VIDEO: Redeveloping Seoul's shanty town

VIDEO: Redeveloping Seoul's shanty town


VIDEO: Redeveloping Seoul's shanty town

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:26 PM PDT

As cities around the world face growing inequality, South Korea is grappling with a shanty town beside one of Seoul's most expensive areas.


Powerful quake in Mexico, 11 injured

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 12:52 AM PDT

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Mexico, injuring 11 people, damaging hundreds of homes and sending panicked residents out onto the streets of the capital.

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Philippine man murdered in video game row

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 12:51 AM PDT

A man has been stabbed to death in Manila following a row between two groups of men playing the popular shooting video game 'Counter-Strike', police said Wednesday.

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Celebrity make-up artist James Vincent: social media is changing beauty

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 12:32 AM PDT

Ahead of the 4th Makeup Show LA, the event's director of artistry James Vincent, who has worked with stars ranging from Lady Gaga to Liv Tyler, spoke to Relaxnews about the impact of social media on trend forecasting and which countries are exciting to him in terms of beauty innovations.

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More cyber attacks are new reality, says Singapore deputy prime minister

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 12:15 AM PDT

The increasing number of cyber espionage attacks has come to be a new reality as a result of technological progresses, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said.

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VIDEO: Raid on French shooting suspect

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:32 PM PDT

French police searching for a gunman who has shot dead four people have carried out a pre-dawn raid in the city of Toulouse.


School killings suspect wounds two in French raid

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:57 PM PDT

TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school wounded three police officers in a shoot-out at a house in Toulouse in south-western France on Wednesday and said he was a member of al Qaeda.



Car bomb explodes in Somali capital

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:47 PM PDT

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in the heart of the Somali capital's administrative district on Wednesday, triggering bursts of gunfire from security forces, witnesses said.



Bomb explodes near Indonesia's Paris embassy - Indonesian minister

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:38 PM PDT

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris on Wednesday, breaking windows but causing no casualties among Indonesians, Chief Political and Security Minister Djoko Suyanto said.



Exclusive - Developing nations to name two candidates for World Bank

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with knowledge of emerging market efforts to find candidates said on Tuesday.



N. Korea blasts Seoul over upcoming summit

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:59 PM PDT

North Korea Wednesday sharpened its criticism of an upcoming Seoul summit, saying any South Korean attempt to address the North's nuclear programme at the meeting would be seen as a declaration of war.

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Parcel bomb explodes outside Indonesian embassy in Paris

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:34 PM PDT

A homemade bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris early Wednesday, causing some serious damage but no injuries, a source close to the enquiry said.

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Syrian cartoonist pays price for getting personal

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:07 PM PDT

LONDON, March 21 — The moment Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat chose to depict President Bashar al-Assad and his "inner circle" in his drawings, he knew he was courting trouble. The 60-year-old, famous across the Arab world and beyond for bitingly satirical works ridiculing corruption, nepotism and narrow-mindedness, had always avoided identifying ...



Suspect in French shootings claims al Qaeda link, says minister

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:30 PM PDT

PARIS, March 21 — A man engaged in a shoot-out with French police today, suspected of killing four people at a Jewish school this week, claimed to be linked to al Qaeda, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said. "He claims to be a mujahideen and to belong to al Qaeda," Gueant told journalists at the scene of the siege. He also said the man had been in ...



U.N. chief warns of "massive repercussions" from Syria crisis

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:12 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that Syria's crisis was extremely dangerous and had "massive repercussions" for the world, as more fighting erupted, with two Damascus suburbs coming under heavy tank bombardment.



French police in gunfight with al Qaeda suspect in school killings

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:05 PM PDT

TOULOUSE (Reuters) - Two police officers were injured in a shoot-out in Toulouse on Wednesday with a gunman claiming links to al Qaeda and who is believed to responsible for the killing of four people at a Jewish school and three soldiers in southwest France.



Suspect in French shootings claims al Qaeda link - minister

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:24 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - A man engaged in a shoot-out with French police on Wednesday, suspected of killing four people at a Jewish school this week, claims to be linked to al Qaeda, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said.



Big earthquake rattles Mexico, no major damage

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:14 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like "trampolines".



French police swoop on suspects in school killings

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:01 PM PDT

TOULOUSE (Reuters) - Two French police officers were injured in a shoot-out during a raid on a house in Toulouse on Wednesday to arrest suspects in the killings of three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in southwest France this week, a police source said.



Big earthquake rattles Mexico, no major damage

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:58 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like "trampolines".



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