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YouTube making deals for original content: WSJ

TechnologyOct 27, 2011

NEW YORK, Oct 26, 2011 (AFP) - YouTube is teaming up with media companies to produce original content in its latest bid to boost the amount of professional material on the video-sharing site, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.The newspaper said Google-owned YouTube is expected to announce a
US, Swedish researchers crack 250-year-old cipher

World NewsOct 27, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists in California and Sweden said they have used computer translation techniques to solve a 250-year-old mystery by deciphering a coded manuscript written for a secret society.The University of Southern California announced Tuesday that researchers had broken the Copi
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
Coroner: Amy Winehouse died from too much alcohol

MusicOct 27, 2011

LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse drank herself to death. That was the ruling of a coroner's inquest into the death of the Grammy-winning soul singer, who died with empty vodka bottles in her room and lethal amounts of alcohol in her blood — more than five times the British drunk driving limit
Residents in flood-prone Bangkok urged to leave

World NewsOct 27, 2011

BANGKOK, Oct 26, 2011 (AFP) - Thai authorities urged residents in flood-prone areas of Bangkok to evacuate Wednesday, warning them that the arrival of a massive deluge of water was imminent.A huge runoff from the north equivalent to 480,000 Olympic swimming pools is expected to reach the capit
S. Korean consumer sentiment rebounds in Oct.

Oct 27, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's consumer confidence bounced back in October after staying below par for the last two months, the central bank said Thursday.The consumer sentiment index (CSI) -- a gauge of consumers' overall economic outlook, living conditions and future spending -- stood at
S. Korean economy grows 0.7 pct on-quarter in Q3

Oct 27, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean economy grew at the slowest pace in three quarters in the third quarter on weaker consumer spending and faltering facility investment, the central bank said Thursday, showing that growth momentum cooled amid a global economic slowdown.Asia's fourth-largest
Steve Jobs biography flies off shelves in S. Korea

BooksOct 26, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- The Korean translation of "Steve Jobs," the authorized biography of the late co-founder of Apple Inc., has repeatedly set daily sales records for most of the country's online and offline bookstores since its release earlier this week, industry data showed Wednesday."The fe
Teenager pulled out of Turkish quake rubble

World NewsOct 26, 2011

ERCIS, Turkey (AP) — Searchers working under floodlights early Wednesday pulled out an 18-year old university student from the ruins of an apartment building 61 hours after a devastating earthquake struck eastern Turkey.They used tiny cameras mounted on sticks to locate Eyup Erdem and broke in
China's vice premier arrives in S. Korea

Foreign affairsOct 26, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang arrived Wednesday in South Korea for a two-day visit that is expected to focus on efforts to revive the stalled six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear programs and expansion of the bilateral currency swap deal, officials said.Li, widely e
U.S. defense secretary visits S. Korea

DefenseOct 26, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in South Korea Wednesday for the first time for an annual bilateral security meeting.Panetta will meet with his South Korean counterpart Kim Kwan-jin at the 43rd Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) on Friday and will also pay a c
LG Electronics swings to Q3 loss on smartphone woes

IndustryOct 26, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- LG Electronics Inc., the world's third-largest mobile phone maker, said Wednesday that it swung to a net loss in the third quarter of this year due to its struggling smartphone business.Net loss amounted to 413.9 billion won (US$366.7 million) in the July-September period,
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
N. Koreans in Libya banned from returning home

North KoreaOct 26, 2011

TRIPOLI, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has banned its citizens in Libya from returning home in an apparent attempt to prevent the popular uprisings in the Arab world from reaching the isolated regime, a source said Wednesday.The development illustrated the North's concern about possible social unr
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

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