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South Korea group makes bid for LA Dodgers
A major South Korean retail group said Tuesday it has joined the bidding for the Los Angeles Dodgers after the troubled US baseball team went bankrupt last June. E-Land recently submitted a bid document for the Major League club after forming a consortium with an unspecified party, an E-Land spokesman…
Calories count, but not where they come from: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sticking to diets with strict proportions of fat, carbs and protein may not be more effective for people who want to lose weight and fat mass than simply cutting back on calories, according to a new comparison of four diets. The results suggest that it…
Newsreader who ‘buried Putin’ is Internet star
A newsreader who slipped up and said bloggers were debating whether Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should be buried has become an Internet sensation and received thousands of grateful posts in Russia. Maria Bukhtuyeva, a newsreader from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, made the mistake when wanting to say presidential hopeful…
Twitter CEO says new policy is for transparency: report
(Reuters) – Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo said the company’s recently announced online content policy was meant to be a transparent way to handle government requests for the removal of certain content and did not mean it is actively monitoring Tweets, the Wall Street Journal reported. Twitter had said last week it would begin restricting Tweets in specific…
Romney striding toward nomination amid pitfalls
With a victory in Florida’s key primary within striking distance, Mitt Romney can look ahead to a favorable series of contests, but with rival Newt Gingrich wounded and angry, the path is replete with pitfalls. A commanding lead in Florida’s polls could mean Romney exiting the Sunshine State with the aura of the presumptive…
Baboons wreak havoc at Zimbabwe border post
Troops of bag-snatching, truck-looting baboons are causing chaos at a border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia in daily raids for food,NewsDay reported on Tuesday. “Baboons are an issue that must be dealt with here because they destroy travellers’ goods,” the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority station manager at the Chirundu border post, Tichaona Phiri, told the newspaper. “Sometimes they bite or clap…
Obama downplays U.S. drone use in Iraq
President Barack Obama downplayed a recent report about the use of US drones in Iraq, indicating that the unmanned aircraft are mainly used for embassy surveillance. Obama said during an online event on Monday that a New York Times story citing Iraqi officials as expressing outrage over the use of US drones…
Eurozone unemployment hits record 10.4 percent
Eurozone unemployment hit a record 10.4 percent in November and December, provisional official figures showed on Tuesday. The Eurostat data agency had previously estimated anunemployment rate of 10.3 percent in November but it was revised to 10.4 percent in its latest report. The jobless rate has now remained at 10 percent or above…
U.S. using ‘latest tools’ for cybersecurity: Napolitano
WASHINGTON — US officials are deploying “the latest tools” to keep cyberspace safe for commerce and protect the US information infrastructure, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. Napolitano, speaking at the National Press Club, emphasized that homeland security and US economic security “go hand in hand.” “Cyberspace is an increasingly…
China steps up surveillance of Tibetan monasteries
BEIJING — A top official in Tibet’s capital has asked authorities to dispatch police to monasteries and step up security on main roads after violent clashes in Tibetan-inhabited areas left at least two dead. Qi Zhala, Lhasa’s Communist Party chief, also ordered a crackdown on “separatist” activities he linked to…
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