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...eight weapons. The North lobbed a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan (or East Sea) earlier this month. And U.S. officials have been warning that spy satellites have detected increased activity around a suspicious test facility in the northeast of the country that may presage an underground A-bomb test. South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon last week told a local TV news service: "I'm extremely concerned that the situation is getting worse...
News travels fast on the London Underground during the morning rush hour. On a typical day, only commuters taking to the capital's subway trains before 9 a.m. can get hold of a copy of Metro, the free daily newspaper piled high in racks near the station entrance. Metro is a popular title, and copies are snapped up quickly. So getting a newspaper after 9 a.m. usually means paying for it - which a declining number of Britons seem prepared to do. Scanning his Metro while awaiting a train to work, Jonathan Cole, a 26-year-old stockbroker, sniffs at actually...
...free, slimmed-down, lunchtime version of the evening title. Sources close to the company say only one-third of Standard Lite's readers are willing to buy the bulkier, paid-for evening version. And Britain's Office of Fair Trading last month ended Associated's exclusive rights to London Underground stations to distribute Metro, clearing the way for rivals to offer a free afternoon paper through the same channels. Whoever wins, "We think the Evening Standard would have to go free pretty quickly" afterward, warned Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Braley in a January research note, though Associated swats away...
...late 1990s, U.S. spy satellites probing North Korea picked up evidence of work on a secret underground nuclear test facility. But when U.S. officials were allowed to inspect the site in 1999, they found an empty hole. Now, new images appear to show the North Koreans hard at work on another suspicious tunnel, this time in the northeastern Kilju county. Heavy equipment has been spotted hauling material into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence?a possible sign that the North is plugging the shaft to create an underground chamber for an imminent nuclear test...
Cell phone service inside the tunnels of the T removes yet another means of relaxation. Even if your cell phone isnt ringing while you are underground, someones cell phone is bound to ring on a subway car full of people, disturbing your moment of peace to contemplate your own blank expression in the reflection of the subway car window...