In an apparent first, North Korea -- a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people -- has aired a beer commercial on state television.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/in-a-first-n-korea-airs-beer-commercial-on-tv/96322-2.html
Andy Roddick of the USA will face Swiss world No.2 Roger Federer in the Wimbledon men's singles final on Sunday. The sixth seed American knocked out British third seed Andy Murray in the semi-final on Saturday while Federer steamrolled Tommy Haas to book his place in the final. Federer will meet Roddick in the final for the third time in six years and is aiming to be the first man to win 15 Grand Slam singles titles.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/roddick-knocks-out-murray-to-face-federer-in-final/96295-5.html
South Korea shrugged off North Korea's firing of short-range missiles saying they were in the part of routine military exercises and warning more launches are likely in coming days. Whether the communist country will fire a long-range missile toward Hawaii remained unclear, though US defence officials said such a launch did not appear imminent. The North fired four short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, just ahead of the US Independence Day holiday. The US and Japan called the North's move provocative.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/south-korea-wary-of-norths-missile-programme-intentions/96269-2.html
Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators have said in their first report into the June 1 accident.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/air-france-flight-447-hit-the-sea-belly-first/96266-2.html
David Beckham has become a bad teammate on the Los Angeles Galaxy, according to Landon Donovan. "All that we care about at a minimum is that he committed himself to us," Donovan was quoted as saying in an excerpt of Grant Wahl's book The Beckham Experiment, scheduled for publication on July 14.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/donovan-slams-beckham-calls-him-bad-teammate/96212-5.html
Thousands of US Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages of southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilise the country.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/us-launches-massive-military-offensive-in-afghanistan/96181-2.html
A passenger stripped naked during a US Airways flight and resisted a flight attendant's efforts to cover him with a blanket before two off-duty law enforcement officers on board subdued and handcuffed him, authorities said on Wednesday.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/airline-crew-panics-after-passenger-strips-on-board/96147-2.html
A plan to bury Michael Jackson at his sprawling Neverland ranch has been cancelled. Jackson family spokesman Ken Sunshine said a public memorial was in the works for Jackson but wouldn't be held at Neverland. The funeral and burial is more likely to take place somewhere in Los Angeles.
Michael Jackson's seven-year-old will was filed on Wednesday in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust and naming his mother as a beneficiary of the trust and the guardian of his three children.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/michael-jacksons-will-leaves-estate-in-family-trust/96106-8.html
Complete with new gray hairs and two fake bodyguards, a wax version of President Barack Obama took a trip to the Eiffel Tower. Sculptor Eric Saint Chaffray has never seen the US President and has made the statue by just looking into the press photos. The statue was unveiled on Monday.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obamas-wax-statue-unveils-at-eiffel-tower/95997-2.html
A Yemenia jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday as it tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros. Officials said one child was plucked alive from the sea. There was no word on other survivors. At least three bodies were recovered, authorities said. The crash comes two years after aviation officials reported faults with the aircraft, an Airbus 310 flying the last leg of a journey from Paris and Marseille to Comoros.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/baby-rescued-alive-from-comoros-crash-debris/95990-2.html
For generations, the men of Munimpur worked their sun-baked wheat fields, rising before dawn to till the same soil their grandfathers plowed.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/farmlands-turn-crime-lands-in-new-india/95918-3.html
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