VIDEO: Why are Swedish women so healthy?

VIDEO: Why are Swedish women so healthy?

VIDEO: Why are Swedish women so healthy?

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:58 PM PST

Breakfast's Sally Nugent heads to Sweden to find out why women there are four times more likely to be physically active than their British counterparts.

Knife-wielding man injures 22 children in China

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:45 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country.

With successful launch, Kim and allies cement rule in North Korea

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:45 PM PST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un smokes a cigarette at the General Satellite Control and Command Center in this picture released by the North's KCNA news agency in PyongyangSEOUL (Reuters) - When North Korea's Kim Jong-un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country's long-held dream of becoming a "space power". Sharing the limelight with the 29-year old will be three civilians who have grown stronger in the past year and have helped Kim exert control over the country's powerful military, which may be an advantage in edging the country closer to an attempt to reopen dialogue with the United States. ...

Progress seen in Iran-IAEA talks, new meeting in January: source

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:04 PM PST

IAEA Director General Amano attends a news conference in ViennaVIENNA (Reuters) - Some progress is believed to have been made in Thursday's talks between the U.N. nuclear agency and Iran in Tehran, a diplomatic source said on Friday. The source, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the discussions, said a new meeting between Iran and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was expected to take place in mid-January. The source gave no further details. There was no indication that the IAEA had gained access to the Parchin military site as requested. ...

Panetta signs order to send Patriot missiles to Turkey: reports

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:20 PM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta speaks about a suicide bombing near a NATO base, during a joint news conference with Afghan President Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has signed orders to send Patriot missiles and 400 military personnel to Turkey to defend against rocket attacks from Syria, news media reported early Friday. A total of six Patriot missile batteries will be sent to Turkey -- two from the United States, two from Germany and two from the Netherlands, the New York Times reported. All six batteries will be under NATO's command, the newspaper said, and all six are scheduled to be operational by the end of January. ...

Knife-wielding man injures 22 children in China

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:44 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country. The man attacked the children at the gate of a school in Chenpeng village in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency reported. Police arrested a 36-year-old man, identified as villager Min Yingjun, Xinhua said. It did not give further details of the extent of the injuries. ...

NKorea rocket launch shows young leader as gambler

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:53 PM PST

North Korean soldiers applaud during a mass rally organized to celebrate the success of a rocket launch that sent a satellite into space on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. As the U.S. led international condemnation of what it calls a covert test of missile technology, top North Korean officials denied the allegations and maintained the country's right to develop its space program. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Only eight months after a very public rocket launch failure and less than a year on the job, North Korea's young leader took a very big gamble this week.

Gas shortage exposes Pakistan's energy crisis

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:30 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 photo, Drivers queue at a gas station in Islamabad, Pakistan. It has become a familiar site across Pakistan in recent weeks: Long lines of cars and minibuses snaking for hundreds of yards as their frustrated drivers wait to fill up their tanks with natural gas. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)It has become a familiar sight across Pakistan in recent weeks: Long lines of cars and minibuses snaking for hundreds of yards as their frustrated drivers wait to fill up their tanks with natural gas.

Panetta signs order to send Patriot missiles to Turkey: reports

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:20 PM PST

(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has signed orders to send Patriot missiles and 400 military personnel to Turkey to defend against rocket attacks from Syria, news media reported early Friday.

VIDEO: 'I feel too old for tech'

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:05 PM PST

BBC News visits the lab at Cambridge University where they test how accessible modern gadgets are for elderly people.

VIDEO: Couple marry at Abbey's high altar

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:32 PM PST

In the first marriage to take place at Westminster Abbey's high altar since the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Minor Canon, the Reverend Dr James Hawkey and his fiancée, Carol Ripley, tied the knot in September 2012.

New Burden of Disease study shows world’s people living longer but with more disability

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:56 AM PST

The health of most of the planet's population is rapidly coming to resemble that of the United States, where death in childhood is rare, too much food is a bigger problem than too little, and life is long and often darkened by disability.

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With successful launch, Kim and allies cement rule in North Korea

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:46 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - When North Korea's Kim Jong-un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country's long-held dream of becoming a "space power".

North Koreans celebrate rocket launch

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:12 PM PST

Hours after Kim Jong-un ordered launch, hundreds of thousands in Pyongyang join well-orchestrated celebrations.

ECB Gets Power to Police Banks

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:28 PM PST

The euro zone equipped the European Central Bank with the power to police many of the continent's biggest and most-vulnerable lenders.

New parties pop up in Japan, confusing voters

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:39 PM PST

In this Dec. 9, 2012 photo, Japan Restoration Party leaders, Shintaro Ishihara, center, and Toru Hashimoto, left, wave at their party supporters during their parliamentary elections campaign in Tokyo. The buzz over Japan's parliamentary elections this Sunday, Dec. 16, has been all about The buzz over Japan's parliamentary elections this Sunday has been all about "the third force" — a clear sign of the prevailing disenchantment over both the party that ruled for decades after World War II and the rival party that took over in 2009.

Many See 'Couch Party' Holding Sway in Egypt

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:28 PM PST

After a chaotic battle in the weeks ahead of Egypt's constitutional referendum, many say the country's fate will rely on the country's unaligned silent majority.

Protesters shot at by South Sudanese army

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:48 PM PST

Al Jazeera has obtained amateur footage of what appears to be soldiers firing on crowd of unarmed demonstrators in Wau.

Korean American tourist detained in North Korea

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 06:35 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - A Korean-American tourist who visited North Korea last month for what was to have been a five-day trip has been detained by police in the reclusive state, associates of his family and activists in Seoul said. Kenneth Bae, 44, was in a group of five tourists who visited the northeast city of Rajin, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, citing a report by the Kookmin Ilbo newspaper. Bae entered North Korea on November 3 for a five-day visit. ...

Korean American tourist detained in North Korea

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 06:35 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - A Korean-American tourist who visited North Korea last month for what was to have been a five-day trip has been detained by police in the reclusive state, associates of his family and activists in Seoul said.

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