South Korea Election 2008 - Mahalo

SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters Life!) - Jesus wants you to drive a brand new Nissan Navara 4x4. He'd also like you to live in a classy house, use the latest cell phone and wear the snappiest designer clothes.
China's increased political and economic relations with Africa should not be regarded as a dangerous and bad thing, and it all depends on how Africa frames its relations with China, a senior South African official said on Thursday.
The Pink Dolphin lives in the Amazon Rainforest. It is usually found in the tributaries and main rivers of the Orinoco River systems in South America. This animal can stay summerged up to fifteen minutes in the rivers.
An Indian tribe that has had no formal contact with Western civilization has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday. The Metyktire tribe, with about 87 members, was found last week in an area that is difficult to reach because of thick jungle and a lack of nearby rivers.
Browsing for a few photos for my upcoming trip to Brazil I found several nice photos of their capital here. Some nice night shots, I wish they'd send more.
A quarter of the world's oceans will be protected from fishing boats which drag heavy nets across the sea floor, South Pacific nations have agreed.
Read about why Brazil is becoming a top emerging economy with a strong market. They are making some great improvements and becoming more efficient.
Responding to Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit over video clips on YouTube, Google said Monday that it would not back off, declaring that the law was on its side. "We are not going to let this lawsuit distract us," Michael Kwun, managing counsel for litigation at Google, told reporters.
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Democrats hold the first presidential debate of the '08 stakes from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Theater at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C., moderated by Brian Williams and shown live on MSNBC.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reached a deal with North Korea on Sunday to resume massive rice aid to its impoverished neighbor, as well agreeing to the first run of trains across their heavily fortified border in 50 years.
The extent of the deadly new strain of tuberculosis in South Africa and the region is not known and is cause for concern, an international health expert said Wednesday.
A tsunami has swept ashore in the Solomon Islands following a strong undersea earthquake in the South Pacific Ocean, police said. Waves several metres high were reported to have crashed into some of the Solomons' western islands. There were unconfirmed reports of people missing.
In many places, women were more vulnerable to abuse by men after the tsunami uprooted their traditional way of life. A new report said women were often not consulted in the distribution of relief -- material or financial -- and men often misused funds for drinking, leading to further abuse of women.
Tiger is a pretty impressive cat. He's huge and he's only 2 years old, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports. This Tiger Woods - and his famously named pals Madonna and Cathay - are all South China tigers, the most endangered species of big cats in the world today.
A gay couple looking to rent a room say they were told by a local motel that it was against company policy to rent to gay couples.
No matter how well you sing, the odds are against you if you're a Northerner.
Two strong earthquakes struck the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Sunday and a tsunami warning was issued for some of its southern islands, police said.
A former CIA agent reportedly claims he personally buried leftist revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and challenged Cuba to allow a DNA test to prove that the remains it interred are Guevara's.
South Carolina officially banned gay marriage Thursday as legislative leaders ratified a constitutional amendment approved by voters in November. New Hampshire, meanwhile, moved in the opposite direction, with a state House panel endorsing the creation of civil unions for same-sex couples.
James Brown's body was placed in a crypt Saturday at the Beech Island home of one of the soul singer's daughters, a spokeswoman for the Rev. Al Sharpton said. Sharpton presided over the private ceremony held for family and a few friends at the home of Deanna Brown Thomas, Rachel Noerdlinger said.
The famous South By Southwest festival kicked off Friday. More than a hundred films will be shown over the next 10 days during the annual film, music, and interactive gathering.
South Korea again criticized Japan's prime minister Saturday for disavowing his country's responsibility for using Asian women as sex slaves for Japanese troops in World War II.
I wonder what is funnier: kids swearing or kids being bleeped for swearing? We can find out this season on South Park (or just watch the movie). This year, the creators are making the uncensored versions of every show available for download on iTunes.
Although very close to the minimum of its 11-year sunspot cycle, the Sun showed that it is still capable of producing a series of remarkably energetic outbursts - ESA-NASA Ulysses mission revealed.
The American Civil Liberties Union today condemned a vote in the South Dakota House of Representatives approving legislation aimed at banning almost all abortions in that state. The legislation comes on the heels of a statewide election last November that repealed a similar ban at the polls.
The United States and South Korea need to speed up talks this week on a free-trade pact to finish before a looming legal deadline at the end of March, the chief U.S. negotiator said on Sunday.
The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday censured Dan Sutton, a Democrat from Flandreau, who admitted sharing a bed with a former legislative page last winter. In separate testimony, Sutton and the former page, now 19, had told the panel they slept in the same bed in a Fort Pierre motel for two nights early last February.
Newly wealthy Chinese who have been there and done that and are in search of a new experience have been warned to keep clear of the South Pole, state media said on Thursday.








