I love a good crime flick, especially when it’s of the Asian variety. It pains me to admit this, but my first Jon Woo experience wasn’t Hard Boiled or The Killer, but Face Off, the Cage/Travolta vehicle. I’ve since gone back and delved into Woo’s signature brand of stylish violence–long shots, slow motion sequences, the…

By Sportsmail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:50 GMT, 19 May 2012 | UPDATED: 14:55 GMT, 19 May 2012 Dani Pedrosa pipped Repsol Honda team-mate Casey Stoner to pole for Sunday’s MotoGP round at Le Mans. Drying conditions as the hour-long session unfolded allowed the Spaniard to clock one minute 33.638 seconds and take his first pole of…

So you didn’t bunk with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, you haven’t spent the past eight years slinging code for a certain social network, and you had zero chance of scoring even a single insider’s share of the hottest IPO ever. Your closest brush with Facebook wealth was a stack of “FarmVille” coins for your bumper…

A U.S. mission to send the first unmanned commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station was aborted with a half second left in the countdown. Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the company’s Dragon capsule, attempted to lift off at 4:55 a.m. yesterday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A computer detected an engine pressure…

New York — Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.’s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close. But Chinese regulators attached a big condition: That Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices remain available to all at no cost for the next five years. The…

The newly enriched Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to “married”. Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan wed at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday, capping a week during which the social network he founded listed on the share market for more than $100bn. Zuckerberg took his company…

Yesterday at 9.30am San Francisco time Mark Zuckerberg pressed a NASDAQ button to kickstart trading of Facebook shares. That button was rigged to automatically post “Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ – with Chris Cox and 4 others.” It turns out that the idea occurred to a team of Facebook engineers in the final…