| South Korea struggles to control foot-and-mouth epidemic Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:47 PM PST About 134,000 South military personnel are involved in efforts to contain the country's worst ever foot-and-mouth outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Thursday.  |
| Officials: Hollywood Foreign Press member dies in apparent suicide Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:46 PM PST A senior member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has died of an apparent suicide, authorities said Thursday.  |
| Stolen Edgar Degas painting to be returned to France Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:13 PM PST A 19th-century artwork by French artist Edgar Degas will be handed back to the French government Friday -- nearly four decades after it was stolen.  |
| New wave of competition for India telecoms Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:09 PM PST India set the stage for a new wave of competition in its booming telecom industry Thursday as it allowed its 750 million mobile users to change operators without losing their existing cellphone numbers.  |
| Tunisian government lifts ban on political groups Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:49 PM PST Tunisia's new government announced Thursday it will recognize political groups banned under the regime of ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and grant amnesty to all political prisoners.  |
| 'Tiger Mothers' leave lifelong scars Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:13 PM PST When CNN called me this week to see if I'd share my thoughts on the backlash surrounding Amy Chua's Wall Street Journal article "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior," I told them I would have much to say. You see, I was raised by two tigers.  |
| Suspect in Irish newlywed death to appear in court Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:08 PM PST A hotel security guard arrested over the death of an Irish newlywed who was strangled on her honeymoon will appear in court Friday, police in Mauritius said.  |
| Former British PM to give new Iraq evidence Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:05 PM PST Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will testify before the country's independent Iraq Inquiry on Friday, his second appearance before the panel.  |
| Why did Google's Eric Schmidt step down? Posted: 20 Jan 2011 08:16 PM PST Apple isn't the only high-profile tech company that announced a major change in its executive ranks this week.  |
| Sasha Baron Cohen to bring Saddam novel to big screen Posted: 20 Jan 2011 08:01 PM PST Borat meets Saddam Hussein?  |
| 23-story rocket launches U.S. spy satellite Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:59 PM PST The largest rocket ever launched from the West Coast went into space Thursday afternoon carrying a secret "national security" satellite, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California announced.  |
| Critic Roger Ebert to show his facial prosthesis Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:57 PM PST Longtime film critic Roger Ebert, who lost much of his jaw to thyroid cancer, will show off his new face -- thanks to a prosthesis -- when his PBS show debuts this weekend.  |
| Giffords will be flown to Houston hospital Friday Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:54 PM PST In less than two weeks, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a bullet through her brain, has seemingly whizzed by milestones.  |
| Police: California boy, 4, snatched from grandmother's arms Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:43 PM PST Police and the mother of a 4-year-old California boy clung to hope Thursday for the child's safety, days after a man allegedly snatched the pre-schooler from his grandmother's arms then took off.  |
| South Korea struggles to control foot-and-mouth epidemic Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:37 PM PST South Korea's worst ever foot-and-mouth epidemic could cost the country $1.4 billion, the agriculture ministry told CNN. More than two million animals have been killed so far.  |
| Voice found: Woman speaks with new larynx Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:29 PM PST For 11 years, Brenda Charett Jensen couldn't speak. She communicated through an electronic device that sounded like a robot. When the batteries ran out, her conversation was over.  |
| Negotiations under way for high-level talks between North, South Korea Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:26 PM PST South Korea has accepted a North Korean proposal for high-level military talks and will propose working-level talks to pave the way, South Korea's defense ministry said Thursday.  |
| U.S. tempering expectations for multinational talks with Iran Posted: 20 Jan 2011 06:55 PM PST The United States is tamping down expectations of making any real progress in the latest round of talks this week aimed at getting Iran to stop its nuclear program.  |
| DA: 2 additional teens won't be charged in LA high school shooting Posted: 20 Jan 2011 06:46 PM PST Two Los Angeles teens arrested after a shooting that wounded and hospitalized two of their fellow Gardena High School students, including one in critical condition with a head wound, will not be charged with a crime, police said Thursday.  |
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