Washington : Media .The U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia determined that the Syrian regime is civilly liable for the assassination of Marie Colvin. Marie was killed in February of 2012 in Homs and is one of the 126 journalists killed in Syria since 2011. The court found Marie was specifically targeted because of her profession, particularly for the purpose of silencing those reporting on the growing opposition movement in the country, and that a breach of international

Oded Yaron .Liron Slonimsky claims that Tommy Hilfiger customers aren’t concerned about, or don’t think about, the problematic issues that may emerge from invasive technologies of the kind her company has developed. That however is a very narrow view of the subject, and it’s one that is common both among us, the users, and among the entrepreneurs who rely on our ignorance. And what it represents, after all, is not really indifference, but rather a genuine difficulty in understanding the

Riyadh:media The UK and US-based online publisher The Independent and the Middle East media house, Saudi Research, and Marketing Group (SRMG), have announced a new licensing deal that will see the creation of a series of new websites in four different languages. The sites will offer news, insight, and analysis on global affairs and local events, and will be published in Arabic, Urdu, Turkish and Persian. In addition, each site will feature translated articles from independent.co.uk alongside content from teams

LOS ANGELES/MIAMI (Reuters) .Starbucks Corp appealed to customers for forgiveness in a controversy over alleged racial profiling on Tuesday, saying its behavior toward two black men last month had been reprehensible as it closed 8,000 U.S. stores for anti-bias training.The company settled privately with the men after a Philadelphia cafe manager's call to police resulted in their arrests on April 12. It was closing company-owned U.S. stores at around 2 p.m. local time on Tuesday as a first step in