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Tesco to scan shoppers' faces
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» LONDON - Britain's biggest retailer Tesco is to install screens at its petrol stations that scan customers' faces so that advertising can be tailored to their age and gender.
BlackBerry scraps search for buyer, ousts CEO
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» BlackBerry abandoned hopes of finding a buyer, and instead pegged its future on a $1 billion cash infusion as it shook up top management Monday and named a new chief executive.
North Korea developing 'electromagnetic pulse weapons'
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» South Korea's spy agency said Monday that North Korea was using Russian technology to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons aimed at paralysing military electronic equipment south of the border.
Singapore boosts cyber defences
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» The Singapore government said Monday it was on "heightened vigilance" following threats from the activist hackers' group Anonymous, but denied that any of its websites had already been compromised.
Chinese officials 'set 1,000 cats loose in forest'
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» Animal activists are combing a forest in eastern China for more than 1,000 kittens rescued from a meat supplier only to be let loose by local authorities, an organiser said Monday.
First direct China-Taiwan telecoms cable goes live
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» The first telecommunications cable directly linking Taiwan and China has begun operating, officials said Monday.
Hart remains on Man City's bench
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» England goalkeeper Joe Hart will remain on the bench for Manchester City's Champions League group match against CSKA Moscow at Eastlands on Tuesday, Blues' manager Manuel Pellegrini said Monday.
Garbage, dry air: home of the Nazi art treasures
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» Garbage, empty food tins and stuffy rooms -- the Munich apartment where some 1,500 modernist masterpieces stolen by the Nazis were found was a "catastrophe" for storing art, a witness told AFP on Monday.
N.Korea reports deaths from sinking of warship
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» A number of North Korean sailors were killed when a warship sank during "combat duties" last month, a state newspaper has reported in an unusual admission by the secretive state.
'Virtual' Filipina girl identifies 1,000 webcam sex tourists
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» A Dutch rights group said Monday it had identified over 1,000 paedophiles around the world by offering online sex with a computer-generated 10-year-old Filipina girl called Sweetie.