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| Korean air boss's daughter detained in 'nut rage' case |
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 By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - The daughter of the chairman of Korean Air Lines, whose outburst over the way she was served nuts in first class prompted widespread outrage and ridicule, was in custody on Wednesday facing charges of violating aviation safety. Heather Cho, 40, former head of in-flight service, had demanded the chief steward be removed from the flight at John F. Kennedy airport in New York on Dec. 5 after another flight attendant in first class served her macadamia nuts in a bag, not a dish. ...
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| Head of Baltimore Ravens security charged with sex offense - report |
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| REUTERS - The senior director of security for the Baltimore Ravens was charged late on Tuesday with a sex offense, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper and online court records. Baltimore police issued a summons charging Darren Sanders with a sex offense in the fourth degree stemming from an incident on Dec. 14, according to online court records. The address listed for Sanders in the court record is that of the Ravens' training facility and headquarters in Owings Mills, Maryland. ... |
| U.S. condemns Cuba's 'practice of repressing' after activists detained |
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 By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday condemned what it called Cuba's practice of repression following the detention of several activists, in the first major test of President Barack Obama's policy shift toward normalizing relations with the communist-ruled island. The State Department said it was deeply concerned by the detention on Tuesday of several "peaceful civil society members and activists" by the Cuban authorities. ...
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| U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement |
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| By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility. The transfer of the five men followed a recent pledge by President Barack Obama for a stepped-up push to shut the internationally condemned detention center at the U.S. naval base in Cuba where most prisoners have been held without being charged or tried. The U.S. ... |
| Public scorn greets LG and Samsung's storm in a washing drum |
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 By Se Young Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's two top technology firms, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, have a history of bitter rivalry, but their latest spat over a handful of washing machines has prompted a barrage of public mockery. "This is all so petty and juvenile," a reader on online portal Naver said of the dispute, which began in September when Samsung accused LG executives of damaging its washing machines at stores in Germany ahead of an industry event. ...
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| Parents of wrongfully executed teen in China to get $330,000 |
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| By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - The parents of a Chinese teenager executed 18 years ago for the rape and murder of a woman he did not commit will get 2.05 million yuan ($330,491) in compensation, a court and his father said on Wednesday. This month, a court exonerated Huugjilt, saying he was wrongly convicted in 1996 of raping and killing a woman in a public restroom. He was executed in the same year. He was 18. Huugjilt is the latest wrongfully convicted death-row inmate exonerated in the past year. ... |
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