the sweeping authority it has to regulate telecommunications to Internet service providers
Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi became the butt of online jokes on Friday when it turned out an official photo showing him surveying flood damage in southern India through a helicopter window had been doctored. The picture showed Modi peering through the round window at a dramatic view of flooded city streets in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu state, after the strongest rains in a century there killed more than 280 people in a month and displaced thousands of residents. Social media lit up with users accusing the official Press Information Bureau (PIB) of faking the scene.
Read moreBritish pub chain JD Wetherspoon said on Friday it was taking action after discovering that a small number of its customer and staff details may have been accessed by a cyber attack. The company said that it had informed all of its customers by email and planned to conduct a full forensic investigation into the breach of security, which allowed some credit and debit card details to be accessed.
Read moreChina will crack down on illegal reproduction of online news, the country’s media watchdog said, days after an influential Chinese news magazine complained publicly about what it described as unauthorized republishing of its stories. China’s government has long vowed to rein in intellectual property infringement from knock-off goods to the theft of commercial secrets
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday he and his wife would receive no tax benefit from setting up their new philanthropic endeavor as a limited liability company and hinted at the types of efforts it would support. In a post on his Facebook page, he wrote that “just like everyone else, we will pay capital gains taxes when our shares are sold by the LLC.” While reiterating that the entity, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, would focus on areas like education and disease, he indicated the efforts would be similar to philanthropy he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had already supported.
Read moreLaw enforcement authorities launched an investigation on Thursday into a video that allegedly shows the Texas teen from a wealthy family who killed four people while driving drunk among revelers at a party, possibly in violation of his probation.
Read moreSnapchat, the mobile app featuring photos, videos and messages that disappear in seconds, made its first foray into major breaking news coverage Wednesday with a live stream of the mass shooting in Southern California. Snapchat, valued at $16 billion and with more than 100 million active users, most under the age of 25, ran a “Live Story” on the shooting in Bernardino, California, shortly after news broke of the massacre, which left 14 people dead and 21 more wounded
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By Samuel Phineas Upham Victoria Harbor has been an officially recognized part of Chinese culture and territory since as far
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