3 Oct 2011 - 8:40am
PARIS - An ozone hole five times the size of California opened over the Arctic this spring, matching ozone loss over Antarctica for the first time on record, scientists said on Sunday. Formed by a deep chill over the North Pole, the unprecedented hole at one point shifted over eastern Europe, Russia and Mongolia, exposing populations to...
2 Oct 2011 - 11:15pm
MUNICH - After claiming their 11th straight clean-sheet in all competitions, record-breakers Bayern Munich kicked back on Sunday by taking part in the Bavarian capital's Oktoberfest beer festival.
Bayern's goalless draw at Hoffenheim on Saturday in the German league means they have gone 1,018 minutes without conceding a goal, a new club...
2 Oct 2011 - 4:10pm
BANGKOK - Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra came under fire from her own Twitter account on Sunday when it was briefly taken over by an anonymous hacker who accused her of incompetence.
Thailand's Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) ministry said it was investigating the hijacking of the PouYingluck tweet feed for around...
1 Oct 2011 - 7:37pm
COPENHAGEN - Denmark Saturday became the first country in the world to impose a fat tax after a week in which consumers hoarded butter, pizza, meat and milk to avoid the immediate effects.
"We have had to stock up with tonnes of butter and margarine in order to be able to supply outlets," Soeren Joergensen of Arla Distribution told AFP....
1 Oct 2011 - 2:22pm
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian court has ordered a man to pay 100,000 ringgit ($31,000) for defaming a mechanics' training centre on Facebook, his lawyer said Saturday. The high court in the northern state of Penang said Leong Yook Kong defamed the centre, where his son had studied, through three posts on the social networking site last year,...
