VIDEO: Dogs that escaped the dinner plate

VIDEO: Dogs that escaped the dinner plate

VIDEO: Dogs that escaped the dinner plate

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:47 PM PDT

Authorities in Thailand say that in the last six months they have rescued 2,000 dogs destined for the dinner tables of south east Asia.


VIDEO: Newsreader caught napping - it's Odd Box

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 04:44 PM PDT

Lots of people dressed as chickens, a newsreader gets caught out on live TV and musical vegetables - the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.


VIDEO: Dogs that escape the dinner plate

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:47 PM PDT

Authorities in Thailand say that in the last six months they have rescued 2,000 dogs destined for the dinner tables of south east Asia.


Belgium mourns victims of Swiss bus crash

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:39 PM PDT

First group of survivors of accident that claimed 28 lives return home as Belgians observe national day of mourning.


Restraint urged after Ethiopia raids Eritrea

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:46 PM PDT

United States and France call for negotiated settlement after Ethiopian incursion into Eritrea reignites tension.


President Ramos-Horta faces re-election battle in East Timor

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:28 PM PDT

DILI (Reuters) - Nobel Peace prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta faces a battle on Saturday to win re-election as president of East Timor with 11 other candidates standing, several of whom also played major roles in the nation's struggle for independence from Indonesia.

OpenStack 101: What Every CIO Needs To Know

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:32 PM PDT

Guest post written by Joshua McKenty Joshua McKenty is CEO of Piston Cloud, an enterprise cloud software company. He was the founding technical architect of NASA?s Nebula cloud computing platform. In the last month, IBM, Red Hat, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have announced that they are joining OpenStack. This is only the latest indication ...


Afghan massacre suspect upset at fourth tour: lawyer

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:42 PM PDT

Defense attorney John Henry Browne speaks to the media in his office in SeattleSEATTLE (Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians was upset at having to do a fourth tour of duty in a war zone and was likely suffering from stress after seeing colleagues wounded, his defense lawyer said on Thursday. Seattle defense attorney John Henry Browne said the 38-year-old staff sergeant accused of gunning down children and families on Sunday had already been wounded twice in three tours in Iraq and had been told he would not be sent back to a war zone. "He and his family were told that his tours in the Middle East were over. ...

North Korea says to launch long-range rocket to mark founder's birth

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:26 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it will launch a "working" satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung's birth next month, prompting immediate fears from Japan it would in fact be another long-range missile launch in breach of a U.N. resolution. In April 2009, a long-range missile test failed when its first stage fell into the Sea of Japan without orbiting a satellite, provoking outrage in Tokyo, which had threatened to shoot down any debris or rocket that threatened its territory. Another test failed in similar circumstances in 1998. ...


NATO soldier dies in attack in east Afghanistan

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:17 PM PDT

NATO says a member of its international force in Afghanistan has died in a roadside bomb attack.


North Korea announces plan to launch satellite

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:23 PM PDT

North Korea announced its intention Friday to launch a long-range rocket mounted with a satellite in honor of late President Kim Il Sung's April birthday.


Fishing boat sinks in New Zealand, 8 presumed dead

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PDT

In this Aug. 13, 2011 family hand out photo, Rewai Karetai works on the deck of Easy Rider at Bluff, New Zealand. Karetai is one of eight people those are feared dead after the fishing boat sank Thursday, March 16, 2012, off the New Zealand coast. (AP Photo/Family handout via The New Zealand Herald) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUT, EDITORIAL USE ONLYA 7-year-old boy and a captain who was recently praised as a hero are among eight people believed dead after a fishing boat sank in rough weather off the coast of southern New Zealand.

Disruption, Inventors, and Investors

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:12 PM PDT

Mac Dougherty is co-founder with me in a company,??Cognitive Electronics, and before that, he founded??AskOnline, while an undergraduate at Harvard. He sends this story: * * * * * * * Johann Fust ??Johann Fust had a problem.?? A wealthy banker in Mainz, he was concerned about a series of loans that he had made ...


Afghan massacre suspect upset at fourth tour: lawyer

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:43 PM PDT

SEATTLE (Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians was upset at having to do a fourth tour of duty in a war zone and was likely suffering from stress after seeing colleagues wounded, his defense lawyer said on Thursday.

Can Mid-Size Disruptors Save the Drug Industry From a Cubicle Farm in Jersey?

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:07 PM PDT

If you don't think this is a dispiriting time to be in Big Pharma, you obviously haven't spent time with anyone who works there, laboring in the trenches.?? I have - in fact, I've spent the last several days at a professional workshop with a number of colleagues from a range of companies - and ...


Roche Accelerates Defense Strategy to Protect Breast-Cancer Drug Herceptin's Turf

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:46 PM PDT

Galena's Neu Vax vaccine doesn't compete with Herceptin, it targets the additional 50% of patients that are HDER2 positive. The vaccine attacks new cancer cells eliciting an immune response to HER2 protein on cancer surface.


How American Businesses Are Giving Away Ideas To China

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:40 PM PDT

Guest post written by Kevin Pouche Kevin Pouche is COO of K logix, a data security firm. A recent New York Times article on China's aggressive efforts to steal American intellectual property ended with the following ominous quote from Scott Aken, a former F.B.I. agent: "We've already lost our manufacturing base ? Now we're losing ...


Disruption, Inventors, and Investors

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:36 PM PDT

Mac Dougherty is co-founder with me in a company, Cognitive Electronics, and before that, he founded AskOnline, while an undergraduate at Harvard. He sends this story: * * * * * * * Johann Fust had a problem.?? A wealthy banker in Mainz, he was concerned about a series of loans that he had made ...


Sales Agility for Small Business Survival

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:20 PM PDT

When it occurred to me to start a staffing services company with a focus on placing people with disabilities, I knew sales would be key. As you can imagine, 17 years working with computers did not prepare me for a sales job. My two degrees in business did not prepare me for a sales job. ...


North Korea says to launch long-range rocket to mark founder's birth

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:26 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it will launch a "working" satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung's birth next month, prompting immediate fears from Japan it would in fact be another long-range missile launch in breach of a U.N. resolution.
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