News Headlines - 13 August 2014
Sales of mobile devices rose 32 percent over a year earlier to $1.6 billion. The company is investing heavily in smartphones, tablet computers and other wireless devices, and has said it expects mobile sales to be the bulk of its future revenue. Sales of Lenovo's traditional desktop PCs rose 20 percent to $3 billion, accounting for 29 percent of total revenue.
▽Embarrassing video costs Mexican politician Luis Villarreal his job - LA Times
The head of Mexico’s former ruling party, Gustavo Madero, on Wednesday fired Congressman Luis Villarreal from his position as leader of the group’s delegation in the lower House of Deputies. Madero, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), which held the national presidency in 2000-2012, said in a statement he was “renewing” the House leadership.
▽SAS sent in to Iraq as US troops land on Mount Sinjar - Telegraph
The SAS is on the ground in Iraq as part of the operation to rescue 30,000 “desperate” Yazidi refugees, it emerged on Wednesday, as US forces landed on Mount Sinjar.
▽Column: Interview Suggests New Obama-Clinton Tensions
In an interview with The Atlantic, Clinton seemed to take a shot at what has come to be known as the Obama administration’s shorthand foreign policy mantra: “Don’t do stupid stuff.” Clinton put it this way: “Great nations need organizing principles and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”
▽The Rise of 3-D Printed Guns - NYTimes.com
Last year the State Department tried to ban people from sharing files for one of these guns, called the Liberator. Yet here it is, sitting on my laptop. Along with hundreds of other 3-D files. The Department of Homeland Security anticipated this problem, sending a memo to law enforcement noting that “Limiting access may be impossible.”
