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Thursday, January 9, 2014
SKorea singer bids farewell to late family members Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea — The leader of popular South Korean boy band Super Junior bade farewell Wednesday to his father and grandparents who died in a suspected murder-suicide this week. Local TV footage shows LeeTeuk, dressed in a black suit and tie, crying when other Super Junior members moved one coffin to a black limousine at a Seoul hospital Wednesday before leaving for a crematorium. South Korean media reports said LeeTeuk’s grandparents were found dead in bed while his father was hanging by a robe around his neck at their home Monday. The reports cited unidentified police officers as saying LeeTeuk’s father left a suicide note suggesting he committed suicide after strangling his parents. “I will go to the heaven with my parents,” LeeTeuk’s father was quoted as saying in the suicide note, according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper. The 30-year-old star’s father had been
suffering from depression and economic difficulties while living with his parents, both of whom were suffering from dementia. He divorced his wife in 1998. Police said Wednesday they couldn’t confirm the reports. LeeTeuk, whose real name is Park Jeong-su, has been serving mandatory military service since October 2012 and was given emergency leave to attend the funerals, according to the media reports. Super Junior, known for their boyishly
polished looks and synchronized dance routines, has enjoyed heartthrob status across Asia amid increasing popularity of South Korean pop culture in the region and elsewhere. The band, which debuted in 2005, gained wider fame in Asia in 2010 after a YouTube video clip showing a group of dancing Thai policemen impersonating its members became a sensation. The officers shimmied and swung their hips in the five-minute video spoof of “Sorry Sorry,” a hit song by Super Junior.
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Valencia strike late to hold Atletico in Cup
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LONDON — Space thriller “Gravity” and unflinching slavery saga “12 Years a Slave” are among leading contenders for the Academy Film Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars. “Gravity” has nominations in 11 categories, including
best picture and lead actress, for Sandra Bullock. “12 Years” star Chiwetel Ejiofor and director Steve McQueen had 10 nominations, including for best picture. Acting nominees announced Wednesday include Leonardo DiCaprio for “The Wolf of Wall Street” and Judi Dench for “Phi-
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TOKYO - More than 1,000 people have fallen ill after eating pesticidecontaminated frozen food as a scandal widens across Japan, Jiji Press reported Wednesday.
FILE - In this July 3, 2012 file photo, Lee Teuk, a member of South Korean boy band Super Junior, poses for the media after a press conference promoting their 6th album “Sexy, Free & Single” in Seoul, South Korea.
lomena.” The British prizes, known as BAFTAs, will be awarded at London’s Royal Opera House on Feb. 16. They are considered an indicator of likely success at Hollywood’s Academy Awards two weeks later. Last year, Iran hostage drama “Argo” took the BAFTA for best film and the best-picture Oscar.
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FILE-This publicity photo released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Sandra Bullock, left, as Dr. Ryan Stone and George Clooney as Matt Kowalsky in “Gravity.”
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Over 1,000 ill as Japan tainted food
‘Gravity’ ‘12 Years a Slave’ lead UK film awards Associated Press Writer
Morsi’s trial adjourned until Feb. 1
In this Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 photo, the notice of apology and recall is placed on the shelves of frozen food products at a supermarket in Fujisawa, near Tokyo. More than 1,000 people have fallen ill after eating pesticide-contaminated frozen food as a scandal widens across Japan, Jiji Press reported Wednesday.
People have reported vomiting, diarrhoea and other symptoms of food poisoning after eating products including pizza and lasagne made by a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings, the nation’s largest seafood firm. The number of people affected by the tainted food has now risen to over 1,000, with more than 200 taken ill in the northern main island of Hokkaido alone, Jiji said. In western Osaka prefecture, a nine-monthold baby was hospitalised with vomiting on Monday after eating a product called creamy corn croquettes, the report said. Police began investigating the company last month after it revealed some of its frozen food had been tainted with malathion, an agricultural chemical often used to kill aphids in corn and rice fields. Detectives are looking at the possibility that the pesticide was deliberately added to the food at some stage of production at a factory in Gunma, north of Tokyo, Jiji said. As of Wednesday, Maruha Nichiro has received about 630,000 phone calls from consumers in connection with the incident, including complaints from customers who had eaten tainted products and some reporting unusual odours, a company spokeswoman said. The food maker has recalled 6.4 million potentially tainted products, with 1.49 million packages recovered so far, she said. None of the products in question had been shipped overseas, the company said. While food scares do happen in Japan -- in August 2012 E. coli-riddled cabbage killed seven people and sickened dozens -- standards are relatively high. However, a much-vaunted reputation for safe and high quality food has been badly affected by the Fukushima atomic disaster, which saw acres of farmland polluted by nuclear fall-out and many countries restrict agricultural imports from the area.