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Friday, April 12, 2013
Pakistan test-fires nuclear-capable missile that could ... - World News
Pakistan said Wednesday that it had successfully fired a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
By John Newland and Fakhar Rehman, NBC News
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ? Pakistan raised its nuclear ante Wednesday by saying it had conducted a successful test of an intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead almost 600 miles, far enough to strike deep within India, its nuclear-armed neighbor.
The Shaheen-1 missile struck its intended target at sea, according to a statement from the Pakistani military.
The missile incorporates a series of technical improvements and has a longer range than its predecessors, the statement said.
Pakistan has an arsenal of at least 90 nuclear warheads and has been quickly increasing the range of its missiles, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says Pakistan has the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile.
Meanwhile, India has an estimated 100 nuclear weapons, according to the Arms Control Association, and tensions between the next-door neighbors, which have historically been high, have risen lately with a conflict over the disputed Kashmir territory.
In August 2012, Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna hinted at Pakistan when he mentioned ?rampant proliferation in our extended neighborhood? during a speech in New Delhi.
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?Nuclear weapons today are an integral part of our national security and will remain so,? Krishna said.
Pakistan, whose foreign ministry has said?the country "is mindful of the need to avoid an arms race with India,? said Wednesday that the Shaheen-1 can accurately hit a target up to 560 miles away, compared with 430 miles for the previous version.
Senior military officers, along with scientists and engineers from the National Engineering and Scientific Commission, watched the launch, the government said.
Among those on hand was retired Lt. Gen. Khalid Ahmed Kidwai, director general of the country?s Strategic Plans Division, who was quoted by the government as saying the new version of the missile had ?consolidated and strengthened Pakistan?s deterrence abilities manifold.?
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Newspaper revenue fell 2 pct to $38.6B in 2012
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) ? The newspaper industry's revenue declined at its slowest pace in six years, as publishers turned to new businesses and raised more money from online subscriptions.
The industry's total revenue in 2012 fell 2 percent to $38.6 billion from $39.5 billion in 2011, according to the Newspaper Association of America.
Online subscriptions helped circulation revenue rise by 5 percent to $10.4 billion. It was the first gain since 2003.
The association's figures are projections based on a survey of 17 companies that represent about half of the industry's revenue. Publishers provided a detailed breakdown of their revenue on condition of anonymity.
For the first time, the NAA data incorporated new sources of revenue that virtually didn't exist for the industry a decade ago, including e-commerce, event hosting and providing advertising agency-like services to local companies. These categories accounted for $3 billion in revenue in 2012. The NAA also began counting for the first time ad revenue from niche publications and such things as flyers sent to non-subscribers. Those segments generated $2.9 billion.
If the new categories were not included, revenue would have fallen 3 percent in 2012, to $32.7 billion, still the most modest decline since 2006. In 2011, revenue not counting the new categories fell 5 percent to $33.9 billion. Revenue peaked at $60.2 billion in 2005.
"This does not look like an industry that's just rolling over," said Caroline Little, president of the NAA.
Little said the association's new way of compiling data tells a more optimistic story of an industry coping with an advertising shift away from print by generating new sources of revenue and selling news online and through mobile devices.
Among the industry's most positive developments is the growth in circulation revenue. Some 400 U.S. newspapers now charge readers for online access. In some cases, online subscriptions are bundled with print subscriptions. As a result, the industry's 2012 circulation revenue returned to slightly above the 2007 level of $10.3 billion. It was still below 2003's peak of $11.2 billion.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Fans get early look at 'Elysium' footage
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The year is 2154, and Earth belongs to the poor. The wealthiest citizens live on "Elysium," an idyllic, disease-free utopia they built in space.
On Monday, a few hundred film fans in Los Angeles, Berlin and Sao Paolo got an early look at the future home of the 1 percent as imagined by "District 9" writer-director Neill Blomkamp.
Blomkamp showed about 10 minutes of footage from the anticipated film during a special screening. Matt Damon, who stars alongside Jodie Foster, introduced the footage in Berlin and appeared at Hollywood's Arclight Theater via satellite.
In the film, Earth is a trash-filled landscape policed unforgivingly by robotic droids. Flying military tanks patrol the sky.
Damon plays a diseased Earthling trying to infiltrate Elysium to save himself, and perhaps all of humanity. A group of Earth-bound rebels outfit him for the journey with a tentacled "strength suit." They use a drill to affix a digital box to his head that allows him to transfer brain contents as effortlessly as computer files.
Foster plays an Elysium administrator determined to keep Damon out. The star of "District 9," Sharlto Copley, plays a bearded villain who works on Earth to protect the wealthy space enclave.
Speaking to reporters after the screening, Blomkamp hinted that there could be a sequel to his breakthrough debut.
"I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of very interesting race and impression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world," he said.
"Elysium" opens Aug. 9.
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Crews find bodies of two buried children
STANLEY, N.C. (AP) ? Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of two young cousins buried when a wall of dirt fell on them while they were playing in a hole at a home construction site in North Carolina.
The bodies of the 6-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy were pulled from a 24-foot-deep pit in the town of Stanley, outside of Charlotte.
"We've been working a horrific scene here," Lincoln County Emergency Services spokesman Dion Burleson told reporters gathered near the rural site on a two-lane road dotted with modular and mobile homes.
Crews had been searching for the children since Sunday afternoon, when the boy's father called 911 to report the collapse. Officials were on the scene within minutes but couldn't get to the children.
The father had been digging with a backhoe on the site earlier in the day, Sheriff David Carpenter said. He would not say what was being built or if the man was doing it alone or had professional help. He did say authorities didn't know of any permits that had been issued for the work or plans detailing the project.
Burleson described the pit as 20 feet by 20 feet with a sloped entrance leading down to the 24-foot bottom. The children were at the bottom of the pit retrieving a child-sized pickaxe when the walls fell in on them, Carpenter said.
He said his deputies would continue to investigate what happened. Authorities have not released the names of the father or the children.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Carpenter later said deputies had not yet interviewed the family living in the home but planned to follow up on neighbors' reports that the man was excavating the two-story pit to build some sort of a protective bunker.
"They were so distraught we hope to be able to talk to them today and come up with some information on that," Carpenter said. "It's a very large hole. It would look to be something like that, but I don't know. ... We're going to find out exactly what his intentions were."
He said deputies would be speaking with county planning and zoning officials about any potential building code violations at the site.
Neighbor Bradley Jones said the children often played in the pit when the boy's father was working there. Jones, who said he works in construction, said there was no structure to support the pit's tall dirt walls and that he questioned the man about the hole's depth.
"I told Chelsea not to go in," Jones said, referring to advice he gave his teenage daughter, who babysat the children. "It was dangerous. There was nothing to reinforce those walls."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crews-bodies-2-nc-children-trapped-dirt-124557541.html
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Monday, April 1, 2013
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