VIDEO: Ant-enna: Radio tags aid ant study

VIDEO: Ant-enna: Radio tags aid ant study

VIDEO: Ant-enna: Radio tags aid ant study

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:19 PM PDT

Scientists investigating the behaviour of the UK's largest ant are to tag around 1,000 of the insects in the first study of its kind.


Zeti ranked among world's best central bankers

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:54 AM PDT

Bank Negara Malaysia's Governor, Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, maintains her position among the heads of the central banks named by Global Finance magazine as the World's Best Central Bankers over the past year.

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Moody's Analytics ups GDP forecasts for Malaysia, Indonesia

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:12 AM PDT

Moody's Analytics has revised Malaysia's and Indonesia's gross domestic product (GDP) forecasts higher as increased infrastructure investment lifted growth.

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Govt thankful for safe release of Malaysian abducted in Nigeria

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:41 PM PDT

The government today expressed its highest appreciation and thanks to the Nigerian authorities and others for their efforts in securing the safe release of a Malaysian kidnapped in Nigeria on Aug 4.

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Research on mice boosts hopes for 'male Pill'

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:19 AM PDT

Groundbreaking work with lab mice has boosted hopes for a male contraceptive pill, researchers in the United States reported on Thursday.

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Philippines to be malaria-free by 2020: health official

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:04 AM PDT

The Philippines could become malaria-free by 2020 as cases of the disease dropped significantly in recent years, a senior government official said Friday.

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Rewards await N.Korea for kidnap progress: Japan

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:50 PM PDT

Japan on Friday offered tangible benefits to impoverished North Korea if it clears up long-standing mysteries over the fate of Japanese nationals kidnapped decades ago.

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Exclusive - North Korean leader asks for Beijing trip

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:44 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seeking an ice-breaking trip to key ally Beijing next month to meet China's outgoing and new leaders, a source with ties to Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters on Friday.

VIDEO: Toddler falling into path of car

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:42 PM PDT

The 2-year-old girl was being carried on the front of the bike, in Jinhua in east Zhejiang province, and fell as the bike approached a junction.


VIDEO: Restoration amateur ruins fresco

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT

An elderly parishioner has stunned Spanish cultural officials with an alarming do-it-yourself attempt to restore a prized fresco of Jesus Christ.


Exclusive - North Korea's Kim Jong-un asked for China trip: source

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:21 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seeking an ice-breaking trip to key ally Beijing next month to meet China's outgoing and new leaders, a source with ties to Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters on Friday.

Vietnam bank tries to calm depositors as scandal widens

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:11 PM PDT

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - A big bank hit by a widening scandal in Vietnam tried to convince customers that their money was safe on Friday after the resignation and arrest of its chief executive, while shares rose after a slide on the stock market this week.

Colombia replaces finance minister in surprise move

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:10 PM PDT

BOGOTA, Aug 24 — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos yesterday moved Energy Minister Mauricio Cardenas to head the finance ministry in a surprise move for Latin America's fourth-largest economy. At the midpoint of his four-year term, Santos asked all 16 ministers to resign, including Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry, and set the stage for ...

Sun newspaper publishes naked Prince Harry photos

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:55 PM PDT

LONDON, Aug 24 — The Sun tabloid today published photographs of Prince Harry naked in Las Vegas, becoming the first British publication to defy a request from the royal family's lawyers. Yesterday, newspapers in Britain did not publish the images of Queen Elizabeth's grandson naked with an unnamed woman while on holiday in Las Vegas, following a ...

Three killed in tribal clash in Libya

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:24 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Aug 24 — At least three people were killed and eight were wounded in a tribal clash near the Libyan town of Zlitan yesterday, an official source said, testing transitional efforts to improve security after an uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi's rule. Heavy weaponry was used in the violence, including 14 mm anti-aircraft canons, the source ...

China deports Myanmar refugees amid fighting, says rights group

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:11 PM PDT

BEIJING, Aug 24 — China has forcibly returned scores of ethnic Kachins who have fled Myanmar because of civil war, putting them at risk of armed violence and abuse by Myanmar's army, a human rights group said today. Up to 10,000 Kachins have sought refuge in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan after fighting between the Kachin Independence ...

‘Big business doing fine’, Romney says at fundraiser

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:42 PM PDT

MINNETONKA BEACH, Minnesota, Aug 24 — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared to parrot a line used by President Barack Obama that Romney has repeatedly targeted on the campaign trail. Speaking at a fundraiser, Romney said that "big business is doing fine in many places", a remark that sounded similar to Obama's now infamous ...

US Republicans eye return to fixed value for dollar

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:31 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, Aug 24 — The Republican Party is set to call for the creation of a commission to look at possible ways to set a fixed value for the dollar, 40 years after President Richard Nixon ended its link to gold. A draft of the party platform to be adopted at the Republican National Convention next week in Tampa, Florida, ties the plan to ...

Martin Luther King tape found in attic heads for sale

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:52 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES, Aug 24 — A previously unknown audio tape of an interview with slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was discovered recently in the attic of a Tennessee home, and a New York collector who bought the recording says he plans to offer it for sale next week. The 10-minute reel-to-reel recording was made on December 21, 1960, ...

Crying wolf, again?

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:59 PM PDT

For ordinary citizens, food, clothing, housing and transportation are the basic necessities of life and thus, it is the government's responsibility to solve the people's traffic problems.

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