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Google's maps go indoors with new mobile feature

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports.An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the U.S. and Japan.The initial index only covers a

Nov. 30, 2011

Seven out of 10 teens get cursing habit from elementary years: poll

Seven out of 10 teens who commonly use swear words picked up the habit in elementary school, and many of them curse to make themselves appear cool and as an expression of affinity toward their peers, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted in September jointly by the state-run N

Nov. 30, 2011

Lee signs off on bills for U.S. FTA implementation

President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday signed off on a package of bills needed to implement South Korea's free trade agreement with the United States, moving a step closer to putting the landmark pact into effect.The signing came a week after the trade pact and 14 related bills passed through parliament

Nov. 29, 2011

First CJD death reported in Korea

(Yonhap News)The Korea Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease here.Authorities stressed that the strain of the disease was different from variant CJD, which is known to spread to people who eat beef infected with bovine

Nov. 29, 2011

Kindle sales quadrupled on Black Friday: Amazon

Online retailing giant Amazon said Monday that sales of its Kindle e-readers and tablets quadrupled on Black Friday over the previous year's annual pre-Christmas national shopping orgy.The company gave no specific data on Kindle sales last Friday, but said its new tablet computer, the Kindle F

Nov. 29, 2011

Kindle sales quadrupled on Black Friday: Amazon

Strauss-Kahn suspected phone hacking: associates

PARIS (AFP) - Disgraced ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn suspected a smartphone that disappeared before his New York arrest on sex assault charges had been hacked, associates said, and hinted at a setup.Sources close to Strauss-Kahn told AFP on Saturday that he had called his wife Anne Sinclair wh

Nov. 27, 2011

Strauss-Kahn suspected phone hacking: associates

Twitter study reveals explosion in Arabic 'tweeting'

The popularity of Twitter has soared in the Arab world over the past year, a study published Thursday revealed, reflecting the key role of the social networking site in the "Arab Spring" revolutions.Online Twitter messages, or tweets, in Arabic rocketed from 99,000 a day in October 2010 to over two

Nov. 25, 2011

Twitter study reveals explosion in Arabic 'tweeting'

Wrong twin terminated in Australian hospital lapse

MELBOURNE (AFP) - An Australian hospital was investigating Thursday after a woman carrying 32-week-old twins had the wrong foetus terminated in a botched procedure it called "a terrible tragedy".Doctors had advised the woman that one of the boys, whom she had already named, had a congenital heart de

Nov. 24, 2011

Recipient doing well after first artificial windpipe graft

PARIS, Nov 24, 2011 (AFP) - The word's first artificial windpipe transplant has been such a success that a second operation has been carried out and a third is being planned, The Lancet reported on Thursday.Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene, a 36-year-old Eritrean, is doing well after undergoing the gro

Nov. 24, 2011

Dream sleep takes sting out of painful memories

They say time heals all wounds, and new research from the University of California, Berkeley, indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help us overcome painful ordeals.UC Berkeley researchers have found that during the dream phase of sleep, also known as REM sleep, our stress chemistry shuts dow

Nov. 24, 2011

Dream sleep takes sting out of painful memories

Learn from Shakespeare, study tells doctors

PARIS, Nov 24, 2011 (AFP) - Doctors should read up on Shakespeare, according to an unusual medical study that says the Bard was exceptionally skilled at spotting psychosomatic symptoms.Kenneth Heaton, a doctor at the University of Bristol in western England, trawled through all 42 of Shakespea

Nov. 24, 2011

Learn from Shakespeare, study tells doctors

Clooney on witness list for Berlusconi trial

MILAN (AP) — George Clooney and his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis are among more than 200 witnesses accepted Wednesday by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.Clooney has said he was approached by Berlusconi'

Nov. 24, 2011

Clooney on witness list for Berlusconi trial

Apple moves production to Sharp for TV debut, Jefferies says

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. is shifting production of iPhone and iPad displays to Sharp Corp. in Japan and may introduce a television with screens from the same partner as early as the middle of 2012, Jefferies & Co. said.Apple is moving its business to Sharp largely at the expense of Samsung

Nov. 24, 2011

Apple moves production to Sharp for TV debut, Jefferies says

US judge who beat daughter with belt suspended

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Texas judge who was caught by his then teenage daughter on video beating her repeatedly with a belt in a row over her computer use has been suspended from duty, US justice officials said.A seven-minute video of William Adams whipping Hillary Adams, now 23, at least 17 times and

Nov. 23, 2011

Khmer Rouge No. 2 says regime acted for Cambodians

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- The deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia's ``killing fields'' insisted Tuesday he carried out its policies for the sake of Cambodians and to protect the country from invaders. A tourist takes pictures of human skulls of Cambod

Nov. 23, 2011

Khmer Rouge No. 2 says regime acted for Cambodians

Danish hotel flouts the law, reserves floor for women

COPENHAGEN, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - A Copenhagen hotel will continue reserving a whole floor for women, despite a recent ruling that doing so is discriminatory and illegal, the hotel director said Tuesday.Last May, the Bella Sky Hotel in central Copenhagen opened a floor dubbed the Bella Donna with 20

Nov. 23, 2011

Inmates harass victims via Facebook

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Lisa Gesik hesitates to log into her Facebook account nowadays because of unwanted ``friend'' requests, not from long-ago classmates but from the ex-husband now in prison for kidnapping her and her daughter.Neither Gesik nor prison officials can prove her ex-husband is

Nov. 22, 2011

Rape, murder of teen shocks France

France is reeling after a 17-year-old boy raped and murdered a girl at a chic boarding school while conditionally freed on charges of rape a year ago."It's absurd. It could have been avoided with a little less negligence," the dead 13-year-old's mother, Paola Marin, told Europe 1 radio as a nation s

Nov. 22, 2011

US marine recounts dream date with Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis (AP)LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US marine described his dream date with Mila Kunis on Monday, calling the Hollywood star "down to earth" -- and revealing the pair danced to the 1980s hit "(I've had the) Time of My Life."Sergeant Scott Moore spent Friday night with the 28-year-old actress after

Nov. 22, 2011

US marine recounts dream date with Mila Kunis

Peru finds 14th century mass grave of children

LIMA, Nov 20, 2011 (AFP) - A Peruvian archeologist on Sunday announced the discovery of the remains of 44 infants and young children sacrificed to appease ancient deities in the 14th century at a site in the high Andes near the border with Bolivia.The remains were found near a stone funeral tower --

Nov. 22, 2011

Peru finds 14th century mass grave of children