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Probe ordered into IMF chief in France finance affair

World NewsAug 4, 2011

PARIS, Aug 4, 2011 (AFP) - A French court Thursday ordered a formal judicial probe into IMF chief Christine Lagarde's contested role in settling a financial dispute when she was France's finance minister.Lagarde has denied abusing her influence in the affair in which arbitrators awarded a big payout
ECB leaves key rate unchanged at 1.5 percent

World NewsAug 4, 2011

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) _ The European Central Bank has left its key interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent as the continent's debt crisis appears to be embroiling Spain and Italy despite efforts by political leaders to contain it.Market participants are now awaiting ECB President Jean-Claude Triche
Academy defends Winfrey as honorary Oscar winner

World NewsAug 4, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Film academy president Tom Sherak is coming to Oprah Winfrey’s defense.Sherak says Winfrey is “one of the most philanthropic performers in the world” and thus deserving of the academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday
Pakistan steps up security as Karachi death toll hits 58

World NewsAug 4, 2011

KARACHI (AFP) ― Hundreds of extra paramilitary troops have been deployed in Pakistan’s economic capital Karachi which is struggling to end violence that has killed 58 people in five days, officials said Wednesday.Authorities are battling to halt gunfights raging across the key port city― used by NAT
‘Caged’ Hosni Mubarak denies all charges

World NewsAug 4, 2011

Sight of former dictator lying helpless in bed stuns Middle EastCAIRO (AP) ― From a bed inside the defendants’ cage, an ashen-faced Hosni Mubarak showed a glimmer of his old defiance. Egypt’s former president wagged his finger in the air and denied all charges against him Wednesday as he went on tri
Moon may have had a little sister

World NewsAug 4, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the “big splat.”The result: Our planet was left with a s
U.N. condemns Syrian attacks on civilians

World NewsAug 4, 2011

Security Council expresses regrets on lack of reformsUNITED NATIONS (AP) ― After months of deadlock, the U.N. Security Council finally responded to the escalating violence in Syria on Wednesday, condemning President Bashar Assad’s forces for attacking civilians and committing human rights violations
300 kilograms of coins trouble a car deal in China

World NewsAug 4, 2011

A flour wholesaler surnamed Wang in the city of Xianyang in Northwest China used a van to transport the seven sacks of coins, which he had amassed through flour sales to business clients including steamed bread shops and noodle manufacturers. The coins, weighing 300 kilograms, worth altogether
Australian teenager safe after 'bomb' drama

Aug 4, 2011

SYDNEY (AFP) -- Australian bomb squad officers Wednesday safely removed a teenager from a "suspicious device" media reports said had been strapped around her neck, ending a 10-hour drama.Police officers, some wearing protective equipment, gather near the home of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver in
Philippine police held over chilli torture video

World NewsAug 3, 2011

MANILA (AFP) -- Eight Philippine police officers have been detained for allegedly force-feeding trainees with chillies and rubbing the pungent red fruit on the victims' genitals, officials said Wednesday.The detained men face possible charges of grave misconduct after video footage of the incid
Hong Kong professionals form anti-slavery club

World NewsAug 3, 2011

Hong Kong entrepreneur Ken Law runs a successful information technology business, but the bespectacled 35-year-old now has a second job ― anti-slavery activist.Law is one of dozens of Hong Kong professionals ― lawyers, bankers and IT experts ― who have formed the Mekong Club, a group dedicated to wa
Culinary connoisseurs crave kimchi crocks

World NewsAug 3, 2011

Americans becoming aware of health benefits of Korea’s traditionally fermented foodsSAN FRANCISCO (Yonhap News) ― Several non-Korean cookbooks have introduced millions of Americans to the basic techniques of making kimchi in recent years, but the trick is as much in the fermentation ― a process that
In Mubarak trial, Egypt sees chance at retribution

World NewsAug 3, 2011

CAIRO (AP) ― Hosni Mubarak, 83 years old and ailing, goes on trial Wednesday on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the 18-day uprising that toppled him, and many Egyptians are celebrating the chance at retribution against a longtime authoritarian ruler.But they also
China boosts security in western region

World NewsAug 3, 2011
U.S. says it will ease limits on aid to Somalia

World NewsAug 3, 2011