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Jon Bon Jovi's charity restaurant opens in US

World NewsOct 20, 2011

RED BANK, New Jersey (AP) _ In three decades as one of the world's biggest rock stars, Jon Bon Jovi has eaten in some of the world's best restaurants, savoring the best food the planet has to offer. Yet there's no place he'd rather have dinner than The Soul Kitchen, a ``pay-what-you-can'' restaurant he and his wife Dorothea established in a former auto body shop in central New Jersey. The resta...
4th arrest made in Philadelphia basement case

World NewsOct 20, 2011

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fourth person was arrested Wednesday in a scheme in which authorities said mentally disabled adults were locked up in a fetid basement while their captors cashed their Social Security checks. The latest suspect was the daughter of the alleged ringleader, officials said. The arrest of Jean McIntosh, 32, came the day after Philadelphia police, acting on a tip from Florida, to...
Archaeologists find Viking burial site in Scotland

CultureOct 20, 2011

LONDON (AP) -- Archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered the remains of a Viking chief buried with his boat, ax, sword and spear on a remote Scottish peninsula _ one of the most significant Norse finds ever uncovered in Britain. The 16-foot-long (5-meter-long) grave is the first intact site of its kind to have been discovered on mainland Britain and is believed to be more than 1,000 years...
Armed police kill exotic animals let loose in US

PodcastOct 20, 2011

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) _ Police with orders to shoot to kill left 48 tigers, lions, and other wild animals dead Wednesday after their owner freed dozens of exotic beasts from his game preserve and then killed himself. Authorities don't know why he did it. Officers with assault rifles stalked the animals overnight through the wooded rural area and were still searching for one last wolf and monkey ...
S. Korean climber Park Young-seok feared missing in Himalayas

More sportsOct 20, 2011

The Korean Alpine Federation announced Thursday it was searching for three missing Korean climbers last seen heading for a summit in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal. Korean veteran mountaineer Park Young-seok, Gang Gi-seok and Shin Dong-min were on the south face of Annapurna, aiming to push for the 8,091-meter summit on Friday. Park and his team left their base camp on Oct. 17, aiming for...
Up to 200,000 political prisoners in N. Korea: UN

North KoreaOct 20, 2011

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19, 2011 (AFP) - Up to 200,000 political prisoners are languishing in North Korean prison camps, a sharp increase from 10 years ago, a United Nations envoy said Wednesday. Compared to 2001, the latest satellite pictures of the country indicate a "significant increase in the scale of the camps," said Marzuki Darusman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights ...
Lohan in custody after judge finds probation issue

FilmOct 20, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan sported a new accessory Wednesday after a judge revoked her probation: Handcuffs. The actress was taken into custody and escorted from a hearing after Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked her probation because she was ousted from a community service assignment at a women's shelter. "There has been violation after violation," Sautner said. Bail was set...
Reports: French first lady gives birth to girl

PodcastOct 20, 2011

PARIS (AP) — French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday night — the first infant born to a sitting president of modern-day France, the French media reported. President Nicolas Sarkozy, finishing up a meeting in Frankfurt on the euro debt crisis, was absent when the couple's first child was born shortly before 8 p.m. (1800 GMT), according to BFM TV. He reportedly...
Greece: Riots as austerity steps get 1st approval

World BusinessOct 20, 2011

ATHENS, Greece (AP) _ Hundreds of youths have smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures that won initial parliamentary approval in a vote. Wednesday's rioting came on the first day of a 48-hour nationwide general strike that brought services in much of Greece to a standstill, grounding fl...
FTC intensifies probe into department stores, vendors for unfair biz terms

IndustryOct 20, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's antitrust watchdog will launch a stepped-up investigation into the business terms of local department stores and vendors as part of efforts to establish a fair trade environment in the retail sector, its head said Thursday. The toughened stance comes after the Fair Trade Commission recently announced the results of its fact-finding probe into business ter...
Court rejects arrest warrant for ex-vice culture minister

PoliticsOct 20, 2011

A Seoul court on Thursday turned down a request by state prosecutors to arrest Shin Jae-min, former vice minister of culture, who is accused of having received bribes from a local businessman. Prosecutors sought an arrest warrant for Shin, a close confidant to President Lee Myung-bak, earlier this week in their widening investigation on the high-profile bribery case. Shin is suspected of taking...
U.S. announces replacement of envoy on N. Korea ahead of Geneva talks

World NewsOct 20, 2011

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- The United States announced Wednesday that Stephen Bosworth will quit his part-time job as Washington's top envoy on Pyongyang as the two sides plan to hold another round of high-level talks next week in Geneva. After two and a half years of service, Bosworth will be replaced by Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, who will w...
N. Korean leader renews call for resumption of nuclear talks without preconditions

North KoreaOct 20, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pressed for the quick resumption of long-stalled talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs without preconditions, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday. Kim also repeated the North's longstanding stance that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is a dying wish of his late father, the country's founder Kim Il-sung....
Hana Financial denies report of cutting KEB takeover price

Oct 19, 2011

( Yonhap News) -- Hana Financial Group on Wednesday denied a local report that it has asked Lone Star Funds to cut the sales price for Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), which South Korea's No. 4 banking group is trying to take over. In July, Hana agreed with the U.S. buyout fund to purchase a 51.02 percent stake in KEB by November for 4.41 trillion won ($3.89 billion), lower than the 4.69 trillion won...
N. Korean leader renews call for resumption of nuclear talks without preconditions

North KoreaOct 19, 2011

(Yonhap News) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pressed for the quick resumption of long-stalled talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs without preconditions, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday. Kim also repeated the North's longstanding stance that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is a dying wish of his late father, the country's founder Kim Il-sung. The Nort...