IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 21/05/2014

U.S. signals breaking point on China cyber-theft

Press materials are displayed on a table of the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, before Attorney General Eric Holder was to speak at a news conference. Holder was announcing that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Five indicted for stealing trade secrets will likely never stand trial. So why do it?

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Thailand's army declares martial law

Leader of anti-government protesters Suthep Thaugsuban reacts as he is hugged by a supporter during a march in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 19, 2014. Thailand's political crisis deepened last week when the Constitutional Court removed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for nepotism along with nine Cabinet members in a case that many viewed as politically motivated. Protesters say Yingluck's removal is not enough, though. She was simply replaced by Niwattumrong, who was a deputy premier from the ruling party. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's army declared martial law before dawn Tuesday in a surprise announcement it said was aimed at keeping the country stable after six months of sometimes violent political unrest. The military, however, denied a coup d'etat was underway.

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President Obama surprises Little Leaguers at DC park

President Barack Obama makes a unannounced stop to surprise members of the Northwest little league baseball teams at Friendship Park in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014. Obama stopped to meet with the players before heading off to a private Democratic fundraiser. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Put down the juice box and lace up your sneakers. President Barack Obama is pinch-hitting for Little League.

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American tries to save wife from hanging in Sudan

American Rushes to Sudan to Save Pregnant Wife From Hanging

Pregnant Woman to Get 100 Lashes, Then Hanged for Marrying a Christian

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Mix of factors eyed in massive Calif. fish die-off

Thousands of dead fish wash up along boat slips at the Marina Del Rey, Calif. on Monday, May 19, 2014. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's office said the dead anchovies, stingrays and even an octopus rose to the surface at a section of the harbor Saturday evening. Marine biologists believe a lack of oxygen in the water, caused by this week's heat wave, may have led to the massive fish kill. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

Work continues to remove dead anchovies and stingrays that set off feeding frenzy.

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Fake vaccination campaigns no longer a spy tool, CIA vows

A Pakistani health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, May 19, 2014. Pakistan will require all travelers leaving the country to obtain a polio vaccination from June 1, 2014, the health ministry said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Amid a deadly backlash and a resurgence of polio in Pakistan, the White House has promised that the CIA will never again use a vaccination campaign as a tool of spycraft.

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U.S. jury finds London cleric guilty on terror charges

NEW YORK (AP) — An Egyptian Islamic preacher whose fiery sermons before and after 9/11 attracted extremists to his London mosque was convicted Monday in a trial that a prosecutor said should provide justice for the victims of a kidnapping in Yemen more than a decade ago.

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Judge strikes down Oregon gay marriage ban

Supporters of same-sex marriage hold photos of themselves and their family members or partners on the steps of the Wayne L Morse U.S. Courthouse Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Eugene, Ore. A federal judge will hear arguments Wednesday about whether a national group can defend Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage because the state's attorney general has refused to do so. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch)

State officials refused to defend constitutional ban in light of U.S. Supreme Court decision.

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Police commissioner resigns under pressure after Obama slur

Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) — A town police commissioner has resigned after he admitted using a racial slur to describe President Barack Obama, an official said Monday.

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Land mine risk adds to Bosnia flooding danger

A man waits to be rescued from his house during heavy floods in Vojskova

Officials warn that record rainfall could disturb unexploded mines from 1990s conflict.

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Man gets 25 years in case of ricin letters to Obama, Miss. officials

James Everett Dutschke flanked by U.S. Marshals arrives for a sentencing hearing at the United State Federal Building in Aberdeen

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to sending letters dusted with the poison ricin to President Barack Obama and other officials was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison.

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'Godfather,' 'Annie Hall' cinematographer Gordon Willis dies at 82

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2009 file photo, cinematographer Gordon Willis poses with his honorary Oscar following The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2009 Governors Awards in Los Angeles. An official at the Chapman Cole & Gleason funeral home in Falmouth, Mass. on Monday, May 19, 2014 confirmed that Willis, one of Hollywood's most celebrated and influential cinematographers, has died. He was 82. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

One of Hollywood's most celebrated and influential cinematographers has died. Gordon Willis was 82.

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Webster's dictionary adds 'Yooper,' 'selfie,' 'tweep,' 'hashtag,' 'steampunk,' 'turducken'

Hold your smartphone at arm’s length and point that front-facing camera at yourself in celebration: “Selfie” is now Merriam-Webster approved.

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Uganda nurse jailed in HIV transmission case

A Ugandan court on Monday sentenced a nurse to three years in jail after finding her guilty of criminal negligence for allegedly trying to infect her patient with HIV.

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Oregon awaits gay marriage ruling

A federal judge is expected to knock down Oregon's same-sex marriage ban today.

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Iraqi premier's group is biggest election winner

File -- In this Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. In results announced Monday, May 19, 2014, State of Law, a coalition led by Al-Maliki has emerged as the biggest winner in the country’s April 30 parliamentary elections. Al-Maliki must now reach out to other blocs to try to cobble together a ruling coalition. That process could take months. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

A coalition led by Iraq's Shiite prime minister emerged Monday as the biggest winner in the country's first parliamentary elections since the U.S. military withdrawal in 2011, electoral officials said, as the embattled premier is seeking a third term in office despite political turmoil and rising violence.

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Threats aim to derail Ukraine's presidential elections

A man looks out of the back window of a bus in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday May 19, 2014. Ukraine will hold presidential elections on May 25. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

The 38-year-old mother of two insisted on meeting in a nondescript courtyard on the outskirts of Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk. Once there, she sat down and burst into tears.

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'Wake up call' for Chinese hackers

FILE - In this April 29, 2014 file photo, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ukraine Forum on Asset Recovery in central London. Holder and other federal law enforcement officials are expected to reveal criminal charges Monday in an international cyber-espionage case on Monday, May 19, 2014, said an official speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the case by name in advance of the announcement. (AP Photo/Andrew Winning, Pool, File)

U.S. indicts six on charges they illegally access companies.

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Remember the marshmallow cannon? Time for the White House science fair

This year's event is focusing on drawing girls and women into fields like engineering.

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Putin orders troops near Ukraine to return home

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with representatives of the Crimean Tatar communities in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, May 16, 2014. From right, acting head of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov, presidential envoy to Crimea Oleg Belaventsev. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered troops deployed near Ukraine to return to their home bases and praised the launch of a dialogue between the Ukrainian government and its opponents even as fighting continued in the eastern parts of the country.

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Everything must go: Silverdome's assets for sale

The Pontiac Silverdome was the place Elvis, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones played. And Pope John Paul II prayed. It's where Barry Sanders and Isiah Thomas became Detroit sports legends. A marvel of ...

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Residents brace for flood surge in Belgrade

A car is seen stranded in the flooded town of Obrenovac

Belgrade braced for a river surge Monday that threatened to inundate Serbia's main power plant and cause major power cuts in the crisis-stricken country as the Balkans struggle with the consequences of the worst flooding in southeastern Europe in more than a century.

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Malaysia defends military inaction on MH370 radar
The Malaysian jet wasn't followed because it wasn't seen as a hostile object, the nation's defense minister says.

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11 injured in subway explosion near Seoul

Seoul Subway Collision Injures More Than 100 People

An explosion at a subway station south of Seoul injured 11 people, S. Korean sources say.

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High gas levels ignored at Turkish mine

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)

Days before the mine blast that killed 301 workers in Turkey, company officials apparently knew about high levels of toxic gas at the site.

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Colombia church bus fire kills 31 children, one adult

The charred remains of a bus, in which children died in, is seen in Fundacion

Thirty-one children and one adult were killed in Colombia on Sunday when fuel exploded on a broken-down bus returning from a church event, an emergency response coordinator said. The charred bodies of victims were being identified using dental records in Barranquilla, the nearest city to Fundacion town where the accident happened, said Major Eduardo Velez, coordinator of Magdalena province's emergency response corps. The bus was owned by a private transport company and was used during the week to take children to and from school. President Juan Manuel Santos was traveling to Fundacion to console relatives of the victims.

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US charges Chinese officials in cyberspying case

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014. Holder announced that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, accusing China of vast business spying, charged five military officials on Monday with hacking into U.S. companies to steal vital trade secrets in a case intensifying already-rising tensions between the international economic giants.

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China summons US envoy over cyberspying charges
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador to complain over Washington's charging five Chinese military officials with hacking into U.S. companies to steal vital trade secrets.

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Thailand's army declares martial law, denies coup

A Thai soldier mans his machine gun atop a military vehicle outside the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) after soldiers were sent in to seize the center Tuesday, May 20, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's army declared martial law in a surprise announcement in Bangkok before dawn on Tuesday, intensifying the turbulent nation's deepening political crisis. The military, however, denied a coup d'etat was underway. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Credit Suisse pleads guilty in US tax evasion case

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department, on Monday, May 19, 2014, in Washington. The Justice Department on Monday charged Credit Suisse AG with helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through offshore accounts, and a person familiar with the matter said the European bank has agreed to pay about $2.6 billion in penalties. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) — European bank Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty Monday to helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through secret offshore accounts and agreed to pay about $2.6 billion to the U.S. government and regulators.

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AP PHOTOS: Balkans hit with record flooding

A Bosnian man searches for people and animals after flooding in the village of Vojskova near the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac, flooded by the river Sava, 200 km's north of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Monday, May 19, 2014. Tens of thousands evacuated in Serbia and Bosnia during worst floods in a century.(AP Photo/ Amel Emric)

Entire towns and villages in the Balkans have been laid to waste as the region struggles to deal with the worst flooding on record.

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Text 911: Calling for help without making a call

FILE--In this April 18, 2012, file photo, David Tucker, executive director of Vermont's Enhanced 911 Board, holds a smart phone in Montpelier, Vt. Tucker says the state is the first in the country where customers of the four major wireless carriers can send text messages to 911. As of Monday, May 19, 2014, T-Mobile customers in Vermont are now able to text 911. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint began the service earlier. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, file)

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Sometimes a voice call to 911 just won't work, such as for deaf people in need of help or in certain domestic violence cases.

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Obama group OFA scales back staffing, fundraising

FILE - This Nov. 4, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaks at an Organizing for Action event in Washington. Organizing for Action, the nonprofit group supporting President Barack Obama’s agenda, is scaling back its fundraising efforts and cutting its paid staff in half as focus shifts to the looming midterm elections, three Democratic officials said. Formed last year from the remnants of Obama’s vaunted re-election campaign, OFA raised more than $30 million in its first 15 months as it worked across the U.S. to build support for Obama priorities like health care, immigration and climate change. But the group’s aggressive courting of big-dollar donors has vexed many Democrats who worry the group is siphoning sorely needed dollars from Democratic campaigns just as the party is bracing for a difficult midterm election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Organizing for Action, the advocacy group supporting President Barack Obama's agenda, is scaling back its fundraising efforts and cutting its paid staff in half as focus shifts to the approaching midterm elections, three Democratic officials said.

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MERS in America: Is spread of virus a worry?

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows novel coronavirus particles, also known as the MERS virus, colorized in yellow. On Saturday, May 17, 2014 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said an Illinois man has apparently picked up an infection from the only American diagnosed with a mysterious Middle East virus, but the man has not needed medical treatment. (AP Photo/NIAID - RML, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — A respiratory virus that has sickened hundreds in the Middle East has spread for the first time from one person to another in the United States. The case has raised questions about how much contact is needed to transmit the germ.

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High gas levels ignored prior to mine blast

Chief prosecutor Bekir Sahiner speaks to the media in the coal miners' town of Soma, Turkey, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Twenty-five people, including mining company executives, have been detained as Turkish officials investigate the mining disaster that killed 301 people, a domestic news agency reported Sunday.(AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)

Days before the Turkish mine explosion that killed 301 workers, company officials knew about high levels of toxic gas at the site, Turkish news reports claim.

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