Government officials from South Korea will visit North Korea on Tuesday to hold the first talks in a year, state media said.
Two Koreas to meet amid rising tensions
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Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy
Call it Chirac’s Revenge. Less than two years after he left office with nearly record low approval ratings, former French President Jacques Chirac finds himself atop polls again as the nation’s most popular politician
How Somalia’s Fishermen Became Pirates
Amid the current media frenzy about Somali pirates, it’s hard not to imagine them as characters in some dystopian Horn of Africa version of Waterworld. We see wily corsairs in ragged clothing swarming out of their elusive mother ships, chewing narcotic khat while thumbing GPS phones and grappling hooks.
Toshiba, Sony Ericsson slash jobs
Two major electronics companies announced thousands of job cuts Friday as the global economic downturn continues to hit the labor market.
Foolproofing Suicide with Euthanasia Test Kits
When someone with a terminal illness decides to end their life by overdosing on barbiturates, they hope the drugs will lull them into a peaceful and permanent sleep. But if the drugs have passed their expiration date or lack a sufficiently lethal concentration, the would-be suicide victim may actually survive — risking an array of complications including coma, reduced physical functioning and the opprobrium of disapproving friends and family. Now, in an effort to provide certainty to those contemplating suicide, one of the world’s leading euthanasia advocates plans to sell barbiturate testing kits to confirm that deadly drug cocktails are, in fact, deadly
Fighting Piracy: Coordinated Action Still Missing
If Europe occasionally winces at accusations that it is not pulling its weight in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, it has been prouder of its take-charge role in combating Somalia’s relentless pirates. However, much like the Afghan war, that effort appears to be floundering in the face of a relentless, quickly adapting and resurgent enemy — despite successes like Sunday’s dramatic rescue of Richard Phillips, the American ship captain held hostage since Wednesday by defiant Somali pirates
Billy Bob Thornton’s band cancels Canadian shows
The flu has forced an early end to Billy Bob Thornton’s musical tour of Canada, his publicist said Saturday. The news was reportedly greeted with loud applause at a Friday night show in Montreal after Thornton called Canadian concert-goers “mashed potatoes with no gravy” in a radio interview Wednesday. The Boxmasters’ final Canadian dates — in Montreal and London, Ontario — were canceled because “one of the band members and several of the crew have the flu,” said Thornton publicist Arnold Robinson
German Cities Suffer in the U.S. Financial Crisis
When the nearly bankrupt city of Berlin was looking for a way to finance its public-transportation system a decade ago, some American investors had an idea that seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately for Berlin, it was. The scheme seemed a bit convoluted from the start, but it offered oodles of money to the participants.
G-20 officer to be interviewed after man’s death
Britain’s police watchdog said Thursday it plans to interview the officer who pushed a man to the ground at last week’s G-20 protest shortly before he died.
UK terror chief quits after security blunder
Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer has resigned, the London mayor’s office said Thursday, a day after he accidentally exposed a sensitive document about a terrorism investigation. Police were forced to bring forward the timing of a series of raids after Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick unwittingly revealed the names of those to be arrested. Quick was photographed as he got out of a car at Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s residence in London and the names were easily to read when the images were enlarged.