Piracy site IsoHunt to shut down and pay $110m
IsoHunt, a popular website offering BitTorrents of mostly pirated material, is to shut down following a court settlement.
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Study or language learning fuels 1/3 of youth travel tourism
Young travellers represent 20% of the international tourism market, accounting for £138 billion of the £692 billion tourism spend in 2012, reveals the global membership body via its New Horizons III report, which updates previous research into the youth travel market conducted in 2002 and 2007
India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria on slavery’s list of shame, says report
A new report claiming to be the most comprehensive look at global slavery says 30 million people are living as slaves around the world.
China holds two bloggers as it expands crackdown on rumors
Police in China have arrested an influential blogger and are holding a cartoonist in a widening crackdown on online "rumor-mongering", friends and a lawyer for one of them said on Thursday.
Wall Street firms looking for college athletes with top grades
Inside One Equity Partners are as many as eight Olympians and even more of their world- or Olympic gold medals, said managing partner Dick Cashin, who competed internationally as a rower and now hires former college athletes while recommending others do the same.
Common Market for MOOCs
The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) provides a legal basis for the creation of an online marketplace for academic credit that could be exploited by massive open online course providers, conference speakers have argued.
Blow to multiple human species idea
The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow.
As Belfast riots, Northern Ireland’s second city tastes peace
While cars burned on the streets of Belfast this summer in its worst year of rioting for a decade, Northern Ireland's second city of Londonderry was filled with tourists as its once bitterly divided population celebrated a stunning rejuvenation.
This burden speaks volumes
After storing 2,000 books for a Jewish school principal for 70 years, the Lin family from Shanghai asked for help from the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on Wednesday to look for the books' owner as the family's current residential neighborhood will soon be demolished.
Senate reaches deal to end shutdown, avoid default
Senate leaders on Wednesday announced a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default as soon as the end of this week, and a key GOP conservative said he wouldn't try to block the measure.
