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New York-based real estate developer Gale International, estimates the 1,500-acre city is 40% underway. Completion is slated for 2014. The cost: $35 billion, making it perhaps the world’s largest private real estate venture in history… where – South Korea’s Songdo City of course, near Incheon, South Korea!

One of the nation’s leading legal rights groups is calling on Congress to make major changes in the USA Patriot Act to reverse parts of the hurriedly passed law that have been found unconstitutional or have been abused to collect information on innocent people.

Researchers at Osaka University in Suita city in Osaka, Japan display their latest invention – a child robot ‘Child-robot with Biomimetic Body’.

Global US arms maker Northrop Grumman have claimed a significant first – producing a 100+ kilowatt laser beam using electrically powered equipment. Northrop Grumman’s been plugging along on this little project for years now, and at long last, the company has surpassed the proof of principle for ‘weapons grade’ power levels for high-energy lasers,” 100+ kilowatt milestone that it’s been striving for.