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Twitter study reveals explosion in Arabic 'tweeting'

CultureNov 25, 2011

The popularity of Twitter has soared in the Arab world over the past year, a study published Thursday revealed, reflecting the key role of the social networking site in the "Arab Spring" revolutions.Online Twitter messages, or tweets, in Arabic rocketed from 99,000 a day in October 2010 to over two
Wrong twin terminated in Australian hospital lapse

PodcastNov 24, 2011

MELBOURNE (AFP) - An Australian hospital was investigating Thursday after a woman carrying 32-week-old twins had the wrong foetus terminated in a botched procedure it called "a terrible tragedy".Doctors had advised the woman that one of the boys, whom she had already named, had a congenital heart de
Recipient doing well after first artificial windpipe graft

HealthNov 24, 2011

PARIS, Nov 24, 2011 (AFP) - The word's first artificial windpipe transplant has been such a success that a second operation has been carried out and a third is being planned, The Lancet reported on Thursday.Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene, a 36-year-old Eritrean, is doing well after undergoing the gro
Dream sleep takes sting out of painful memories

PodcastNov 24, 2011

They say time heals all wounds, and new research from the University of California, Berkeley, indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help us overcome painful ordeals.UC Berkeley researchers have found that during the dream phase of sleep, also known as REM sleep, our stress chemistry shuts dow
Learn from Shakespeare, study tells doctors

BooksNov 24, 2011

PARIS, Nov 24, 2011 (AFP) - Doctors should read up on Shakespeare, according to an unusual medical study that says the Bard was exceptionally skilled at spotting psychosomatic symptoms.Kenneth Heaton, a doctor at the University of Bristol in western England, trawled through all 42 of Shakespea
Clooney on witness list for Berlusconi trial

FilmNov 24, 2011

MILAN (AP) — George Clooney and his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis are among more than 200 witnesses accepted Wednesday by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.Clooney has said he was approached by Berlusconi'
Apple moves production to Sharp for TV debut, Jefferies says

IndustryNov 24, 2011

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. is shifting production of iPhone and iPad displays to Sharp Corp. in Japan and may introduce a television with screens from the same partner as early as the middle of 2012, Jefferies & Co. said.Apple is moving its business to Sharp largely at the expense of Samsung
US judge who beat daughter with belt suspended

PodcastNov 23, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Texas judge who was caught by his then teenage daughter on video beating her repeatedly with a belt in a row over her computer use has been suspended from duty, US justice officials said.A seven-minute video of William Adams whipping Hillary Adams, now 23, at least 17 times and
Khmer Rouge No. 2 says regime acted for Cambodians

코리아 헤럴드Nov 23, 2011

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- The deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia's ``killing fields'' insisted Tuesday he carried out its policies for the sake of Cambodians and to protect the country from invaders. A tourist takes pictures of human skulls of Cambod
Danish hotel flouts the law, reserves floor for women

TravelNov 23, 2011

COPENHAGEN, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - A Copenhagen hotel will continue reserving a whole floor for women, despite a recent ruling that doing so is discriminatory and illegal, the hotel director said Tuesday.Last May, the Bella Sky Hotel in central Copenhagen opened a floor dubbed the Bella Donna with 20
Inmates harass victims via Facebook

PodcastNov 22, 2011

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Lisa Gesik hesitates to log into her Facebook account nowadays because of unwanted ``friend'' requests, not from long-ago classmates but from the ex-husband now in prison for kidnapping her and her daughter.Neither Gesik nor prison officials can prove her ex-husband is
Rape, murder of teen shocks France

PodcastNov 22, 2011

France is reeling after a 17-year-old boy raped and murdered a girl at a chic boarding school while conditionally freed on charges of rape a year ago."It's absurd. It could have been avoided with a little less negligence," the dead 13-year-old's mother, Paola Marin, told Europe 1 radio as a nation s
US marine recounts dream date with Mila Kunis

PeopleNov 22, 2011

Mila Kunis (AP)LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US marine described his dream date with Mila Kunis on Monday, calling the Hollywood star "down to earth" -- and revealing the pair danced to the 1980s hit "(I've had the) Time of My Life."Sergeant Scott Moore spent Friday night with the 28-year-old actress after
Peru finds 14th century mass grave of children

PodcastNov 22, 2011

LIMA, Nov 20, 2011 (AFP) - A Peruvian archeologist on Sunday announced the discovery of the remains of 44 infants and young children sacrificed to appease ancient deities in the 14th century at a site in the high Andes near the border with Bolivia.The remains were found near a stone funeral tower --
Philip Morris files claim against Australia on packaging law

IndustryNov 21, 2011

Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Philip Morris International Inc. served an arbitration notice against the Australian government to claim 'millions of dollars' in damages after the nation passed the world's first plain-packaging law for cigarettes.The passage of the law today violates Australia's Bilateral In