James Gandolfini's Family and Friends Attend Private Wake in New Jersey

Family and friends attended James Gandolfini's private viewing held at the Robert Spearing Funeral Home in Park Ridge, New Jersey on Wednesday, June 26. The actor's widow Deborah Lin, teenage son Michael, and 9-month-old daughter Liliana were among the first wave of mourners who arrived at the funeral home. Baby Liliana was shielded by umbrellas as she entered the funeral home inside a baby carrier with her mother. Gandolfini's sisters Johanna...

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After three decades, Texas executes 500th inmate

HUNTSVILLE - As scores of death penalty protesters chanted, clapped and sang Wednesday, Dallas County convicted murderer Kimberly McCarthy became the 500th Texas inmate executed since the state reactivated the death penalty 31 years ago. On the other side of the prison, a small group of capital punishment supporters silently watched as witnesses entered the red brick death house. Inside the execution chamber, McCarthy, in standard prison garb...

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Nelson Mandela still critical; bishop prays for leader's 'peaceful, perfect, end'

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- Cape Town's archbishop led Nelson Mandela's family in prayer on Tuesday, calling for "a quiet night and a peaceful, perfect, end" for the former South African president. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba prayed with Mandela's family at the Pretoria hospital where the anti-apartheid icon remains in critical condition, the South African Press Association reported. "Fill them with your holy courage and the gift of trusting...

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Asian Stocks Rise on U.S. Data, Easing China Cash-Crunch

Asian stocks rose for the first time in three days after better-than-estimated U.S. data bolstered the outlook for the world’s largest economy and concern over China’s cash crunch eased. James Hardie Industries SE (JHX), a supplier of building materials that gets about 70 percent of sales from the U.S., climbed 3.8 percent in Sydney. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s biggest lender, jumped 4.1 percent in Hong Kong after...

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Celtics’ Rivers Is Said to Be Heading to Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers are poised to finally lure Coach Doc Rivers from the Boston Celtics, reaching agreement on an on-again, off-again deal that at various points was declared dead and against league rules. Off the Dribble Keep up with the latest news, on the court and off, with The Times's basketball blog. Go to Off the Dribble N.B.A. Live Scoreboard Teams | Player Stats Knicks Schedule/Results Roster | Player Stats Nets ...

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Hong Kong Rebuff on Snowden Averts Chinese Strains With U.S.

Hong Kong’s decision to let Edward Snowden leave despite a U.S. warrant for his arrest spared the city a legal battle that would have left it trapped between the competing interests of Chinese and American leaders. In allowing the ex-National Security Agency contractor to board a flight to Moscow yesterday, Hong Kong no longer has to weigh American extradition demands against signs China didn’t want the city to give up Snowden, who exposed programs...

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Is money better then education?

A great writer says that the love of money is the root of all evil.Before going to the depth let me define what the education is It means to know something.To my point of view money is necessary in every field of life weather that is education,or any work if we say money is better then education if we don't have money how can we read.How can we go for our higher education to me money and education two of them are necessary in every human's life.Education...

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Afghanistan: Gun and rocket attack near Kabul airport

Militants armed with heavy machine guns and rocket propelled grenades have launched an attack near the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul. Kabul police told the BBC that the gunmen were firing from a five-storey building under construction close to the airport. The Taliban has said it carried out the attack. The BBC's David Loyn at the scene says police are in the building and clearing it floor by floor. He says the operation is being carried...

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Heat Pummel Spurs to Tie Series

MIAMI — There are countless ways to dominate a game, myriad methods and attack points and angles, and LeBron James has mastered them all. The scheme and scoring totals may vary, but it is the results that matter, a fact that James emphatically reminded anyone who had doubts Sunday night. Related For Spurs, Every Game Is a Global Summit (June 10, 2013) On Pro Basketball: Again Playing the Leading Man, but Only for His Teammates (June 10,...

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Asian shares hit 2013 lows as Fed stimulus jitters weigh

(Reuters) - Asian shares slipped to their lowest this year on Wednesday as uncertainty over when the U.S. Federal Reserve would begin scaling down its massive stimulus program fanned worries about funds flowing out of the region. The mood was soured by a drop in U.S. stocks overnight on worries over a shift in the Fed's current policy, but the prospect of less monetary stimulus underpinned the dollar. "Wariness over an exit from the current...

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Joint Chiefs’ Answers on Sex Crimes Dismay Senators

WASHINGTON — Senator Roy Blunt sat silently for nearly an hour as his colleagues on the Armed Services Committee questioned one military leader after another on Tuesday about what they were doing to address the problem of sexual assault in the military, and then assessed their responses: “Stunningly bad.” Multimedia Senator McCaskill on Military Assaults In particular, Mr. Blunt chided Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of naval operations,...

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