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Kevin P. Coughlin/New York Daily News Jay Z brings his Magna Carter World Tour home to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn Sunday night. Nothing got in the way of the words at Jay Z’s Barclays Center concert on Sunday. The show didn’t feature an innovative stage design, as on Drake’s recent tour. Neither did it include bejeweled masks, fancy dancers ...

Jin Lee/Bloomberg Stocks have been on a tear in 2013, fueled by central bank stimulus and signs an economic rebound is beginning to take hold. 2013 is shaping up to be a blockbuster for the world’s stock investors, and some analysts see reasons for optimism in the year ahead. Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average wrapped up its final trading day ...

While you might fondly call the hell-raising inhabitants of online gaming haunts like DotA, Counter-Strike, and Xbox Live terrorists, the NSA and CIA both felt that certain online gaming communities are home to the real thing. So, they did what any good security agency would do, and started spying on bored gamers who are forever killing 10 rats and crafting epic ...

MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS Garth Brooks will begin touring again next year after a more than 10-year hiatus. ‘It sure feels good to get to throw your hat back in the ring,’ he said. American country singer Garth Brooks, the top-selling recording artist of the last 20 years, on Monday said he would return to touring after more than a decade off ...

Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images Imagine the heavens from the moment you were born. The word “horoscope” means “view of the hour.” Imagine a photograph of the heavens taken by someone standing right next to your mother when you were born.  The sign of the zodiac that was coming up over the Eastern horizon when you were born is your rising ...