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Infamous ‘Jack the Ripper’ was surgeon: report

Notorious serial killer “Jack the Ripper,” who terrorized the streets of London in 1888, was a surgeon from Essex called Stephen Herbert Appleford, claims a statistics professor in Uruguay. In an essay called “Travelling through time to trap Jack the Ripper,” Professor Eduardo Cuitino at the University ORT in Montevideo said for the past two years he analyzed data related to Doctor Appleford and found clues linking the surgeon to the killer.According to the profile provided by Cuitino, Appleford

People Nov. 1, 2012

Infamous ‘Jack the Ripper’ was surgeon: report

Parental stress linked to child obesity

Stressed-out parents are more likely to have obese children, U.S. researchers suggest. "Stress in parents may be an important risk factor for child obesity and related behaviors," Dr. Elizabeth Prout-Parks, a nutrition specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who was the study leader, said in a statement. "The severity and number of stressors are important."Among the parental stressors associated with childhood obesity were poor physical and mental health, financial strain and leadi

Technology Nov. 1, 2012

Korea's consumer prices gain 2.1 pct on-year in Oct.

South Korea's consumer prices grew at the fastest pace in four months in October due mainly to an increase in prices of farm products, a government report showed Thursday.The country's consumer prices index rose 2.1 percent in October from a year earlier, compared with a 2 percent on-year gain in the previous month, according to the report by Statistics Korea. The index fell 0.1 percent from September when the consumer prices rose 0.7 percent on-month.The so-called core inflation, which excludes

Nov. 1, 2012

Russian ‘kidnap’ mother gets two-year sentence in France

A French court on Tuesday slapped a two-year suspended sentence on a Russian woman who kidnapped her seven-year-old daughter from the girl's French father in 2009.Irina Belenkaya was convicted on two counts of kidnapping and assault against the girl's father Jean-Michel Andre, who has custody of the child.A court in the southwestern town of Tarascon ordered Belenkaya to pay 8,000 euros ($10,000) in damages. Andre had sought 63,000 euros.The girl Elise was abducted on March 20, 2009 by Belenkaya

World News Oct. 31, 2012

Simian sex: Monkey seen, monkey doesn't

Monkeys are just like the vast majority of human beings when it comes to sex -- when they go ape, they want privacy.Among long-tailed macaques, the urge for hanky-panky was dampened when they were watched by other monkeys, according to an unusual experiment reported in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.Scientists from the Biomedical Primate Research Center in the Netherlands monitored 15 female and seven male macaques in a giant enclosure for four months.They installed everything f

Technology Oct. 31, 2012

Rover identifies first Mars minerals

NASA says initial experiments by its Mars rover Curiosity show the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument (CheMin) identified minerals in the first sample of Martian soil ingested recently by the rover, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported Tuesday."Much of Mars is covered with dust, and we had an incomplete understanding of its mineralogy," said David Bish, CheMin c

Technology Oct. 31, 2012

Two killed, nine injured in shipyard blast

A gas explosion at a shipyard here in the southwestern part of the country killed at least two and injured nine on Wednesday, local police said.The explosion, whose cause has not yet been determined, occurred at 8:09 a.m. at the shipyard inside the Daebul Industrial Complex in Yeongam, about 400 kilometers south of Seoul, police added.They said two unidentified workers were killed and nine others sustained injuries. Rescue workers said a dozen workers were inside a ship for block assembly work a

Social Affairs Oct. 31, 2012

Sandy's death toll climbs; millions without power

The most devastating storm in decades to hit the most densely populated U.S. region cut off modern communication and left millions without power Tuesday, as thousands who fled their waterlogged homes wondered when _ if _ life would return to normal.A weakening Sandy, the hurricane turned fearsome superstorm, killed at least 50 people, many hit by falling trees, and still wasn't finished. It inched inland across Pennsylvania, ready to bank toward western New York state to dump more of its water a

World News Oct. 31, 2012

Sandy's death toll climbs; millions without power

Syrian forces launch nationwide airstrikes

Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago.The death toll for what was supposed to be a four-day cease-fire between the regime of President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his overthrow exceeded 500, and activists guessed the government's heavy reliance on air power reflected its inability to roll back rebel gains.“The army

World Oct. 30, 2012

Syrian forces launch nationwide airstrikes

Lotte Giants baseball manager Yang Seung-ho resigns

The Lotte Giants' manager Yang Seung-ho has resigned from his post, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) team announced Tuesday, to take the fall for the club's failure to reach a final during his two-year tenure.The Busan-based Giants said Yang had offered to step down in a meeting with the team president, Chang Byung-soo, last Wednesday, and the management decided to accept his resignation offer.Yang, 52, replaced Jerry Royster as the Giants' manager in October 2010. Royster, the first Americ

Baseball Oct. 30, 2012

Lotte Giants baseball manager Yang Seung-ho resigns

Malay couple under fire for ‘absurd’ blogging

They have become outrageously famous in a week but the consequences of having a scandalous blog are starting to set in for Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee.Lee, 23, may be kicked out of her family home after “Sumptuous Erotica”, the blog she shared with Tan, 24, made the headlines in several newspapers here and in Singapore.“My mother gave me an ultimatum marry him or move out within a month,” she said, adding that she was “a little scared” about the prospect.She had just graduated with a marketing degr

People Oct. 30, 2012

Malay couple under fire for ‘absurd’ blogging

Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard recounts sex abuse

Retired boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard said Monday he cried for Jerry Sandusky's accusers after hearing of the former Penn State assistant football coach's arrest on child sex abuse charges nearly a year ago.An abuse survivor himself, Leonard said he hopes the accusers can draw from his own story and willingness to speak out about a problem that drew national attention and crushed the reputation of one of the country's most famous college sports programs.“What I had heard about Penn State _ I

More Sports Oct. 30, 2012

Study: Horror films burn calories

Scientists at a British university said their research indicates horror movie viewers could burn up to 113 calories in 90 minutes.Dr. Richard Mackenzie of the University of Westminster, England, said he and his team monitored the heart rate, oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output of people watching scary movies and discovered some of them were burning the same amount of calories found in a chocolate bar, The Mirror reported Monday."The 10 films tested set pulses racing," Mackenzie said. "Adrena

Technology Oct. 30, 2012

Wolseong nuclear reactor shuts down

A nuclear power generator in the southeastern city of Gyeongju came to a halt on Monday due to a detected malfunction, its operator said. No radiation leak was reported.The Reactor-1 at Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant, located some 400 kilometers southeast of Seoul, was shut down at 9:39 p.m. during normal operations due to a turbine halt signal, according to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.The operator said it is looking into the exact cause of the shutdown, adding the nuclear reactor is in a safe

Technology Oct. 30, 2012

Seoul, Tokyo agree on fishing quota in exclusive waters

South Korea and Japan agreed on the amount of fish they can each catch in each other's exclusive economic zones (EEZs) Tuesday, the Seoul government said.Under the agreement reached Tuesday, both sides set next year's fishing quota in each other's EEZ at 60,000 tons, unchanged from the previous year.Seoul, however, secured an additional 40 tons in the amount of cutlass fish it can catch in Japan's EEZ. Such an increase is the first of its kind since 2006, according to the Ministry of Food, Agric

Foreign Affairs Oct. 30, 2012

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