AUDIO: 'Amazing' seeing Bolt break my record |
- AUDIO: 'Amazing' seeing Bolt break my record
- VIDEO: Health tech and clever controls at Ceatec
- Bangkok braces but safe so far from floods
- Facebook campaign may herald deeper changes in Bhutan
- BN to make adjustments to seat allocation: Najib
- Consider ADHD starting at age four - doctor group
- Singapore leads Asian reticence in denouncing corporate greed
- Taliban did not kill Afghan president’s brother, says Nato
- No decision yet on future troop presence in Iraq
- Libya’s new rulers contend with pro-Gaddafi district
- Syrian forces fire at mourners, battle defectors
- Umno will not claim Penang leadership: Najib
- Credit crunch in China hurts property developers
- Bhutan's royal wedding points to end of polygamy
- Syrian forces fire at mourners, battle defectors
- Bangkok braces but safe so far from floods
- Chinese wine students are boon for Bordeaux
- California declares 'Steve Jobs Day'
- Thousands in Canada join anti-corporate protests
- New Zealand counts wildlife cost from oil spill
| AUDIO: 'Amazing' seeing Bolt break my record Posted: 16 Oct 2011 12:26 AM PDT The sprinter Michael Johnson tells Desert Island Discs it was "amazing" seeing Usain Bolt take his 200m world record at the Beijing Olympics.
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| VIDEO: Health tech and clever controls at Ceatec Posted: 14 Oct 2011 07:34 AM PDT In the second part of his round-up from the Tokyo tech show Ceatec, Dan Simmons looks at the apps hoping to help you stay in shape and the polyester technology which could control your television.
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| Bangkok braces but safe so far from floods Posted: 16 Oct 2011 12:16 AM PDT BANGKOK, Oct 16 — Relief workers reinforced barriers today to help defend Thailand's capital, Bangkok, from the country's worst floods in half a century and efforts were stepped up to protect a huge industrial estate to the city's north. Despite heavy rain in parts of Bangkok late yesterday, areas inside the defensive system of dikes and canals ... 
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| Facebook campaign may herald deeper changes in Bhutan Posted: 15 Oct 2011 11:56 PM PDT THIMPHU, Oct 16 — For a sign of things to come with isolated Bhutan's young democracy, look no further than a draconian smoking law, some bar talk, and a Facebook page. For decades, Bhutan has been the world's most reclusive kingdom, with conservative villagers living under an absolute monarch. The introduction of parliamentary democracy in 2008 ... 
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| BN to make adjustments to seat allocation: Najib Posted: 15 Oct 2011 11:41 PM PDT Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today the Barisan Nasional (BN) will make adjustments to the existing formula on allocation of seats for the next general election.
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| Consider ADHD starting at age four - doctor group Posted: 15 Oct 2011 11:44 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The American Academy of Paediatrics this weekend expanded its guidelines for diagnosing and treating kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, recommending that doctors evaluate all patients aged four to 18 who show signs of the condition. 
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| Singapore leads Asian reticence in denouncing corporate greed Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:59 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — Australia and New Zealand started the rolling global protests denouncing corporate greed but capitalist countries elsewhere in Asia were reluctant to demonstrate, with the turnout in wealthy Singapore almost zero. Protesters gathered across the world yesterday to denounce bankers and politicians over the international ... 
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| Taliban did not kill Afghan president’s brother, says Nato Posted: 15 Oct 2011 07:47 PM PDT KABUL, Oct 16 — The man who killed the influential half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai three months ago carried out the attack for personal reasons and was not a Taliban fighter, a senior Nato official said yesterday. Investigations following the death of Ahmad Wali Karzai at his Kandahar home in July showed that the employee who killed ... 
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| No decision yet on future troop presence in Iraq Posted: 15 Oct 2011 07:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — The Obama administration denied a news report yesterday it had made a final decision to pull almost all US troops out of Iraq by a year-end withdrawal deadline. The White House and Pentagon both denied an Associated Press report citing unnamed US officials saying they completely dropped the idea of possibly keeping a ... 
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| Libya’s new rulers contend with pro-Gaddafi district Posted: 15 Oct 2011 07:00 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Oct 16 ─ The armed men wearing the colours of Libya's new government are everywhere, eyes darting side to side, some edgy, others excited, as they train anti-aircraft guns on Tripoli's most pro-Gaddafi neighbourhood. But one local man takes a chance down a quiet side street. Pulling his car up alongside a foreign journalist, he jumps ... 
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| Syrian forces fire at mourners, battle defectors Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:46 PM PDT AMMAN, Oct 16 — Syrian security forces shot dead three mourners and injured 20 yesterday when they fired on a protester funeral procession in central Damascus while troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fought army defectors west of the capital, witnesses said. In his latest move to try and defuse discontent, part of a wave of popular unrest ... 
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| Umno will not claim Penang leadership: Najib Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:40 PM PDT Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today assured Gerakan that Umno will not claim the state leadership in Penang if the Barisan Nasional (BN) is given the mandate to rule the state in the next general election.
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| Credit crunch in China hurts property developers Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:34 PM PDT Property developer Zhang Xin made a fortune over the past decade on the back of a building boom fuelled by China's blistering economic growth and the privatisation of its housing market.
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| Bhutan's royal wedding points to end of polygamy Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:33 PM PDT Bhutan's rare form of polygamy, in which men or women take several sisters or brothers as partners, is dying out as the kingdom modernises, with this week's royal wedding another sign of its demise.
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| Syrian forces fire at mourners, battle defectors Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:42 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces shot dead three mourners and injured 20 on Saturday when they fired on a protester funeral procession in central Damascus while troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fought army defectors west of the capital, witnesses said. 
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| Bangkok braces but safe so far from floods Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:42 PM PDT BANGKOK (Reuters) - Relief workers reinforced barriers on Sunday to help defend Thailand's capital, Bangkok, from the country's worst floods in half a century and efforts were stepped up to protect a huge industrial estate to the city's north. 
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| Chinese wine students are boon for Bordeaux Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:59 PM PDT One of France's oldest oenology schools, La Tour Blanche, is fighting falling enrolment through a tie-up with a Beijing wine school, the latest in a string of Bordeaux institutes to look East for their future.
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| California declares 'Steve Jobs Day' Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:57 PM PDT Amid global mourning for the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, California Governor Jerry Brown has declared this Sunday as "Steve Jobs Day" in the southern US state.
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| Thousands in Canada join anti-corporate protests Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:56 PM PDT Over 10,000 Canadians blew bubbles, strummed guitars and chanted anti-corporate slogans at protests across the country Saturday, as part of global demonstrations against corporate greed.
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| New Zealand counts wildlife cost from oil spill Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:55 PM PDT In a wildlife rescue centre on New Zealand's Bay of Plenty, volunteers grimly bag the oil-soaked bodies of dead birds, victims of the country's biggest sea pollution disaster.
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