VIDEO: Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn |
- VIDEO: Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn
- Storm Isaac makes landfall in Haiti
- Man in Malaysia bitten by crocodile during toilet break
- Exclusive - Sands' ties to Macau gambling figure draw scrutiny
- Putin critic Garry Kasparov cleared over Pussy Riot protest
- Hamas leader gets invite to summit in Iran
- IAEA gets no deal with Iran on bomb research suspicions
- Jailed Western Sahara activists stage 48-hour hunger strike
- Russia must counter nationalist threat, Putin says
- Immigrants march in Greece against racist attacks
- South Dakota schedules first execution in five years
- Green activists scale Russia's first Arctic oil rig
- Accused Colorado gunman told classmate he wanted to kill people - document
- Capriles has slight edge in new Venezuela election poll
- Scuffles as Egyptians challenge Islamist president
- Set up Water Safety Council, govt urged
- Philippines' first female Chief Justice Sereno takes oath
- Mexico police shoot at US embassy car
- Bank HSBC probed for money laundering: report
- Forest fire on Athens outskirts: officials
| VIDEO: Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:29 PM PDT A US jury has ruled that Samsung should pay Apple $1.05bn (£665m) in damages in an intellectual property lawsuit.
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| Storm Isaac makes landfall in Haiti Posted: 25 Aug 2012 01:05 AM PDT Tropical Storm Isaac hit Haiti with driving rain and gale-force winds early Saturday as it came ashore in the impoverished Caribbean nation still reeling from the effects of a devastating 2010 earthquake.
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| Man in Malaysia bitten by crocodile during toilet break Posted: 25 Aug 2012 12:22 AM PDT A construction worker was bitten by a crocodile during a toilet break in a river in Malaysian Borneo, but fought off the huge reptile and escaped with his life.
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| Exclusive - Sands' ties to Macau gambling figure draw scrutiny Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:23 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO/MACAU (Reuters) - Las Vegas Sands allowed a man identified by the U.S. Senate as an organized crime figure to move a $100,000 gambling credit from a Las Vegas casino to one of its Macau casinos, according to documents that emerged in the wake of a lawsuit filed by a former Sands employee. 
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| Putin critic Garry Kasparov cleared over Pussy Riot protest Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:27 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former world chess champion turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov was cleared on Friday of taking part in an unsanctioned protest over the conviction of punk band Pussy Riot in a rare Moscow court ruling in his favour. 
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| Hamas leader gets invite to summit in Iran Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:10 PM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - Iran has invited a leader of the Islamist group Hamas to attend a summit of 120 developing nations, officials said on Friday, a move that could antagonise Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and anger Western powers who consider Hamas a terrorist group. 
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| IAEA gets no deal with Iran on bomb research suspicions Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:01 PM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran failed on Friday to strike a deal aimed at allaying concerns about suspected nuclear weapons research by Tehran, a setback in efforts to resolve the stand-off diplomatically before any Israeli or U.S. military action. 
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| Jailed Western Sahara activists stage 48-hour hunger strike Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:38 PM PDT RABAT (Reuters) - Twelve activists from the disputed Western Sahara began a 48-hour hunger strike inside a prison in the Moroccan-controlled city of Laayoune to denounce their detention conditions, fellow activists said. 
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| Russia must counter nationalist threat, Putin says Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:32 PM PDT SARANSK, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia must counter a serious threat from nationalists he said were taking advantage of democratic freedoms to gain influence in a country with a fragile mix of ethnic groups. 
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| Immigrants march in Greece against racist attacks Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:21 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of immigrants marched in Athens on Friday to protest police sweeps and a rash of racist attacks in Greece as the country struggles to pull itself out of a huge debt crisis. 
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| South Dakota schedules first execution in five years Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:41 AM PDT (Reuters) - A South Dakota inmate, who killed a prison guard during a failed escape attempt, has been scheduled to die by lethal injection in October in what would be the state's first execution in five years, officials said on Friday. 
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| Green activists scale Russia's first Arctic oil rig Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:35 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Environmental activists were forced to abandon their occupation of an oil rig in the Russian arctic on Friday when they were hosed down by jets of icy water, cutting short their protest after 15 hours. 
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| Accused Colorado gunman told classmate he wanted to kill people - document Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT (Reuters) - Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes had conversations with a classmate about wanting to kill people in March 2012, four months before a deadly rampage that left 12 people dead and 58 others wounded 58, a court document showed on Friday. 
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| Capriles has slight edge in new Venezuela election poll Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:10 AM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - A new poll in Venezuela put opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in front of Hugo Chavez for the first time before the October 7 election, contradicting most surveys that give the president a lead of more than 10 percent. 
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| Scuffles as Egyptians challenge Islamist president Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:38 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents of Egypt's president scuffled with his supporters on Friday at a demonstration that was billed as a test of Mohamed Mursi's popularity on the street but which managed to muster only modest numbers against his rule. 
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| Set up Water Safety Council, govt urged Posted: 25 Aug 2012 12:08 AM PDT The Life Saving Society Malaysia (LSSM) has urged the government to set up a Water Safety Council aimed at reducing the drowning death rate.
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| Philippines' first female Chief Justice Sereno takes oath Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:51 PM PDT Philippine President Aquino on Saturday swore into office Maria Lourdes Sereno as the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court -- the first female to hold the position and the youngest-ever Chief Justice of the country who will keep the post until she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2030.
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| Mexico police shoot at US embassy car Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:53 PM PDT Mexican federal police shot at a US diplomatic car as they chased criminals south of Mexico City, in a chaotic incident that left two US embassy employees wounded.
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| Bank HSBC probed for money laundering: report Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:13 PM PDT US prosecutors are looking into whether British bank HSBC was involved in laundering money for Mexican drug cartels and moving cash for Saudi Arabian banks with ties to terrorists, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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| Forest fire on Athens outskirts: officials Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:12 PM PDT A large forest fire broke out early on Saturday on the northeastern outskirts of Athens, officials and reports said, threatening an army camp in the vicinity.
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