Så inledde vänsterpartiet Syrizas ledare Alexis Tsipras sitt segertal i Aten efter nyvalet.

Så inledde vänsterpartiet Syrizas ledare Alexis Tsipras sitt segertal i Aten efter nyvalet.

Javad Zarif is being asked to explain a stroll he took with the US secretary of state during nuclear negotiations.

Javad Zarif is being asked to explain a stroll he took with the US secretary of state during nuclear negotiations.

Vänsterpartiet Syriza har, när nästan hälften av rösterna är räknade, 36 procent av rösterna och är därmed största parti i Grekland.

En tsunami av missnöje och ilska svepte i går bort regeringspartiet Nea Dimokratia och förde vänsterledaren Alexis Tsipras till makten efter fem år av svidande åtstramningar. Nu väntar tuffa förhandlingar med EU om landets skulder.

MojoKid writes After last Wednesday's Windows 10 event, early adopters and IT types were probably anxious for Microsoft to release the next preview build. Fortunately, it didn't take long as it came out on Friday, and it's safe to say that it introduced even more than many were anticipating (but still no Spartan browser). However, in case you missed it, DirectX 12 is actually enabled in this Windows 10 release, though unfortunately we'll need to wait for graphics drivers and apps that support it, to take advantage of DX 12 features and performance enhancements.

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alphadogg writes These days, making a call across the U.S. is so easy that people often don't even know they're talking coast to coast. But 100 years ago Sunday, it took a hackathon, a new technology and an international exposition to make it happen. The first commercial transcontinental phone line opened on Jan. 25, 1915, with a call from New York to the site of San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Alexander Graham Bell made the call to his assistant, Thomas Watson. Just 39 years earlier, Bell had talked to Watson on the first ever phone call, in Boston, just after Bell had patented the telephone.

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Islamist party and leftist Popular Front not convinced by make-up of prime minister-designate Habib Essid's cabinet.

Minskade skatteinkomster och skenande kostnader gör nu att Stockholmslandstinget måste dra i nödbromsen. Med ett underskott på nästan en miljard tvingas de stora akutsjukhusen till kännbara besparingar. Konsekvenserna på Karolinska universitetssjukhuset befaras bli personalflykt, fler sjukskrivna och att patientsäkerheten kan försämras.

Reporter who broke death of federal prosecutor flies home to Israel saying he fears for his safety from security agents.