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I now believe that old habbits die hard.....the cheating traits that some people developed in school is still very much with them.....using their phones to ggole for answers....is this the type of people WAEC is going to employ as exam officers?....then the future is very bleak unless acts like these are curbed....

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently announced the launch of his nation's first "smartphone," despite the fact that most North Koreans cannot access the Internet or make international calls.

An official photo shoot shows Kim touring what is said to be a local smartphone factory and inspecting the Android clone device, which is called “Arirang" after a Korean folk song, according to Sky News.

North Korea's state-run media group, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), reported that the Arirang is a "touch hand phone" that comes with a convenient, user-friendly applications program and a high-pixel camera. KCNA also claimed that the factory in the photo shoot has already begun production of the phone.

North Koreans have reportedly become increasingly enamored of cell phone technology, and Kim Jong Un himself was photographed a few months ago with what appeared to be a smartphone on his desk. However, The Washington Post notes that the existence of a high-tech, North Korean smartphone factory seems unlikely. Martyn Williams, a North Korea analyst, told the Post that it's far more likely the phones will be manufactured in China and then secretly shipped to North Korea.



Even if the phones do surface in North Korean stores, it's unclear what they could actually do there. According to The Telegraph, the country's first cell phones weren't introduced until 2008 -- six years after the country's internal web service, called the Kwangmyong, was launched. Today, North Korean mobiles can be used to call each other, but not outsiders. The country's intranet is restricted to government-approved sites.

Last year's launch of North Korea's first tablet showed the limitations of new technology in the country. Apparently powered by the Android platform, the tablet is fairly fast, includes popular games such as "Angry Birds" and has a passable camera, according to The New York Times. But the device cannot access the wider Internet, forcing users to connect to the internal Kwangmyong network and government-run television broadcasts.

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WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it has approved GlaxoSmithKline Plc's drug Tivicay to treat the most common strain of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The once-daily drug, known generically as dolutegravir, belongs to a novel class known as integrase inhibitors that block the virus from entering cells.

Tivicay is owned by ViiV Healthcare, an HIV joint venture between GSK, Pfizer Inc and Shionogi & Co Ltd in which GSK is the largest shareholder, with a 76.5
percent stake.

Analysts on average expect sales of the drug to reach about $900 million by 2017, according to six analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

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Tivicay can be used to treat infected adults who have been treated with other drugs or are new to treatment.

The FDA also approved the drug for use in children aged 12 years and over, who weigh at least 40 kg (88 lbs) and who have not received treatment with a drug that has the same mechanism of action.

About 50,000 people in the United States are infected with HIV each year and about 15,500 died in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Common side effects of Tivicay in clinical trials included insomnia and headache. Serious side effects included allergic reactions and abnormal liver function in patients who were also infected with hepatitis B or C.

Patients received either Tivicay or Merck & Co's Isentress in combination with other HIV drugs; or they received Atripla, a fixed-dose combination of three HIV drugs made by Gilead Sciences Inc.

A fifth trial evaluated the safety of the drug in children.

Last week the FDA approved Alere Inc's HIV test which is designed to diagnose HIV infection earlier.

Smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd is weighing options that could include an outright sale, it said on Monday, and its largest shareholder is stepping down from its board to avoid any possible conflict of interest.

BlackBerry, which pioneered mobile email with its first smartphones and email pagers, said on Monday it had set up a committee to review its options, sparking a debate over whether Canada’s one-time crown jewel is more valuable as a whole or snapped up piece by piece by competitors or private investors.

The company said Prem Watsa, whose Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd is BlackBerry’s biggest shareholder, was leaving the board as BlackBerry determines its next steps.

Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper said Fairfax was talking to industry and private equity players about possibility taking BlackBerry private. Fairfax did not respond to requests for comment.

Other potential buyers of BlackBerry assets, if not the company itself, could include deep-pocketed Canadian pension funds, as well as some of its rivals.

BlackBerry, once a stock market darling, has bled market share to Apple Inc and phones using Google Inc’s Android operating system, and its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones have failed to gain traction with consumers.

BlackBerry shares rose more than 10 percent to $10.78 in New York and C$11.13 in Toronto in afternoon trading. But the shares remain well below their levels in June, before the company reported dismal results that included poor sales of the BlackBerry 10 that it viewed as key to a turnaround.

The share price peaked at about C$150 in June 2008, when BlackBerry, then known as Research In Motion, had a market capitalization of more than $80 billion.

BlackBerry’s assets include a shrinking, yet well-regarded services business that powers its security-focused messaging system, worth $3 billion to $4.5 billion; a collection of patents that could be worth $2 billion to $3 billion; and $3.1 billion in cash and investments, according to analysts.

Even at a conservative estimate, that is more than the company’s $5.4 billion market capitalization, although analysts say the smartphones that bear its name have little or no value and it might cost $2 billion to shut the unit that makes them.

BlackBerry’s fate is likely to involve the Canadian government, which vets foreign takeovers of domestic companies. The government said it would not comment on speculation, but a spokesman for Industry Minister James Moore said the government wished BlackBerry well in its search for new options.

Companies tipped as possible partners for BlackBerry have included Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc, as well as Lenovo Group Ltd, where a senior executive said earlier this year the Chinese computer maker would consider a bid for BlackBerry to boost its own mobile business.

But Chinese involvement would trigger deep concerns about security issues from the Canadian government.

Sources say Wall Street bankers have also pitched deals involving BlackBerry to companies such as HTC Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, so far without success.

Watsa said Fairfax has “no current intention” to sell its BlackBerry shares – some 10 percent of the company. But if he remained on the board of directors, he would have a conflict of interest if he wanted to be part of a play for BlackBerry.

“I continue to be a strong supporter of the company, the board and management as they move forward during this process,” he said in a statement.

Analysts expressed skepticism about the new committee, noting that BlackBerry announced a review more than a year ago when it hired JPMorgan and RBC as financial advisers. A source said both are still involved in the current strategic review.

“While a change in structure could result in a higher stock price in the near term, we do not envision any changes that would help BlackBerry reverse the significant smartphone share loss or rapid decline in service revenues,” said Tim Long, analyst at BMO Capital Markets.

BREATHING ROOM

A source familiar with the situation told Reuters that the board decided to form the special committee last week. It was not clear if that decision came before or after Reuters reported that BlackBerry was warming to the idea of going private to give itself room to recover.

One source said BlackBerry has been talking to private equity firm Silver Lake Partners about potential collaboration in enterprise computing.

Canadian pension funds, with their long-term investment horizons, are among those with the money and domestic credentials to take a run at BlackBerry.

Three of Canada’s big pension funds declined to comment. But senior executive at two of the others said they and their peers would definitely consider partnering with private equity in any deal for BlackBerry.

Legal experts say any deal taking BlackBerry private would work best if it had Canadian involvement.

“There is little question that the federal government would prefer a made-in-Canada approach,” said Subrata Bhattacharjee, co-chair of the national trade and competition group at the Heenan Blaikie law firm in Toronto.

“A foreign strategic investor would certainly have to consider some very significant regulatory issues, including domestic and foreign antitrust concerns … Some foreign investors might also have to address national security concerns,” Bhattacharjee said.

BlackBerry said board member Timothy Dattels will chair the new committee, which will also include BlackBerry Chief Executive Thorsten Heins.

Dattels is a senior partner at private equity firm TPG Capital and a former top investment banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. His appointment to BlackBerry’s board in June last year sparked a flurry of speculation that the company might consider a leveraged buyout or going private.

The new BB10 devices hit store shelves this year just as the high-end smartphone segment was showing signs of saturation in markets such as the United States. Samsung Electronics recently reported results that fell shy of expectations, while Apple earlier this year reported its first quarterly profit decline in more than a decade.

On the mid- to low end of the market, competition is growing intense, with Chinese manufacturers such as Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp gaining ground.

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Venezuelans now need to worry about their hair.

Women in the city of Maracaibo in Venezuela should be careful when wearing their hair down. According to local news sources, a group known as “piranhas” are now stealing women’s hair -- and they prefer it straight.

The robbers will hold women at gunpoint in malls and tell them to tie their hair into a ponytail so that they can then cut it off and sell it to beauty salons as hair extensions, according to Venezuelan digital newspaper Informe 21.

Jhonatan Morales, a hair stylist in Venezuela, told Globovision news that the use of hair extensions has gone up by 30%, but that his salon “doesn’t buy from street vendors because we don’t know where that hair comes from.”

The mayor of Maracaibo, Eveling de Rosales, addressed the issue saying “men and women were being placed to guard and avoid this happening again.”

Venezuela’s soaring crime rates have been an issue in recent years. Caracas, the country’s capital, is the third most violent city in the world, according to a study by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice.

The murder rate in the South American country has soared since Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. In 2012 it was at 73 per 100,000 inhabitants, almost 15 times the U.S. rate, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Now this is d story. The Guy got the girl Pregnant 3ce and he has bin askin her to abort but this is the 4th pregnancy and she said she won't abort it den the guy dis-appeared only for her to him with another girl and the girl is also pregnant for him. So did she do the right thing? I tire for this matter I no fit Judge