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Judge rules anorexic woman can be force fed

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A former medical student who suffers from extremely severe anorexia can be force fed against her wishes, a high court judge has ruled. The 32-year-old, who has other chronic health conditions, lacked capacity to make a decision about life-sustaining treatment, Mr Justice Peter Jackson found. Those who knew her best,…

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Samsung and Apple snag most smartphone profits

Samsung and Apple have captured more than half the global market for smartphones and over 90 percent of its profits, a research firm said Friday. ABI Research said global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent year-over-year to 144.6 million in the first quarter of 2012. Samsung and Apple accounted for 55 percent of smartphone shipments and more than 90 percent of the market's profits, the report said. ABI said Samsung delivered 43 million units in the quarter, to 35 million for Apple. Nokia was third with 11.9 million and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion just behind with 11.1 million. Of the top 10 smartphone makers, only Samsung and Sony saw sequential growth from the fourth quarter, which is traditionally strong, the report said. "Nokia witnessed a 40 percent sequential decline in shipments and may soon be passed by ailing RIM in shipments despite the BlackBerry maker's 20 percent sequential drop. Nokia recently began working with Microsoft on a Windows-based smartphone, dropping its own powered by Symbian. "At this point in the year, Nokia will have to grow its Windows Phone business 5,000 percent in 2012 just to offset its declines in Symbian shipments," says Michael Morgan, an ABI analyst. The report said major markets like North America and Western Europe are nearing or passing the mark of 50 percent penetration for smartphones, meaning much of the growth will come from emerging markets like China, "which continues to show strong shipment growth of over 80," ABI said. A report last month by Gartner said 419.1 million mobile phones were bought worldwide during the quarter in a two percent decline from the same period a year earlier. It was the first quarterly decline since early in 2009.

Samsung and Apple have captured more than half the global market for smartphones and over 90 percent of its profits, a research firm said Friday. ABI Research said global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent year-over-year to 144.6 million in the first quarter of 2012. Samsung and Apple accounted for 55…

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3-D printing could make guitars un-smashable

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Guitarists of the Pete Townshend school wouldn’t be impressed, but their managers would be. The Who’s pioneering instrument-smasher could find he’s met his match with one of the bespoke nylon-bodied guitars made by Olaf Diegel, professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. “You could throw one against…

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A grieving father struggles to pay off his dead son’s student loans

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By Marian Wang, ProPublica A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt collectors came calling. “They would say, ‘We don’t care what happened with your son, you have to pay us,’” recalled Reynoso, a gardener from Palmdale, Calif. Reynoso’s…

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Britain unveils stimulus to parry eurozone threat

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Britain has stepped up its action against the eurozone crisis by agreeing to offer billions of pounds in cheap loans to British banks, in co-ordinated action that took markets by surprise. The government and Bank of England (BoE) announced the surprise plan late Thursday in London in a bid to…

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Three killed in Canada university shooting

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Three employees of an armored car company were shot dead and a fourth person was wounded early Friday at the University of Alberta in the western Canadian city of Edmonton, according to local media. An Edmonton police officer told AFP that “shots were fired” but declined to provide further details,…

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German ‘forest boy’ is Dutch: report

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A boy who turned to German officials nine months ago saying he had lived in the woods for years and didn’t know his identity is Dutch, the ANP news agency said, Friday quoting police sources. The teenager at the centre of a tale that last year captured the world’s imagination…

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Standing ovation for Suu Kyi at Swiss parliament

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A rapturous standing ovation greeted Aung San Suu Kyi at the Swiss parliament on the second day of her landmark European trip Friday, after she cancelled her engagements the night before due to exhaustion. The Myanmar democracy icon, who is on her first trip to Europe after years under house…

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Japan PM set to order nuclear restart this weekend

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Japan’s prime minister is set to defy fierce public sentiment this weekend and order nuclear reactors back online for the first time since Fukushima, as he seeks to head off a summer energy crunch. Yoshihiko Noda is expected to tell Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO) to re-fire two idled reactors at…

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Apple patent bid hints at changeable iPhone lens

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A US patent application hinted that Apple may be toying with the idea of letting picture-loving iPhone users change lenses for the smartphone cameras. Apple’s application for a “back panel for a portable electronic device with different camera lens options” included a diagram reminiscent of an opened iPhone with labeled…

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