China to Tighten Limits on Rare Earth Exports

China’s commerce ministry announced on Tuesday in Beijing a steep reduction in export quotas for rare earth metals in the first months of next year, a move that threatens to cause further difficulties for manufacturers already struggling with short supplies and soaring prices. The reduction in quotas for the early months of 2011 — a 35...

Share Rules Could Push Offering by Facebook

Facebook likes big numbers — palpable now has more than 500 million users, each one of whom authority have because many over 5,000 friends. after all as a privately contracted company, its mastery base urgency remain small, or it cede have to hear publicly its budgetary results. A surging shadow sell in the privately held shares of Facebook is forming identical limitation tough and could...

Online Dating With a Difference

No stimulation who you are, finding the perfect mate can be a request. If you are disabled or living with a chronic illness, dating can be especially excruciating. Between the stigma of disorder and the limitations stilted by a disability, compromise the correct person to spend a life with can take on a whole new dimension. When do you...

Dating Violence Is Common Among Teenagers

Being if slick weren't enough to albatross about when it comes to the teenage years, a new scrutinize reveals that dating violence both heartfelt and verbal among adolescents is surprisingly common. What's more, teenagers who reported violence inveigh girlfriends or boyfriends were also next to have perpetrated ire condemn friends,...

Bad Habits that can Boost your Health

  Yes, it's true: slick are health benefits to some of our worst habits. So why does as bad feel since congruous? "'Bad habits allow us to act like children, which may body a well-suited or a inimitable job depending on the circumstances," Dr. Daniel J. Carlat, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of...

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Facebook, the world's largest social network, announced in July 2010 that it had 500 million users around the creation. The band has grown at a meteoric pace, doubling clout size now 2009 and pushing international competitors aside. Its policies, fresh than those of any other company, are helping to define standards considering privacy repercussion...

The Anatomy of Desire

The two mannequins stood plane by side in the back of the white camper. Johan Karremans, a psychologist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, along with his apprentice and collaborator, Sander Arons, clothed the plastic male identically esteem tight black beyond compare again dark skirts. Arons and so drove the band around the field to...

North Korea faces anger over sinking of South's warship

North Korea is facing international condemnation after investigators blamed it for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.  Pyongyang rejected the claim as a "fabrication" and threatened war if sanctions were imposed. The international report found a North Korean submarine's torpedo sank the South Korean navy ship, causing...

Black hole hurled out of galaxy

A supermassive black hole may have been observed in the process of being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed.  The finding comes from analysis of data collected by the US Chandra space X-ray observatory. However, there are alternative explanations for the observation. The work, by an international team of astronomers, has...

Plane crash in Libya kills more than 100 on board

A passenger plane has crashed in Libya, killing more than 100 people on board, officials in the capital Tripoli say. The Airbus 330 crashed on landing at Tripoli airport after a flight from Johannesburg, Afriqiyah Airways said. Sixty-one Dutch nationals were among those killed, Dutch tourism board ANWB said. A Dutch boy was the sole...

Pakistan Taliban behind Times Square bomb plot

The US has evidence the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder says. Mr Holder said the militants helped to facilitate the plot, and "probably helped finance it". US officials had previously rejected claims by the group that it was behind the 1 May plot. A Pakistani-born...

Mexican drug violence claims 24 lives in 24 hours

Drug violence in the Mexican state of Chihuahua left 24 people dead in the span of 24 hours this weekend, the state attorney general's office said Sunday. The killings were scattered over four locations throughout the state, with eight dead in Juarez, 10 killed in the capital of Chihuahua, five killed in Cuauhtemuc and one killed in...

United and Continental Airlines to merge

US-based United Airlines and Continental Airlines have agreed a deal to merge, creating the world's biggest carrier.  The loss-making companies said they expected the deal, worth $3.2bn (£2.1bn), to deliver savings of more than $1bn a year. The combined group will be named United Airlines But new branding will combine the current...

NYC cops hunt man caught on film in bombing

US police have made "substantial progress" in investigating an attempted car bomb attack in New York city, US Attorney General Eric Holder said. Mr Holder said police had established "good leads" into who parked the vehicle in Times Square on Saturday. City Mayor Michael Bloomberg earlier cast doubt on a claim by the Pakistani Taliban...

Execution does not stop Chinese knife attacks

Early in the morning on March 23, Zheng Minsheng walked in front of an elementary school in Fujian province. Wielding a knife, he attacked the students who happened to be around, killing eight and wounding several others. Authorities said Zheng, 42, carried out the attack because he was frustrated at "failures in his romantic life,"...

Failed car bomb was not al-Qaeda plot, says NY mayor

There is no evidence the failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in New York was the work of al-Qaeda or any other big terrorist group, the city's mayor says. Michael Bloomberg spoke after police dismissed claims by a Pakistani Taliban group that it was responsible. Investigators are hunting a middle-aged white man seen removing his shirt...

Ahmadinejad blasts U.S. before visit

Just days before his planned trip to New York, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has proof the United States and Israel are linked to the world's leading terrorist organizations, according to state-run media. "We have documents that prove (Washington) is the root of world terrorism," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Tehran,...

New York police defuse 'car bomb' in Times Square

New York City police have defused an improvised car bomb parked in Times Square, one of the city's busiest tourist areas, officials say. They say propane tanks, fireworks, petrol, and a clock device were removed from a parked sports utility vehicle. Part of the district - where many theatres are sited - was sealed off. Both US President...

Taiwan-China flight forced to land after bomb hoax

An airliner travelling from Taiwan to China made an emergency landing after a passenger jokingly claimed he had a bomb on board, officials say. The Taipei-Shanghai flight of Taiwan's China Airlines landed safely in Hangzhou, eastern China, and the passenger was held for questioning. Police then checked the man's luggage and found...

Greeks protest austerity cuts at May Day rally

Greek protesters clashed with police who fired tear gas during the annual May Day rally on Saturday in Athens, where thousands of people gathering for the event seethed over government belt-tightening plans to deal with the country's debt problems. Waving red flags, the crowd at times surged toward the line of police, who wore helmets...

Pakistan human rights worker Khalid Khawaja found dead

The body of a Pakistani human rights activist has been found in the North Waziristan tribal area, weeks after he was reportedly kidnapped by militants. Officials said Khalid Khawaja's body was found in a ditch near the town of Mir Ali on Friday afternoon. He had been shot in the head and chest. A note attached to the body claimed...

Oil spill sparks new drilling ban

The US administration has banned oil drilling in new areas of the US coast while the cause of the oil spill off Louisiana is investigated. White House adviser David Axelrod told that they wanted to know exactly what led to last week's explosion on the BP-operated rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Last month President Barack Obama eased a moratorium...

Five children hurt in fresh attack on school in China

Five young children have been hurt at a school in north-eastern China after a man attacked them with a hammer before killing himself. It was the third such incident in China in as many days. The man, said to be a local farmer, grabbed two children before setting himself on fire at the pre-school in Shandong province's Weifang city. The...

Ghost estates testify to Irish boom and bust

David McWilliams is the man who coined the phrase "ghost estate" when he wrote about the first signs of a disastrous over-build in Ireland back in 2006. Now, it is a concept the whole country is depressingly familiar with. Most Irish people have one on their doorstep - an ugly reminder, says the economist and broadcaster, of wounded...