News Headlines (247) 18 May 2013

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► SCIENCE DAILY 29 March 2013 : Children With Sleep Apnea Have Higher Risk of Behavioral, Adaptive and Learning Problems

► NYDAILY NEWS 16 May 2013 : Bea Arthur topless portrait sells for nearly $2 million, causes Facebook stir || ► YAHOO OMG! 16 May 2013 : Painting of a Topless Bea Arthur Fetches $1.9 Million at Auction 

► WAPO 16 May 2013 : Danish teenager makes rare Viking-era find with metal detector || ► NY DAILY NEWS : Striking (Viking) gold: Danish teen finds rare Norse coins using only a metal detector 

► YAHOO NEWS 16 May 2013 : Danish teenager makes rare Viking find

► BILLBOARD 16 May 2013 : Jennifer Lopez Appointed Chief Creative Officer of NUVOtv

► DAVID BECHAM

■ FORBES 16 May 2013: David Beckham Announces Retirement 
■ GUARDIAN 16 May 2013   : David Beckham to retire from football after turning down new PSG deal. 'I feel now is the right time to finish my career,' says 38-year-old. Former England captain now expected to return to London. In video: a career in goals.  In pictures: from Manchester United to Paris
■ GAZETTE 16 May 2013 : Beckham's haircuts as famous as his kicks
■ GUARDIAN 16 May 2013 David Beckham retires: 'He was a leader, people followed him'. David Bernstein leads tributes to former England captain. Gary Neville says he transformed football during his career

► "Oh, you think human life is only a bank account? Death is something we really understand extremely well. Hey, I hope you don't get cancer, because if you do get cancer, we just don’t have enough money per person, we're just not gonna buy chemotherapy drugs. We're just not going to get engaged in that." - BILL GATES

■ BLOOMBERG 17 May 2013 : Bill Gates Retakes World’s Richest Title From Carlos Slim ::
■ FORBES 17 May 2013  : Bill Gates Has Xbox 720 To Thank For New Wealth Growth Spurt
■ WAPO 13  may 2013:  Innovations in 5: Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' and Bill Gates on his final visit with Steve Jobs
■ WAPO 17 May 2013 : Bill Gates: 'Death is something we really understand extremely well'
■ ABC 17 May 2013 : Bill Gates Regains Title of World’s Richest Person
■ Economictimes.Indiatimes 18 May 2013 : Bill Gates reclaims world's richest title

► TODAY in HISTORY

■ May 18, 1860 : Lincoln nominated for presidency
■ May 18th, 1958 : F-104A set a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph
■ May 18, 1974:  India joins the nuclear club

► V I C E

■ This Is What Winning Looks Like. "This Is What Winning Looks Like" is a disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal. In part one, we see just how chaotic and hopeless the situation is in Sangin, one of the most violent towns in Afghanistan.

* Trailer
* Part 1/3
* Part 2/3
* Part 3/3

■ Shane Smith Strips Down for 2,000,000 Subscribers! VICE founder Shane Smith promised to give a naked tour of the VICE headquarters when we hit 2,000,000 subscribers on YouTube and he wasn't joking. Welcome to VICE, naked Shane style.

► One More Beer!

► Commuter trains collide in Connecticut, injuring up to 60 people
► France's Hollande signs gay marriage bill into law
► North Korea fires three short-range missiles

► OPINION

■ Austerity is a moral issue - by Nicholas Wapshott
■ Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration - by Nicholas Wapshott
■ Chris Christie, the Republican Bill Clinton - by Reihan Salam

► Nusra Front eclipsed by Iraq-based al Qaeda
By Mariam Karouny - BEIRUT - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader.

* U.S. chides Russia over missiles as peace plans suffer

► Young Greeks get mum's cooking straight to the door

► A I D S

► The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

► Film music legend Legrand slams young composers. Film score composer and triple Oscar winner Michel Legrand, 81, has little time for the new generation of movie music makers, he tells AFP in an interview during the Cannes film festival.

► Beatles, Jackson memorabilia on auction in New York

► French actress in Iranian movie speaks of her role. Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi drew enthusiastic applause Friday for one of the most-keenly awaited films at Cannes, with a Paris-set tale about shifting relationships. || ► Cast of Farhadi's "The Past" walks red carpet  ||  ► Eva Longoria on Cannes red carpet. Eva Longoria, Doutzen Kroes and French designer Christian Louboutin walk the red carpet for Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi's "The Past" at the Cannes Film Festival.

► Gazans get KFC via tunnels from Egypt. Junk-food starved Gazans can now order Kentucky Fried Chicken to go thanks to a new smuggling service which brings takeout from Egypt via a network of underground tunnels.

Gosh. Sorry if my first reaction is guffaw. Actually, I feel sorry for the condition. But I do not know why I'm laughing. I do not suppose that nationalism is not Kentucky Fried Chicken menu.

"Do you like kentucky fried chicken?"
"Yes."
"Really?"
"Why not?"
"Kentucky Fried Chicken is a product of America, it can also mean our product. America is our friend"
"Oh. Oh? Well, no problem. If we like Kentucky fried chicken, that does not mean we like the Americans, because we know that fried chicken is not the American people."
"What? Hahahaa ....."
"Ehehhee ..."
"I am an Israeli."
"I am Palestinian people."
"There is a similarity between us."
"Yes."
"We both love Kentucky Fried Chicken."
"Ahahaha ... yep!"
"Can we always eat Kentucky fried chicken every day?"
"What?"
Eehehe ... Find peace with Kentucky Fried Chicken!

► 'Door is always open' for Beckham at PSG

► Berlusconi alleged call-girl testifies. The woman alleged to have had sex for money with Silvio Berlusconi when she was just 17 and he was the prime minister, testified in court for the first time on Friday at a trial of three people accused of pimping for the billionaire tycoon.

► Chopard jewellery stolen at Cannes film festival. Luxury jewellery house Chopard says that jewellery stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist on Friday was not destined for stars at the Cannes film festival, and its value below figures quoted. Earlier reports said the value of the heist was more than $1 million.  :

► Only small elite can break rules in Saudi: princess. Saudi Princess Basma says only a small elite of women in the Gulf have the freedom to break the rules like she does. But, she notes, there are serious efforts of reform under way in her country.

Yeah? Are you sure, Arabian Princess? Haiya, do not be too confident. The problem is the U.S. likes you, Saudi Arabia! eehehehe .... How can it be? Why doed the U.S. like you? Because ye also like America, of course. Ahahaa. So if you both like each other then you will keep each other in all respects, especially in the international stability.

► Obama wants focus on growth amid political turmoil. As his administration battles recent scandals, US President Barack Obama visited a Baltimore factory Friday as part of a trip to highlight economic recovery. 

► Pakistan mosque bombs kill 13: officials. Twin bomb attacks on Friday killed at least 13 people outside mosques in northwest Pakistan, where the party of cricket star Imran Khan is forming a coalition government, officials said. 

► Rehearsals for 2013 Eurovision final start in Sweden. A song inspired by the Greek debt crisis, a gay marriage anthem and a male opera singer on Thursday made it through to this weekend's Eurovision Song Contest final.

► Raw: Bear Falls From Tampa Tree. A Tampa man got more than he bargained for when he opened his door to let the dog out. A black bear was in his backyard.


► Raw: Obama Sits Down With Elementary Kids. President Barack Obama left behind scandal-focused Washington on Friday to focus on the country's slowly improving jobs picture. Obama stopped at an elementary school that provides early childhood education. (May 17)


► Fmr. IRS Head Insists No Politics in Targeting. Appearing next to the inspector general whose report blamed ineffective IRS management for allowing conservative groups to be targeted, Steven Miller, just ousted as head of the agency, apologized but insisted politics wasn't a factor. (May 17)

► GRIND TV : Shawn Dollar is new world-record holder for ride on 61-foot wave at Cortes Bank. Guinness says wave is largest ever surfed via traditional paddle method
► SPORTS : MLB's cutest fans
► FINANCE : New Jersey Hospital Is the Costliest in the Nation
► FINANCE : How to Spot a Liar Z
► HOMES : Bijan home, a lab for 'most expensive store in the world', sells for $9.8 million
► OMG! : How Talia's Not Letting Cancer Halt Her Fashion Dreams
► Obama agenda seems to be weathering controversies
► Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight
► Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon, Sparks Giant Explosion

► PHOTOS

■ Soldiers Portraits Before and Afte War
■ Abandoned Stars Wars Sets in the Desert
■ Welcome to Barbie's Dreamhouse
■ Moma's Rain Room

► Argentine 'Dirty War' leader dies
Argentina's former military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has died aged 87 while serving a sentence for crimes against humanity, including torture.

* Death evokes painful memories
* In pictures: Jorge Rafael Videla
* How stolen babies were found
* Painful search for disappeared
* Argentina's stolen babies -VIDEO
* 'How I uncovered plot' 

► Cannes film festival suffers $1m jewellery theft

► MAGAZINE

■ Breast cancer -  How high is the risk for the average woman?
■ Coded language - 'Toothpaste' illness... and 20 other euphemisms loved by readers

► 10 things we didn't know last week

► VIDEOS

■ Is Japan's tea industry blossoming two years on from Fukushima?
■ I, Robot Maker: Making robots to interact with humans. Would you be comfortable being surrounded by robots? A British manufacturing firm is trying to make robots that share more human characteristics, to make interaction with them more natural and intuitive than ever before.
Cornwall's Engineered Arts is in the vanguard of this area of research, which aims to make robots' facial expressions, body language and way of moving more recognisable to real people. Founder Will Jackson gave a tour of his robot factory to the BBC, and explained how he and his team of a dozen people are looking to expand the frontiers of robot technology. Video journalist: Dougal Shaw

► CULTURE : Ari Folman returns to Cannes with The Congress

► TRAVEL

■ Ten North American gardens worth travelling for

■ A night at Paris' museums

► AUTOS : A brief visual history of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class

► 'EU at the moment is a giant blame game'
► Vermont could be first US state to mandate GMO food labeling
► 5.9 earthquake strikes Japan off Fukushima coast
► FSB: CIA crossed 'red line' with agent Fogle
► France to buy American drones for Mali operation
► Only one-in-four Americans fit to serve in the military
► US weakens fracking rules
► Obama's media shield law makes prosecuting journalists even easier
► Fly me to the Kremlin: Putin to commute to work by chopper

► VIDEOS

■ Jim Rogers: EU goes down the tube as politicians spend cash they don't have. Switzerland's cherished banking secrecy is under threat. In the ongoing battle against tax evasion, EU finance ministers have agreed to put pressure on the non-member nation to share its banking data with the Union. Investor Jim Rogers told RT that instead of trying to crack tax havens, EU leaders should address the real problems - like their own unchecked spending habits.



■ 'US clamps down on Bitcoin, fears lack of control' . US authorities have frozen the account of the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, which helps move the customers' cash online. The booming digital currency has hit bureaucratic blocks ever since its rapid growth came to the attention of government. 

■ CrossTalk: Benghazi Cover-up 
■ CIA crossed 'red line' with agent Fogle - FSB 
■ Anti-gays clash with cops, disrupt rights parade in Georgia
■ Inquest over KGB agent Litvinenko's death not to consider Russia
■ Too Far-Right: Neo-Nazism nourished by crisis in Europe
■ France v UK? Hollande vows to 'go on offensive' as London 'splinters' EU

► Inside Story Americas - Should our genetic material be patented? The actress Angelina Jolie shocked many this week when she announced that she had undergone a double mastectomy. In an editorial in The New York Times, she explained that the operation had drastically reduced her chances of breast cancer.   

► Inside Story - Back to the future: Cloning human stem cells. A major step forward in science can now produce human stem cells by cloning. Some say it advances the search for medical treatments, others call for new laws to prevent cloning for ethical reasons. 

► Listening Post - US: Silencing news sources? On May 10th, the Associated Press news agency received an email from the US Department of Justice saying that records of more than 20 phone lines assigned to its reporters had been secretly seized as part of an investigation into a government leak. The government claimed it was a matter of national security, while the AP called it an unprecedented intrusion into its newsgathering operations. But should the journalistic community be so surprised? With the Obama White House's track record on whistleblowers and WikiLeaks, the move to spy on AP seems consistent with an administration more committed to secrecy than ever before. Is the United States still the land of the free for journalists and their sources? In this week's News Divide we speak to Laura Malone, legal counsel for the Associated Press; Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars; The World is a Battlefield; the investigative reporter Dana Priest of the Washington Post; and Ben Wizner from the American Civil Liberties Union. 

► South2North - Africa's women of power. Across the world, women make up about half the population yet they never come close to holding 50 percent of the positions of power in any government. In the US, only six out of 50 states have a female governor. In Africa, there are only two female presidents, out of 54 African Union member states. But are there more opportunities for women in the political arena in Africa today? Can female leaders make a real difference? And what are the struggles they face as women in leadership roles? This week, South2North talks to two game-changing female political leaders: President Joyce Banda of Malawi and South African Dr Mamphela Ramphele.


► Talk to Al Jazeera - Abdul Qadeer Khan: 'My name is clear'. On 9 October 2006, with 20 minutes warning, North Korea notified China that it was about to detonate its first nuclear device.

China's leadership sent an emergency alert to the White House, where President George W Bush got word that a North Korean test was imminent. It was a glaring defeat of efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons technology. "We must act on every lead. We will find the middlemen, the suppliers and the buyers. Our message to proliferators must be consistent and it must be clear: we will find you, and we're not going to rest until you are stopped," Bush declared. But the spread of technology had not been stopped, and it was not just North Korea - Iran, and Libya had also mastered the ability to enrich uranium, a critical step for any country that might want to manufacture nuclear weapons.

So, how did that happen? In 2004, the US announced that intelligence services had established the existence of a vast underground network of suppliers of nuclear technology and skills. It was, they alleged, led by Abdul Qadeer Khan, also known as the 'father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb'. Overnight, AQ Khan became one of the most wanted men in the world. This week, Talk to Al Jazeera sits down with AQ Khan, the former head of Pakistan's nuclear programme. to discuss allegations that he gave nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya. We also talk about his political ambitions, and his visions for the future of Pakistan.

► Inside Story Americas - The US disconnect over climate change. We try to understand why the US public is so divided over global warming causes and issues? Inside Story Americas, Shihab Rattansi discusses with guests: Michael Mann, the director of Penn State University's Earth System Science Center and author of 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars'; Dana Nuccitelli, an environmental scientist who writes for the Skeptical Science blog. He was involved in the survey of scientific literature on climate science that was published this week. And Rick Piltz, the director and founder of Climate Science Watch.

► The Latest China-India Conflict Centers in the Indian Ocean
By Ishaan Tharoor

* The Real Reason to Worry About China

► Top Russian Diplomat Explains Reasons for Syrian Arms Sales

► Cartoons of the Week: May 11–17

► PHOTOGRAPHY

■ Your World In Focus: The Best Pictures of the Week. From tornadoes in Texas and the demolition of Hurricane Sandy's iconic rollercoaster to President Obama's rain check and a dancing lion, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
■ Barbara Walters: Career in Pictures
■ Fatal Frontier: The Perils of Crossing the Rio Grande

► Garcetti's lead over Greuel narrows to 7 percentage points
By Michael Finnegan
The survey also shows 11% of likely voters still undecided, meaning the dynamics of the mayoral race could shift before Tuesday's runoff.

* Labor group won't back away from '$15 an hour' mailer

► California jobless rate falls to 9%

* Jobless and need help? Don't call after lunch
* Obama tries to steer attention back to jobs
* Eurozone economy shrinks for a 6th straight quarter

► U.S. decries Russia weapons sale to Syria
► Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado
► MOVIES : Asghar Farhadi goes for maximum emotional impact in his films
► Critics' Picks: May 17-23, 2013

► TV

■ Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter
■ Is your TV a smart TV? How to connect to the Internet
■ All hail our smart TV masters, but not just yet

► Obama budget would cut deficits, report says
► Keystone XL looms as Obama wants to cut delays on big projects
► HUD to shut down offices as a result of sequester
► Questions on targeting are 'loaded,' IRS official says
  ► FRAMEWORK : The Week in Pictures | May 13 – 19, 2013 - Posted By: Marc Martin  


Playa del Rey — Thousands of kids, teachers and volunteers send a message to "Listen" to the ocean and protect it from trash and plastic litter at the 20th annual Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Clean Up and artwork held at Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey. By : Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times



Erlangen, Germany — Visitors wait to receive the first beer during the opening ceremony called Anstich of the traditional beer festival in Erlangen, Germany. PHOTOGRAPH BY: DANIEL KARMANN / AFP / Getty Images

Eeehh, ... October in May? Why not? For the Germans, the Beer is water.

3 PICTURES TODAY




A boy watches jellyfish swim in a large tank at the Vancouver Aquarium on May 16, 2013. The tank contains around 2,000 spotted jellyfish and is part of a major display of 15 various species from around the world. (REUTERS/Andy Clark)



A two-month-old Snow Fox cub lies inside a cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo on the surburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on May 15, 2013. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)



People pet Greenpeace activists dressed in a polar bear costume during a demonstration on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 15, 2013. (ANDRE FORGET/QMI Agency)

A NO-MAN's SONG



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