breakingnews: Tornado causes destruction in Oklahoma City area AP: A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks stranded on the sides of highways. Follow more updates on this story at BreakingNews.com. Photo: A massive twister is spotted near Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon. (NBC News) High-res

breakingnews:

Tornado causes destruction in Oklahoma City area

AP:

A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks stranded on the sides of highways.

Follow more updates on this story at BreakingNews.com.

Photo: A massive twister is spotted near Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon. (NBC News)

reuters:

You could hold my umbrella-ella-ella: famous people don’t always hold their own umbrellas, but when they do, they do it with worldly stature and infinite wisdom. 

Pictures by REUTERS - Jason Reed; Caroline Blumberg; Tobias Schwarz; Regis Duvignau; Brian Snyder; Suzanne Plunkett. 

breakingnews: 100 hours of video uploaded every minute by YouTube users The Verge: Google revealed Sunday on YouTube’s eighth birthday that the video sharing website has reached new uploading heights with around 100 hours of video uploaded every minute by users. A year ago today, 72 hours of video were uploaded every minute. The site also has reached record-breaking viewership with more than one billion people visiting the site every month. Photo: Visitors stand in front of a logo of YouTube at the YouTube Space Tokyo, operated by Google, in Tokyo, in February 2013. (Shohei Miyano/Reuters)

breakingnews:

100 hours of video uploaded every minute by YouTube users

The Verge: Google revealed Sunday on YouTube’s eighth birthday that the video sharing website has reached new uploading heights with around 100 hours of video uploaded every minute by users.

A year ago today, 72 hours of video were uploaded every minute. The site also has reached record-breaking viewership with more than one billion people visiting the site every month.

Photo: Visitors stand in front of a logo of YouTube at the YouTube Space Tokyo, operated by Google, in Tokyo, in February 2013. (Shohei Miyano/Reuters)

reuters: Things we know about world leaders:  They wear suits to work, even on the weekends. They wave to strangers on the street… a lot. They like alcohol, and like us, they are also victims to having a drink spilled on them at a bar (see below).  Slideshow: World Powers Drink High-res

reuters:

Things we know about world leaders: 

  1. They wear suits to work, even on the weekends.
  2. They wave to strangers on the street… a lot.
  3. They like alcohol, and like us, they are also victims to having a drink spilled on them at a bar (see below). 

Slideshow: World Powers Drink

reuters: Actress Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy to elude breast cancer, a disease which kills half a million around the world every year.“We often speak of ‘Mommy’s mommy’, and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me,” wrote Jolie, 37.“I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene.”The Oscar-winning actress said her doctors had estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.“Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy,” she said.  Continue reading: http://reut.rs/128fT6G REUTERS/Toby Melville High-res

reuters:

Actress Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy to elude breast cancer, a disease which kills half a million around the world every year.

“We often speak of ‘Mommy’s mommy’, and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me,” wrote Jolie, 37.

“I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene.”

The Oscar-winning actress said her doctors had estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.

“Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy,” she said. 

Continue reading: http://reut.rs/128fT6G 

REUTERS/Toby Melville

“There is little indication that beliefs in individualism, the efficacy of hard work, and the potential for personal progress have been seriously eroded by the economic body blow the American public has absorbed.”

Resilient American Values: Optimism in an Era of Growing Inequality and Economic Difficulty

Written by Andy Kohut, founding director of the Pew Research Center, and Michael Dimock, the director of our politics and public policy project.

(via pewresearch)