The Power Of "What If"

The Power Of "What If"

The Power Of "What If"

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:55 PM PST

What if? What if you could reinvent your business? What if you could re-envision your brand? What if you could break from the status quo? What if you could attract better talent? What if you could reenergize your corporate culture? What if you could make the changes you know you need to make? What if? To the one, great leaders aggressively pursue what if – do you?

Dozens missing after boat sinks in Bangladesh

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:08 PM PST

More than 50 people unaccounted for after ferry went down on River Meghna, police say.

VIDEO: Bolshoi 'witch hunt' accusation

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:46 PM PST

A principal dancer at Russia's Bolshoi ballet has accused the company's management of conducting a campaign to discredit him.

Dozens missing as Bangladesh ferry sinks

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:09 PM PST

DHAKA (Reuters) - A ferry carrying more than 50 people sank on Bangladesh's giant Meghna River on Friday after colliding with a sand barge and dozens were missing, officials said. About half the passengers managed to swim ashore and a search had been launched, said Mohammad Saiful Hassan Badal, administrator of Munshiganj district, where the accident happened. The Meghna River is one of three rivers that form the Ganges Delta. Survivors said the ferry was carrying around 100 people. District officials said it was not overloaded. ...

Eye-catching rickshaws promote peace in Pakistan

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:27 PM PST

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani youth leader Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi has a plan to counter the relentless message of violence spewed forth by radical Islamic groups in his country — and he is stealing a gimmick from the hard-liners' own playbook to do it.

After deadly fire, fears for Carnival in Brazil

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013, file photo, police officers enter the Kiss nightclub after a fatal fire in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Just over a week since the nightclub fire killed nearly 240 revelers in southern Brazil, Carnival festivities hit full stride Friday, Feb. 8, raising questions about the safety of those who will pack party spaces across the nation. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, file)SAO PAULO (AP) — Just over a week since a nightclub fire killed nearly 240 revelers in southern Brazil, Carnival festivities hit full stride Friday, raising questions about the safety of those who will pack party spaces across the nation.

VIDEO: Chinese New Year: 200m on move

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:38 PM PST

Over 200 million people are on the move in China to be with their families for Chinese or Lunar new year this weekend.

VIDEO: Ex-LAPD man hunted for killing spree

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:21 PM PST

Los Angeles area police have launched a huge manhunt for a sacked officer who is suspected of killing three people, including a former colleague

VIDEO: Dozens dead in Zambia road crash

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:47 PM PST

At least 53 people have been killed in a crash involving a bus and lorry in Zambia, police say, with the death toll expected to rise.

VIDEO: Fee offered to kill sharks in Brazil

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:39 PM PST

After a spate of deadly shark attacks off the coast of Recife in north-eastern Brazil, locals are paying fishermen to catch and kill sharks.

VIDEO: How stars survive awards season

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 04:09 PM PST

BBC News spoke to Eddie Redmayne and other nominees about their experience of awards season.

VIDEO: Argentines react to 'offensive chants'

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:09 AM PST

People in Buenos Aires were surprised after a video emerged which appeared to show Chilean marines chanting offensive slogans against their Argentine, Bolivian and Peruvian neighbours.

VIDEO: Torso case boy 'identified'

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:17 PM PST

A murdered African boy whose torso was found in the River Thames in 2001 and whose identity has remained a mystery has been named by a key witness.

Dozens missing as Bangladesh ferry sinks

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:09 PM PST

DHAKA (Reuters) - A ferry carrying more than 50 people sank on Bangladesh's giant Meghna River on Friday after colliding with a sand barge and dozens were missing, officials said.

Tunisia braces for mass protests

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:21 PM PST

Tens of thousands expected to take to the streets after general strike is called following murder of opposition leader.

China, Japan engage in new invective over disputed isles

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:32 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Japan engaged on Friday in a fresh round of invective over military movements near a disputed group of uninhabited islands, fuelling tension that for months has bedeviled relations between the Asian powers. An increasingly muscular China has been repeatedly at odds with others in the region over rival claims to small clusters of islands, most recently with fellow economic giant Japan which accused a Chinese navy vessel of locking radar normally used to aim weapons on a Japanese naval ship in the East China Sea. ...

The Internet Of Things Isn't As New As It Seems

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:09 PM PST

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VIDEO: Chinese New Year: 200m on move

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:38 PM PST

Over 200 million people are on the move in China to be with their families for Chinese or Lunar new year this weekend.

VIDEO: How stars survive awards season

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 04:09 PM PST

BBC News spoke to Eddie Redmayne and other nominees about their experience of awards season.

UN says bribe payments soar in Afghanistan

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 09:36 PM PST

Survey found that $3.9bn, twice the nation's domestic revenue, was paid in bribes in 2012.
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Penny Pritzker Said to Be Candidate for Commerce Dept.

Penny Pritzker Said to Be Candidate for Commerce Dept.

Penny Pritzker Said to Be Candidate for Commerce Dept.

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:18 PM PST

Penny Pritzker, a leading fund-raiser for President Obama, withdrew her name from consideration for the same post in 2008.

South Korean military sharpens reflexes on divided peninsula

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:08 PM PST

YEONCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - As North Korea prepares a third nuclear test, South Korean soldiers on the world's most heavily armed border now have orders to shoot back immediately if they come under attack, a move that risks escalating any small-scale conflict.

Turkish parliament approves anti-terrorism financing law

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:10 PM PST

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament has approved a long-awaited anti-terrorism financing law two weeks ahead of a deadline which could have seen it expelled from an international watchdog, parliamentary officials said on Thursday.

Soccer scandal shows darker side of regimented Singapore

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:08 PM PST

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has long cultivated a reputation as a clean, safe and regimented place to live and do business in a turbulent region, but the apparently major role of Singaporeans in a global soccer match-fixing scandal shows a seamy underside often out of view.

Nafis Admits Trying to Bomb Federal Reserve Bank in N.Y.

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:56 AM PST

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis pleaded guilty in a plot last year that involved an undercover federal agent.

Open-source data contradicts Feinstein on 'single-digit' civilian drone deaths

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:14 PM PST

In her introductory comments to John Brennan's confirmation hearing to becoming director of central intelligence, Sen. Dianne Feinstein asserted that civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes now number in the single digits annually. Those numbers are difficult to know with any certainty, and official U.S. estimates are secret. But some organizations do follow open-source reports on the strikes and attempt to track individual civilian casualties. At least some of their numbers, gathered by the scholar Micah Zenko for a Council on Foreign Relations report, appear to contradict Feinstein's assessment.

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Chinese dams in Tibet raise hackles in India

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:01 PM PST

NEW DELHI — Plans by China to build three dams in Tibet have rung alarm bells downstream in India, where fears are rising that the northern nation's thirst for power and water will one day affect the flow of the mighty Brahmaputra River, a lifeline for tens of millions of people.

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Pentagon leaders favored arming Syrian rebels

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:29 AM PST

The Pentagon's top leaders testified Thursday that they favored supplying weapons to rebels engaged in a civil war with the Syrian government, something the White House has resolutely opposed.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made only a brief mention of their stance on Syria during a hearing called by the Senate Armed Services Committee to investigate the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, last year.

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VIDEO: South Korean soldiers' Les Mis spoof

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:23 PM PST

The South Korean air force has posted a "Les Miserables" video parody on YouTube, complete with snow-shovelling airmen, a lovelorn military service conscript and a vindictive superior officer.

Former UK minister forced me into abortion, ex-wife tells trial

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:54 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - A former British cabinet minister pressured his ex-wife into an abortion because having the baby would have damaged his career, she told a criminal court on Thursday.

China intensifies crackdown on Tibetan burnings, detains 70

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:10 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have detained 70 people in a crackdown on self-immolations in ethnic Tibetan regions, state media said on Thursday, the largest single reported sweep of suspects to date as the government tries to stop the unrest.

Security hiked for Egypt opposition

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:48 AM PST

Move comes after death threats by hardline clerics and killing of secular politician in Tunisia.

Katherine Boo: By the Book

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 08:40 AM PST

As a child, the author of "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" appreciated books in which "the weak were rarely bullied for long, and the bad guys didn't get away."

Magnitude 6.6 quake strikes off Solomon Islands: USGS

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:32 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary 6.6 magnitude struck 256 miles east of the Solomon Islands on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, the latest aftershock following a tremor that caused a tsunami which killed at least five people.

VIDEO: Argentines react to 'offensive chants'

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:09 AM PST

People in Buenos Aires were surprised after a video emerged which appeared to show Chilean marines chanting offensive slogans against their Argentine, Bolivian and Peruvian neighbours.

Report Faults Indian Government Over Widespread Child Sex Abuse

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:11 AM PST

Human Rights Watch said that child protection laws were not properly enforced, and that many cases went unreported.

Common Ancestor of Mammals Plucked From Obscurity

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:15 AM PST

A lowly occupant of the fossil record, Protungulatum donnae, is the most likely common ancestor of the mammalian family tree that includes mankind, scientists said.

Findus lasagne 'was 100% horsemeat'

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:14 PM PST

The meat content of some beef lasagne products recalled by Findus was was up to 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency says.

Former Los Angeles Police Officer Sought in Shootings

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:10 AM PST

Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer, has killed at least three people, including a police officer, the authorities said.

Ronell Wilson, Killer of 2 Officers, Is Eligible for Death Penalty, Judge Says

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:33 AM PST

Ronell Wilson, who was sentenced to be executed for the 2003 murder of two undercover police officers on Staten Island, was found to be mentally competent for the death penalty.
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China says probing Japan complaint about radar lock-on

China says probing Japan complaint about radar lock-on

China says probing Japan complaint about radar lock-on

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:29 AM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday the government was investigating a complaint from Japan that a Chinese navy vessel aimed a type of radar normally used to aim weapons at a target at a Japanese navy ship in the East China Sea.

VIDEO: Paris hosts vintage cars auction

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:03 AM PST

A collection of vintage cars and motorbikes including a 1960's Aston Martin and a Grand Prix Bugatti is up for auction at the Grand Palais in Paris.

VIDEO: Dreamliner probe result 'weeks off'

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:10 AM PST

A US regulator has said it may take "weeks" for it to complete an investigation into battery problems in some of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner planes.

1.3 mil vehicles to leave capital for CNY holiday

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:08 AM PST

About 1.3 million vehicles are expected to leave the capital as city dwellers head home for the long Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday from tomorrow.

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S. Korea joins UN sanctions against North

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:00 AM PST

South Korea on Thursday confirmed it would implement the latest UN sanctions imposed on North Korea, despite dire warnings from Pyongyang about the consequences.

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MyKad complaints by Sabah Christians missing from NRD

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 11:39 PM PST

Files of 162 Bumiputera Christians who complained that they were wrongly classified as Muslims have gone missing from the National Registration Department in Sabah.

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Ex-RTD vehicle inspector gets back job after winning appeal

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 11:36 PM PST

A former Road Transport Department (RTD) vehicle inspector got his job back and backwages after he won his appeal at the Court of Appeal here today.

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A-G's Chambers applies to be intervener in AES suit

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 11:11 PM PST

The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) has applied to the High Court to be an intervener in a legal suit challenging the Sepang Municipal Council (MPS) decision to dismantle two Automatic Enforcement System (AES) cameras in the municipality.

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'Bionic man' goes on show at British museum

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:48 PM PST

A "bionic man" costing one million dollars went on display on Tuesday at Britain's Science Museum, complete with artificial organs, synthetic blood and robot limbs.

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Twitter buys firm tracking social network TV talk

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:45 PM PST

Twitter announced Tuesday that it has bought Bluefin Labs to ride the trend of viewers using smartphones or tablet computers to chat at social networks about shows they are watching.

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VIDEO: An inside look at new Alps tunnel

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:02 PM PST

An inside look at work on ambitious and controversial tunnel beneath the Alps linking Lyon and Turin

VIDEO: Syria conflict affects medicine supplies

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:19 PM PST

The war in Syria is destroying the country's economy as well as people's lives and one of the industries worst affected by the violence is pharmaceuticals

VIDEO: Secret Saudi drone base revealed

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 12:03 PM PST

The US Central Intelligence Agency has been operating a secret airbase for unmanned drones in Saudi Arabia for the past two years, it has been revealed.

VIDEO: EU set for crucial budget summit

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:37 PM PST

European Union leaders are due to begin a two-day summit in Brussels to try to strike a deal on the next seven years of EU spending.

Instagram website frames users' pictures

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:43 PM PST

Facebook-owned Instagram on Tuesday began letting a freshly launched website serve as a gallery for images taken by users of the smartphone photo-sharing service.

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Cat in, Iron out as Monopoly changes game pieces

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:31 PM PST

It is the world-famous game on which many a player shined as a property tycoon and where luckless strugglers went to jail, but after a public vote one of Monopoly's tokens will never again pass go.

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Ax-wielding US 'hero' hitchhiker becomes online hit

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:30 PM PST

An ax-wielding US hitchhiker has become an online hit after recounting how he stopped an allegedly racist motorist, who claimed he was Jesus, from attacking a black man and other passers-by.

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Baby makes mess of New York thief's getaway

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:30 PM PST

A New York car thief drove off in an SUV, only to discover there was a witness to the crime: a baby in the backseat.

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Belgian chocolate stamp has it licked

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:29 PM PST

Belgium has launched a new stamp sure to delight chocoholics around the world.

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Millions head home for China annual migration

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:26 PM PST

Hundreds of millions of people across China are squeezing into packed train carriages and buses to travel home for the Lunar New Year, in the world's largest annual movement of people.

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