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ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) — Turkey’s foreign minister denied any government link to a controversial historical drama being broadcast on Turkey’s state television network.

Israel has been widely criticized for its offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.

The denial comes after the Israeli government accused the program of being state-sponsored “incitement.”

“As far as I understand, the series is produced by a private company. TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corp.) is an independent organization after all,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said during a brief appearance before journalists at Ankara airport. (more…)

KYO, Japan (CNN) — The ambassadors of eight Western nations urged Japan on Friday to consider signing The Hague Convention on international child abduction.

Christopher Savoie was jailed in Japan after trying to get kids back from their mother.

The meeting came as an American Christopher Savoie, jailed for allegedly wresting his two children away from his ex-wife, was released by Japanese authorities and was on his way home to Tennessee. (more…)

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change — the party of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai — is boycotting the country’s unity government, the party’s leader said Friday.

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai says his party will not attend cabinet meetings.

“This is a constitutional crisis,” said Tsvangirai as he railed against President Robert Mugabe’s party. “ZanuPF [Mugabe's party] cannot run government alone constitutionally and legally.” (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Google on Thursday declared the worst of the recession over and paved the way for a return to heavy spending on expansion as it reported a surprisingly strong 8 per cent jump in net revenues in its latest quarter.

Google has reported an 8 percent jump in revenues.

The optimism reflected what the company said was an across-the-board recovery in online advertising, with even the struggling financial services sector showing a return to growth. (more…)

CNN) — After scouring northern Colorado by foot and air, frantically chasing a Mylar balloon for miles and repeatedly interviewing his big brother, authorities ended the search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene where it began — at his house.

6-year-old Falcon Heene says he was hiding in a box in the attic while authorities were searching for him.

1 of 3 He was in a box. In the attic. The whole time.

“I played with my toys and took a nap,” Falcon told a group of reporters outside his home Thursday afternoon.

“He says he was hiding in the attic,” said Falcon’s father, meteorologist Richard Heene, clutching his son. “He says it’s because I yelled at him.”

“I’m sorry I yelled at him,” added Heene, tearfully hugging the boy. (more…)

Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, had its first net loss since the company began reporting quarterly in 1996, hurt by costs related to a joint venture with Siemens AG and on weaker demand.

The company reported a net loss of 559 million euros ($834 million), from a profit of 1.09 billion euros in the year- earlier period. Sales declined to 9.8 billion euros. Analysts in Bloomberg surveys had expected on average a profit of 367 million euros and sales of 10.03 billion euros.

The Espoo, Finland-based company took a goodwill writedown of 908 million euros on its Nokia Siemens Networks venture. Nokia said its handset market share was unchanged at 38 percent and will stay at that level in the fourth quarter, while smart- phone sales fell. Nokia’s N97 smart phones are being stacked up against Apple’s iPhone, which has access to the biggest collection of downloadable software and media. (more…)

Leona Lewis is recovering after being attacked during a book signing at Waterstone’s in London’s Piccadilly yesterday afternoon (October 14), her spokesperson has confirmed.

Lewis was reportedly punched in the head by a man who had queued patiently to meet her at the store, where she was signing copies of her new autobiography ‘Dreams’.

Fan-recorded footage of the incident has since emerged and can be seen by scrolling down now.

Police have confirmed that a man has been arrested in connection to the seemingly unprovoked attack, reports BBC News. (more…)

The anticipated new issue of People magazine with new photos of Jaycee Lee Dugard hits newsstands Friday.

The magazine is a popular title at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, located at 5555 S. Virginia St.; Borders Books, 4995 S. Virginia St. and Borders Express at Meadowood Mall.

Officials at those businesses said they would have to check with their magazine distributors to order any additional copies if their issues sell out. (more…)

Hollywood history is overflowing with sad tales of storytellers unwilling or unable to share their vision with someone else. And when you look back on barely speaking “collaborators” like Mark Steven Johnson and John Irving (”Simon Birch”), Tom Clancy and Phillip Noyce (”Patriot Games”) or Zack Snyder and Alan Moore (”Watchmen”), it’s no wonder that such unusually matched folks had trouble finding common ground. Much like the classic children’s tale “Where the Wild Things Are,” however, the behind-the-scenes story of Maurice Sendak and Spike Jonze had a happy ending.

When now-81-year-old Sendak originally published his beloved tale of a boy named Max and his adventures, it seemed unlikely that “Where the Wild Things Are” would ever be a movie, and the decades that followed only reinforced the notion that it was unfilmable. In the mid-’90s, however, visionary filmmaker Jonze took the industry by storm — and if he could make us believe we were inside John Malkovich’s head, why not Sendak’s fantasy land? (more…)

If you’re torn about how worried to be about the H1N1 flu virus, you’re not alone.

Consider: “I think the hysteria of H1N1 concerns me the most.” That’s Paul M. Bolger, medical director for emergency medicine at Trinity Regional Health System.

“Let’s say it’s equivalent to a seasonal flu” in terms of symptom severity and mortality, countered Louis M. Katz, the medical director of the Scott County Health Department, an infectious-diseases specialist, and the executive vice president for medical affairs of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. “Multiply 30[,000] or 40,000 [typical annual deaths in the United States from seasonal influenza] times five or six, or three or four, in terms of number of deaths. It’s a big deal. It’s a huge deal. Both from the standpoint of what we call morbidity and mortality – illness and death – and from the impact on societal operations and infrastructure.” (more…)