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By , on June 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A couple died in an underground garage in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on Tuesday after the driver attempted to back the vehicle into a parking space and accidentally crushed her husband outside. The driver, who had received her driver’s licence only five weeks earlier, hit her husband as he stood next to the car giving directions. He was crushed to death against the wall in the parking garage in Fenghua, an hour’s drive south of Ningbo. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The one thing George Zimmer couldn’t guarantee was his job at Men’s Wearhouse. The apparel retailer’s founder and longtime pitchman was abruptly dismissed from his position as executive chairman, the retailer said in a curt statement Wednesday. By starring in the company’s television commercials since 1985, Zimmer endeared himself to generations of shoppers. He marketed suits by intoning, in his distinctive gravelly voice: “You’re going to like the way you look. I guarantee it.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MARGALIT FOX, on June 19th, 2013 Mr. Hastings, an intrepid war zone reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a Polk Award in 2010 for his Rolling Stone magazine cover story, “The Runaway General.”
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years, according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum was arrested by Quebec’s anti-corruption task force on Monday over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s image as a squeaky-clean nation. Applebaum quit on Tuesday, saying he plans to focus on defending himself against the “unfounded” accusations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, whose unflinching reporting ended the career of top US Army general Stanley McChrystal, died in a car accident in Los Angeles, his family said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In November 2008, Abid Naseer, a Pakistani student living in Manchester, England, began to e-mail a Yahoo account ultimately traced to his home country. The young man’s e-mails appeared to be about four women – Nadia, Huma, Gulnaz and Fozia – and which one would make a “faithful and loving wife”. Investigating terrorism is not an exact science. It’s like a mosaic SEAN JOYCE, FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR British investigators later determined that the four names were code for types of explosives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jean-Claude Van Damme – the Hollywood action star who has made Hong Kong his home – is on a hunt for talent and is hoping to bring worldwide stardom to young Chinese talents with his latest film project. “We want to help young talents who are ready to explode in China, Chinese national treasures in a sense,” said the actor known as “the Muscles from Brussels” in an interview with the South China Morning Post. “We want to go find people who want to play in this film.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Short-term help for tenants of subdivided flats is on the agenda of the new chief of urban renewal as he acknowledged the “big social problem” the housing phenomenon posed. Options being explored included providing interim housing to people who were ineligible for public flats, said a source close to the Urban Renewal Authority. New URA chairman Victor So Hing-woh, meeting the media yesterday for the first time, also dismissed public worries that his close ties with developers might result in a conflict of interests. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The MTR next year will stop charging Octopus card users the extra 10 cents per trip to pay for platform screen doors. Transport minister Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung said yesterday the levy had raised more than HK$1 billion over the past 14 years – almost half of the HK$2.3 billion it cost to fit the safety doors at stations built before 1998. The MTR Corporation decided in 2000 that passengers on the Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong and Island lines should share half of the cost. The doors were included in lines built after 1998. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on June 19th, 2013 Mr. Hastings, the journalist whose reporting led to the ouster of the commander of American forces in Afghanistan in 2010, was killed in a car crash, the news Web site BuzzFeed said.
Continue reading Michael Hastings, Polk Winner, Dies in Crash at 33
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Open University students are protesting against the selection of a pro-Beijing scholar as the university’s president, the second protest in a week by students angered over a lack of say in the choice of their institution’s head. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash on Tuesday, his employer announced. Hastings, whose profile of McChrystal quoted the four-star general as criticising President Barack Obama and his senior advisers, died in Los Angeles. He was 33, according to his current employer, BuzzFeed. “We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone,” said Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of the news website which the late reporter joined in February last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s National Television has brought another case of “food forgery” to the spotlight in a country where fake eggs, beef and tofu have become staple items in national news coverage. Police in Chongqing’s Hechuan district have discovered a production site for fake honey and confiscated about 500 kilograms of the fake nectar, the national broadcaster said in a report on Sunday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret programs and did little probing of claims that the collection of people’s phone records and Internet usage has disrupted dozens of terrorist plots. Few details were volunteered. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a lonely corner of the Pacific, 1,740 kilometres south of Tokyo, a tiny but potentially crucial piece of Japanese territory is now rising from the waves. Photographs emerged this week showing that construction of a 160-metre dock on the atoll of Okinotorishima is well under way. The costly piece of infrastructure, which will dwarf the uninhabited land mass that it is designed to serve, is likely intended to help Japan argue for the extension of its exclusive economic zone a further 200 nautical miles into the Pacific. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst into applause. They do that for nearly every safe landing at the often terrifying airport at the gateway to Mount Everest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 After Monday’s Miss Universe competition, watch good, bad, and ugly moments from beauty contests.
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Belt-tightening in Japan’s diplomatic service is cutting the quality of canapes on offer abroad, leading to fears Tokyo is losing the battle of the buffets to Beijing. Diplomats in Tokyo say China appears to be ramping up its spending on its missions, while Japanese diplomats are being forced to scrimp. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Air pollution from 196 coal-fired power stations in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei caused 9,900 premature deaths in 2011, with the province, a big coal consumer, deserving most of the blame, according to a new study. The study looked at the health impact of burning the fossil fuel to generate electricity. The research was co-authored by Greenpeace and American air pollution experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: US, Cuba to resume talks on direct mail service despite deadlock over detainees. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Woman crushes husband and kills herself in freak parking accident in Zhejiang
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A couple died in an underground garage in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on Tuesday after the driver attempted to back the vehicle into a parking space and accidentally crushed her husband outside. The driver, who had received her driver’s licence only five weeks earlier, hit her husband as he stood next to the car giving directions. He was crushed to death against the wall in the parking garage in Fenghua, an hour’s drive south of Ningbo. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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