TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan have come up with a novel way of preparing themselves for this year’s London Olympic men’s soccer tournament - training with odd-bouncing triangular ‘rice balls.’ The balls, shaped like the traditional Japanese ‘onigiri’ rice ball wrapped in seaweed, were fired at goalkeepers during training at the weekend, local media reported on [.. […]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan have come up with a novel way of preparing themselves for this year’s London Olympic men’s soccer tournament - training with odd-bouncing triangular ‘rice balls.’ The balls, shaped like the traditional Japanese ‘onigiri’ rice ball wrapped in seaweed, were fired at goalkeepers during training at the weekend, local media reported on [.. […]

ROME (Reuters) - A proposal to levy a tax on cats and dogs that stunned Italy on Friday turned out to be all bark and no bite after a wave of popular anger saw it withdrawn on the same day it was made public. Italy was abuzz for hours after local media reported that a […]

IBNLive.com Samsung, Apple Sit at the TableWall Street JournalChief executives of Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. will meet in San Francisco Monday in a court-directed session aimed at settling their smartphone patent war. But a deal seems unlikely, people familiar with the matter and others tracking the …Apple, Samsung CEOs set for US court […]

Bloomberg Apple Wrongfoots Greenpeace over Renewable Power for the iCloudForbesIt’s only a month back that Greenpeace slammed Apple for using “dirty†coal fired electricity to power the iCloud data centre in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple has now come back with plans to power the entire site with renewables.Apple’s iCloud Data Center to Use Only Green [... […]

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