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• World markets follow huge Wall Street losses
Dealers react during morning trading session at Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday. Japan's Nikkei index fell nearly 10 percent to close out its worst week in history. Oct. 9: Precious metals and pawn shops are just a few of the ways people from Germany ...
• U.S. weighs removing N. Korea from terror list
If we can get a verification protocol that we are satisfied with, then we would be able to fulfill our side of the bargain," she said. Later, amid a swirl of speculation in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo that the delisting would come on Friday, National ...
• Naked man swims in Japan palace moat
A man identified as a middle-aged Westerner swims in the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Japanese police officers on a boat try to apprehend him on Tuesday. TOKYO - Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ...
• Sony, Microsoft to launch virtual worlds
Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that represent players called "avatars," Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. Sony Corp.'s twice delayed online "Home" virtual world for the PlayStation 3 console will be available sometime ...
• Global efforts to tackle credit crisis diverge
TOKYO - Hopes for a coordinated interest rate cut among the world's major economies to ease a global credit crunch have been anything but in sync the last couple days in Asia. While the Reserve Bank of Australia cheered regional markets Tuesday by ...