Saturday, March 30, 2013

News Headlines (196) 28 March 2013







North Korea to cut all channels with South    ||  ► Despite threats, North Korea keeps border factories open
Austerity threatens EU's edge in infrastructure
BERLIN - Europe's carefully maintained autobahns, high-speed TGV trains and vast network of modern airports have long been the envy of the world. But thanks to austerity budgets that are slashing infrastructure spending just as other parts of the world are ramping it up, that may not be true for much longer.
* Red-tape Belgium falls behind euro zone peers
Cyprus reopens banks under tight restrictions
By Karolina Tagaris and Michele Kambas - NICOSIA - Cypriot banks reopen on Thursday with tight controls imposed on transactions to prevent a run on deposits after the government was forced to accept a stringent EU rescue package to prevent the country from going bankrupt.
* EU will monitor need to extend Cyprus capital controls 
* Cyprus bourse to remain shut amid currency controls
* Factbox: Cyprus imposes capital controls 
* Cyprus to reopen banks, impose capital controls
VIDEOS
North Koreans voice support for Pyongyang's threats to target U.S.
China sinkhole swallows man
Pope holds first general audience
How well has ECB emerged from Cyprus crisis?

PICTURES
Life on the DMZ
Holy Week
Photo focus: Hands
The long war




US officials condemn North Korea threats
Night life revived in Mogadishu
French exhibition celebrates 'king of the sky' Boudin. A key forerunner of the Impressionist movement and a mentor to Monet, Eugene Boudin was one of the greatest landscape painters France has ever known, christened the "king of the sky" for his mastery of outdoor light. Now, a Paris museum has collected some of his best-known works for the city's first major Boudin exhibition.

Gay marriage fight goes to US Supreme Court ||  French anti-gay marriage leaders keep up pressure 
BRICS promote South-South trade to counter West
Cyprus' financial crisis   || Cypriot bank branches in Greece reopen
Ex-president Sarkozy awards Legion d'Honneur to Belgian
India celebrates Holi, festival of colours
Venezuela's Capriles sees 'epic crusade' for presidency
Alzheimer's disease 





US sends nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to SKorea  || North Korea's secret army of 'cyber warriors'

  FINANCE - How Gay Marriage Impacts the Economy

GAMES - EA unveils Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4: Official 17 Minutes "Fishing in Baku" Gameplay Reveal. Battlefield 4 will release Fall 2013. The "Fishing in Baku" video is shot entirely in-game and is the first glimpse of the human, dramatic, and believable single player campaign in Battlefield 4. Available for pre-order now. Published on Mar 26, 2013 by Battlefield



SHOPPING  - 15 beauty products to try before you die
Why is this title so sarcastic? Don't you know that there are women who till their death they do not have to use beauty products? They are still beautiful, and your product does not have to add your turnover. Eh eh, I disagree somewhat with your ad title. And I'll think twice about buying your product!
PHOTOS
Weston Sand Sculpture Festival
Lost-in-translation-funny-foreign-signs
Can You Smell Obesity?





Pope Francis to wash offenders' feet on Maundy Thursday ||  ► Mass points to Pope's new priorities

Nelson Mandela back in hospital
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been re-admitted to hospital with the recurrence of a lung infection, the government says.
* Mandela's life and times 
* The battle for Nelson Mandela's legacy 
Nelson Mandela's Life Story. A short documentary about Nelson Mandela and his legacy. Credit: Nelson Mandela Foundation. Uploaded on Jul 7, 2011 by unitednations  || Nelson Mandela's Life Story. Uploaded on Jul 13, 2011 by UN BELARUS



The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office
Hollowed out: US Army fights brain drain
Polar bears: An uncertain future

Snapshots of the American Civil War. This year marks 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg, perhaps the most important - and certainly the bloodiest - battle of the American Civil War. Coinciding with that anniversary the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is staging a landmark exhibition of what are being described as ''the finest and most poignant'' photographs from these cataclysmic four years in which an estimated 750,000 Americans lost their lives. The Met's chief curator of photography, Jeff Rosenheim, has also written a book - Photography and the American Civil War - to accompany the show. He's been speaking to Michael Maher. 

Giant egg from extinct elephant bird up for auction. A rare giant bird egg is being auctioned at Christie's auction house in London. It was laid by an Elephant Bird (Aepyornithidae) in Madagascar and is thought to have been discovered by archaeologists in the late 19th or early 20th century. The species became extinct sometime between the 13th and 17th centuries.  James Hyslop, scientific specialist at Christie's said, "the egg is the largest egg ever laid by any animal, they are bigger than dinosaur eggs."

Baby George King born at 15lbs 7oz. George King was born six weeks ago to his parents Jade and Ryan. Because no-one knew he would be so big his parents said it was a struggle to deliver him. George went without oxygen for five minutes. He was given a 10% chance of survival. He was transferred to St Michael's Hospital in Bristol but allowed home four-and-a-half weeks later.

Easy breaks from Paris
Aïe, ... souvenirs romantiques, c'était très agréable, mais je n'obtiens pas toujours ce que je veux à ce moment-là. Bébé. Je suis faible sans toi. Je suis vulnérable en raison de l'amour qui est passé de toi, qui puisse me flatter. Tant que mes yeux ouverts jusqu'à ce que mon coeur ne battait plus, puis pendant ce temps, je suis également capable de vous rappeler. De vous, j'ai trouvé ma vie. Pour moi, tu es mon véritable amour. Si ce qui a été dit pour moi est le meilleur pour vous, je ferai de toi que les plus beaux souvenirs de ma vie. Mais il n'est pas facile pour moi de laisser une trace de ma vie qui a été gravé dans la mémoire d'une belle intemporelle.
Amazon's 'invisible flying rivers'

Berlin's fresh cinematic force

AUTOS - Jeep Cherokee, travelling a well-worn trail    ||   ► Audi A3 sedan finally breaks cover in New York

Radically rethinking the bus system of the future 

Today's African Proverb : "Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble"  - An Igbo proverb from Nigeria sent Sunday Joshua, Dover, Delaware, United States




'Spamhaus mafia tactics – main threat to Internet freedom': CyberBunker explains largest cyber-attack 
Gitmo inmates claim being denied drinking water as White House breaks silence
'More dangerous than SARS': Scientists warn of deadly new coronavirus
Cyprus banks reopen: LIVE UPDATES 
Putin orders ban on adoptions by LGBT foreign couplesreport

VIDEOS
■ (RS) Berezovsky post-mortem rules hanging, no third party involved. A post-mortem examination reveals that the death of Russian, self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky was 'consistent with hanging'. His body was found in the bathroom of his UK home on Saturday. The examination found nothing to indicate a violent struggle, with British police saying there's no evidence to suggest any third-party involvement. 
CCTV: Chinese bus driver dodges death as pole smashes through windscreen
'Unique Cyprus model to spill further across Eurozone'
'We died when Obama indefinitely detained us' - Gitmo inmate
Bodyguard face-off video: Putin's, S. African security scuffle at BRICS summit
Cyprus Cycle: 'Cash will continue to fly from peripheries to EU core'
CrossTalk: Syria as Proxy
Smile & Wave! Fed pushes big bro drones despite public outcry in US
CCTV: Earthquake shakes office building in Taiwan
Jeff Monson: US a police state, George Orwell's 1984 happening before us
World Wide War: Biggest cyber-attack shakes web  || Digital Doom: Cyber-attacks as dangerous as WMDs?
'Hegemonic corporations scared as BRICS plan bank to rival IMF' 
■ (RS) Cash-free Despair: Cyprus reopens banks as eurocrats grip island's economy

(RS) : Rory Suchet




BRICS nations pledge to work together on global issues
Inside Story Americas - Cutting classes
Brazil attempts to cut down on food waste
Chinese navy exercises 'surprise' neighbours
Hindus celebrate Spring with festival of colours
Tearing down world history in Berlin
The Stream - Narrowing the wealth gap
The Stream - Rating Italy's Five Star Movement
N Korea severs military hotline with South

Inside Story - BRICS: Challenging the global economic order.  Is the vision that united Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa starting to crumble? To discuss this, Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, is joined by guests: Duncan Clarke, the CEO of Global Pacific and Partners, and the author of Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny; Aly-Khan Satchu, a former investment banker specialising in emerging market financing; and Michael Cox, a professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and author of Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West.






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