Top South Korea online video game website announced plans on Monday, July 24 to become a player in the US market this year, AFP reported.
Internet game giant next aim: US market
Teens Executed in Iran
At least 103 people have been hanged in Iran since January of 2006
Stop Fundamentalism, July 26 – In the past four days, Iran’s theocratic regime hanged four people in the cities of Aq Qala, and Boroujerd.
According to the official news agency IRNA, on July 24, the mullahs’ judiciary hanged two young men in public in the northern town of Aq Qala. The victims were identified as 18-year-old Ibrahim Arokhi and 19-year-old Abdollah Qare-Qoul.
Parents jailed for making children live with 22 dogs
LONDON, July 25, 2006 (AFP) – A couple in Scotland were jailed Tuesday for making their four children live in a house filled with dog excrement and garbage.
Education officials were concerned after one of the children, aged five, eight, 12 and 13, began growling, barking and would try to squeeze into small spaces at school.
Are Movie Stars Soon Going To Be An Endangered Species?
Scott P. Davis
Obviously, it is far easier to create an inanimate object that achieves a realistic visual image in CG, than an organic, living object. This is because organic objects move, change color, and have almost an infinite diversity of textures. Creating a human face that is challenging, but not impossible. A very good job is done by Luiz Amaral and his team for TV Globo in Brazil. They created a human character that is very photorealistic. The character is female and does the job of a news anchor on television. They actually ran the spot called Eva Byte for some time. Although this is experimental, the implications of this are astounding.
Iraq to restart northern oil exports this week
Reuters AlertNet, JUly 24 – Iraq has completed repairs to one of two sabotaged oil pipelines that export crude from its northern fields to Turkey and aims to restart the flow this week, Iraq’s oil minister said on Sunday.
"We completed the repairs today," Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told Reuters in London. "We hope to restart it very soon. This week."
Iraq advances in Stand By Agreement with IMF, World Bank
USAID, July 24 – Iraq has further advanced in the Stand By Agreement.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project advisers were major participants in the Ministry of Finance’s 2007 Budget Preparation Retreat held in May.
Baghdad catches breaths after armistice with armed groups
Al-Sabah, July 25 – Residents of Baghdad catches quite breaths after the held armistice with the armed groups enhancing by a peace and concord climate among the notables and the residents of the capital districts with each other in Adhamiya, Dorra, Jihad, Ghazalia, Khadmiyi, Shaab and Sadr city.
US rules out talks with Hezbollah
WASHINGTON, July 24, 2006 (AFP) – The White House rejected the idea Monday of holding negotiations with Hezbollah and urged regional powers to pressure Syria and Iran to cuts its ties with the Lebanese militia.
Oil prices up on refinery worries
Antoine Agasse
NEW YORK, July 24, 2006 (AFP) – Oil prices rose Monday, recovering from earlier losses on fears for US gasoline supplies due to refinery outages.
Ancient Persian drawing found in Afghan Buddhist cave
TOKYO, July 25, 2006 (AFP) – Japanese researchers said Tuesday they found a seventh-century painting of a mythological Persian bird in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan ruins, showing the region’s Buddhism was influenced by pre-Islamic Iran.
