The Korea Times Nation News

Taekwang’s Qrix takeover questionable (2010-10-18) The prosecution said Monday it has secured evidence that Taekwang Group had an illicit behind-the-scenes deal with Qri..

Immigrant workers, gov’t clash on changing jobs (2010-10-18) The government and pro-immigrant activists are at loggerheads over a law banning immigrant workers from changing workp..

33 Chinese travelers unaccounted (2010-10-18) A group of Chinese travelers were caught attempting to illegally enter Korean territory, the immigration authorities s..

Elementary school head under probe over donation (2010-10-18) The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education launched Monday an investigation into allegations that the principal of Seo..

Female teacher accused of inappropriate relationship (2010-10-18) A 33-year-old female middle school teacher has been found having inappropriate relationship with one of her pupils. A..

Woman nabbed for killing two adopted daughters for insurance money (2010-10-18) A 31-year old woman has been arrested for killing two infant girls after adopting them to receive life insurance payme..

Rain sued over gambling debt (2010-10-18) Top singer and actor Rain is being sued by a Korean-American businessman based in Los Angeles for over $150,000 the st..

Two Koreas restore aviation hotline (2010-10-18) South and North Korea restored their aviation hotline Monday, almost five months after it was severed by the North in ..

'Too many Korean restaurants in NY' (2010-10-18) NEW YORK ― The Korean government plans to open a mega restaurant in downtown Manhattan next year, a key item on its gr..

'G20: more than battleground for FX war' (2010-10-18) Australia’s top envoy in Korea warned Monday that the G20 Seoul Summit should avoid the foreign exchange issue, which ..

Incheon FEZ criticized for lack of foreign capital (2010-10-18) In a National Assembly audit of Incheon on Monday, lawmakers argued that the country’s second largest port city, has f..

Gov’t urged to join Belgian campaign to reduce toxic waste (2010-10-18) A ruling Grand National Party (GNP) lawmaker called on the government to consider joining a Belgian international rese..

Lee calls for revamp of vegetable distribution (2010-10-18) President Lee Myung-bak has expressed concerns over the extreme rise in the price of vegetables, Monday, saying the co..

New presidential secretary for diplomatic affairs named (2010-10-18) Chun Yung-woo, the country’s former chief nuclear negotiator and now second vice minister of foreign affairs and trade..

Vice foreign minister Chun named national security adviser (2010-10-18) Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo, 58, has been named new national security adviser whose seat has been vacant since..

Korea Development model worth emulating (2010-10-18) The remarkable economic development achieved by Korea within a short time has generated widespread interest about Kore..

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [Next]

The Moscow News, Oct 18, 2010

Moscow

Moscow, Russia UFO Sighting of V shaped Craft over Clouds ...scwaring.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/moscow-russia-ufo... Cached
Moscow, Russia UFO Sighting of V shaped Craft over Clouds, Oct 18, 2010. Down below is really a bizarre UFO sighting, which was videotaped over Moscow ...

BRAZIL News NY Times, oCT 18, 2010

In Rough Slum, Brazil’s Police Try Soft Touch

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO; MYRNA DOMIT CONTRIBUTED REPORTING.

Officials have embarked on an ambitious plan to wrest control of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent slums from ruthless drug gangs.

October 11, 2010

MORE ON BRAZIL AND: POLICE BRUTALITY AND MISCONDUCT, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, GANGS, POLICE, DRUG ABUSE AND TRAFFIC, RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL)

News The Star,Toronto

Live: Colonel break-ins targeted children

Russell Williams as he appeared in court Monday.

TAMMY HOY/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Mon Oct 18 2010

UPDATE: Col. Russell Williams' methodical and disturbing break-and-enters are being revealed in Belleville where the court is hearing Williams posed with the underwear of girls as young as 11 or 12. Click for live coverage (Warning: some graphic content).

Related:

• Photos: Court appearance

• Russell Williams case

• Interactive graphic: Charges

• How did wife not know?

News | Canada

Williams videotaped murder

7 minutes ago

Col. Russell Williams videotaped the actual murder of at least one of his victims.
Related:

• Photos: Court appearance

News | GTA

Lockdown lifted at two Ajax schools

48 minutes ago

Lockdowns at two Ajax schools have been lifted and a person is in custody following reports of an “armed person” within...

Sports | Maple Leafs

Leafs’ MacArthur rides hot shooting streak

Mon Oct 18 2010

Clarke MacArthur isn't getting introspective. He's just going to keep blasting pucks at the net. (7)
Related:

• Leafs Fan: What might go wrong...

News | Crime

Train hauling hazardous materials derails in Cornwall

1 hour 9 minutes ago

Via Rail service was delayed about two hours for trips between Toronto and Montreal.

News | World

4 men convicted in plot to blow up N.Y. synagogues

20 minutes ago

Four men snared in an FBI terrorism sting have been convicted in a plot to shoot down military planes and blow up synagogues.

haiti

Video: Lovely returns home after being buried alive

Fri Oct 15 2010

The last time Lovely was here she was buried alive. Randy Risling documented one girl's return home in Haiti.
Related:

• More on Lovely's Haiti

• Photos: Lucas Oleniuk in Haiti

moneyville | retirement

Here's how I plan to retire by age 45

Mon Oct 18 2010

Tim Stobbs is 32 and plans to retire when he's 45. The Regina engineer has two kids, a stay-at-home wife and a mortgage. His five-part series begins... (7)
Related:

• Retirement: 10 things to know

• RRSPs: 10 things to know

• Estate planning: 10 things to know

News | Canada

Lost bid for Security Council seat a Tory failure, Liberals charge

38 minutes ago

Canada’s inability to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council represents a “major diplomatic failure” on the part of the Conservative government, the Liberal Opposition charged Monday.

News | Ontario

Craigslist, Queen’s Park to discuss prostitution listings

55 minutes ago

Ontario’s opposition parties want to know why the Liberal government isn’t getting tough with Craigslist over prostitution ads the province wants removed from the online service. (1)

moneyville | borrowing

CIBC rolls out Canada’s first Visa-branded debit card

Mon Oct 18 2010

Global payments giant Visa Inc. made its long-awaited entry into Canada’s debit market on Monday, announcing that Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce would issue this country’s first Visa-branded debit cards. (0)

moneyville | investing

Why interest rates should rise, but won't

Mon Oct 18 2010

There’s some good news for homebuyers looking to take out a mortgage — economists expect the Bank of Canada to keep interest rates at 1 per cent. That... (0)

moneyville | saving

Off-peak hydro to drop this winter

50 minutes ago

The Ontario Energy Board has lowered power prices for consumers not on fixed contracts, which will save households between $1 and $3 a month. (18)

HealthZone | News & Features

Most Canadians over 50 lack antibodies to fight H1N1: Study

50 minutes ago

While a third wave of H1N1 influenza is unlikely this year, many Canadians over age 50 are still vulnerable to the virus and should get a flu shot...

News | World

Searchable database of Nazi-era looted art debuts

Mon Oct 18 2010

“Most people think or thought that most of these items were repatriated or restituted," said Wesley A. Fisher, director of research at the Claims... (1)

moneyville | realestate

GTA home sales slide again in early October

Mon Oct 18 2010

Home sales in the GTA are down by 17 per cent in the first half of October compared with 2009. (5)

The Peoples Voice News, Oct 18, 2010

China rejects clean energy probe, calls US unfair

BEIJING – A senior Chinese official rejected a U.S. trade complaint about Beijing's clean energy policy and said Sunday that Washington might be improperly supporting its own industry. The U.S. government said Friday it would investigate complaints by a labor union that Beijing unfairly subsidizes its producers of wind and solar equipment.

Troops 'overwhelmed and cannot defeat Taliban'

THE Taliban have ''overwhelmed'' foreign troops and cannot be defeated by military means, one of Australia's top combat soldiers has warned. Brigadier Mark Smethurst says securing Afghanistan could take decades, but success is uncertain without a fundamental change in strategy.

Poll: Those craving for change now look to the GOP

President Barack Obama's winning coalition from 2008 has crumbled and his core backers are dispirited. It's now Republicans who stand to benefit from an electorate that's again craving change.

Philippine maids pay high price - Video

Overseas workers provide much-needed funds, but some suffer abuse from their employers. Almost 15 per cent of the Philippines' adult population, about eight million people, live and work overseas. The money they earn is vital to the economy, last year more than $17bn dollars was sent back in remittances. But the cost proves to be too high for some of the migrant workers that find themselves suffering the abuse at the hands of their employers.

email: info@als-alexander.org or interalex2@gmail.com

John McCain's daughter Meghan calls Christine O'Donnell 'a nut job'

Meghan McCain on the Jay Leno show Photo: REX
Miss McCain, a Republican who is making a name for herself as an outspoken pundit, said what many party colleagues have been afraid of uttering publicly.
She is moderate who supports gay marriage, has criticised her father's vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin and taken issue with the anti-tax Tea Party for its "innate racism".

New Sri Lankan civil war photos threaten to overshadow Britain visit

Internally displaced Sri Lankan people wait behind barbed wire at Menik Farm refugee camp in Cheddikulam Photo: AFP/GETTY
The photographs, which showed blood stained bodies of young men and women who had been blindfolded and had their hands tied behind their backs, were released by the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), a group which includes former supporters of the Tamil Tiger rebels.

Iran tells Iraqi prime minister 'get rid of America', Oct 18, 2010

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, has an audience with Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Photo: AP
Mr Maliki, who is on a tour of Middle Eastern capitals to drum up support for his bid to stay in power, had an audience with Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.info@als-alexander.org orinteralex1@yahoo.com

Renewal rip-offs: don't roll over

Hundreds of thousands of households are being hit by fees to get out of contracts that they never signed up for, because electricity and telecoms providers are rolling them over into new deals without their consent.

Andalucia: readers' tips, recommendations and travel advice

Andalucia boasts some of the loveliest landscapes in Spain Photo: CORBIS

'Antequera is an excellent base for visiting Ronda, Granada and Seville' Photo: CORBIS

The bullring at Ronda Photo: CORBIS
Jerez and beyond
This week's winning review: A couple of summers ago, a friend and I cycled through Andalucia. We were looking for something that combined moderate exercise with sightseeing, great scenery, good food and wine, and comfortable accommodation, so we booked an organised self-guided tour. Self-guided meant we could go at our own pace ..

Warpaint: 'Who’s that tomboy over there, who looks like she doesn’t care?’

You and whose army? Singer Emily Kokal, second from left, with the rest of Warpaint
At the United Palace Theatre in Uptown Manhattan, one of the year’s hottest new rock bands is about to take the stage. Warpaint, an all-girl quartet from Los Angeles, have generated an avalanche of gossip in recent months. For a while their singer/guitarist, Emily Kokal, dated John Frusciante, former Red Hot ...

Maximising minimalism: tailoring for grown-ups

Photo: JOHN SWANNELL
All the talk this autumn/winter about serious, grown-up clothes, and clean lines, devoid of decoration, can be slightly intimidating, especially if you are a bit of a boho at heart.

Female care worker guilty of sexually abusing baby in Colin Blanchard paedophile ring

Tracy Dawber arriving at Winchester Crown Court Photo: PA
Tracy Dawber, 44, today became the fourth woman to be convicted of abuse and pornography offences relating to a child abuse ring run by the "evil" paedophile Colin Blanchard.

Terrorism and cyber attacks main threats to Britain

David Cameron, who co-wrote the foreword to the report with Nick Clegg Photo: AP
The new National Security Strategy identifies four ''tier one'' risks which, it says, must be the Government's highest priority.
The other major threats are a large scale accident or natural hazard such as pandemic flu and an international military crisis which could draw in the UK and its allies.

'Super Mario' Sepulveda: First days in Chilean mine were 'pure hell,' calls talk of sex 'wrong'

 

They inspired hope around the world, but according to one Chilean miner, the experience was "pure hell."
"Super Mario" Sepulveda, the second miner to emerge after more than two months trapped underground in Copiapo, Chile, has spoken out for the first time about the horrific ordeal.

Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is not living in cave, but in a house in northwest Pakistan

Terror leader Osama Bin Laden is living it up in Pakistan, not cowering in some cave, a senior NATO official tells CNN.
The report indicates that the founder of Al Qaeda, the organization responsible for multiple terror attacks including those on 9/11, is shacked up in a home somewhere in the northwest region of the country.

Derek Jeter admits Cliff Lee is tough, but captain knows Yankees have beat tough pitchers in past

The Yankees come home now. They have to believe that Game 3 of the American League Championship Series Monday night at the Stadium is as much about them and the place as it is about the opposing pitcher, even if the pitcher is Cliff Lee.

X Factor 2010: Dannii Minogue beats Cheryl Cole yet again in fashion battle in a Victoria Beckham dress

Style wars: Dannii Minogue wore a beige asymmetrical Victoria Beckham column dress (left), while Cheryl Cole opted for a strapless black Azzaro jumpsuit on Saturday's X Factor
Style wars: Dannii Minogue wore a beige asymmetrical

Mexico plane crash kills 4 on medical aid mission

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- A light plane carrying four U.S. citizens on a medical aid flight crashed in Baja California, killing all four aboard, Mexican authorities said Sunday.

Multiculturalism in Germany has 'utterly failed', claims Chancellor Angela Merkel

Hard line: Angela Merkel, pictured giving a speech to Christian Democrat youths yesterday, said immigrants had to work harder at immersing themselves into German society

Chile's president brings mine rocks for the Queen and David Cameron

Sebastian Piñera kept a copy of Churchill's 1940 'blood, toil, tears and sweat' speech by his side during the miners disaster Photo: REUTERS
Mr Piñera hopes to use the international admiration gained by the rescue of the 33 miners in a clockwork operation to forge trade links with Britain, France and Germany.

Top 20 most influential people in the Tea Party movement: 10-1

Amy Kremer, Sarah Palin, Rick Santelli and Jenny Beth Martin
Dick Armey, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck and Christine O?Donnell
Dick Armey, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck and Christine O?Donnell
10. Christine O’Donnell, Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware
A marketing consultant and Tea-party backed candidate for the US Senate, Christine O’Donnell burst onto the national ..

Bill Clinton back out campaigning 'for everybody that helped Hillary run for president' against Obama

Fear and loathing in the American body politic is not confined to the anti-tax Tea Party. Across the spectrum of the Democratic party, every hue is feeling it too.

With a fortnight to go to the midterms, moderate "Blue Dog" Democrats are in big trouble. The party's left-wing "Yellow Dogs" are up in arms about being taken for granted by the White House "hippy bashers". Even black bloggers are warning ..

Television hit Downton Abbey helps save the real stately home where it is filmed

The cast of Downton Abbey assembled in front of Highclere House Photo: ITV
Now its also leading to a revival in the fortunes of the magnificent house in which it is set.
Highclere Castle, the 'High Elizabethan' style pile, is undergoing a much needed £11m refurbishment to restore it to its former glory thanks to the renewed interest in the 50 room mansion sparked by the ITV show.

Healthy brain gene linked to depression

Researchers hope that the discovery could lead to new treatments and early diagnosis of the condition that affects one in five people in Britain during their lifetime.
The team at Yale University have found that a gene called MKP-1 is twice as active in those that are depressed than those with good mental health.

Everton 2 Liverpool 0: match report

Goal-getter: Tim Cahill celebrates putting Everton in front Photo: PA
The Royal Bank of Scotland had better hope the £300 million cheque John W Henry deposited into their accounts on Friday to buy Liverpool is non-refundable. After watching Everton condemn his new investment to another week in the relegation zone, he would be forgiven for wanting his money back.

Chile miners attend Mass at San Jose mine

Rescued miner Omar Reygadas (C) gestures at the end of a mass service at the San Jose mine near Copiapo Photo: AP
But not all the miners felt ready to return to the site where 33 flags representing each of the men flutter on a hillside above the entrance to the San Jose mine in the barren Atacama Desert.

Pentagon braced for the release of 400,000 Iraq files on Wikileaks

Robert Gates has said that the leak of classified information from Jan 2004 to Dec 2009 had not revealed any 'sensitive intelligence sources or methods' Photo: REUTERS
A task force of 120 people has been assembled to assess the potential implications and damage of the disclosure of the documents, which promises to eclipse the recent release of more than 70,000 classified US military files on the ..

News, The Guardian UK, Oct 17, 2010

• Spending cuts: We have to see this through - Osborne

  Chancellor admits tough decisions ahead as Alan Johnson condemns 'economic masochism'
  213 comments
  • Osborne takes spending axe to prisons and legal aid
  • Benefit and tax cheats face new clampdown

• Multiculturalism has failed – Merkel

  
  German chancellor's assertion stirs anti-immigration debate in country of around 4 million Muslims
  • Analysis: Economic gloom fuels far-right growth
  • Philip Oltermann: Merkel's own goal

• Service of thanks for Chilean miners

  
  Some of the 33 rescued miners toured Camp Hope, as evidence of further splits in the group emerged

• Cuts will not hit cyber defence budget

  Defence review set to impose sweeping cuts on armed forces' more traditional forms of firepower

• Fifa could delay World Cup decisions

  Decision on host countries for 2018 and 2022 could be postponed as Fifa investigates vote-selling claims
  • Fifa to look into 2018 'votes for sale'
  • Hague: Government 'disturbed' by Fifa votes story
  • Blatter: Vote-selling claims have negative impact

• Obama fights Republican avalanche

  
  President campaigns to shore up Democrat vote as poll shows 25% of former Obama voters may defect
  • Rosie Swash: Ugly things grow in midterm hothouse
  • Pelosi faces struggle in her Democratic heartland

• Pope canonises first Australian saint

  
  Pontiff makes saint of Mary MacKillop, a 19th century nun, as thousands gather at Sydney chapel where she is buried
  • In pictures: Pope canonises new saints

• Independence will save Scots - SNP

  Alex Salmond says 'bad' coalition spending cuts are attack on compassion, fairness and social justice

• Police failures 'damage UK authority'

  
  Jesse Jackson says moral authority is undermined by failure to stop police discriminating against ethnic minorities
  • Jesse Jackson: How can race profiling still happen?

• Kidnapped Briton 'in good spirits'

  Save the Children contractor abducted by masked gunmen in Somalia last week is 'well', charity says

• Severn barrage plan likely to be sunk

  
  Government expected tomorrow to refuse to back controversial £21bn tidal energy project with public finance

• CofE parish plans move to Rome

  Folkestone congregation could be first to defect to Roman Catholic church in row over women priests

• Cracks widen in Netanyahu coalition

  Labour leaders talk of government collapse as housing plans announced in East Jerusalem

• Millions protest over Sarkozy's cuts

  
  Students and workers in mass protests made the right shiver, but there was no battle of the barricades

• Tiger summit offers 'last chance'

  
  Last 13 countries with wild tigers to meet as deforestation and poaching push animal to extinction

On guardian.co.uk today

• 

  How we fell in love with our letters

  Simon Garfield looks at the history of typefaces and the obsessive care taken over their design
  • Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
  • More Art and design

• Benoît Mandelbrot obituary

  
  Obituary: Mathematician whose fractal geometry helps us find patterns in the irregularities of the natural world
  • More Science

• 'I measure my life by Star Wars'

  
  When Simon Pegg started out he had no plans to become a movie star. In fact he had no plans at all. What happened?
  • More Culture

• This much I know: Morgan Freeman

  The actor, 73, on wearing an earring, being a good sailor, and dreaming big
  • More Life and style

• The internet isn't killing print

  Peter Preston: There is no clear correlation between a rise in internet traffic and a fall in circulation
  42 comments
  • Wapping's bulls should pull in their horns
  • More Media

• Truth about men, women and food

  
  Are men hard-wired to eat meat? Do women have an innate need for fairy cakes?
  75 comments
  • More Life and style

• £30m forgeries scare the art world

  
  German police hold three suspects after works sold through leading auction houses are exposed as fakes
  36 comments
  • More Art and design

• Big breasts are the new small breasts

  The bosom is back, apparently, thanks to Mad Men's buxom star Christina Hendricks
  105 comments
  • More Life and style