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Thanks to some exciting new technology it has developed, Amazon is testing a brick-and-mortar grocery store in downtown Seattle called Amazon Go that lets customers walk in, grab food from the shelves and walk out again, without ever standing in a checkout line, scanning their groceries or fishing for change.

A Bulgarian man suspected by the United States of involvement in a stock scam has been detained and indicted in Bulgaria, local and US media outlets report.

Nedko Nedev, 38, is a dual Bulgarian-US citizen who allegedly launched fake buyout bids for Avon Products and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.

It’s not enough that some “netizens” spend countless hours on Facebook, now the world’s pre-eminent social media site has unveiled a “lite” version of itself, debuting a new app for Android that only takes up 1 MB of storage space.
The normal Facebook app takes up about 25 MB of storage space.

Live anthrax samples were shipped to three laboratories in Canada by a U.S. military lab, USA Today reported on June 1, following disclosures last week that samples of the bacteria were mistakenly sent to 11 U.S. states and two other countries.

US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro had a historic handshake on Friday as they arrived at the Summit of the Americas, which is taking place in Panama City.

Their gesture has been another important step in the thaw of relations between the two countries, which have been at odds in the past five decades.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep on Monday evening advanced to the quarter-finals of the women's singles event of the 5,381,235-dollar Miami Open WTA tournament after defeating Italy's Flavia Pennetta (seeded 15th), 6-3, 7-5.

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Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, WTA No. 3, has won the USD 5,381,325 worth Indian Wells (California) WTA tournament on Sunday, after defeating in a very disputed final Serbia's Jelena Jankovic 2-6, 7-5, 6-4.

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Two police officers have been hit during unrest in the town of Ferguson, Missouri (US), officials say.

The condition of the two injured is not yet known, authorities report as cited by USA Today.

Officials have called the violence "just awful".

More than 80 people have been arrested in the St Louis county, US, over burglary and trespassing in the last hours after a court ruling sparked unrest across the region.

Sixty-one of those detained were in Ferguson, where the teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in August.

Facebook's move to fulfill its ambition to be the personal "newspaper" for its billion-plus members is likely to mean more woes for the ailing news media.

The huge social network has become a key source of news for many users, as part of a dramatic shift in how people get information in the digital age.