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| Seoul shares seen lower on US woes; focus on Samsung Q3 earnings | | | SEOUL, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Seoul shares are expected to weaken on Friday on concerns that an extended U.S. government shutdown could harm the world's largest economy. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is likely to be an early focus after the tech giant estimated that third-quarter operating profit rose 25 percent to a record 10.1 trillion won ($9.40 billion) as a strong recovery in memory chip sales countered weakening earnings growth at its mobile devices business. U.S. stocks dropped on Thurs |
| Turkey 'highly likely' to sign Chinese missile deal | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is likely to sign a $3.4 billion missile defense deal with a Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions, a senior official said on Thursday, a proposal that is already straining relations with Washington. |
| From football to golf for 'Sheva' | | | Andriy Shevchenko was one of the finest football players of his generation. He retired last year but is now making his debut on the professional golf circuit. |
| Rigby suspects plead not guilty | | | Two men accused of murdering British soldier Lee Rigby in the south London neighborhood of Woolwich in May pleaded not guilty Friday at the Old Bailey criminal court in London. |
| Cuba to allow athletes abroad | | | Ever since the Cuban Revolution more than 50 years ago, athletes on the communist island have been able to garner gold medals and glory, but not big paychecks. |
| French military prepares 2014 cuts, far-right seeks to benefit | | | PARIS (Reuters) - France's military will cut almost 8,000 jobs next year, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday, detailing government belt-tightening plans that the far-right hopes will deliver it votes at municipal elections in 2014. |
| AEG not liable for MJ death | | | A Los Angeles jury decided Wednesday that AEG Live hired Dr. Conrad Murray, but also concluded that the concert promoter was not liable for Michael Jackson's drug overdose death. |
| First floating turbine seeks winds of change in U.S. | | | Sept. 29 - North America's first floating wind turbine, launched in May, is being hailed as a prototype for a future US offshore energy industry. While the small "pilot phase" unit, sitting off the Maine coast, produces only enough electricity to power four homes, it represents the first stage of a far more ambitious project. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Driverless Mercedes debuts in Frankfurt | | | Sept. 11 - Daimler has unveiled its much anticipated self-driving Mercedes Benz at the Frankfurt International car show. The luxury auto-maker is making incremental improvements to its autonomous technology and plans to have a fully-autonomous vehicle available to consumers by 2020. Rob Muir reports. |
| Hong Kong's new poverty line | | | Hong Kong, with its glittering skyscrapers and luxury malls, is home to some of the world's richest people but new government figures show that a fifth of its population lives in poverty. |
| Sonar jamming moths hinder hungry bats | | | Sept. 25 - A tiger moth native to the deserts of Arizona has developed a highly evolved sonar jamming system it uses to fend of attacks by hungry bats. The discovery, described in a paper published in the journal PLOS One, could have applications in the design of acoustic deterrents to protect bats from dangerous wind turbines. Rob Muir reports. |
| In Myanmar, Revival of Attacks on Muslims | | | The deaths and the burning of houses in the city of Thandwe occurred just hours before President U Thein Sein arrived as part of a scheduled visit to cool religious tensions. |
| Bloomberg on climate change | | | For the first time in human history, more than half the world's population is living in cities, which now produce approximately 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That puts cities on the frontlines of the battle against climate change -- and more and more cities are leading the charge. |
| Well Think Like a Doctor A Green Heart | | | Can you figure out why an increasingly sick 76-year-old man has a heart that is turning green? The case stumped a couple of internists, a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, a pulmonologist and an orthopedic surgeon. Solve it with Dr. Lisa Sanders. |
| Tesla grapples with impact of battery fire in U.S. | | | DETROIT (Reuters) - Two days after a video of a burning Tesla electric car went viral, the "green car" maker grappled with ways to contain the damage as investors shaved $2.4 billion off the company's market value. |
| TIMELINE-Twitter from side project to sociocultural sensation | | | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Twitter, the 140-character messaging service favored by everyone from the Pope to U.S. President Barack Obama, began as a side-project but rapidly morphed into one of the most powerful social and cultural media forces of our time. |
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