Friday, February 19, 2010
International Headline News
TOP STORIES as of 0900 HKT -- 20 February, 2010
'DEEPLY SORRY' WOODS ADMITS INFIDELITIES, SEEKS THERAPY
Admitting for the first time that he has had affairs, Tiger
Woods says he is "deeply sorry" and is seeking help from therapy
and Buddhism as he tries to save his marriage.
> MINARET FALLS IN MOROCCO, KILLING 36
A 400-year-old minaret collapsed Friday in Meknes, Morocco,
killing 11 people and injuring 50, the Interior Ministry
reported, according to the official news agency Maghreb Arabe
Presse.
> HAITI MISSIONARY: WE WERE THERE TO HELP
We were just there to help.
> COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS RESUME TO HAITI
Commercial air service resumed Friday morning from the United
States to Haiti.
> IRANIAN LEADER: NO PLANS TO BUILD NUKES
Iran's supreme leader says the country doesn't believe in
nuclear bombs, the day after a draft IAEA report warns Iran may
be working on a nuclear warhead.
> CHINA SUMMONS AMBASSADOR OVER DALAI
China summoned the U.S. ambassador on Friday to express its
"strong dissatisfaction" over the Dalai Lama's meeting with U.S.
President Barack Obama.
> UK DENIES 'TIP OFF' OVER MURDER PLOT
The British Foreign Office denied a news report Friday that the
British intelligence service knew in advance that Israeli agents
planned to assassinate a senior Hamas militant.
> LLOYD WEBBER KEEN ON BEATLES' STUDIO
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has expressed an interest in buying
London's famed Abbey Road Studios after music company EMI reportedly
put the building where the Beatles recorded most of
their albums up for sale.
BUSINESS
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> CASHING IN ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP
An growing number of software companies are capitalizing on an
unexpected business opportunity: Internet censorship.
> LUFTHANSA EYES OPTIONS TO HALT STRIKE
Lufthansa, Europe's largest airline by revenues, is considering
legal action to head off a four-day strike by its pilots
starting at midnight on Sunday.
> GUCCI TO CONTINUE MCQUEEN LABEL
The fashion brand created by Alexander McQueen is to survive
despite the designer's suicide last week, the label's majority
stakeholder Gucci Group has confirmed.
