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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne made his maiden test century to provide dogged resistance as the tourists followed on Sunday on the third day of the first test against New Zealand.At tea Karunaratne was 116 not out, Angelo Mathews was 12 and Sri Lanka was 201-3, still 102 runs behind New Zealand after being dismissed for 138 in its first innings and following-on 303 behind.Sri Lanka resumed on day three at 84-0 and Kaushal Silva, was out at his overnight score of 33. Kumar Sangakkara fell for 1.

But Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimmane stopped the slide, putting on 87 for the third wicket before Thirmanne was out caught behind off Jimmy Neesham for an ultra-patient 25 which took him more than three hours to accrue.Sangakkara started the test on 11,988 career runs — needing 12 more to become the fifth player in history to scored 12,000 runs in tests. He was out for six in the first innings and a score of one in the second left that milestone still just five runs out of reach.

Sangakkara ends 2014 with 1,493 runs in tests at an average of 71 and 132 runs short of 3,000 runs in all forms of the game in the calendar year, during which he has averaged 50.He was undone on Sunday by a similar ball to the one that claimed his wicket in the first innings, with Trent Boult tempting him outside off stump and he got an edge through to 'keeper B.J. Watling.In the morning session, Southee removed opener Kaushal Silva in the first over of the day.

A hippo that panicked while being transported by truck in Taiwan jumped from the vehicle, breaking a leg and causing confused residents to report spotting a dinosaur on the loose.

Television footage showed the enormous animal lying on the road with a white fluid oozing from its eyes after it jumped through a truck window and landed on a parked car before falling onto the road on Friday.
The sound of the collision startled people nearby who flocked to see the animal and contacted the police in central Miaoli county.

One woman was quoted by the United Daily News as saying that she ran out of her house after hearing the crash and thought she saw "a dinosaur" lying on the road.The truck driver was quoted by the newspaper as saying that he saw the hippo "flying out" of the vehicle after getting spooked during the drive.

The injured animal, named "A Ho" after the Chinese name for hippo Ho Ma, lay on the road for a few hours before being put into a cargo container and taken back to its farm in central Taichung city, officials said.
Local media said the hippo was a star attraction at its farm and had even appeared in a popular television soap opera several years ago.

Speaking today at Google I/O, the technical lead for Project Ara, Paul Eremenko, showed off the progress his team has made since we saw the very early first prototypes this past April. He showed off a functional, form-factor prototype.
Which is a nerdy way of saying that for the first time publicly, we saw a modular Ara phone power on. It took its sweet time, but after several rounds of supportive applause from the audience, it booted. And froze.
But over the course of the session, the team kept at it  to get it past the boot screen (though to no avail). So not the most successful demonstration, but enough to show progress.

Eremenko also announced a challenge for developers. A $100,000 prize for a working module that lets a phone do something that a phone has never done before, along with a trip to Ara's next developer conference.
He took on the critics of Project Ara who say that it's not possible to make a modular phone that people actually want.
"We started by turning statements like 'it's impossible' into numbers," he said. By quantifying the exact things that would make it difficult, his team was able to better tackle the problem. The technical problems are many, and the Ara group is investigating new ways to solve them.
One of them are "novel" ways to handle the data transfer from the modules to the body, using capacitive interconnects and other new connectors.

Hopefully your New Year's resolution isn't to binge watch all five Rocky films, because Netflix won't be able to help you out. As usual, the beginning of a new month marks the disappearance of a lot of old films from the streaming service, and Vulture has printed a long list of which will be going away.

Its list of disappearances seems to come from Netflix itself, though it looks like Netflix may be singling out some of the biggest names rather than making a comprehensive list of everything that's going to disappear. For instance, the What's On Netflix Now? blog points out that basically every Woody Allen film (aside from Annie Hall) is going away as of January 1st, though only one appears on Netflix's list.

You can take your workout outdoors (and stop slogging through another hour on the elliptical).
But if going for a long run isn’t your thing, you can still break a sweat in the sunshine by trying some butt-kicking DIY moves.
“If you want to torch calories, gain definition and keep your metabolism up after your workout is done, then you need to use your whole body,” says Ariane Hundt, creator of Brooklyn Bridge Boot Camp.