 | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders have formally launched a political group aimed at revamping immigration policy, boosting education and encouraging investment in scientific research. |
 | Even Kim Jong-Un’s threats of nuclear war can’t divert world attention from the main event on the Korean peninsula this week — the launch of Psy’s hugely anticipated follow-up to his global hit “Gangnam Style”. |
 | Stephen Hawking on Tuesday toured a stem cell laboratory where scientists are studying ways to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disorder that has left the British cosmologist almost completely paralyzed. |
 | Acting President Nicolas Maduro vowed on Monday to stamp out corruption following days of accusations by his election rival Henrique Capriles that ruling party officials were plundering Venezuela’s oil wealth. |
 | From foie gras noodles and liquid olives to air baguettes and mimetic peanuts, much of what elBulli chef Ferran Adria and his team created in their nearly 2,000 dishes defies transcription. |
 | A cancelled rally, a loathed president and a party chairman kept out of the public glare because of Taleban threats — Gulzar Ali Khawaja has never seen anything like it. |
 | In the cold, barren hills of Korea more than 60 years ago, two teary-eyed soldiers stood in a prisoner of war camp where their chaplain lay dying. |
 | President Barack Obama has apologized to California’s top lawyer for causing a stir when he called her “the best-looking attorney general” at a fundraiser they attended together this week. |
 | A website thought to be the handiwork of Mark Zuckerberg at the age of 15 resurfaced on the Internet on Thursday, providing a glimpse into the early days of the famed Facebook co-founder. |
 | Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, was on Thursday awarded the $1.7-million Templeton Prize for his lifelong work to promote “love and forgiveness”. |
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