Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's residence in Ranchi was turned into a fortress on Thursday after India lost the World Cup semifinal against Australia in Sydney.

At least 30 armed policemen guarded his Argora residence to prevent attacks by disappointed cricket enthusiasts who had attacked the house on such occasions earlier. The cops didn't allow disgruntled cricket fans to gather within a 20-foot radius of the residence. However, some of them didn't miss the opportunity to hurl expletives when stopped by the cops.

Dhoni's house had been attacked at least three times by cricket fans since it was constructed. One was when India lost against Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup. The angry fans had demolished the walls of his under-construction house then.  But no such incident was reported on Thursday.

Ranchi superintendent of police Jaya Rai attributed this to having made fool-proof security arrangements outside Dhoni's residence.

However, despite the loss, some of his ardent fans had reason to cheer as their favourite cricketer had made it clear during the post-match presentation on Thursday that he wasn't planning to retire from limited-overs cricket any time soon. During the World Cup, speculation was rife that the 33-year-old skipper may announce his retirement after the tournament.

Dhoni's school cricket team captain Sanjeev Kumar summed it up in a sporting manner. He said, "It's a sport and one team has to lose. India will win the T20 World Cup next year under his (Dhoni's) leadership and we are looking forward to the future tournaments."

Dhoni's coach Chanchal Bhattacharya said that India could have won the semifinal had any of the batsmen supported Dhoni on the pitch. He said he was happy with the team's performance as reaching the semifinals without a defeat was itself an honour.

A passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed in the south of France on Tuesday. Officials expect no survivors.

Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320 owned by Lufthansa, went down near Digne in the French Alps. The flight left Barcelona at 10:01 a.m. CET, and was scheduled to arrive in at Düesseldorf International at 11:39 a.m. CET.

The plane dropped out out of the sky while in mid-flight, which isn't common as most accidents occur during takeoff or landing. About 45 minutes after takeoff, the pilots of Flight 9295 reported that there was an emergency before descending rapidly to 5,000 feet..

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Enter Viggo, an app that makes sharing all sorts of content a breeze. You start the app, and "throw" your content into the air, where it becomes available for everyone within Bluetooth range.

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The social network is testing a voice-calling app that can screen your calls and show you information about who is calling, according to an image obtained byAndroid Police.

The app, called "Phone," will display information about those who call you —presumably based on their Facebook profiles — and automatically block calls that come from numbers that have been previously identified as spam, according to the description in the screenshot. Facebook is known to test new features with small groups of users first, but the leaked image suggests the testing for this app may be limited to internal tests at the moment as it has an "FB-Only" note.

A Facebook spokesperson told Mashable "we are always testing things," but declined to comment specifically on the Phone app.

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Astronauts hoping to sip drinks in style may soon have an open-top cocktail glass to look forward to.

Called the Zero Gravity Cocktail Project, the idea is to create an open-top cocktail glass that can be used in space. The glass would use an innovative "groove system" that would keep fluids under control, and only release them when someone takes a drink.

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