IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 20/05/2014

AT&T to buy DirecTV in $48.5B deal

The merger is the second huge deal to shake up the U.S. television landscape this year.

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S. Korea's president vows to disband coast guard

South Korean President Park Geun-hye prays during a serves to pay tribute to victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a Catholic church in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 18, 2014. The ferry disaster left more than 200 people dead, with others still missing. Government and civilian divers are fighting rapid currents as they try to retrieve the remaining bodies. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president announced plans Monday to disband the coast guard and root out corruption and collusion between regulators and shipping companies that furious citizens believe led to a ferry disaster last month that left more than 300 people dead or missing.

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Arizona rancher says Democrats are behind most mass shootings

An Arizona rancher and Republican congressional candidate said during a primary debate Saturday that the vast majority of mass shootings in the United States are committed by Democrats.

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S. Korea's president pushes for end of coast guard

People watch a live television program showing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's speech to the nation regarding the sunken ferry Sewol at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 19, 2014. South Korea's president said Monday she will push to disband the coast guard in the wake of last month's ferry disaster that left more than 300 people dead or missing, calling its rescue operations after the disaster a failure. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

AT&T aims for TV's future with $48.5B DirecTV deal

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Priming itself for the age of Internet-delivered video, AT&T Inc. said it would buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion in cash and stock, or $95 per share.

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Bosnia floods trigger landslides, unearth mines

Bosnian people prepare sandbags to protect the city from flooding near Orasje 200 kms north of Sarajevo, on Sunday May 18, 2014. Packed into buses, boats and helicopters, carrying nothing but a handful of belongings, tens of thousands fled their homes in Bosnia and Serbia, seeking to escape the worst flooding in a century. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Floodwaters triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans on Sunday, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines leftover from the region's 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded weapons.

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Jackson, Timberlake own Billboard Music Awards

Casper Smart, left, and Jennifer Lopez arrive at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

The King of Pop and a likely successor, prince of pop Justin Timberlake, ruled the Billboard Music Awards — though Jackson made a splash via hologram and Timberlake accepted his awards via video from overseas.

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AP PHOTOS: Music industry celebrates big night

Miranda Lambert, left, and Carrie Underwood perform on stage at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood team up for "Somethin' Bad" as hunky husbands — country star Blake Shelton and NHL player Mike Fisher — bob their heads. Pop angel Lorde, who took Billboard Music trophies for breakthrough artist and top rock song for the ubiquitous hit "Royals," performs in front of blue-tinted stage lights. Singer Dan Reynolds and guitarist Wayne Sermon of Imagine Dragons go from playing in small bars to jamming on the big stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in their Las Vegas hometown.

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Chinese ships arrive in Vietnam to pick up workers

A Vietnamese police officer uses a speaker to order pedestrians including journalists to leave a closed area near the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam on Sunday, May 18, 2014. Vietnamese authorities forcibly broke up small protests against China in two cities on Sunday, after deadly anti-China rampages over a simmering territorial dispute risked damaging the economy and spooked a state used to keeping a tight grip on its people. In southern Ho Chi Minh City, police dragged away several demonstrators from a park in the city center. In Hanoi, authorities closed off streets and a park close to the Chinese Embassy and pushed journalists and protesters away. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Two Chinese passenger ships were moored off a central Vietnamese port on Monday preparing to evacuate Chinese workers following deadly rioting last week, officials said.

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Renegade Libyan general says parliament suspended

In this image made from video provided by the Libyan national army via AP Television, Tripoli joint security forces on vehicles with heavy artillery stand guard on the entrance road to the parliament area after troops of Gen. Khalifa Hifter targeted Islamist lawmakers and officials at the parliament in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Forces loyal to a rogue Libyan general attacked the country's parliament Sunday, expanding his eastern offensive against Islamists into the heart of the country's capital. (AP Photo/Libyan national army)

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Forces apparently loyal to a renegade Libyan general said they suspended parliament Sunday after earlier leading a military assault against lawmakers, directly challenging the legitimacy of the country's weak central government three years after the overthrow of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Libya's leadership condemned the attack and vowed to carry on.

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Ferry disaster makes South Korea question progress

In this May 3, 2014, photo, Park Jong-dae, father of Danwon High School Junior, Park Su-hyun, who was killed in the sinking of ferry Sewol, closes his eyes during an interview in Ansan, South Korea. The tragedy, one of the worst maritime disasters in this country’s history, has prompted Koreans to question the very foundations of their society, their strong faith in authority, and the price of the rapid growth South Korea has seen over the last half century. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

ANSAN, South Korea (AP) — Park Si-chan had trouble sleeping the night before the biggest trip of his young life, a four-day journey with his entire junior high school class to a lush volcanic island known here as the "Hawaii of Korea."

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Pacers pull away from Heat 107-96 to take 1-0 lead

Indiana Pacers center Ian Mahinmi (28) takes the ball down court as Miami Heat forward Chris Andersen, rear, recovers during the first half of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals NBA basketball playoff series Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana is done talking about home-court advantage.

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Pyongyang building collapse leaves many casualties

In this Saturday, May 17, 2014 photo, families of victims of an accident at an apartment construction site in Pyongyang, North Korea grieve during a gathering in the capital where senior officials apologized and took responsibility. The word of the collapse in the secretive nation's capital was reported Sunday morning by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, which gave no death toll but said that the accident was

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean officials offered a rare public apology for the collapse of an apartment building under construction in Pyongyang, which a South Korean official said was believed to have caused considerable casualties that could mean hundreds might have died.

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Bosnia flooding triggers landslides, unearth mines

Bosnian people are rescued from their flooded houses in the village of Vidovice near Orasje 200 kms north of Sarajevo, on Sunday May 18, 2014. Packed into buses, boats and helicopters, carrying nothing but a handful of belongings, tens of thousands fled their homes in Bosnia and Serbia, seeking to escape the worst flooding in a century. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Floodwaters triggered more than 2,000 landslides across much of the Balkans on Sunday, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines left over from the region's 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded devices.

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Turkey prosecutor: 3 face charges in mine disaster

Miners close an entrance to their coal mine in Soma, Turkey, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Eighteen people, including company executives, have been detained as Turkish officials investigate the mining disaster that killed 301 people, a domestic news agency reported Sunday.(AP Photo/Depo Photos)

Three people were arrested on charges of negligence in the Turkish mining disaster that killed 301 people, a prosecutor said Sunday. The suspects are among 19 people still in custody.

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Swiss reject plan for world's highest minimum wage

Voters cast their ballots in Bern, Switzerland Sunday May 18, 2014. Swiss voters were casting ballots Sunday on a nationwide referendum to introduce the world’s highest minimum wage of 22 Swiss francs (US $24.70) an hour. Voters also were deciding on three other citizen-inspired referendums, which are a frequent fixture of Switzerland's unique system of popular rule that involves a weak federal government and 26 strong cantonal (state) governments. The other referendums, if passed, would provide the Swiss Air Force with 22 of Saab’s new Gripen fighter jets; impose a lifetime ban on convicted pedophiles working with children; and amend the constitution to support more family doctors in rural areas. (AP Photo/Keystone,Peter Klaunzer)

GENEVA (AP) — Worried about upsetting Switzerland's strong economy or driving its high costs even higher, more than three-quarters of Swiss voters rejected a plan Sunday to create the world's highest minimum wage and slightly more than half spurned a request to outfit the Swiss Air Force with 22 new fighter jets.

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Vietnam clamps down on anti-China protests

Security staff guard the entrance to a Singaporean factory in an industrial park in Binh Duong province, Vietnam Saturday, May 17, 2014, after mobs attacked foreign owned factories following anti-China protests. Vietnam's prime minister ordered an end Saturday to all

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam smothered anti-China protests on Sunday with a massive security clampdown after deadly riots triggered by a territorial dispute with Beijing spooked foreign investors and the country's authoritarian leadership alike.

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SpaceX Dragon departs space station after month

FILE - This April 22, 2014 file photo provided by NASA shows a photo of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station and was photographed by one of two spacewalking astronauts. On Sunday, May 18, 2014, after a one-month visit, the SpaceX cargo ship was for return to Earth. The astronauts released it using the International Space Station’s big robot arm. (AP Photo/NASA, File)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The commercial cargo ship Dragon left the space station on Sunday, heading home with nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment.

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Bosnia floods create new land-mine risk in Balkans

Map shows extent of flooding in Bosnia and Serbia; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Record-high floods and landslides have swept away people, homes and roads in the Balkans over the past week, but in Bosnia another deadly menace is hiding in the flood rubble: land mines.

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In Georgia race, Republicans cry foul over taxes
ATLANTA (AP) — Former Dollar General CEO David Perdue says his chief rivals in the GOP race for Georgia's open Senate seat are falsely accusing him of being the worst kind of Republican — one who wants to raise taxes.

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