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Sony Corp’s image sensor production will return to full capacity in the October-March half-year due to a pickup in smartphone demand, having spent part of the past year running just under full strength, the head of its chip-making subsidiary said. “The business environment for our customers is improving,” President Yasuhiro Ueda of Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp said at a news ...

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. said on Friday it expects third-quarter operating profit slipped 3.7 percent from a year earlier, as the consumer appliance and smartphone maker was likely hit by continued losses at its mobile division. LG, the world’s second-largest TV maker behind domestic rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, said in a brief regulatory filing it expects July-September operating ...

America’s Madison Keys beat the Czech Republic star on Thursday to reach the Semi-finals of the China Open Women’s Singles in Beijing. Madison Keys got off to a quick start, winning first round by 6-3, Petra Kvitova fights back in second round and won but in third round she lost the game by 7-6(5). Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova beat Alize Cornet ...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday to stop hypocrisy over Turkey’s membership of European Union (EU). “The question of Turkey is of course on everyone’s mind. … The hypocrisy over its membership will have to stop at some point,” Valls said in a speech at the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris. Valls also said the EU’s enlargement should ...

The first major hurricane threatening a direct hit on the United States in more than 10 years lashed Florida on Friday with heavy rains and winds after killing at least 339 people in Haiti on its destructive march north through the Caribbean. About 300,000 Florida households were without power, local media reported. In West Palm Beach, once lit street lights ...

President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize in a surprise choice after Colombians voted “No” to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of war. The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($930,000), will be presented in Oslo on Dec. 10. ($1 = 8.5891 Swedish crowns) Some Nobel watchers ...

There is “no more a single hideout of the terrorist” on the Pakistani soil under the military’s major offensive operation targeting terrorist and armed groups, Pakistani army spokesperson said on Thursday. Lt Gen. Asim Bajwa, spokesman for the Pakistan army, told in an interview to Chinese news agency Xinhua that “we have now cleared all areas in North Waziristan and ...

Younus Khan will miss next week’s first Test against West Indies in Dubai as he completes his recovery from dengue fever. The 38-year-old, who stuck a double-century at The Oval in August, needs another 544 runs to become the first Pakistani to top 10,000 in Tests. But he will have to wait to close further on the milestone, after being ruled out ...

Keysi Sayago from Monagas state has won the Miss Venezuela 2016 beauty pageant held in Caracas, Venezuela Mariam Habach, Miss Venezuela 2015 crowns contestant Miss Monagas Keysi Sayago, after she won the Miss Venezuela 2016 pageant. Keysi Sayago, 22, who represented the state of Monagas, won the title at Venezuela’s 64th national pageant and the right to represent her country ...

One in five cases of chemical-induced liver damage come from herbal and dietary supplements, a research review concludes. A decade ago, less than one in 10 cases could be linked to supplements, researchers report in the journal Hepatology. Up to half of U.S. adults consume supplements that contain ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, teas and proteins to improve diet, as ...