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Spanish bank launches wristband that can pay like a credit card
Following a successful summer trial, a Spanish bank is set to release the first credit and debit card contactless wristbands to thousands of customers.
Many banks across Europe are set to introduce the new technology in the coming...
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US Sec of State Clinton meets European FMs over MidEast, Iran
1. Wide of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mid-East envoy George Mitchell walking towards microphones
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State:
"It is our hope that the work that needs to be done to move the...
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The US Senate has passed new rules spelling out how the gov't eavesdrops on phone calls and e-mails. It gives the president much of what he wanted and gives legal immunity to telecom companies that helped in the snooping after the 9/11 attacks
HEADLINE: US Senate passes controversial wiretapping bill
CAPTION: The US Senate has passed new rules spelling out how the gov't eavesdrops on phone calls and e-mails. It gives the president much of what he wanted and gives legal...
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SPACE: US SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR MISSION
English/Nat
NASA has given scientists an extra day, until Thursday, to try to get an experimental satellite released by the space shuttle Endeavour operating properly.
The device remains shut down after it began to overheat unexpectedly...
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SKorea fears North not far from gaining ability to fire long range missile
1. Wide of South Korean Ministry of Defence spokesman briefing
2. Cutaway of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kim Min-seok, South Korean Ministry of Defence spokesperson:
"A nuclear warhead weighs about 650 kilograms. (To have the full...
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Director General of the IAEA meets South Korean nuclear envoy
1. Various of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, and officials walking inside the South Korean Foreign Ministry
2. Amano and South Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula...
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Attack on mobile phone company, kills two, injures three; IED
Baghdad''s Mansour neighbourhood
1. Wide shot police cars and military vehicle blocking road at site of shooting attack on mobile phone company offices
2. US military vehicle and soldiers
3. Sign reading ''Iraqna'' (mobile phone...
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SPACE: NASA IMAGES OF EARTH
English/Nat
New pictures, taken from space, illustrate the dramatic natural changes that take place every year on Earth.
The technology manages to compress an entire year of satellite data into just a few seconds.
The latest images are...
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Foreign Min's speech at EU Chamber of Commerce, sot on NKorea tension
1. South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan greeting participants in meeting of European Union Chamber of Commerce in Korea
2. Close-up of Yu
3. Pan of forum
4. Mid of participants
5. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Yu Myung-hwan, South Korean...
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Cuba's new govt to allow ordinary Cubans to get cell phone service
1. Zoom in to mobile phone store
2. People in store, seen through glass
3. Woman placing phones on display in shop window
4. Close up phone
5. Close of another phone
6. Tilt up man using mobile phone
7. Man talking on mobile
8. Zoom in...
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the company's first and long-awaited smartphone Wednesday years after competitors Apple and Samsung have built a stronghold in the market. (June 18)
Amazon has introduced a new smartphone with audio and object recognition technology that seeks to make it easier for consumers to locate and purchase products and services from the nation's largest e-commerce company.
The new Fire phone...
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Kuwaitis step up emergency drills to prepare for Iraqi attack
1. Various shots trucks exploding and bursting into flames
2. Mid shot smoke rising from burning trucks
3. Tit-up building
4. Mid shot 'wounded' being treated by medics
5. Close-up simulated wound
6. Close-up injured man
7. Mid shot...
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Merkel and Solana arrive ahead of summit
1. Exterior front of European Council building, officials
2. German EU presidency banner on building
3. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arriving, shakes hands with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier...
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GEORGIA: TBILISI: NEW TELEPHONE NETWORK
Eng/Russian/Nat
The former Russian state of Georgia is slowly undergoing the tough transition to a market economy.
The nation of five and a half (m) million people has seen four civil wars since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991...
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Japan - Shares in Japans cell phone company soar
Shares in Japan's top cellular-phone company soared on Thursday (22/10) in the world's biggest initial public stock offering to date. NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., commonly known as NTT DoCoMo, raised 2.13 trillion yen (dlrs...
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SPACE: US SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA MISSION UPDATE
English/Nat
The space shuttle programme has suffered an expensive setback after a twelve mile long rope - attached to a 433 (m) million U-S dollar satellite - snapped.
The satellite was being used in an experiment to create...
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USA: HILLARY CLINTON IN SATELLITE LINK UP WITH SWITZERLAND
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America's First Lady contradicted U-S government policy on Wednesday by telling a group of Arab and Palestinian students she supports the creation of an independent Palestine.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to the teenagers...
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Fishing apps to dancing light-wear clothes at the Launch Festival
San Francisco, CA - March 5, 2013
1. Mid of police car with flashing lights
2. Wide of Carbon Motors "E7" demo police car
3. Close of flashing light
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stacy Stephens - Director of Marketing, Carbon Motors...
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Supporters of hardline Sunni party protest against sectarian violence in Rawalpindi
Hundreds of supporters of the religious Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat party staged protests in Karachi and elsewhere in Pakistan on Sunday over sectarian violence which claimed at least eight lives two days earlier.
The bloody incident in the...
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Presidential spokesman comment on launch, situation at border
Seoul
1. Wide of South Korean Presidential Spokesman Lee Dong-kwan walking to news conference
2. Wide of Lee at podium
3. Cutaway of media
4. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Lee Dong-kwan, South Korean Presidential spokesman:
"We have confirmed...
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Scenes inside Command Centre, scientists watch launch video
1. Wide of satellite command centre in Pyongyang
2. Mid of screen at satellite command centre showing a replay of Wednesday's rocket launch
3. Various of command centre staff at their desks
4. Various of screens in command centre showing...
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WRAP Iran says it's successfully launched country's first satellite ADDS president
POOL Camera via IRINN
1. Wide of Iran's Omid satellite on launch platform
2. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President:
"God is great, God is great, congratulations to the Iranian nation and all freedom-seeking...
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Sony launches Xperia Z1 with high end camera
Here it is - Sony's new Xperia Z1.
The company's promising a better interactive experience with their new device which also includes a 5 inch full HD screen for higher definition picture quality.
Not only that but the smartphone can be...
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Cubans line up to buy cell phones after Castro lifts ban
1. Pull out to wide of exterior of telephone company store with crowd waiting outside
2. Mid shot of people waiting to buy mobile phones
3. People entering store
4. People at counter buying phones
5. Man counting out money at counter
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