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HOUSTON -- A man accused of robbing a GameStop during a Black Friday door-buster sale in North Houston has been arrested, police said. The robbery happened around 3 a.m. at the GameStop located in the 5500 block of the North Freeway near Tidwell. Police said the man took cash from the register and fled, but was later caught. No injuries were reported. 

When Lucasfilm announced it was killing the Star Wars  Expanded Universe, I was heartbroken. The galaxy George Lucas had dreamed up took form in the original movies, but it was populated and fully realized by the authors, artists, and video game developers that helped build  Star Wars'  back stories. Now, like a blaster taken to my childhood memories, that Expanded Universe was gone. I thought the damage would be permanent. But I've just seen the  Star Wars: The Force Awakens  trailer. I've seen it, and I want to go back to the galaxy far, far away  right now . I don't mind that Luke won't ever meet Mara, I don't mind that the Yuuzhan Vong are scrubbed from existence. I don't even care that this is now a universe that will potentially never feature cybernetically advanced Ewok pilot Lieutenant Kettch. The trailer shows that the new movie still has the symbols of the soul of Star Wars  — X-Wings and TIE fighters and the Millennium Falcon t...

(CBS SF) — The Best Buy website is back up again after reportedly experiencing technical problems on Black Friday, one of the most busiest shopping days of the year. Shoppers logging onto the website received this message: “We’re Sorry: BestBuy.com is currently unavailable. Check back soon.” The website was first reported down at about 7:05 a.m. and was back online about an hour later. A Best Buy spokesperson told KPIX 5 “a concentrated spike in mobile traffic triggered issues that led us to shut down BestBuy.com in order to take proactive measures to restore full performance.”

PESHAWAR:  We may have been cheering about the  performance  of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan at the Nobel Prize Ceremony but now the Pashto music legend Sardar Ali Takkar has also given us a reason to own the ceremony. Takkar, who hails from the same province as Malala Yousafzai will be performing  Ta Bibi Sheerina Ye  on the first day of the ceremony, a song which he made as a tribute to Malala’s bravery after she was attacked by the Taliban. On the second day, Takkar will perform the famous poem by Ghani Khan,  A zama watan , in which Ghani Khan expressed his love for the country. “This is the moment of pride and honour that a Pakistani and a Pashtun singer will perform at the Nobel Prize award ceremony,” Takkar told  The Express Tribune . “I will be performing Pashto songs for all the Pakistani girls, the language does not matter because the message is to get well educated and be a part of a larger movement towards peace,” said Takkar. Takka...

The trailer for the fourth Jurassic Park film, starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, has arrived three days early After a decade of delays, the first trailer for Jurassic World has arrived three days early. A teaser trailer released for the film on Sunday explained that the official first trailer for Jurassic World would appear on Friday. However, the first full trailer for the film has bucked its years of disastrous development by dropping three days early. The sequel takes place 22 years after the events of the first Jurassic Park film, which was released in 1993. A dinosaur safari park, Jurassic World, has been built out of the ruins of the original Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. As the trailer shows, this Jurassic World includes opportunities to paddle down the river as giant herbivores graze and join the Mosasaurus - an enormous prehistoric crocodile - eat dead sharks in a situation reminiscent of Seaworld's Shamu enclosure. This was expect...

It’s less than a year away Image taken from the Jurassic World trailer The official release date for Jurassic World is June 12 2015 – a spot that suggests the filmmakers are confident the movie will hold its place as one of next summer’s must-see blockbusters. June 12 is also a month and a half after Avengers: Age of Ultron opens, a month after Mad Max: Fury Road, and a good two weeks before Terminator: Genisys, ensuring that Universal’s dinosaurs won’t be facing too much competition during their opening week. 22 years on, Isla Nublar has an up and running theme park Image taken from the Jurassic World trailer The official plot summary for the film reads as follows: “22 years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. This new park is owned by the Patel Corporation. Owen, a member of Jurassic World’s on-site staff, conducts behavioural research on the Ve...

ISLAMABAD: Dr Vaqar Ahmed, the Deputy Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, has stressed the need for normalizing trade relations between Pakistan and India to benefit both the local manufacturers and consumers besides technology transfer and greater export surplus. He was speaking at a two-day regional consultation on `Deepening Economic Cooperation in South Asia: Expectations from the 18th SAARC Summit' organized by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) in cooperation with SDPI in Kathmandu. The programme was organized as a side-event to the 18th SAARC Summit to provide useful recommendations to deepen economic cooperation in South Asia. "The Government of Pakistan must take a lead in expediting SAARC-level pending agreements on transport, energy, connectivity and dispute resolution," Dr Vaqar said, adding that the current free trade agreements in the region should be revised to include invest...