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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's privately-owned Dalian Wanda Group, the world's largest movie theater owner, is in talks with "well-known" hotel chains for acquisition opportunities in the United States, its chairman said on Monday. Wanda, which also has interests in real estate, tourism and department stores, bought U.S.-based …

FORT MEADE, Md. - An Army private charged with sending U.S secrets to the website WikiLeaks had a history of suicidal thoughts and aloof behaviour that outweighed a psychiatrist's opinion that he was no risk to himself, two former counsellors testified Sunday.

Some workers at a Marine Corps brig housing a soldier charged with sending U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks became annoyed at a demonstration on his behalf the day before a confrontation that led to tighter restrictions on him, a former guard testified Saturday.

Japan's space agency says it is investigating a possible leak of data about its Epsilon rocket due to a computer virus.

As a military prosecutor held up a knotted bedsheet in court, Pfc. Bradley Manning acknowledged on Friday that he fashioned a noose and contemplated suicide shortly after his arrest on charges of engineering the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history.

Last month, the social-media team at Russia's Kaspersky Lab decided to run a contest leading up to Halloween.

VIENA (Reuters) - Un grupo de piratas informáticos contrarios a Israel, acusado esta semana por la agencia nuclear de la ONU de haber publicado en Internet datos robados de uno de sus servidores, dijo en una nueva declaración que había difundido material confidencial obtenido del organismo supervisor. El comunicado firmado …

For the first time, military prosecutors are going face-to-face with an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Military prosecutors planned to go face-to-face for the first time Friday with an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.

VIENA (Reuters) - Un grupo de piratas informáticos opositores a Israel, al que la agencia nuclear de la ONU acusó esta semana de haber publicado en internet datos robados de uno de sus servidores, dijo en una nueva declaración que había difundido material confidencial obtenido del organismo supervisor. El comunicado firmado …

VIENNA (Reuters) - Anti-Israel hackers, who the U.N. nuclear agency this week said had posted data online stolen from one of its servers, claimed in a new statement they had published confidential material obtained from the watchdog. The statement - in the name of a group with an Iranian-sounding name - was put on a website …

High-speed 4G LTE networks are the future of mobile data in the United States and around the world. A number of major wireless providers have already deployed LTE networks and others are expected to follow soon. The Yankee Group found that by the end of 2012 there will be 152 commercial LTE networks across 65 countries, …

An Army private charged with sending reams of classified information to the secret-busting website WikiLeaks testified Thursday that his jailers at a Marine Corps brig answered his complaints about "absurd" restrictions by tightening the screws.

In an interview with Reuters, cyber security expert and Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky said that Apple (AAPL) won’t be able to sustain its growth following its closed philosophy. The Cupertino-based company is known for its tight integration of hardware and software throughout its computer, music, smartphone and tablet …

VIENA (Reuters) - El titular de la agencia nuclear de Naciones Unidas dijo el jueves que un incidente con hackers que involucró a uno de sus servidores era "profundamente lamentable", pero sugirió que los piratas informáticos no habían podido robar ningún dato sensible relacionado con las actividades atómicas de Irán. Yukiya …

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear agency said on Thursday a hacking incident involving one of its servers was "deeply regrettable" but suggested that no sensitive information related to Iran's atomic activities had been stolen. Yukiya Amano said the hacking - first reported by the International Atomic Energy …

Amy Davidson in The New Yorker on Hillary Clinton "Do Clintons ever truly go away?" Amy Davidson asks on the eve of Hillary Clinton's retirement from the State Department. Clinton insists that she won't make a 2016 presidential bid, but pundits gazing into crystal balls already see her as the Democratic frontrunner. Before …

LYON, France (Reuters) - Vivendi's SFR launched France's first fourth-generation mobile service open to the public on Thursday, kicking off a race with rivals in an increasingly competitive French market. SFR launched the service in the southern French city of Lyon and will add Montpellier in mid-December. Lille, Marseille, …

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - China's state-owned CNOOC Ltd and its Canadian takeover target Nexen Inc have withdrawn and resubmitted an application for U.S. approval of their $15.1 billion deal, as Canada gets close to its decision on whether to approve the transaction. The energy companies said on Tuesday that discussions …

The International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged Tuesday that one of its servers had been hacked after a previously unknown group critical of Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program posted contact details for more than 100 experts working for the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An unprecedented debate over how the global Internet is governed is set to dominate a meeting of officials in Dubai next week, with many countries pushing to give a United Nations body broad regulatory powers even as the United States and others contend such a move could mean the end of the open …

At last night's premiere for Killing Them Softly, the biopic in which Brad Pitt plays legendary soul singer Roberta Flack, the actor was asked about his engagement to underground actress Angelina Jolie, and while he said he didn't know exactly when they would get married, he anticipated that it would be soon. "The time …

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