Fifa grants goalline technology licence to German firm

A third company has been licensed by Fifa to provide goalline technology systems. The German firm Cairos has had its system approved by the world governing body and will be able to tender for use in next year’s World Cup and the Premier League. The other two systems licensed are those produced by Hawk-Eye, the British firm now owned by Sony, and a German-Danish system… Read more

Oscars 2013: Academy award winners

academy awards They say it’s an honor to be nominated. We say they are lying. It’s in that spirit that we present you with the following list of winners (and only the winners) from Sunday’s 85th annual Academy Awards. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christoph Waltz/Django Unchained BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM Paperman BEST ANIMATED FILM Brave BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Life of Pi BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Life of Pi… Read more

Music 40 highest earners

The list, compiled by measuring touring revenue, music sales, publishing royalties and other streaming and on-demand figures, was topped by Madonna with $34.5 million. Like many of the acts on the list, her gaudy figures were goosed by concert revenues, in her case the blockbuster MDNA tour, which was 2012’s biggest outing with $305 million in grosses. Madge earned a hefty $32 million of that… Read more

Rapper killed where tupac was shot

Aspiring Oakland rapper Kenny Clutch (born Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr.), 27, was shot and killed on Thursday in Las Vegas after an unknown assailant fired shots into Cherry’s Maserati. According to CNN, Cherry was among three people killed in the incident, in which someone in a black Range Rover fired several shots into the rapper’s car approximately one block from the spot where Tupac Shakur… Read more