Two prominent Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs in the latest violence in the besieged city which left 20 people dead. Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, an American, and award-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik died when a shell hit a makeshift media centre in the Baba Amr district. Opposition-held areas of Homs have been besieged since 4 February. Thousands have died in unrest against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. More than 40 people died on Tuesday...

Some 49 people have been killed and at least 600 injured, officials say, in the worst train crash in Argentina in 40 years. The train hit the end of the platform at Once station in the capital Buenos Aires during the morning rush hour. "We assume that there was some fault in the brakes," Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said. Dozens of people were trapped for hours in the wreckage but all have now been successfully taken to safety. "The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passeng...

Some 49 people have been killed and at least 600 injured, officials say, in the worst train crash in Argentina in 40 years. The train hit the end of the platform at Once station in the capital Buenos Aires during the morning rush hour. "We assume that there was some fault in the brakes," Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said. Dozens of people were trapped for hours in the wreckage but all have now been successfully taken to safety. "The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passeng...

The end is nigh! For about 59 different Google ToS documents at least. After today, the new consolidated privacy policy will go into effect, which will also consolidate much of your data across Google's properties. That means this is your last chance to clear out El Goog's "you archives" before the great convergence of 2012. If you're not keen on Google sharing your information between its various products (though, you seemed to be okay with it being collected in the first place) today is the da...

The Perfect Palette, a wedding blog that explores “the color palette possibilities for your wedding” and serves as a resource for other wedding ideas, would seem to be a perfect match for Pinterest, and it is. The site is far and away the biggest brand on Pinterest with more than 240,000 followers, according to Zoomsphere. The rest of the list illustrates that media titles that cater to the nesting instinct have a definite advantage. (As do publications that write about Pinterest, including Mash...

Move over, Rebecca Black. Make room for Tommy Jordan. The heat-packing, tech-savvy dad who plugged nine rounds into his daughter’s laptop in a YouTube-broadcasted fit of parental retribution is rapidly blowing the pop star’s notorious “Friday” video out of the water in the 24/7 viral video derby. “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen,” uploaded exactly two weeks ago, has already amassed more than 28 million views on YouTube. That’s some 5 million more than the most recent re-uploaded versio...

Home prices fell to their lowest point in more than a decade in January, which helped to lift the pace of home sales, according to a report from an industry trade group.

As more women earn high-level corporate roles, more husbands are staying home, raising the kids, and changing the rules

Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the blossoming number of new devices, after earlier implementing an iPad-specific strategy. The publisher pioneered tablet magazines when it built out an early iPad design on Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in 2010. But now Nook, Kindle Fire and multiple Android tablets and mobiles of various shapes, which would compel additional production investment, are requiri...

He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has mad…

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group after IPG refused to capitulate to Amazon’s demand for better terms. Updated: IPG’s full memo to publishers on page 2. The story was first reported by Publishers Marketplace and was confirmed by IPG President Mark Suchomel, who told me, “We’re offering [the e-book sales terms] we offered last week, and somehow they think it’s not quite good enough.” As IPG’s contract with...

Experiencing some issues downloading those expense reports via your Verizon LTE device this morning? You're not alone. We've received reports of data outages in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pennsylvania and Ohio. We've reached out to VZW to find out what the issue is, and as soon as and we know more we'll post it right here. For now, let us know if your LTE is letting you down in the comments below.

The killings of two Western reporters in the city of Homs and reported deaths of some 60 people across Syria have triggered further Western outrage towards the Damascus government. Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, an American, and French photographer Remi Ochlik died in shelling by Syria's government forces. The US said it was "another example of the shameless brutality" of the regime. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: "That's enough... The regime must go." Syrian troops have been shelli...

When GrubHub started, it was just a pair of hungry guys with an idea. Now the website (and mobile app), which allows users to find delivery and takeout restaurants nearby and order the food online, is a multi-million dollar company. Back in 2004, Matt Maloney and Mike Evans were both working as developers at Apartments.com, a site that helps you find apartments and condos to rent. The job required a lot of late nights at the office. "We were hungry, and sick of ordering the same pizza all the ti...

Amazon pulled more than 4,000 e-books distributed by the Independent Publishers Group off its site this week after it failed to exact better terms from the distributor.

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Wearing Milani Haute Flash Full Coverage Shimmer Lipgloss in In a Flash on my lips A hella pigmented, high-shine glittery gloss for less than eight bucks? Hook it up, Milani! The new Haute Flash Full Coverage Shimmer Lipglosses cost a mere $7.49 each, and yet they deliver flashy, full-coverage color the likes of pricier department store fare (I’m talkin’ to you, MAC, YSL and Chanel). Like distant, disco-crazed cousins of the MAC Kissable Lipcolours ($19), these six Haute shades are loaded with p...

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose last month to the highest level in more than 1½ years, while the inventory of unsold homes contracted to a level economists consider healthy, positive signs for housing.

After more than a year in the making, the Obama administration on Wednesday released its plan to overhaul the corporate tax code.

Verizon’s continuing struggle to keep its LTE network running consistently has landed it in the news again. Wednesday morning, Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) reported on its Twitter feed that it is looking into customer complaints about its 4G service going down, and Engadget and Phandroid are reporting network outages in several markets ranging from Phoenix, Ariz., to Indianapolis, Ind. Read the full post on GigaOm...