2012年6月4日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Are you ready to work until you're 80?

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 02:09 PM PDT

At 92, State Employee Has No Plans To RetireA seemingly off-hand remark made by Robert Benmosche the CEO of AIG has become a bit of a viral online debate, as people of all ages and walks of life weigh in on the idea of bumping up the retirement age to 80.


Study: How things feel depends on who's touching you

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 01:02 PM PDT

Protestors gathered on Kitsilano Beach hold up their hands to show their opposition to the Northern Gateway Pipeline and the use of oil tankers in local waters in VancouverA new study shows that your perception of how things feel depends on who's touching you.


Olympic torch relay and more photos of the day

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 08:16 AM PDT

Olympic torch relay and more photos of the dayClare Leahy, left, lights Denis Broderick during a change over of the the Olympic Torch at the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge in county Antrim, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 4, 2012. The Olympic Torch is continuing its relay journey around the country, and is scheduled to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Obama turns to wage-gap bill to woo women

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 11:37 AM PDT

Obama's Weekly Address: Congress, 'Get to Work'President Barack Obama, his re-election fortunes heavily dependent on women, pushed Congress on Monday to "step up and do its job" by passing a bill designed to erase the wage gap between male and female workers doing the same job. With Senate Republicans expected to block the [...]


Ahead of Bush, behind Clinton: Where Obama stands

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 04:30 AM PDT

Where Were They Now? A Look at Presidents' Re-Election Polling in Late SpringBefore we cross the seasonal Rubicon into campaign summer, here's a comparison of where the 2012 race stands compared to Junes past.


Romney campaign offers sneak ‘peak’ of TV ad on Facebook

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 11:11 AM PDT

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attends a phone bank on behalf of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in FitchburgA week after the Mitt Romney campaign launched an iPhone application that misspelled America as "Amercia"—a gaffe that quickly went viral—a post on Romney's Facebook wall teasing a new TV ad for the presumptive Republican nominee flubbed the spelling of "sneak peek" in the promotional copy. [Related: I want to live in Amercia!] The post [...]


'Canadian Psycho' arrested in Berlin

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 08:06 AM PDT

This image provided by Interpol shows an undated photo of Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29 years-old, who is accused of videotaping a gruesome murder before posting it to the internet will be charged with threatening Canada's prime minister after mailing a severed foot to his Conservative party headquarters, police said Saturday June 2, 2012. Magnotta is wanted for first-degree murder, defiling a corpse and using the mail system for delivering "obscene, indecent, immoral or scurrilous" material. Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said they still believe Magnotta, 29, is in France. (AP Photo/Interpol)Luka Rocco Magnotta, the porn actor who Canadian authorities say sent the dismembered body parts of a student to Canadian politicians, has been captured in Berlin, police there said. Magnotta was arrested in an Internet cafe on Monday, according to Germany's Bild newspaper. German police spokesperson Stefan Rieldich said someone at the cafe recognized Magnotta [...]


Probe finds ‘stand your ground’ defense worked in surprising cases

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 11:33 AM PDT

After his bond was revoked, George Zimmerman, right, returns to the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Sanford, Fla., Sunday, June 3, 2012. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joshua C. Cruey, Pool)The Tampa Bay Times combed through more than 200 "stand your ground" self-defense cases in Florida to find that the new defense has worked even in cases where the suspect shot his or her victim in the back.


Obama spokesman gets defensive over rich donors

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Carney: Clinton supports Obama on economyMitt Romney's wealthy donors are "essentially buying tax relief" rather than looking to help get the country's finances in order, White House spokesman Jay Carney charged during a combative exchange in his daily briefing on Monday. Carney had been asked by Fox News Channel's Ed Henry to explain how, after weeks of assailing Romney's background [...]


Obama a socialist? Many scoff, but claim persists

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 1943 black-and-white file photo, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaks in Washington. When President Barack Obama's re-election campaign unveiled a new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce. "Forward", they asserted, is a word long associated with Europe's radical left, reaffirming their contention that Obama is, to some degree a socialist. Using "socialist" as a political epithet in the U.S. dates back to pre-Civil War days when abolitionist newspaper editor Horace Greeley was branded a socialist by some pro-slavery adversaries. Decades later, many elements of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal _ including Social Security _ were denounced as socialist. (AP Photo/Robert Clover, File)To many historians and political scientists — and to actual socialists as well — the persistent claim that Obama is a socialist lacks credence.


RNC video lampoons Obama's Anna Wintour fundraising effort

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 08:45 AM PDT

The Republican National Committee  released a new web video Monday lampooning the Obama campaign's latest  fundraising effort, a web ad with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour that came out Friday,  the same day as the dismal jobs report. The RNC's online video titled  "Meanwhile" pokes fun at...

Tiananmen Square quietly remembered 23 years later

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Tiananmen Square Quietly Remembered 23 Years LaterToday marks the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, but in China any mention of that day remains verboten.


Britain’s Prince Philip hospitalized, misses jubilee concert

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 11:31 AM PDT

Click image to see more photos (AP) Britain's Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has been hospitalized with a bladder infection, according to the Associated Press. The prince, who turns 91 on Sunday, was taken to a London hospital on Monday as a precaution, the AP reports, and will remain under observation for [...]

Missing beagle rescued from Spanish lab sparks public search

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT

He managed to escape his fate as a secret laboratory experiment in Spain, but now Gadget, a beagle rescued by an animal rights group, has gone missing somewhere in Southern California. Gadget was among 40 beagles rescued last fall by the Los Angeles-based Beagle Freedom Project. A clandestine research laboratory in Barcelona was breeding the [...]

Facebook interns get how much a month?

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 08:43 AM PDT

Post This on Your FB Page: Interns Get $6K a MonthInterning At Facebook Has Its Rewards


Cyber spy program Flame compromises Microsoft security system

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 10:06 AM PDT

Tech Giant Issues Alert to Customers, Expert Questions Collateral Damage of Cyber War

Man turns airplane into dream home

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 08:53 AM PDT

Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. When you picture your dream home, what comes to mind? For most people, the inside of an airplane is the furthest thing from the image of bliss that pops into their heads. For Bruce Campbell of Oregon, his dream home is a Boeing 727-200. A [...]

Texas gun range to host children’s birthday parties

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 10:02 AM PDT

A new gun range opening this summer in Lewisville, Texas, will have two rooms available for hosting children's birthday parties. Owner David Prince tells WFAA that the Eagle Gun Range will be available for children as young as eight years old. "The age limit is eight years old. You have to be tall enough to [...]

Spider swarm attack in India questioned by experts

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 11:56 AM PDT

Rest easy arachnophobes, a recently reported attack by a swarm of tarantula-like spiders is probably no more reputable than the 1977 William Shatner clunker, "Kingdom of the Spiders." The Times of India reported over the weekend that a swarm of aggressive spiders attacked dozens of people in the remote Indian town of Sadiya, killing two [...]

Prince Harry headed toward a new career in music?

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 10:03 AM PDT

Perhaps there are more musical genes flowing through the bloodlines of the British monarchy than we knew. Just one week after Prince Charles worked the turntables as a disc jockey at a youth center in Toronto, his youngest son, Prince Harry, has reached his own...
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