NEW YORK (AP) ― Alibaba’s financial results in its first quarter as a publicly traded company highlight its strategy of plowing its profit back into investments, particularly in mobile commerce and marketing.The Chinese e-commerce powerhouse said net income fell 39 percent in the July-September period despite a 54 percent surge in revenue on strong user demand.The results released Tuesday show that Alibaba has a similar strategy as U.S. e-commerce retailer Amazon: Invest profit back into the com

A bizarre act of eye-licking is gaining popularity among Japanese students, causing concerns about eye infections.An anonymous Internet user, who identified himself as a teacher in an elementary school, posted on a Japanese website Naver Matome that he recently spotted a sixth-grade boy licking a girl’s eyeballs.The students, when confronted, told the teacher that they were “not the only ones doing it.” The teacher opened a class meeting and found out that nearly a third of students in his class

The finals of British TV talent show “Britain’s Got Talent” held Saturday were marred when a backing musician threw eggs at judge Simon Cowell during a performance.The 30-year-old viola player, who was performing with a backing group for contestants Richard and Adam Johnson, abruptly broke away from the group and started pelting eggs at the music mogul. The smiling musician was hauled away by security soon after the stunt.Criticism piled against the musician, decrying her for sabotaging the John

A Cambridge University drinking society announced Tuesday that it is ending its “traditional” jelly wrestling ritual after students complained the event displayed sexism.According to British news reports, Cambridge student Nina de Paula Hanika recently started a petition to protest the wrestling event hosted by the Wyverns Society, an all-male drinking society of the prestigious British school. The annual event had bikini-clad women fighting in a pool of jelly for a cash prize. It is part of a s

Three American women who went missing separately about 10 years ago were found on Monday inside a house in Ohio where they had been held captive, local media reported.According to CNN and AP, a woman who identified herself as Amanda Berry called the police emergency dispatch and said she had been kidnapped. She pleaded to the police to pick her up before her captor returned.Authorities went to the house and found Berry, who disappeared on April 21, 2003, a day before her 17th birthday. They also

A 15-centimeter-long mummified skeleton with a deformed shape has been confirmed to have human DNA.Garry Nolan, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, and his colleagues have analyzed the specimen and found that there is no evidence that it originated from an extraterrestrial source.“Every nucleotide I’ve been able to look at is human,” Nolan told Livescience.com. He added that why the skeleton has been deformed in such way remains a mystery. About 9 percent of