Seoul admits Kim death intelligence failings

Seoul admits Kim death intelligence failings

Seoul admits Kim death intelligence failings

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:10 PM PST

South Korean defence minister says he was unaware of Kim Jong-il's death until North Korean state media broke the news.


Philippines sends coffins as toll nears 1,000 dead (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:55 PM PST

AP - The Philippine government shipped more than 400 coffins Tuesday to two flood-stricken cities in the south where the death toll neared 1,000 as President Benigno Aquino III declared a state of national calamity and relief agencies rushed to help.


Biological Shock Treatment: A Discussion with "Deadly Monopolies" Author Harriet A. Washington

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:09 PM PST

Harriet A. , author of such works as Medical Apartheid (a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction) recently published a book whose title nearly says it all, Deadly Monopolies:?? The Shocking Corporate Takeover Of Life Itself - And The Consequences For Your And Our Medical Future (Doubleday, 2011). has been, among ...


The Speech President Obama Needs To Deliver

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:55 PM PST

Guest post written by Russ Glass Russ Glass is CEO of Bizo, a provider of business audience marketing software. The following is a speech he believes President Obama needs to make to the nation as soon as possible. We as a nation are being unsustainably coddled by Washington politics. It's a simple fact replayed day ...


VIDEO: A factory fit for an ageing workforce

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:46 PM PST

Financial turmoil in Europe has forced governments to look at ways to reduce their debts, with several countries choosing to raise the age at which workers can retire.


VIDEO: A factory fit for an ageing workforce

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:46 PM PST

Financial turmoil in Europe has forced governments to look at ways to reduce their debts, with several countries choosing to raise the age at which workers can retire.


VIDEO: Life after Kim Jong-il: What next?

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:41 PM PST

As North Korea enters 10 days of national mourning for its former leader Kim Jong-il, international leaders look to see how the transition of power to his son Kim Jong-un will play out.


VIDEO: Britain boycotts IMF euro scheme

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:33 PM PST

Several European countries have agreed to provide 150bn euros (£125bn; $194bn) to the International Monetary Fund but Britain's decision not to take part in the scheme to support the eurozone meant EU finance ministers failed to reach their target sum of 200bn euros


VIDEO: Life after Kim Jong-il: What next?

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:41 PM PST

As North Korea enters 10 days of national mourning for its former leader Kim Jong-il, international leaders look to see how the transition of power to his son Kim Jong-un will play out.


Apple Patent Victory Against HTC Doesn't Cripple Google's Android

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:15 PM PST

The U.S. International Commission (ITC) ruled today that HTC has infringed claims 1 and 8 of the '647 patent on system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data held by Apple. The patent covers the way email addresses and phone numbers embedded in text messages and emails become clickable.


Kim Jong-un visits his father's body

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:19 PM PST

Son and assumed heir of Kim Jong-il pays respects as Hillary Clinton says US stands ready to help North Korean people.


New twist in Papua New Guinea power struggle

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:58 PM PST

Governor-general reverses former prime minister's reinstatement and backs rival in bid to end months-long deadlock.


Kim Jong Il's Life: 'Team America' Parody, Myth and Mayhem (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:20 PM PST

Time.com - In North Korea, the Dear Leader -- more recently, the "Supreme Leader" -- fostered a cult of personality and maneuvered his small, totalitarian nation into a force that compelled concern and even fear among the world's powers


China Proposes Lifting Vegetable Tax

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:41 PM PST

China's government is proposing to eliminate its value-added tax on the distribution of vegetables in its latest effort to shield consumers from higher food prices.


Prosecutors: Manning's direct link to Assange

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:15 PM PST

Investigators give evidence on alleged conversations between WikiLeaks founder and US soldier accused of leaking files.


In mourning, hermit kingdom North Korea seals itself (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:31 PM PST

Employees of a foreign exchange trading company work in front of a monitor displaying a TV programme on the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, in Tokyo December 20, 2011. Asian stocks and the euro steadied on Tuesday, but sentiment remained fragile on concerns that efforts to contain the euro zone debt crisis were faltering and tougher rules to strengthen banks' capital would further undermine their profits. Sentiment in Asia was already risk-averse, after the death of North Korea leader Kim Jong-il raised fears of regional instability and prompted investors to pull money out of riskier assets and into the safe-haven dollar on Monday. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS OBITUARY)Reuters - North Korea was in seclusion on Tuesday, a day after it announced the death of its leader Kim Jong-il, as concern mounted over what would happen next in the deeply secretive nation that is trying to build a nuclear arsenal.

AP Enterprise: Russia oil spills wreak devastation (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:00 PM PST

This Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 photo shows dying trees next to an oil spill near the town of Usinsk, 1500 kilometers (930 miles) northeast of Moscow. Komi is one of Russia's largest and oldest oil provinces but ruptures in aging pipelines and leaks from decommissioned oil wells make oil spills in the region routine. Environmentalists estimate at least 1 percent of Russia's annual oil production, or 5 million tons (35 million barrels), is spilled every year. That's equivalent to one Deepwater Horizon-scale leak about every two months. Crumbling infrastructure and a harsh climate combine to spell disaster in the world's largest oil producer, responsible for 13 percent of global output. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - On the bright yellow tundra outside this oil town near the Arctic Circle, a pitch-black pool of crude stretches toward the horizon. The source: a decommissioned well whose rusty screws ooze with oil, viscous like jam.

Japan to pay $114 million for each F-35 fighter jet (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:22 PM PST

Reuters - Japan's defense ministry said on Tuesday it would pay 8.9 billion yen ($114 million) for each of Lockheed Martin's F-35 jet fighters in the initial stage of procurement.


2012 could be the year of the Apple clones

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:39 PM PST

Could 2012 be the year of the????clones? It seems likely based on what I expect to be announced at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in . I'm not talking about exact duplicates. doesn't license its operating systems, so unlike what happened to in 1982, we're not going to see products that run off-the-shelf Mac or ...


Analysis: U.S. seeks Korea stability but influence (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:42 PM PST

Reuters - When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited U.S. troops in South Korea in October and told them that they were on "the front line," it was clearly a rhetorical flourish meant to show appreciation for the 28,500 American forces theoretically in firing range of the North.


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