ged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled us with more debt, and left innocent, hardworking Americans holding the bag. In the six months before I took office, we lost nearly 4 million jobs. And we lost another 4 million before our policies were in full effect. Those are the facts. But so are these: In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs….
…ses, including a Chagas infection. The experts believe he contracted the disease during a five-year trip around the globe on the HMS Beagle in his 20s – and attributed it to his death of heart failure 47 years later. The father of modern life scientists wrote in his journal that he had been bitten by a “wingless black bug” during the expedition, where he visited South America. CHAGAS DISEAS…
…they come home. That’s why we do this. That’s what politics can be. That’s why elections matter. It’s not small, it’s big. It’s important. Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. We have our own opinions. Each of us has deeply held beliefs. And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it neces…
edited with being the first to document and name the newly-discovered land of America German researchers are going to make the map, printed in clear black ink on yellowing paper, available online from 4 July, Independence Day in the US. A much larger version is already kept in the Library of Congress in Washington DC. It was given to the United States as a gift by German Chancellor Angela Merkel i…
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Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is raising the alarm as at least 28% of schoolgirls in South Africa are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because “sugar daddies” are exploiting them. Aaron Motsoaledi said 94,000 schoolgirls also fell pregnant in 2011, and 77,000 had abortions at state facilities, The Sowetan newspaper reports. About 10% of South Africans are living with HIV, offi…
A satellite, weighing six tons and currently out-of-control, will strike Earth at 18,000 mph and could land almost anywhere this evening – NASA warned last night. The satellite has the size of a bus and will break up on entering Earth’s atmosphere, flinging huge chunks of metal weighing up to 350 lb (150 kg) across hundreds of miles. The six-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will crash to…
…ority and the South Korean government will take necessary measures based on this principle,” he said. The entry ban is not unprecedented – South Koreans were briefly denied access in March 2009 because of US-South Korea military exercises. North Korea, which has been angered by UN sanctions imposed after its recent nuclear test and annual US-South Korea military drills, threatened to s…
Customs officials in South Korea have discovered thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh coming from China, it was revealed today. South Korea says it will increase customs inspections targeting capsules containing powdered human flesh. The Korea Customs Service said it had found almost 17,500 of the capsules being smuggled into the country from China since August 2011. The powdered f…
South Korea has pledged a “strong response” to North Korea’s aggressions, amid high tensions on the peninsula. Speaking to defence officials on Monday, President Park Geun-hye said that she took the series of threats from Pyongyang “very seriously”. North Korea announced on Saturday that it was entering a “state of war” with South Korea. On Sunday, the US…
…f the former united Sudan’s oil reserves when it became independent but relies on pipelines to seaports in Sudan to export it. South Sudan voted overwhelmingly in favor of secession in a January 2011 referendum, leading to independence six months later. …
…oul’s calls for talks on resuming operations at the park, South Korea announced that it too would withdraw all its workers from the complex. It pulled out 125 South Koreans last week and another 43 on Monday, leaving the final seven to “settle accounting and other unresolved matters”. Pyongyang has been angered by tightened UN sanctions imposed after its February 12 nuclear test…
…m the people, who are on average three inches shorter than their cousins in the South" A difference is also obvious between North and South Korean children. “The height gap is approximately 4 cm (1.6in) among pre-school boys and 3 cm (1.2in) among pre-school girls, and again the South Koreans would be taller.” Prof. Daniel Schwekendiek points out that the height difference cannot…
North Korea has not responded to South Korea’s calls for formal talks on resuming operations at the joint Kaesong Industrial Complex, officials in Seoul say. On Thursday, Seoul gave the North 24 hours to agree to talks on the Kaesong Industrial Complex, warning of “grave measures” if its offer was ignored. South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has called a security meeting…
the border and by low-flying aircraft, and attacks on border islands. The new plan was conceived in 2010, after North Korea shelled a border island. A South Korean warship also sank that year, leaving 46 sailors dead. South Korea said North Korea torpedoed the ship, but Pyongyang denied this. Last month the UN imposed fresh sanctions against North Korea following its nuclear test on February 12. P…
uesday. A total of 125 South Koreans left the joint Kaesong complex in North Korea on Saturday, and the remaining 50 were expected to leave on Monday Kaesong Industrial Complex, which was launched in 2003 to boost inter-Korean ties, is a factory park situated just inside North Korea. It is home to 123 South Korean companies which employ North Korean workers, and provides the North with much-neede…
k it confers is in addition to other heart risk factors like cholesterol, The Lancet reports. Experts already know that men develop heart disease a decade earlier than women, on average. By the age of 40, the lifetime risk of heart disease is one in two for men and one in three for women. Lifestyle factors like smoking and blood pressure are important contributors. This latest work suggests the ma…
…tary provocations, they said they saw no imminent sign of any such attacks. On Saturday, cross-border traffic operated as normal, allowing hundreds of South Koreans to travel to and from Kaesong. Over 300 South Koreans remained in the complex, where 123 South Korean textile and other labor-intensive factories employ the North Korean workers, at an average monthly wage of $144. The fate of Kaesong…
South Korea has decided to raise its alert level to “vital threat” following reports that North Korea is preparing for a missile test. At least one ballistic missile with an estimated 2,000-mile (3,000 km) range is fuelled and ready for launch, US and South Korean sources say. Pyongyang has been making bellicose threats against South Korea, Japan and US bases in the region. The threat…
…North Korea that is increasing military activity,” he said. On March 16, North Korea warned of attacks against South Korea’s border islands, and advised residents to leave the islands. In 2010, North Korea shelled South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island, causing four deaths….
…p of medical conditions called delusional parasitosis, and the disease is hardly considered an official diagnose. Similar conditions are called Ekbom’s syndrome or delusional infestation. Around 3.2 million people, over 13 years old, at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) were included in the study from 2006 to 2008. The scientists searched among the records of dermatology, psychiat…
…a disorder characterized by increased forgetfulness that often progresses to dementia. Subjects were divided into three groups: 36 of them inhaled 20 mg of insulin twice a day for four months, 38 got 40 mg twice a day, and 30 were given a saline solution. After two months of treatment, 20 mg of insulin group had improved performance on a memory test. The gains persisted after four months of treat…
…id that there was a “considerably high” risk that North Korea might fire a ballistic missile at it over the coming days. North Korea has not commented on the cyber-attack accusation. About 48,000 PCs and servers in South Korea were struck on March 20. The assault shut down computer networks at TV stations KBS, MBC and YTN, and halted operations at three banks – Shinhan, NongHyup…
…nds: • Known as Dokdo (Solitary islands) in Korea, Takeshima (Bamboo islands) in Japan • Also known as Liancourt rocks • Claimed by Japan and South Korea, but occupied by South Korea since 1954 • Just 230,000 sq m in size, with no fresh water • Surrounding waters valuable for their fishing …
s in Unity state to launch attacks across the border. Both countries accuse each other of backing rebels operating in their territory. Sudan’s foreign ministry spokesman Al-Obeid Meruh said that 350 members of a Darfur-based rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) had crossed into South Sudan on Wednesday, AFP reports. He said the international community should put pressure on S…
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