Analysis: South Korea's Twitter generation may give liberals upset win

Analysis: South Korea's Twitter generation may give liberals upset win


Analysis: South Korea's Twitter generation may give liberals upset win

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:46 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's liberal opposition, bolstered by the under-40s and power of social media, could spring a surprise win in this week's parliamentary elections despite opinion polls that show it tied with the ruling conservatives.


US experts to aid Pakistan rescue effort

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:20 PM PDT

Team to provide technical assistance as army continues search for 135 people trapped by avalance near Siachen Glacier.


Meryl Streep Is So Good-Can She Play A Six Foot Senegalese Man?

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:18 PM PDT

The big talk at the first official showing?? last week in New York of ?The Intouchables??who will play the role created by the amazing Omar Sy in the American version of the second most successful French movie of all time? Harvey Weinstein has already cast his ?King?s Speech? Oscar winner Colin Firth to play the ...


The Ryan Budget: A Mistake of Historic Proportions

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:51 PM PDT

We are only slowly recovering from the second-worst calamity in economic history. While the recession officially ended almost three years ago, unemployment remains over 8% and real GDP growth is anemic. Paul Ryan and his supporters say that the reason for this sluggish response is the size of the government, the most visible manifestations of ...


Cultural Movements: It's Just Puppy Love

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:47 PM PDT

author of UpRising and Founder of StrawberryFrog, the cultural movement agency. I'd like you to meet Fiona. You may not have heard of this little dog??- yet -??but once you've watched I guarantee that you'll be telling everyone the story of this heartwarming hound, passing it on via social networks, just as ...


VIDEO: Threat to otter fishing in Bangladesh

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:18 PM PDT

The Bangladeshi tradition of using otters to fish is in danger as rivers are drying up and the fish population is reducing.


VIDEO: Doubts grow over Syria ceasefire plan

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:36 PM PDT

Doubts are growing about the planned ceasefire in Syria.


VIDEO: Is tourism damaging Swiss natural beauty?

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:49 PM PDT

More building controls could be brought in to stop the expansion which is threatening the very thing that tourists come to see.


VIDEO: Campaigning builds in Egypt election

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:31 PM PDT

Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief, Omar Suleiman, has formally entered the race to become Egypt's next president.


VIDEO: Threat to otter fishing in Bangladesh

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:18 PM PDT

The Bangladeshi tradition of using otters to fish is in danger as rivers are drying up and the fish population is reducing.


Immigration And Prosperity: Why Tech Needs Open Borders

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:23 PM PDT

Guest post written by Flip Filipowski Andrew "Flip" Filipowski is the CEO of??SilkRoad Technology, a software-as-a-service ??human capital management company based in Chicago. He previously was founder and CEO of??Platinum Technology, which was acquired by Computer Associates for $3.5 billion in 1999. His last piece for Forbes was ?Merger Mania: Why Most Cloud Software Acquisitions ...


China's inflation rebounds sharply in March

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:56 PM PDT

Consumer price index rises to 3.6 per cent as bad weather and government policies push up food and fuel prices.


Why Clint Eastwood Shouldn't Keep Up With The Kardashians

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:06 PM PDT

Dirty Harry was right. 'Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.' The network that launched a thousand faces of Kardashian is of the opinion that a weekly docudrama about the second Mrs. Clint Eastwood and her two children with him would be interesting. Today, E! released a trailer for Mrs. Eastwood & Company, a ten-episode ...


Exclusive: Whitney Houston's Mom, Cissy, Readies Gospel Release

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:03 PM PDT

Exclusive: Whitney ?s mother, the great singer Cissy has found a way to channel her grief. On Mother?s Day?May 13th?Cissy will release a four song gospel EP. This is not something she began after Whitney?s tragic death on February 11th. Indeed, I know this story in detail because I heard it from Vy Higginsen, the ...


3 Reasons Not to Kill Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:45 PM PDT

While the trial and the verdict are months away, executing the arch-terrorist just doesn't make sense now.


Location-Based Apps Aren't Evil, They're Lazy. Here's How to Fix Mobile Privacy.

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:03 PM PDT

Beware the evil zombies! Location-based apps are grinding the bones of your privacy and sucking the marrow of your personal data! Certainly that?s what you might think if you?ve been following the flap about Girls Around Me. You know, the ?creepy? stalker app for rapists in shopping malls? This is all overstated, of course, but ...


Agencies Should Reap Big Profits From Move Into Mobile Ads

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:01 PM PDT

Guest post written by Alex Kutsishin Alex Kutsishin is president of FiddleFly, which provides tools for building mobile Web sites. Like cautious children learning to swim without floaties or ride a bicycle without training wheels, an astounding number of advertising agencies have done little more than dip their collective toes into the waters of the ...


5 Lessons from Mike Wallace's Life for All of Us

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:00 PM PDT

The world has lost a giant in Mike Wallace. He was fearless. Let's hope we can all learn from how he lived his life to improve our own.


North Korea readies longer range rocket; Japan, S.Korea wary

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT

A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of PyongyangCHOLSAN, North Korea/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental United States. Pyongyang says the rocket, to be launched this week, will only carry a weather satellite, but South Korea and the United States say it is a test of a ballistic missile. And although the risk of it veering off course is low, guidance remains its weakest point. ...



Stupid Is As Stupid Does - Tax Protesters And The Cheek Defense

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 07:19 PM PDT

I recently wrote about the Browns whom Ron Paul likened to Mahatama Gandhi and Martin Luther King for their courageous stand against the income tax.?? I think they had more guns than Gandhi and MLK, but that is a detail.?? Mr. Brown kept saying ?Show me the law?.?? That challenge gave me a bout of ...


Ex-KGB man wins presidency in South Ossetia

Ex-KGB man wins presidency in South Ossetia


Ex-KGB man wins presidency in South Ossetia

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 01:00 PM PDT

TSKHINVALI, Georgia (Reuters) - A pro-Russian former KGB officer appeared set on Sunday to win a presidential election run-off in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia, where Moscow is seeking to re-assert control.


Russian Opposition Activists Rally in Red Square

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Russian authorities showed unusual leniency Sunday by allowing several hundred opposition supporters to gather freely in Red Square, but quickly detained an opposition leader when she tried to erect a tent.


Exclusive: Egypt's Islamist candidate says IMF deal unlikely

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:50 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has warned the government it will not support an IMF loan unless the terms are changed or it moves aside and allows a new administration to oversee how the funds are spent, its candidate for president said on Sunday.


Pakistan army hopes miracle will save avalanche victims

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:40 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military hoped for a miracle on Sunday as rescue teams searched for 124 soldiers and 11 civilians buried by a Himalayan avalanche near the Indian border, with no sign of survivors more 24 hours later.


VIDEO: Afghan-US night raids deal signed

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:31 PM PDT

The Afghan government has signed a deal with the US, giving Afghanistan full responsibility for special forces carrying out night raids against insurgents.


VIDEO: Pakistan's president meets Indian PM

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:39 PM PDT

The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, has been meeting the Indian prime minister in Delhi.


Balotelli heading for City exit

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:23 PM PDT

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini casts doubt over Mario Balotelli's future after their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal.


U.S.'s World Bank Pick Draws Criticism

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:48 PM PDT

The front-runner to lead the World Bank, which lends tens of billions of dollars a year around the world, once admitted that he "had no idea what a hedge fund was" until three years ago when he became a university president.


Oosthuizen Jolts Masters’ Final Round

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Peter Hanson and Phil Mickelson were set to chase a Masters title on a picture-perfect day at Augusta National on Sunday, but Louis Oosthuizen made the biggest move up early with a double eagle on No. 2.


At Parties, Revealing a Baby’s Gender

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 05:37 PM PDT

Gender-reveal baby parties are a modern way to savor the surprise and share it with others, or perhaps just to enjoy it somewhere other than a doctor's office.


Giuseppi Logan, Jazz Artist, Tries for a Comeback

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:27 PM PDT

For more than 30 years after some pioneering albums, Giuseppi Logan was one of jazz's missing persons, impaired by drugs and mental illness.


Taking the Measure of Citigroup and Bank of America

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 11:55 AM PDT

When bank earnings are revealed in the coming weeks, investors will be watching to see how the two match up.


Exclusive: Mubarak aide presidency bid an "insult": Islamist rival

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:35 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - A bid for power by Hosni Mubarak's former intelligence chief is an insult to Egypt's revolution that, if successful, would trigger a second nationwide revolt, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency said.


Disruptions Column: While Apple Is Criticized for Foxconn, Other Companies Are Silent

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:56 AM PDT

Apple has been criticized for working conditions in overseas factories, but unlike other companies, Apple employs an independent auditor.


UK cruise retraces Titanic's ill-fated voyage

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 11:06 AM PDT

SOUTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) - Descendants of some of the 1,500 people killed when the Titanic sank a century ago were among the passengers on a cruise ship that set off from Britain on Sunday to retrace the route of the liner's ill-fated voyage.


Malian president resigns in deal

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:09 PM PDT

President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali formally resigns as part of a deal with coup leaders to end the crisis gripping the west African state.


VIDEO: Fuel tanker burns up on freeway

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:58 AM PDT

A fuel tanker truck caught fire on a freeway in California, sending flames and plumes of smoke into the air.


Mali making strides toward restoration of order

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 11:03 AM PDT

In a significant sign of success of international pressure, West African nations have lifted sanctions imposed on Mali after an agreement on restoring constitutional order.


Egypt's former spy chief joins race as other candidacies questioned

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:45 AM PDT

With the rights of several candidates in question before Sunday's deadline to qualify and an 11th hour entrance of the former spy chief, Egypt's already complex and convoluted presidential election stands to be upended.


Liberia's chimpanzee island

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 11:01 AM PDT

CNN's Brenda Bush visits an island sanctuary in Liberia where former lab animals face an uncertain future.