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  • North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace

    BEIJING - A senior North Korean envoy delivered a letter from his leader Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that Pyongyang was ready to take "positive action" to re-join stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. The letter was handed over by envoy, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. Choe told Xi that North Korea is willing to take positive actions to solve problems ...

  • UK defends security services over Woolwich murder UK defends security services over Woolwich murder

    LONDON - The British government has defended its spy agencies for failing to prevent murder of a soldier in London despite signs and revelations that the two suspects were well known to MI5. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said it was impossible to control everyone all the time. "Peers and MPs will do a thorough investigation in terms of what the security forces knew but I've seen ...

  • US bridge collapses sending vehicles into water US bridge collapses sending vehicles into water

    WASHINGTON - A handful of vehicles and some people plunged into a river after a more than half a century old bridge that links Seattle in the US with Canada collapsed, throwing the movement on the highway into disarray. Authorities said there were no deaths in the bridge collapse on the Skagit River in the US state of Washington. Three people were rescued and taken to hospitals, they ...

  • $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival

    CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place ...

  • World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty

    LONDON - Global rights body Amnesty International has said that the world is "increasingly" becoming "dangerous place" for refugees due to inaction on human rights. The London-based group in its annual report cited the increasing number of refugees around the world, and highlighted the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. It said that the number of ...

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse) [DVD]

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse) [DVD]

Fritz Lang was a great storyteller, both on film and about his personal life. Although the veracity of much of the lore he generated about himself is highly debatable if not outright fabrication, it makes for great contextual fodder. Take, of instance, his 1933 crime thri ... ...

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  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • 15 Pakistani kids die in cylinder blast

    At least 15 children were killed in a school van gas cylinder blast that took place Saturday in Pakistan's Punjab province, a media report said. The explosion took place in Gujrat, a district in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab, reported Xinhua citing Dunya. The incident took place at about 7.40 a.m. when the school van carrying an estimated 20 to 25 children aged between 8 and 12 was on ...

  • Indias growth strategy has lessons for developing nations

    India's strategy of eradicating poverty by "growing the pie rather than slicing it", and fuelling the country's growth with market-based policies holds lessons for other developing countries, suggest two leading Indian-American economists. In a new book, Jagdish Bhagwati senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University professor, demonstrate how ...

  • South Asians rely on informal money transfers Gallup

    Nearly six in ten adults in the South Asian region and Indonesia sent or received a payment or remittance in 2012 with a majority doing so informally, according to a new Gallup study. In terms of hard numbers 800 million South Asians and Indonesians transferred money with 512 million people sending or receiving cash in person or sending it informally in some other way, according to the study ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

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