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Cities cover just 3% of the planet's land surface, but are already home to more than half of its people. That means cities are bringing people into ever greater contact, where collectively they act as a giant physical, biological and cultural force. Transport links and communication between cities, from superhighways to express trains and planes, allow businesses to operate planet-wide, shrinking the human world and making the global local.

The great homogenisation of the Anthropocene includes human culture and lifestyle as much as any effect on the natural ecosystem. And cities are the biggest expression of that. They truly are universal. I feel at home in cities around the world precisely because they essentially provide the same experience. Some are more violent, or more sleepy, or more wealthy, but the urban environment is at its heart the same. There is not the vast diversity of landscape and experience that exists across the natural world. ]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 00:20:45 CDT redbull Lifestyle 4 http://klicknews.com/story/408338/ http://klicknews.com/story/408295/
The missiles fell into the North's eastern waters but the ministry would not speculate whether they were part of a test or training exercise.

Launches by Pyongyang of such missiles are not uncommon but the latest have during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions between the two countries.

"North Korea fired short-range guided missiles twice in the morning and once in the afternoon off its east coast," an official at the ministry in Seoul said.

"In case of any provocation, the ministry will keep monitoring the situation and remain on alert," he said.

A Japanese government source, quoted by the Kyodo news agency, noted the three launches, but said none of the missiles landed in Japan's territorial waters.

Tensions in the Korean peninsula have subsided in the past month.

They had been high for several weeks following tougher UN sanctions against Pyongyang after its third nuclear test in February.
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The internet giant's vice president Matt Brittin was questioned by the Commons' public accounts committee (PAC) for a ]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 03:37:05 CDT nabin Technology 4 http://klicknews.com/story/408292/ http://klicknews.com/story/408290/
Five of the injured are critical after a "major derailment" near Fairfield, Connecticut, just outside Bridgeport. ]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 03:24:26 CDT nabin Technology 4 http://klicknews.com/story/408290/ http://klicknews.com/story/408288/
The youngster died in ]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 03:20:14 CDT nabin Travel 4 http://klicknews.com/story/408288/ http://klicknews.com/story/408262/
Salman- The latest ‘beauty’ that has caught the eye of this hunk is a two-wheeler. It is a limited-run blue coloured Suzuki Intruder M1800RZ. Everybody knows he is a fervent biker and thus it was only normal for him to add this to his one-off collection. He also retains the Suzuki Hayabusa that was at one point the fastest.

He also enjoys having an inimitable collection of four-wheelers. He owns a long list of SUVs such as Range Rover, Audi Q7 and a BMW X6.

John Abraham- John owns an Audi Q7 but he loves his two-wheelers more. He is known as an avid-biker and has an exclusive collection of bikes such as the Yamaha R1, Kawasaki ZX Ninja, Suzuki Hayabusa and Yamaha Raven.


Ajay Devgn- One thing that is conspicuous is his love for cars. The newest addition that made to his list is a Mini Cooper. The car is stylish and matches up to his luxurious living.

Saif- He likes tough and hard-hitting vehicles. Range Rover Sport and Toyota Landcruiser are the most able in this business, and clearly he owns them.

Amitabh Bachchan- Obviously he could not have been left behind in this list. He owns the classiest of cars among the industry people. He owned a Bentley Arnage R before. At present he navigates in a Rolls- Royce Phantom which costs more than 4.5 crore.
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Sultry Indo-American adult movie actress Priya Anjali Rai will flaunt her sexy curves in a yet untitled film.

"Bollywood is calling me...Very very excited! Feels amazing to get a chance to go to India and meet my Indian fans. Excited to announce that I'll be playing the lead role in India's first 4D stereoscopic feature film," Priya, 35, recently tweeted.

While details about the film are awaited, it will be directed by Asokan PK. Priya has a central role in what is reportedly a heroine-centric film. Her co-stars are yet to be finalised. According to sources, Priya will arrive in India shortly for a shooting schedule of three weeks.
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We at GlobalPost live by a third certainty: The world is a weird and wondrous place. However, we didn't realize until recently how much the promises of weirdness and taxes overlap.

From extra charges on flavored vodka in the US to beards in Russia, here are the top six wackiest taxes we've found around the world:



1. Tax on smartphones and laptops in France

French President Francois Hollande is considering a tax on smartphones, laptops and tablets to finance the country's celebrated exception culturelle, or "cultural exception," a precious French principle enshrined in law.

The exception essentially requires that anything considered to be of cultural value to French society must be protected from erratic market forces and the pernicious spread of non-French cultural items — namely, American and other English-language influences.
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Researchers who experimented with a type of brain stimulation called transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS) found that in less than a week it improved students' performance in both calculation and rote learning of mathematical tasks. ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 06:20:06 CDT rashmi Health 5 http://klicknews.com/story/408183/ http://klicknews.com/story/408179/
The number of people filing for the first-time for unemployment benefits was up 32,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 328,000. Analysts had expected a more modest rise to about 330,000 claims.

The increase was the biggest one-week jump since claims spiked by 88,000 in early November in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 06:13:42 CDT rashmi Business 5 http://klicknews.com/story/408179/ http://klicknews.com/story/408110/ Fri, 17 May 2013 02:45:01 CDT jashobbs Travel 4 http://klicknews.com/story/408110/ http://klicknews.com/story/407932/
Archeologists and documentary filmmakers Steven Elkins and Bill Benenson began the search last year. They were encouraged to act after recent studies promoted the idea that complex cities once existed in the rain forests of Central and South America during a time when the forests were likely better maintained by locals. The decision paid off; lidar readings covering 60 square miles of the Mosquitia region in Honduras revealed potential ruins that include canals, roads, and building foundations.



Read more: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/scientists-discover-the-lost-city-ciudad-blanca-in-honduras/#ixzz2TRswCd59 ]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 05:04:46 CDT rashmi Science 6 http://klicknews.com/story/407932/ http://klicknews.com/story/407931/
The satellite was one of two that were built for a National Reconnaissance Office program called Future Imagery Architecture. Unfortunately, the program was terminated in 2005 and NASA acquired both of the instruments in 2012 without plans of what to do with them.

After receiving a slew of proposes from various scientists last November, there might be an answer: send one to orbit Mars. ]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 05:02:27 CDT rashmi Science 6 http://klicknews.com/story/407931/ http://klicknews.com/story/407868/ Wed, 15 May 2013 21:09:12 CDT nabin Articles 4 http://klicknews.com/story/407868/