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| Apple heads to trial over digital music claims |
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 By Dan Levine OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Apple Inc will defend against allegations that it abused a monopoly position in the digital music player market as it heads to trial in a case that could cost the company about $1 billion if it loses. Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court in the long-running class action, brought by a group of individuals and businesses who purchased iPods between 2006 and 2009. They say a 2006 iTunes update dictated that iTunes music could only be played on iPods, unfairly blocking competing device makers. ...
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| Three turn themselves in as probe involving Thai princess's kin widens |
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| By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Thai army officers and a civilian have answered a police summons, police said, in a widening corruption probe that has also led to the arrest of high-ranking policemen and relatives of Princess Srirasmi, the wife of Thailand's Crown Prince. The investigation comes at a time of heightened sensitivity surrounding the palace. The revered but ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, was admitted to Bangkok's Siriraj hospital in October and underwent an operation to remove his gallbladder. ... |
| Australia probes bitcoin crime links as currency craves legitimacy |
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 By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin's role in organised crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a legitimate part of modern business. The investigation into bitcoin's crime links by one authority as others embrace it highlights the crossroads governments have reached as they struggle to regulate the five-year-old "cryptocurrency", a method of making anonymous payments which has surged in popularity around the world. ...
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| Gunmen kill 36 workers in a Kenyan quarry near Somalia border |
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| NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 36 workers in an attack on a quarry in Kenya's Mandera county, which borders Somalia, said the county governor on Tuesday who drew a parallel with another recent raid by al Shabaab militants. Some 28 people were killed in the area last month when al Shabaab militants hijacked a Nairobi-bound bus, causing widespread anger. Kenya has suffered a string of gun and grenade attacks since it sent troops into Somalia to fight al Shabaab in late 2011. ... |
| Rise of Turkish Islamic schooling upsets secular parents |
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| By Dasha Afanasieva and Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms which President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defence against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students are enrolled in "imam hatip" schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month. ... |
| Islamic State followers say they were behind Riyadh shooting |
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| RIYADH (Reuters) - A group of supporters of Islamic State has released a video that it says shows its members carrying out a shooting in Saudi Arabia last week of a Danish national who survived the attack, SITE Monitoring reported. The film could not be independently verified but Saudi Arabia said on Nov. 22 a Dane had been shot in the shoulder as he left his work in Riyadh and was in a stable condition. Islamic State last month called on supporters in Saudi Arabia, which is participating in strikes against the group in Syria, to attack Shi'ite Muslims, government officials and Westerners. ... |
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