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Samsung's presence in U.S. 3D TV market weakens in Sept.

IndustryOct 30, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest flat-screen TV maker, lost ground in the 3D TV market in the United States due mainly to increased competition, industry data showed Sunday.Samsung Electronics' market share stood at 49 percent in terms of 3D TVs sold in the U.S. last month, falling below
Regulator set to order Lone Star to sell KEB stake

Oct 30, 2011

(Yonhap News) FSC fails to gain public consent on its rulingLone Star Funds lost the status of biggest shareholder of Korea Exchange Bank on Saturday as the U.S.-based equity fund failed to meet the eligibility requirements set by financial regulators.The fund’s position of losing, or being ba
Overseas-based Web sites praising N.K. on sharp rise: police

PoliticsOct 30, 2011

The number of overseas-based websites glorifying the North Korean regime has been increasing rapidly, a police report here showed Sunday. With their servers based in foreign countries, South Korean authorities have faced difficulties in dealing with the Korean-language websites legally. Police detec
Fishermen net bag stashed with yen off Japan coast

PodcastOct 30, 2011

TOKYO (AP) -- A fishing boat netted a bag packed with cash worth 11 million yen ($145,000) off Japan's northeastern coast, a catch probably swept away in the tsunami seven months ago.A trawler pulled the bag with more than 1,000 notes worth 10,000-yen ($130) from the bottom of the sea on Oct. 8 near
Suspected killer tied to other deaths

PodcastOct 30, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police have linked the man charged with 10 murders in the ``Grim Sleeper'' serial killings to a number of other deaths, a law enforcement official said Friday.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, did not specify how many deaths p
Search ends for Korean climbers missing in Himalayas

More sportsOct 30, 2011

KATHMANDU (Yonhap News) -- The Himalayan search for renowned South Korean mountaineer Park Young-seok and his two missing teammates has ended for the year due to concerns about the safety of rescue climbers, an official said Saturday, pledging to resume operations next year."We've ended this year's
Court grants divorce to woman suffering from husband's nit-picking

Social affairsOct 30, 2011

The Seoul Family Court said Saturday it has granted divorce to a housewife and ordered her husband to pay her compensation, finding him responsible for ruining the relationship with his constant belittling comments.The 37-year-old wife, identified only by her surname Park, filed for divorce, claimin
Brazil's Silva has cancerous tumor in larynx

PodcastOct 30, 2011

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo chemotherapy to treat a cancerous tumor in his larynx, doctors said Saturday.The tumor was detected earlier in the day during an examination at Sao Paulo's Sirio Libanes Hospital, the hospital said in a statement, which added
Study: Japan nuke radiation higher than estimated

PodcastOct 28, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a dangerous radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total from Chernobyl, a preliminary report says.The estimate of much higher levels of radioactive cesium-
Crowded Earth: how many is too many?

CultureOct 27, 2011

Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say.As early as 1798, Thomas Malthus gloomily forecast that our ability to reproduce would quickly outstrip our ability to
Secrets of long life sought in DNA of the elderly

ScienceOct 27, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ George Eberhardt turned 107 last month, and scientists would love to know how he and other older folks like him made it that far. So he's going to hand over some of his DNA.He's one of 100 centenarians taking part in a project announced Wednesday that will examine some of the oldest
Texas woman sentenced in NY in Russia smuggle case

PodcastOct 26, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York City say a Latvian-born woman who has drawn comparisons to a spy with the same first name will spend four months in jail for trying to smuggle high-tech rifle sights to Russia.Prosecutors said Monday that Anna Fermanova also was sentenced to four
Lindsay Lohan poses nude for Playboy: report

FilmOct 26, 2011

LOS ANGELES, Oct 25, 2011 (AFP) - Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has posed nude for Playboy in a deal worth nearly $1 million dollars, the TMZ celebrity news website reported Tuesday.The actress, who has faced a string of legal problems and is currently on probation, had wanted $1 million dollars an
In final weeks, Gadhafi between rage and despair

PodcastOct 26, 2011

MISRATA, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's all-powerful leader for four decades, spent his final weeks shuttling from hideout to hideout in his hometown of Sirte, alternating between rage and despair as his regime crumbled around him, said a regime insider now in custody.Gadhafi, his son M
US's most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled

PodcastOct 26, 2011

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War. A weapons trainer talks to