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ECB leaves key rate unchanged at 1.5 percent

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) _ The European Central Bank has left its key interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent as the continent's debt crisis appears to be embroiling Spain and Italy despite efforts by political leaders to contain it.Market participants are now awaiting ECB President Jean-Claude Triche

Aug. 4, 2011

Academy defends Winfrey as honorary Oscar winner

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Film academy president Tom Sherak is coming to Oprah Winfrey’s defense.Sherak says Winfrey is “one of the most philanthropic performers in the world” and thus deserving of the academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday

Aug. 4, 2011

Pakistan steps up security as Karachi death toll hits 58

KARACHI (AFP) ― Hundreds of extra paramilitary troops have been deployed in Pakistan’s economic capital Karachi which is struggling to end violence that has killed 58 people in five days, officials said Wednesday.Authorities are battling to halt gunfights raging across the key port city― used by NAT

Aug. 4, 2011

Pakistan steps up security as Karachi death toll hits 58

‘Caged’ Hosni Mubarak denies all charges

Sight of former dictator lying helpless in bed stuns Middle EastCAIRO (AP) ― From a bed inside the defendants’ cage, an ashen-faced Hosni Mubarak showed a glimmer of his old defiance. Egypt’s former president wagged his finger in the air and denied all charges against him Wednesday as he went on tri

Aug. 4, 2011

‘Caged’ Hosni Mubarak denies all charges

Moon may have had a little sister

WASHINGTON (AP) ― In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the “big splat.”The result: Our planet was left with a s

Aug. 4, 2011

U.N. condemns Syrian attacks on civilians

Security Council expresses regrets on lack of reformsUNITED NATIONS (AP) ― After months of deadlock, the U.N. Security Council finally responded to the escalating violence in Syria on Wednesday, condemning President Bashar Assad’s forces for attacking civilians and committing human rights violations

Aug. 4, 2011

U.N. condemns Syrian attacks on civilians

300 kilograms of coins trouble a car deal in China

A flour wholesaler surnamed Wang in the city of Xianyang in Northwest China used a van to transport the seven sacks of coins, which he had amassed through flour sales to business clients including steamed bread shops and noodle manufacturers. The coins, weighing 300 kilograms, worth altogether

Aug. 4, 2011

Philippine police held over chilli torture video

MANILA (AFP) -- Eight Philippine police officers have been detained for allegedly force-feeding trainees with chillies and rubbing the pungent red fruit on the victims' genitals, officials said Wednesday.The detained men face possible charges of grave misconduct after video footage of the incid

Aug. 3, 2011

Philippine police held over chilli torture video

Hong Kong professionals form anti-slavery club

Hong Kong entrepreneur Ken Law runs a successful information technology business, but the bespectacled 35-year-old now has a second job ― anti-slavery activist.Law is one of dozens of Hong Kong professionals ― lawyers, bankers and IT experts ― who have formed the Mekong Club, a group dedicated to wa

Aug. 3, 2011

Hong Kong professionals form anti-slavery club

Culinary connoisseurs crave kimchi crocks

Americans becoming aware of health benefits of Korea’s traditionally fermented foodsSAN FRANCISCO (Yonhap News) ― Several non-Korean cookbooks have introduced millions of Americans to the basic techniques of making kimchi in recent years, but the trick is as much in the fermentation ― a process that

Aug. 3, 2011

Culinary connoisseurs crave kimchi crocks

In Mubarak trial, Egypt sees chance at retribution

CAIRO (AP) ― Hosni Mubarak, 83 years old and ailing, goes on trial Wednesday on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the 18-day uprising that toppled him, and many Egyptians are celebrating the chance at retribution against a longtime authoritarian ruler.But they also

Aug. 3, 2011

China boosts security in western region

Aug. 3, 2011

U.S. says it will ease limits on aid to Somalia

Aug. 3, 2011

Syrian forces hit again, U.S. seeks sanctions

Aug. 3, 2011

Chinese troubled by chopstick pickpockets

Pickpockets in China are snatching valuables with chopsticks or long tweezers, the Huffington Post reported.Earlier, Shanghaiist and MSNBC posted video clips showing thieves snatching valuables such as wallet and cell phones out of their unwitting victims’ pockets with eating utensils in China.The s

Aug. 3, 2011

Desperate, sick Indonesians use railroad 'therapy'

JAKARTA (AP) -- Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia's bustling capital, lies down and stretches her body across the rails.Villagers lie on a railway track for an electricty therapy in Rawa Buaya, Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP-Yonhap

Aug. 3, 2011

Desperate, sick Indonesians use railroad 'therapy'

Norway gunman wants Japanese psychiatrist: lawyer

OSLO (AFP) -- The man behind the deadly twin attacks in Norway on July 22 wants a Japanese psychiatrist to carry out his psychological evaluation, his lawyer was quoted as saying Tuesday. "My client has expressed a wish for a Japanese expert. This wish has to do with the concept of honour. He believ

Aug. 3, 2011

UK police arrest man over hacking allegations

LONDON (AP) -- Police investigating phone hacking and police bribery at defunct British tabloid News of the World on Tuesday arrested a man, believed to be a former executive at the newspaper.The Metropolitan Police said a 71-year-old man had been arrested by appointment Tuesday morning at a Lo

Aug. 2, 2011

Shooting victim Giffords returns for U.S. debt vote

Aug. 2, 2011

DiCaprio, Depp top list of best-paid actors

Aug. 2, 2011