Murray sweeps past Tomic in Miami

Murray sweeps past Tomic in Miami

Murray sweeps past Tomic in Miami

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:16 PM PDT

Andy Murray opens his Miami Masters campaign with a routine 6-3 6-1 victory over Australia's Bernard Tomic.

Kerry meets Palestinian, Israeli leaders after Obama visit

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:10 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Saturday after earlier talking to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan in a bid to revive stalled peace talks.

Italy Berlusconi says primed for snap vote if no deal clinched

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:06 PM PDT

ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi, the 76-year-old leader of Italy's center-right bloc, told thousands of supporters gathered in central Rome he was ready for a snap vote as his rival began talks to try to form a government.

Sudan police fire teargas to break up protest: witnesses

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:55 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police fired teargas and used batons on Saturday to break up a demonstration of opposition party members over the detention of several activists and politicians, witnesses said.

Gunman attack Ivory Coast village, three attackers killed

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:48 AM PDT

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Soldiers in Ivory Coast killed three gunmen, part of a group that raided a village near the border with Liberia early on Saturday, senior army officials said.

Central African Republic rebels enter capital

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:25 AM PDT

BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic rebels clashed with government forces inside the capital on Saturday and a rebel spokesman said their columns were pushing towards the presidential palace.

News Analysis: Obama Reveals a Knack for Middle East Mediation

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:21 PM PDT

After helping heal a rift between Israel and Turkey, analysts wonder whether President Obama will bring the same doggedness and personal involvement to pursuing peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

N. Korea's threats: 5 things to know

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:56 AM PDT

Video propaganda showing the White House and Congress being blown up. Talk of hitting U.S. bases in the Pacific. The reunciation of a 60-year-old armistice that has kept the tenuous peace on the Korean Peninsula.

China leader's first foreign visit is ...

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:57 AM PDT

China's President Xi Jinping's choice of Moscow as his first foreign capital visit is being seen by analysts as a symbolic move that demonstrates the increasing interdependence of the one-time Cold War foes.

Obama’s Mideast trips leaves behind a mix of hope and skepticism

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:01 PM PDT

AMMAN, Jordan — President Obama's mission of remedial diplomacy to Israel and the Palestinian territories was cast early on as one of modest ambition, a prolonged air-clearing between a U.S. leader and a region's public disillusioned by his once-ambitious approach to the Middle East.

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Russian tycoon Berezovsky dies

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:56 PM PDT

Self-exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has died in London, his son-in-law, Yegor Shuppe, said on Facebook Saturday.

Pakistani Taliban vows to kill Musharraf

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:54 PM PDT

The Pakistani Taliban will assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf if he returns to the country as planned on Sunday, a spokesman for the terrorist group said Saturday in a video message online.

Obama scores diplomatic success

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:54 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his trip to the Middle East on Saturday with a walking tour of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan.

Blaze kills dozens at refugee camp in Thailand

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:46 AM PDT

A fire erupted in a camp in northwest Thailand, killing more than 30 refugees from Myanmar, the United Nations said Saturday.

Erdogan says Israeli apology shows Turkey's new clout

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:15 AM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday an Israeli apology for the 2010 deaths of nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists that was brokered by U.S. President Barack Obama met Turkey's conditions and signaled its growing regional clout.

Kurdish rebels declare formal ceasefire with Turkey

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:02 AM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared a "formal and clear ceasefire" with Turkey on Saturday after the rebels' jailed leader this week ordered a halt to the decades-long armed campaign for autonomy.

Pope Francis and predecessor pray together

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:59 AM PDT

Newly elected pope tells former pope Benedict XVI "We are brothers", in first such meeting in at least 600 years.

Arise! Arise! The British Are…Acting!

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:23 PM PDT

On big and small screens, the juicy Yank parts are going to people with names like Day-Lewis. How to fight back.

Suspected Islamists kill 25 in northeast Nigeria: police

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 10:59 AM PDT

KADUNA/KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist gunmen have launched a series of gun and bomb attacks in a remote town along Nigeria's border with Cameroon, killing at least 25 people, police said on Saturday.

Suspended Lee to miss Crucible

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:54 AM PDT

Stephen Lee will miss the World Snooker Championship because a corruption inquiry will not be completed beforehand.
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Why NUS has moved up quickly in university rankings

Why NUS has moved up quickly in university rankings

Why NUS has moved up quickly in university rankings

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:01 AM PDT

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been climbing faster in international rankings as it responded nimbly to a complex and changing world while maintaining its vision to be a global university centred in Asia, said Tan Chorh Chuan, NUS president.

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PDRM mulling promotions for personnel serving in Ops Daulat

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:34 PM PDT

The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) is mulling promotions for personnel serving in the Ops Daulat operation in Sabah,said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar.

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US unlikely to dive into war-ravaged Syria despite alleged use of chemical weapons

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:27 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama this week warned that any use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a "game changer," but he would not take lightly any decision to intervene militarily in the Syrian conflict, analysts said.

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Shenhua's Australian EIS verifies China's global environmental commitment

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 10:09 PM PDT

Following over two years of scientific and technical assessment by leading environmental experts, the Environment Impact Statement (EIS) for Australia's Shenhua Watermark Coal Project has been released this month, a watermark moment for corporate China's international environmental commitments.

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Pakistan Taliban threaten to send Musharraf to "hell" when he returns

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:14 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban have threatened, in a video released on Saturday, to use suicide bombers and snipers to kill former President Pervez Musharraf when he returns home from exile.

China's glamorous first lady steals the spotlight

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:10 AM PDT

China's glamorous first lady has become a media and Internet sensation as she accompanies husband President Xi Jinping on a state visit to Russia.

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Millions to switch off for 'Earth Hour'

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:30 PM PDT

One minute brightly lit, the next plunged into darkness -- iconic landmarks around the world will cut their lights Saturday for the "Earth Hour" campaign against climate change.

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Gunmen shoot dead four prisoners in Indonesia jail

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 10:52 PM PDT

Unidentified gunmen forced their way into an Indonesian jail early Saturday and shot dead four prisoners awaiting trial over the death of a soldier, police said.

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Light show

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:25 PM PDT

Hundreds of runners in specially commissioned and individually controlled LED light suits, create patterns of light outside the Lowry Theatre in Salford Quays, Manchester, England, during a performance of the Scottish arts charity NVA's 'Speed of Light' art project.

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Coloured

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:19 PM PDT

A labourer sifting coloured powder known as "gulal" for use during the forthcoming spring festival of Holi, outside Siliguri, India.

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Tornado kills 20 people in Bangladesh

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 10:45 PM PDT

DHAKA (Reuters) - A tornado swept through nearly two dozen villages southeast of the Bangladeshi capital, killing at least 20 people, tearing roofs off houses and uprooting trees and power pylons, officials said.

Meteor lights up night sky over Eastern United States

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK, March 23 — A meteor bright enough to be classified as a fireball lit up the night sky over eastern North America today, providing a spectacle witnessed in at least 13 states, Washington, D.C. and two Canadian provinces, the American Meteor Society said.  The society verified more than 300 witness sightings from Ontario and Quebec down to ...

Obama shows hand in Israel-Turkey rapprochement

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 07:42 PM PDT

JERUSALEM, March 23 — Israel apologised to Turkey yesterday for killing nine Turkish citizens in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, and the two feuding US allies agreed to normalise relations in a surprise breakthrough announced by US President Barack Obama. The rapprochement could help regional coordination to contain spillover from the ...

Is Google entering the smartwatch market too?

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:26 AM PDT

Reports suggest the company's Android department is developing its own intelligent timepiece.

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42 die in fire at refugee camp in Thailand: official

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:59 PM PDT

The toll from a blaze that swept through a camp in northern Thailand has risen to 42, a Thai official said Saturday, after hundreds of temporary homes for refugees from Myanmar were reduced to ashes.

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What is ultra-high definition?

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:43 PM PDT

Sometimes referred to as 4K, ultra-high definition TVs set a new standard in terms of depth of color, contrast detail and resolution and, unfortunately, price.

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Sabah conflict not affecting Indonesian nationals

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:35 PM PDT

The Indonesian foreign ministry has stated that conflicts in Sabah have not affected Indonesian nationals working the Sahabat palm oil plantation of the Federal Land Development Agency (Felda) in Malaysia.

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Is this the world's most expensive TV?

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:17 PM PDT

outh Korean technological giant Samsung has revealed a giant flagship ultra-high-definition range of TVs that will retail at $40,000.

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Bursa to trade moderately higher next week

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:08 PM PDT

Share prices on Bursa Malaysia are expected to swing moderately higher next week on rotational play of lower liners and pre-general election (GE) bargain hunting.

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ESSCOM long-term strategy to prevent terrorist threats: IGP

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 08:36 PM PDT

The Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) covering a coastline of 1,400 kilometres from Kudat to Tawau is a the short and long term solution in preventing terrorist threats, said

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