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Chinese town hires only 'tall and attractive' security officers

BEIJING: A Chinese town attempting to improve the image of its municipal security force has attracted controversy by saying they will only hire "tall and attractive" women under the age of 23.

Luxury holiday lure for energy savers

LONDON: People who take out loans to insulate their houses will be rewarded by being entered into competitions to win luxury holidays, the energy and climate change secretary said.

Social media 'one part' of Google strategy: CFO

SYDNEY: Internet giant Google on Sunday said social media was "absolutely" part of its strategy and would be embedded in "many of our products" but played down its rivalry with networking icon Facebook.

Chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said Google was at the centre of an exploding digital economy where computer power was "relentlessly, dramatically increasing" and innovation was crucial to survival.

"Search is clearly the core product of Google but many of our other products are having phenomenal trajectories," Pichette told Australian public television.

"The first driving principle of Google is in fact not money -- the first driving principle of Google is understanding that the Internet is changing the world," he added.

Pichette said Amazon and Apple were "winning" in the new technology race and Microsoft was a "formidable" competitor, but played down as media hype suggestions that Facebook was Google's next big rival.

"The digital world is exploding and it has so many chapters -- it has cloud computing, it has mobile, it does have social, it has searches, it has so many elements. Within that... social (networking) is just one chapter," said Pichette.

"Yes, absolutely it will be part of our strategy, yes it will be embedded in many of our products. But at the same time remember it's one chapter of an entire book."

It follows Facebook's launch of a next-generation messaging service this month, seen as a major challenge to Google's Gmail and fellow web-based email providers Yahoo! and Microsoft.

Microsoft's Hotmail currently has the most users, 361.7 million as of September, according to online tracking firm comScore, followed by Yahoo! with 273.1 million and Gmail with 193.3 million.

Pichette said Google's Android platform for mobile devices was a "fantastic opportunity" for the company, powering 200,000 handsets every 24 hours.

Android users also performed searches 50 times more frequently than people using other mobile devices, with obvious benefits for Google, he added.

"Now that everybody has a smartphone everybody searches, so these few hundred engineers (who developed Android) have accelerated (a market that) would have taken 10 years to develop into a few years," he said.

"My payback is absolutely unreal."

Lead found in women’s handbags

LONDON: When it came to realization that the levels of lead being used in children’s toys was off the charts, everyone became very aware of the toys they were buying. High lead levels have been found in other household products including paint and blinds as well. A US-based news channel broke the story that researches found extremely alarming levels of lead in some handbags from top retailers. This means it is time to be conscious of the handbags we are buying for other reasons that just the price tag.

Julian Schnabel opens photo album for London show

LONDON: Filmmaker and painter Julian Schnabel has ventured into the realm of photography in his latest exhibition, "Polaroids: Beyond Infinity and Grandview." The London display of a few dozen photographs, personally chosen by Schnabel from his collection of several hundred, is being shown at the Colnaghi gallery in Old Bond Street. "I didn't intend to show these pictures at all," said Schnabel. "I've just been working on collecting them over the past eight years. They're more satisfying to me than normal photographs, where you are so detached from the subject." The collection centers around Schnabel's world -- many of the pictures are of the interior of his New York home, the extravagant Palazzo Chupi which he designed and decorated. "I think it shows a painter's life," he added. "If one wanted to see what Julian made, or what paintings he would hang in a room, you could see. I'm not just photographing something I passed by. This building didn't exist until I built it." There are celebrities on show, notably a portrait of singer Lou Reed with his eyes closed and several of actor Mickey Rourke, intimately captured in sepia tones. Schnabel's family also features heavily, with numerous shots of the two sons from his latest marriage, Cy and Olmo. One captures the naked torso of Olmo set off-center against a background of blood-red flowers, with a scar of white light flashing across the print, the result of a technical flaw. "They are without any kind of mediation," said 58-year-old Schnabel, whose acclaimed 2007 movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" won four Oscar nominations. "They are not re-touched or made to be more perfect, they are simply the way they come out in life. As a painter, I love the unexpected accident. I lean toward that accident all the time." The large-format polaroids are taken on a giant dolly-mounted 20 x 24 inch camera, one of only six in the world. To a painter, the mechanism of photography poses difficult questions about the role of the creator and the extent to which ownership can be claimed for the image created. "The process is so obvious," he explained, gesturing toward the prints. "You take the camera, you point it somewhere, and you get what you get. I treat it like a found object. "I'm not satisfied with the way the image is without the paint. Here I've painted a purple triple helix on top. The added circle means beyond infinity, I've been using the symbol since the seventies." The London Evening Standard's Sue Steward praised the photograph collection as "wonderfully edgy."

Haneda, second major airport of Tokyo

TOKYO: Tokyo's second biggest airport Haneda opened a new runway and passenger terminal Thursday, making it a fully-fledged international airport and boosting Japan's capital as an Asian hub.

World Largest Cup of Coffee Record

A giant 8x8 foot specially constructed coffee mug held the 2,010 gallons of fresh coffee, the equivalent to 32,160 cups of fresh brewed coffee made byGourmetGiftBaskets.com - setting the new world record for the Largest Cup of Coffee to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir

NEW YORK: It's never too late: Mark Twain is back on the best-seller lists.

Pre-orders for the first of three planned volumes of his autobiography, released in full upon the centennial of Twain's death, have for the past few days placed the book in the top five of Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com. It is outpacing new works by Ken Follett, John Grisham and Jon Stewart.

Siew sees 2010 as year for robotics

TAIPEI: Intelligent robots will bring revolutionary changes to industrial development and the quality of living, and Taiwan stands to gain from the tremendous business opportunities created in the process, Vice President Vincent C. Siew said Oct. 19.

Robots benefit industry, ageing society

TAIPEI: Robots could be beneficial to both industry and an ageing society, Vice President Vincent Siew said Tuesday at the opening of a robot show in Taipei.

Scientists say Asia's corals dying on mass

SYDNEY: Coral reefs in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean are dying from the worst bleaching effect in more than a decade, Australian marine scientists said.

Study predicts women in power, Muslims heading West

WASHINGTON: In the next 40 years, an unprecedented number of women will be in positions of power, Muslim immigration to the West will rise, and office workers will be unchained from their cubicles, a report released last week says.

Michelle Obama emerges as powerful Democratic weapon

WASHINGTON: Just dubbed the world's most powerful woman, Michelle Obama, America's "Mom in chief" is using her growing political heft to refresh the crisis-wearied narrative of her husband's presidency.

Potatoes help get in shape: study

NEW YORK: There's cheerful news for potato lovers -- one does not need to stop consuming them to lose weight, a study says.

Time, like others, may come to an end

WASHINGTON: The end of the world as we know it cannot be avoided, but it can be predicted, according to a group of astrophysicists who see a 50 percent chance of the final countdown ending in 3.7 billion years.

Yahoo! summit focuses on cyber bullies

SUNNYVALE: Educators, police and non-profit groups gathered at Yahoo! on Friday to collaborate on battling cyber bullies and other dangers faced by children on the Internet.

German scientists unveil self-driving car

BERLIN: Scientists in Germany unveiling the latest self-driven car on Wednesday said the days of humans behind the wheel are numbered and that their technology can slash accidents and help the environment.

Google king of online ads: Bing contender

SAN FRANCISCO: Industry tracker SearchIgnite said on Tuesday that Google has tightened its powerful grip on US internet advertising revenue but a Bing-Yahoo! alliance is fielding a viable challenge.

More than one third of women abused: UN

UNITED NATIONS: More than a third of all women in the world have been forced into sex, beaten or abused by a partner or family member, a top UN official.