Netanyahu reaches coalition deal - party spokeswoman |
- Netanyahu reaches coalition deal - party spokeswoman
- Technology to detect Alzheimer's takes SXSW prize
- Smartphone users will wait '2 seconds' for an app to load
- Seaboard Grand aims to redefine the idea of a keyboard
- China city searching for 'modern Marco Polo'
- Japan firm prints needle-eye sized book
- Hong Kong 'snake kings' stand the test of time
- Thailand, rebel group to open peace talks March 28
- Vietnam anti-China activists mark island battle
- Turkey's Kurds see best hope yet of end to three-decade war
- India court bars Italian envoy from leaving country in marines dispute
- Opponents fail to overturn shark protection deal
- Singapore expected to order F-35 fighter jets soon - sources
- The fate of Wong Tack
- Ieng Sary, minister for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, dies in hospital
- Chavez leader with a difference: Ban Ki-Moon
- Habemus Papam
- World's largest telescope array to open in Chile
- S. Korean TV celebs charged with propofol abuse
- China's Xi appointed president, completes rise to the top
| Netanyahu reaches coalition deal - party spokeswoman Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:18 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a deal for a governing coalition in which a new centrist party will serve as his main partner, a spokeswoman for his right-wing Likud party said on Thursday. 
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| Technology to detect Alzheimer's takes SXSW prize Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:19 AM PDT Technology capable of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease long before its symptoms appear won a coveted honor for innovation Tuesday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Smartphone users will wait '2 seconds' for an app to load Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:17 AM PDT A new survey has found that apps are still more popular than mobile websites but that app users' patience is wearing thin. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Seaboard Grand aims to redefine the idea of a keyboard Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:15 AM PDT A new musical keyboard called the Seaboard Grand allows the player to manipulate the sound -- using effects, fine-tuning and changing volume, for example -- with subtle movements of the fingers. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| China city searching for 'modern Marco Polo' Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:11 AM PDT A Chinese city is searching for a foreign traveller to become a "modern Marco Polo", with a 40,000 euro ($52,000) salary on offer to the winner, a tourism official said Wednesday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Japan firm prints needle-eye sized book Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:10 AM PDT A book with pages the size of the eye of a needle has been printed in Japan, the publishing company said Wednesday, with each tiny page showing a microscopic flower. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Hong Kong 'snake kings' stand the test of time Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:06 AM PDT In a quiet corner of bustling Hong Kong, iron cages containing writhing serpents are stacked up at the entrance to an old shop that has been selling snake soup for more than a century. | ||
| Thailand, rebel group to open peace talks March 28 Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:52 PM PDT Thailand and one of several rebel groups in the country's Muslim south will open peace negotiations in Malaysia on March 28 to try to end a bloody insurgency, a Thai official said Thursday. | ||
| Vietnam anti-China activists mark island battle Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:52 PM PDT Activists in Hanoi chanted anti-China slogans and laid flowers Thursday at a protest marking the anniversary of a battle over the contested Spratly Islands in which 64 Vietnamese soldiers died. | ||
| Turkey's Kurds see best hope yet of end to three-decade war Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:19 PM PDT DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish politician Abdullah Demirbas is haunted by the nightmare vision of his two sons meeting in the hills of southeastern Turkey. 
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| India court bars Italian envoy from leaving country in marines dispute Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:07 PM PDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court has temporarily barred the Italian ambassador from leaving the country amid a dispute between the two countries over the killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian marines, a lawyer in the case said on Thursday. 
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| Opponents fail to overturn shark protection deal Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:50 PM PDT Japan and other pro-shark fishing nations on Thursday lost a bid to overturn a landmark deal to offer international trade protection for several species of the ocean's oldest predator. | ||
| Singapore expected to order F-35 fighter jets soon - sources Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:51 PM PDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is in the "final stages of evaluating" the F-35 to upgrade its air force, a process U.S. sources say should turn quickly into orders for several dozen of the stealthy warplanes that have been beset by cost overruns and delivery delays. 
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| Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:41 PM PDT However, shifting from green movement to the political runway means that Wong Tack has to walk down from the "altar" and from being universally respected to questioned, criticised and even attacked. Does it worth it? | ||
| Ieng Sary, minister for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, dies in hospital Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:57 PM PDT PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Ieng Sary, who was standing trial for crimes against humanity during his time as the Khmer Rouge's foreign minister in Cambodia in the 1970s, died on Thursday, the court said. 
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| Chavez leader with a difference: Ban Ki-Moon Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:36 PM PDT The late Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, was one of the leaders who mark the difference in their country, the region and the world, said UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon Wednesday. | ||
| Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:32 PM PDT White smoke rising from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel indicating that the cardinals have elected a new pope on the second day of the conclave at the Vatican. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| World's largest telescope array to open in Chile Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:04 PM PDT (Chile, San Pedro de Atacama-AFP) - In a super-arid desert at an altitude of 5,000 meters, with almost no humidity or vegetation, the world's largest ground-based astronomy project opens for business ready to probe the universe with unprecedented might. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2013. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| S. Korean TV celebs charged with propofol abuse Posted: 13 Mar 2013 08:58 PM PDT South Korean prosecutors said Thursday they had charged four TV celebrities with illegal use of propofol, a short-acting sedative and anaesthetic blamed in the death of US pop legend Michael Jackson. | ||
| China's Xi appointed president, completes rise to the top Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:12 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's parliament formally elected heir-in-waiting Xi Jinping as the country's new president on Thursday, completing the country's second orderly political succession since the Communist Party took power in 1949. 
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