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Phil Mickelson easily enters Hall of Fame

World NewsNov 11, 2011

Phil Mickelson will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in May after the four-time major tournament winner was elected with the highest voting percentage in a decade. Mickelson, the only player elected from the U.S. PGA Tour ballot, received 72 percent of the vote, the highest share since Greg Norman was elected with 80 percent in 2001, according to the hall. He will be inducted on May 7 in St. Augustine, Florida, three days before the start of the PGA Tour’s Players championship. “This
Woods emerges from slump to lead in Australia open

World NewsNov 11, 2011

SYDNEY (AP) ― Tiger Woods walked off the golf course to see his name atop the leaderboard Friday in the Australian Open. Even more pleasing to him was the way he got there.With control of his shots and comfortable over the putter, Woods put together his best back-to-back rounds of the year with a 5-under 67 that gave him a one-shot lead among the early starters in the second round.If it holds up at the end of the day, it would be his first time in the lead after any round since the third day of
NBA labor talks break down again

World NewsNov 11, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― NBA players broke off negotiations with the league Thursday night, saying there had not been enough progress to get a deal done to end the lockout.The league offered the players a revised offer after nearly 11 hours of bargaining, but union president Derek Fisher said it doesn’t address all the necessary system issues that are important to the players.“It does not meet us entirely on the system issues that we felt were extremely important to try and close this thing out, and so a
Will Yoon pitch Stateside?

BaseballNov 11, 2011

Kia pitcher signs with MLB agent BorasThe country’s pro-baseball season is over, heralding speculation about players moving to other clubs. And the biggest transfer rumor involves Kia Tigers pitcher Yoon Suk-min. Reports say that the 25-year-old right-hander could leave the country to join Major League Baseball as early as next year. Yoon, the 2011 KBO’s MVP, revealed last week that he had signed with MLB agent Scott Boras as a part of his long-term plan to pitch in the American top league.Altho
Civil suit filed over jailed IN swim coach

PodcastNov 11, 2011

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—The family of an Indiana teenager filed a civil lawsuit against USA Swimming and others Thursday, saying officials didn’t do enough to protect the girl from the sexual assaults by her coach.The suit, filed in Marion County Superior Court, levels accusations against the umbrel
Life in jail for China civil servant who threw wife off cruise ship

World NewsNov 11, 2011

A civil servant who claimed he threw his ex-wifeto her death from a Hong Kong cruise ship to fulfill her wish for aburial at sea was Friday beginning a life sentence for murder.Chinese national Wang Weilie, 49, told police his wife YangWenjuan was suicidal and he thought she was dead when he threw h
Rhino subspecies vanishing from the wild

PodcastNov 11, 2011

GENEVA (AP) — The Western Black Rhino of Africa has been declared officially extinct, and two other subspecies of rhinoceros are close to meeting the same fate, a leading conservation group said Thursday.The International Union for Conservation of Nature said a recent reassessment of the Weste
Chinese swarm to marry on lucky 11/11/11

PodcastNov 11, 2011

Chinese couples flocked to registry offices to marry on Friday in the belief that the "11/11/11" date is the most auspicious in a century.November 11 has been celebrated as an unofficial "singles' day" in China since the 1990s -- as the date is composed of the number one -- and it is seen as a good
Lee postpones visit to parliament over U.S. FTA

PoliticsNov 11, 2011

President Lee Myung-bak postponed a visit to the National Assembly over the free trade agreement with the United States until next week after a last-minute request from the main opposition party, officials said.Lee rescheduled his visit until next Tuesday after the opposition Democratic Party said i
Voter registration to begin for S. Koreans overseas

PoliticsNov 11, 2011

Voter registration will begin Sunday for South Koreans living abroad in preparation for the April general elections, the first poll in which overseas citizens will be allowed to cast ballots, the National Election Commission said. South Korea enacted a law in 2009 that grants citizens in foreign cou
BOK freezes key rate at 3.25 percent for 5th month

Nov 11, 2011

South Korea's central bank left the key interest rate unchanged on Friday for the fifth straight month in the face of the deepening eurozone debt crisis and moderated inflation growth.Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo and his fellow policymakers froze the benchmark seven-day repo rate at 3.25
EEG scan helped contact patients in vegetative state

HealthNov 11, 2011

Electro-encephalography (EEG) helped doctors realize that several patients diagnosed as being in a permanently vegetative state were in fact aware, according to a study published on Thursday in The Lancet.The technique could be developed as a portable, cheaper way of helping doctors make more accura
NASA readies launch of 'dream machine' to Mars

ScienceNov 11, 2011

The US space agency is getting ready to launch later this month the biggest, most expensive robotic vehicle ever built to explore Mars for signs of previous life there, NASA said Thursday.The Curiosity rover, known formally as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), is a $2.5 billion state-of-the-a
Apple launches iPhone 4S in S. Korea to fanfare

TechnologyNov 11, 2011

SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Yonhap) -- Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S was released in South Korea on Friday with great fanfare as the country's two largest mobile carriers heated up their competition to lure customers.SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest mobile operator, and the runner-up KT Corp. invited fans to cele
Scientists identify new cell to lower risk of hardening of arteries

ScienceNov 11, 2011

A group of scientists, including one of the two recipients of this year's Nobel prize in medicine, the late Ralph M. Steinman, has identified a new cell that helps reduce risks of the hardening of the arteries, South Korea's science ministry said Friday.The research, published Thursday (U.S. time) o