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Something cool just happened. Microsoft MSFT +10.45% has released the biggest new version of Windows 10 in ages and it does something vitally important: it gives us the first look at the platform as a cohesive – and possibly game changing – whole… So What’s New? Let’s cut to the chase. What Windows 10 Build 10061  does so well is bring everything together. It brings Start, Taskbar and Action Center improvements, polishes Continuum and Task View, gives the Virtual Desktops some much needed love and there are new Mail and Calendar apps. It’s tight, smart and nicely knits new with old.

  As many families on FORBES’ World’s Billionaires list might admit, one of the trickiest things about business success is maintaining it — especially over generations. Family businesses make up as much as 80%-90% of all firms worldwide and the top 500 largest family-owned firms account for a combined $6.5 trillion in annual revenues, a sum that would be the world’s third-largest economy behind only the U.S. and China. An upcoming survey co-developed by Kennesaw State University’s Cox Family Enterprise Center and EY’s Global Family Business Center of Excellence sheds light on one of the biggest keys to longstanding companies’ everlasting success: They are able to efficiently hand control of the company to the next generation, a task easier said than done.

‘We believe there were constitutional errors in his trial and they were so great he deserves a new trial,’ said Cissy Jackson, an attorney for Musgrove. ‘He was wrongly convicted.’ Photograph: Erik S Lesser/Getty Images Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 28 years on Alabama’s death row for two murders despite his claims of innocence, walked free earlier this month after prosecutors admitted they couldn’t prove his guilt. Now another inmate who maintains he was wrongly convicted in a separate killing is challenging his death sentence in a case with eerie similarities to Hinton’s, down to allegations of botched ballistics evidence, a questionable eyewitness identification and the judge and prosecutor who handled both trials.

  Saudi-led coalition jets have bombed Houthi rebels in Yemen's third city of Taiz, hours after announcing the end of a military campaign against them. The strikes followed the fall of the base outside Taiz of an army unit loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.  Fighting was also reported in the second city of Aden, Lahj's provincial capital Huta, and the town of Daleh.  On Tuesday, Riyadh declared its month-long campaign, which sought to restore the president, had achieved its goals.  But it warned that it would continue to take action against the Houthis as needed.

  Ewan Spence    Contributor Apple iPhone 6 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (image: Ewan Spence) Following on from my comparison review of the iPhone 6 and the BlackBerry Classic , it is time for another unequal comparison and review. While there is a lot of merit in a direct head-to-head of similar handsets (and I’ll refer you to Gordon Kelly’s Apple iPhone 6 vs Samsung’s Galaxy S6 piece) it’s the bullpen handsets that I want to look at today from Cupertino and Seoul – specifically the  iPhone 6 Plus  and the  Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge . Both of these handsets are subservient to the main flagship, yet each in their own way illustrate the future for Apple and Samsung.

Police are searching a neighbourhood in Saint-Dizier, north-eastern France, where the suspect spent time with his family French police have arrested a man suspected of planning an attack on "one or two churches" in a Paris suburb, the country's interior minister has said.  The man, a 24-year-old Algerian national, was detained on Sunday in Paris after he apparently shot himself by accident and called an ambulance.

The classic emerald-cut white diamond was the highlight of the sale.   A flawless 100-carat diamond has sold for $22.1m (£14.8m) at Sotheby's auction house in New York.  The gem, originally mined by De Beers in South Africa, was snapped up by an anonymous buyer after only three minutes' bidding.  The diamond had taken more than a year to cut, polish and perfect.

Servicemen of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army (R) and Ukrainian National Guard (L) attend an opening ceremony of joint military exercise ''Fearless Guardian 2015'' at the International Peacekeeping Security Center near the village of Starychy western... Reuters/Gleb Garanich (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he believed a surge in ceasefire violations in east Ukraine had passed, adding Moscow would work to prevent violence escalating again. Moscow stands accused by the West and Kiev of driving the separatist pro-Russian rebellion in east Ukraine, providing it with troops and arms, training and intelligence. Moscow denies this.

Reuters/Andrew RC Marshall The US government has agreed to give Ukraine millions of dollars in aid, including food, shelter and water, the White House confirmed. This follows a discussion between US Vice-President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. “The vice-president informed President Poroshenko that the US will offer [an] additional $17.7 million,” the White House said in a statement. The declaration clarified that the money will be set aside for medical needs, foodstuffs and drinkable water.

U.S. Navy officials say the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the waters off Yemen and will join other American ships prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen. The U. Wochit (Photo: 2003 photo by Steve Helber, AP) WASHINGTON — The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has moved off the coast of Yemen to prepare to intercept potential shipments of Iranian weapons to the rebels fighting the U.S.-backed government of Yemen, Pentagon officials said Monday.

"China is the number one market with connected products." That was how Intel's Senior Vice President Kirk Skaugen kicked off his keynote at IDF in Shenzhen, citing China's staggering 30 percent share of worldwide connected-device purchases in 2014. The country gobbled up 40 percent of the 46 million Intel-powered tablets shipped globally. Not bad, but 46 million is hardly anything compared to the 420.7 million smartphones shipped in China alone in the same year -- only a tiny percentage of which packed an Intel chip. Most others relied on Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung. Intel's smartphone market share is so small that it never dared to share the stats; it could be as low as 2.81 percent in the Android space, according to benchmark specialist AnTuTu .

(Photo: Philippe Huguen, AFP/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES — If your website traffic plummets suddenly Tuesday, you can blame it on "Mobilegeddon." Google, which dominates online search, is launching an algorithm to favor sites that are "mobile-friendly." This means that people who use Google to search on their smartphone may not find many of their favorite sites at the top of the rankings. Sites that haven't updated could find themselves ranked way lower, which in turn could mean a huge loss of business.

Following the Nokia N1 , the new Chromebook and the new MacBook , who knew the world's first USB Type-C smartphones would come from a Chinese company? The brand in question is LeTV, who has today unveiled three new Android 5.0 "Superphones" that feature the reversible socket. The flagship aluminum Le Max (pictured above) is all about the absolute top specs: a 6.33-inch Quad HD display, a Snapdragon 810 chip (2GHz, octa-core, 64-bit), 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, a whopping 64GB or 128GB of internal storage, a 21-megapixel f/2.0 camera (with Sony's new IMX230 sensor, plus optical stabilization and dual-tone flash) and a bright UltraPixel selfie imager.

Employers are awash in a sea of resumés. That’s why you should customize yours to the particular job you’re applying for. This will make you a stronger candidate because your resumé will better reflect what the employer wants. Here are six steps to customizing your resumé effectively:

When startup Freshdesk raised $31 million dollars last June, the company said it was preparing for the bubble around enterprise tech valuations to burst. Now less than a year later, Freshdesk has gone back to the well for another $50 million—but this time, it’s looking to keep pace. That trimming to enterprise valuations hasn’t come reckoning, at least yet. All three major players in customer support software have since continued to grow—but Freshdesk is the only private company left of the bunch. So as Freshdesk was able to prove it doubled its own client base in 2014, the company felt justified to return to its existing investors for a bigger cash infusion.

Nearly 300 US soldiers hold joint exercises with 900 of Ukrainian counterparts in a move Moscow said could destabilise the situation in the east of the country US and Ukrainian soldiers take part in a ceremony to mark the start of their joint training programme. Photograph: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images US paratroopers have started training national guard units in Ukraine , despite Moscow’s warnings that it could destabilise the peace process with Russia-backed rebels in the east of the country.

ADVERTISEMENT Uche Chukwumerije The Senate will adjourn plenary on Tuesday in honour of late Senator Uche Chukwumerije in line with its tradition. Chukwumerije, a three-term senator, was until his death on Sunday  at a Turkish Hospital in Abuja at the age of 75,  the Chairman, Senate Committee on Education  in the current  senate. The red chamber, as of tradition, usually honours their dead colleague by postponing all items on the order paper at their first plenary after the demise of any of their members.

(Reuters) - Global equity markets snapped back on Monday from a worldwide decline the previous session on China's steps to stimulate its economy and solid corporate earnings, while the euro weakened amid worries that Greece may default. European stocks shrugged off declines in Asia where Chinese shares fell sharply on fears of a regulatory crackdown on the world's hottest stock market , which offset the People's Bank of China's most aggressive move yet to bolster the slowing economy.

PTV broadcast the historic signing and exchanging of agreements between the two countries China's President Xi Jinping has signed agreements with Pakistan promising investment of $46bn (£30.7bn). The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies. They will run some 3,000km (1,800 miles) from Gwadar in Pakistan to China's western Xinjiang region. The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond.

Mark Dawson The London Book Fair lands on an unusually sunny three days in the capital. The scorching rays – rarely seen at all, let alone in April in the UK – seem at odds with a closed-off indoor book fair. But that hasn’t stopped scores of page-turner enthusiasts scouring the giant exhibition centre’s main floor, looking for publishers to schmooze, books to buy and advice to receive. It’s the advice from authors who’ve ‘made it’ that seems to resonate most with attendees. Seminars and workshops are scattered in between the stands – all packed with a baying audience that fire off seemingly endless questions. They’re all trying to piece together an escape route out of the doldrums of full-time work. One man, Mark Dawson, has a queue of wannabe writers lining up to speak to him as we sit down for an interview. Dawson is one of the self-publishing success stories that Amazon likes to wheel out when journalists like myself come knocking. But D...