Boko Haram denies losing Nigeria battle

Boko Haram denies losing Nigeria battle

Boko Haram denies losing Nigeria battle

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:03 PM PDT

Video statement by leader insists group remains strong despite military offensive and urges others to join Holy War.

Apple's Da Vinci Tax Code

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:46 PM PDT

Apple is innovative and profitable but may not Think Different after all. That's one conclusion from its tax flap. Senators Levin and McCain claimed Apple skirted U.S. taxes on $44 billion over the last four years. CEO Tim Cook testified that Apple doesn't use gimmicks, yet Apple's tax strategies don't seem too different from many others.

VIDEO: Man dies in beaver attack

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:52 AM PDT

In Belarus, a large increase in the beaver population has been blamed after a number of attacks on humans by the large rodents, including one incident in March when a man was killed.

VIDEO: Illegal medical waste 'made into straws'

Posted: 29 May 2013 05:09 AM PDT

Medical waste from a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, is being illegally sold to plants which recycle it into a range of plastic products such as drinking straws.

Syrian opposition sets conditions for talks

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:40 PM PDT

Rebels renew calls for Assad's exit before entering peace talks while US demands withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters.

Sandwich narrowly misses Australian PM

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:21 PM PDT

Julia Gillard unfazed after salami is thrown in her direction, saying "they must have thought I was hungry".

VIDEO: France sells off presidential wine

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:44 PM PDT

The French presidency is to auction off part of its famous wine cellar for the first time.

Bahrain explosion wounds 7 policemen

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:34 PM PDT

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain's interior ministry says an explosion has wounded seven policemen in what is described as a "terrorist" attack in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom.

Oil posts slight gain, stays in $93-a-barrel range

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:26 PM PDT

BANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil rose slightly Thursday as data pointing toward an improvement in the U.S. economy raised expectations of an increase in energy demand.

VIDEO: Chinese baby in pipe 'accidental'

Posted: 29 May 2013 05:46 AM PDT

The Chinese baby that was rescued from a sewage pipe fell in accidentally, the baby's mother has said

VIDEO: Female and funny: Indian comedienne

Posted: 29 May 2013 06:40 PM PDT

BBC News speaks to one trailblazing Indian woman, who has broken into the traditionally male-dominated world of stand-up comedy.

Rossi's A Fraud! No, He's Not! Yes, He Is! No, He Isn't!

Posted: 29 May 2013 09:16 PM PDT

The recent testing of Andrea Rossi's low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) device, the E-Cat, generated quite a bit of comment both here in the Forbes Technobabble blog and around the 'Net.

Analysis: Behind China's U.S. pork deal, fears over feed additives

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:34 PM PDT

A worker pushes a wheelbarrow past pens containing pigs at a farm located on the outskirts of BeijingBy P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Smithfield Foods Inc. quietly weaned the first of its pigs off the controversial feed additive ractopamine last year, it may have helped open the door for a Chinese counterpart to acquire the world's largest hog producer. Used for more than a decade in the U.S. livestock industry to help pigs quickly build lean muscle instead of fat, the additive had begun to ring alarm bells among some major meat importing countries around the globe. U.S. ...

No charge against Chinese mother of baby in sewer

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:34 PM PDT

In this still image made from video from May 25, 2013, a baby who was rescued after being trapped in a sewage pipe just below a squat toilet in a public building, lies on a bed at a hospital in Jinhua city, eastern China. A 22-year-old single woman who alerted the authorities of a newborn boy trapped in a sewer in eastern China has admitted that she was the mother, but had refused to come forward because she could not support the child. (AP Photo/Shaanxi TV via AP Video) CHINA OUTBEIJING (AP) — Authorities have concluded that a newborn rescued from a sewer pipe in eastern China became trapped because of an accident, and that the mother faces no charges even though she didn't claim the baby until confronted by police two days later, a local official said Thursday.

Asia stocks down as Fed fears weigh on markets

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:15 PM PDT

A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Investors seeking bargains helped push Japan's benchmark stock index higher Tuesday after plunging 3 percent the day before. The Nikkei has been on a rollercoaster ride since last Thursday, when it plummeted more than 7 percent after interest rates on the country's benchmark 10-year bond spiked to above 1 percent for the first time in a year. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)BANGKOK (AP) — Concerns that the Federal Reserve might start scaling back its stimulus program due to improvement in the U.S. economy sent Asian stock markets lower Thursday.

Analysis: Behind China's U.S. pork deal, fears over feed additives

Posted: 29 May 2013 09:02 PM PDT

CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Smithfield Foods Inc. quietly weaned the first of its pigs off the controversial feed additive ractopamine last year, it may have helped open the door for a Chinese counterpart to acquire the world's largest hog producer.

World Digest: May 29, 2013

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:48 PM PDT

A judge in the Russian city of Kostroma ruled Wednesday that a local civic organization, which this year held a roundtable discussion with a political officer from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was a "foreign agent" and found it guilty of failing to register as such.

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Costa Rica probes Liberty Reserve founder marriage

Posted: 29 May 2013 08:45 PM PDT

A car drives past the Forum Business Center where two of the businesses linked to Liberty Reserve; Silverhand Solutions and Technology, and Cyberfuel.com, are located, near Pozos de Santa Ana, 20 kms north-west of San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Costa Rican police raided raided three homes and five businesses related to Liberty Reserve and seized papers and digital documents that will be turned over to U.S. authorities. Costa Rican police said in a statement that Liberty Reserve founder Arthur Bodovsky, who became a Costa Rica national after giving up his U.S. citizenship, was arrested in Spain last Friday on money laundering charges, and that several properties linked to his company had been raided. (AP Photo/Enrique Martinez)SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — The man who allegedly founded currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve may have paid a Costa Rican woman to marry him so he could get citizenship in this country, which lacks an extradition treaty with the United States, authorities said Wednesday.

Barbara hits southern Mexico, killing at least two

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:10 PM PDT

NASA handout image of Hurricane BarbaraBy Jose Cortes SAN PEDRO TAPANATEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Barbara hit Mexico's southern Pacific coast on Wednesday, flooding roads, toppling trees and killing two men before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved inland. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Barbara, which had earlier moved close to the country's biggest oil refinery, was 50 miles west of the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez in Chiapas state. Winds were blowing at up to 60 miles per hour. The hurricane was churning north-northeast at about 9 mph and should weaken rapidly overnight, the NHC said. ...

Report: NKorean defectors sent back by Laos, China

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:24 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Nine North Korean defectors have been forced to return to their country from China after being captured in Laos, a South Korean news report says.

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