Times Online -- TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Former Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned from his post after appearing intoxicated at a news conference earlier this year, was found dead in his home Sunday, police said. Shoichi Nakagawa resigned three days after appearing intoxicated at a G7 news conference in Rome.  The cause of death was not clear and no will was found, police said.  Nakagawa, 56, r...     10-04     采编 vicky_chuh
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Times Online -- International passenger flights have been diverted after the government of North Korea threatened military action against South Korean airliners in the latest escalation of verbal hostilities between the two enemies. Both of South Korea’s airlines, Korean Air and Asiana, have diverted flights from the east after a statement on North Korea’s official media which implied a threat of attack against c...     03-06     采编 kaylazhou
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Times Online -- The crisis now rocking Pakistan springs directly from the disaster of Partition 60 years ago. The cards that it scooped up, in the rush to carve out a separate Muslim state, were not just inferior to India’s; they were inadequate to build any kind of stable nation.     2008     采编 rosebush
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Times Online -- What will her opponents make of a dovish woman leader? Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher... Tzipi Livni finds herself in a tough line of female heads of stateMark AlmondTzipi Livni, the new leader of Kadima, Israel's ruling party, is close to joining that very select club of women heads of government. Ms Livni, Israel's Foreign Minister, if she becomes her nation's second woman prime mi...     2008     采编 brier
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Times Online -- Lisa Armstrong: Anyone in search of evidence that what has changed over the past 50 years of fashion history is not so much the clothes as the codes, need only compare the WMD (What Would Mother Do?) question that stylish women asked themselves in the 1950s with the question they put to themselves now; What Would Moss or Macpherson Do? Mother certainly wouldn't have worn shorts for very long past ...     2008     采编 tartarus
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Times Online -- As technology changes, so do the players; who's got the terabytes to smash the Googolopoly?David Rowan A funky new boardgame is doing the geek rounds - you can easily find it by Googling. It is called Googolopoly, and, just as with traditional Monopoly, you move round the board in single-minded pursuit of global domination. Land on the Yahoo! or Microsoft squares, for instance, and for just 350 Go...     2008     采编 uuclover
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Times Online -- Thanks to Donna Finkill of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for this gem from Australia: "This photo was taken near Cape Tribulation and shows some imaginative vandalism. The original sign was intended to warn motorists that there are speed bumps ahead to slow you down to protect the cassowaries that live in the area..."Stephanie Walker from Nova Scotia, Canada heeded the rather threatening warning against thr...     2008     采编 uuclover
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