21 NKoreans found on boat in SKorean waters (AP)

SEOUL, South Korea ? Twenty-one North Koreans have been found on a boat in South Korean waters in the Yellow Sea, the largest such arrival in nine months, an official said Saturday.

The boat was found floating off the northwestern South Korean island of Socheong earlier in the week and was handed over to the navy, a South Korean coast guard official in the port city of Incheon said.

He declined to be identified or provide more details because authorities were still questioning the North Koreans.

It wasn't clear how or why the North Koreans arrived in South Korean waters. South Korea's National Intelligence Service declined to comment, and neither Unification Ministry nor Joint Chiefs of Staff officials answered phone calls.

The arrival was the largest of its kind since February, when 31 North Koreans floated south on a boat in the Yellow Sea. Seoul later repatriated 27 of them and said the other four were allowed to remain in South Korea because they wanted to defect.

North Korea accused the South of holding the four against their will. South Korea has denied the allegations.

Tensions are high in the Yellow Sea area after a deadly North Korean artillery attack on a South Korean island last year.

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Canon offers new camera for Hollywood filmmakers (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Four decades after winning Academy Awards for its cinema lenses, Canon Inc. was back in Hollywood on Thursday, unveiling a new high-end digital video camera before an audience of some of the world's most famous filmmakers.

Fujio Mitarai, chief executive of the Japanese camera and office equipment giant, took the wraps of the movie camera, called Cinema EOS, in a packed theater on the Paramount Pictures movie studio lot.

At $20,000 for the body alone, the Cinema EOS is not cheap by consumer standards but is on the low end of what professional digital film cameras cost, which can reach into the six figures. Two zoom lenses intended for movie making will go for $45,000 and $47,000.

Making such costly cameras for professional users is somewhat of a departure for Canon, which makes up more than a third of its revenue from consumer electronics, and more than half from office equipment like all-in-one printer-copier-fax machines.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Mitarai said Canon's move into expensive high-end products for professionals comes in response to the rising yen and the movement of manufacturing to cheaper-labor countries abroad.

"Anything without high added value is now being manufactured in southeast Asian countries and China. So we need to shift into an era where all our products have an added value," Mitarai said. "That is one major trend in meeting the difficulties posed by the strong yen."

The camera draws on the popularity of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a single-lens reflex still camera that the company introduced in 2008 and which became widely embraced by independent filmmakers because of its ability to take full high-definition video at the 1920-by-1080 pixel resolution known as 1080p.

It didn't take long for its popularity to reach Hollywood.

The Mark II was used in the final episode of the last season of Fox's television show "House M.D.," as well as in the car racing scenes of "Iron Man 2" and certain scenes in "Captain America: The First Avenger," movies that Paramount distributed.

The Cinema EOS is similar in shape to a traditional still camera but works with a variety of mounts.

Mitarai said the camera's digital images had the warmth of film and brought out skin tones well. The company showed a number of short films that used the camera to show off how it functioned in action sequences, especially in tight areas that made use of its compact size.

The camera is compatible with an array of around 60 "EF," or electronic focus, lenses that work with Canon's still cameras. The company also introduced seven new lenses that are precise enough to work with super high-definition movie cameras made by other companies using a standard known as 4K.

"This is the camera that gave us the opportunity to work with you today," Mitarai told the crowd.

Filmmakers including Jon Favreau, Ron Howard and Martin Scorcese were in attendance.

"Mr. Mitarai, welcome to Hollywood," Scorcese said.

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ECB cuts key rate at 1st Draghi meeting

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2011 file photo outgoing European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet, left, hands over a bell to his successor Mario Draghi from Italy at the end of a farewell ceremony at the old opera house in Frankfurt, Germany. Draghi officially takes over as head of the ECB on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in a high-pressure struggle with eurozone government leaders over how far the bank should go in rescuing indebted governments. (AP Photo/Arne Dedert, pool)

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2011 file photo outgoing European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet, left, hands over a bell to his successor Mario Draghi from Italy at the end of a farewell ceremony at the old opera house in Frankfurt, Germany. Draghi officially takes over as head of the ECB on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in a high-pressure struggle with eurozone government leaders over how far the bank should go in rescuing indebted governments. (AP Photo/Arne Dedert, pool)

Euro coins are photographed in Frankfurt, Germany. Monday, Oct.31, 2011. When Mario Draghi takes over as head of the European Central Bank on Tuesday, he faces a high-pressure struggle with eurozone governments over how much the bank should do to rescue indebted countries. Where he can draw a line will go far to determine the outcome of Europe's government debt crisis and the future of the euro. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

(AP) ? The European Central Bank has cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point under new head Mario Draghi as it tries to boost an economy that's reeling from a government debt crisis, particularly in Greece.

The move, which comes earlier than expected by many economists, takes the bank's benchmark rate to 1.25 percent.

European growth is expected to slow to near, or below zero, in the last three months of the year.

Uncertainty from Europe's debt crisis is a factor. Business and consumers are reluctant to spend and investors are worried of the potential for more financial turmoil if Greece defaults on its debts.

The hope in the markets is that the rate cut will shore up confidence at a time when Europe is embroiled in a crisis stemming from Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's pledge to hold a referendum on the country's latest bailout package. That triggered fears of a disorderly Greek debt default and its possible exit from the euro. However, it looks like the referendum could be canned later as Papandreou fights for his political survival.

Now markets are waiting for Draghi's first news conference to see if he indicates the bank is willing to intervene more forcefully in bond markets to keep Greece's troubles from spreading to Spain and Italy.

The bank's key rate had stood at 1.5 percent after increases in April and July aimed at warding off inflation.

Since then the economic outlook has worsened significantly for the 17 countries that use the euro, leading many analysts to think the bank was leaning toward a rate cut. But many thought it would not come until December or earlier next year.

Inflation at an annual rate of 3.0 percent ? well above the bank's goal of just under 2 percent ? gave ammunition to those arguing for a delay. Rate cuts spur growth but can worsen inflation, and fighting inflation is the bank's chief mission.

But leading indicators on business confidence have been sending ominous signs about growth, and Draghi's predecessor Jean-Claude Trichet last month stressed the high level of uncertainty facing Europe's economy.

Trichet's failure to provide a steer about when rates might move was interpreted as an attempt to give his successor a free hand.

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Plane from US lands on belly in Poland, none hurt

A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The plane was en route from Newark with 230 people on board but no one was injured. (AP Photo) POLAND OUT

A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The plane was en route from Newark with 230 people on board but no one was injured. (AP Photo) POLAND OUT

A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Poland,Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The plane was en route from Newark with 230 people onboard but no one was injured. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Chopin airport, Warsaw Poland,Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The plane was en route from Newark with 230 people onboard but no one was injured. (AP Photo) POLAND OUT

Firefighters are busy at a Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines after an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Poland,Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The plane was en route from Newark with 230 people onboard but no one was injured. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Passangers run away after evacuation from a Polish Airlines LOT Boeing 767 that landed in emergency on Chopin airport, in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The plane was en route from Newark with 230 people onboard but no one was injured. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

(AP) ? A Boeing airliner from the U.S. carrying 231 people was forced to land on its belly in Warsaw after its landing gear failed to open, triggering sparks and small fires. No one was hurt, but some passengers sobbed as they prayed for a safe landing.

Capt. Tadeusz Wrona, who handled the descent on Tuesday so smoothly that many on board thought the Boeing 767 had landed on its wheels, was instantly hailed as a hero in Poland and online, where within hours he was the focus of several Facebook fan pages.

The successful landing of the Polish LOT airlines flight, which was traveling from Newark, New Jersey, also was a huge relief for a country that has suffered multiple aviation disasters in recent years, including the April 2010 crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.

"I was praying for the pilot not to lose control because we started to make circles over the airport. It was terrible," passenger Teresa Kowalik told reporters at the airport. "We owe everything to the pilot. He really did a great job."

LOT said the plane suffered "a central hydraulic system failure," indicating that the hydraulics used to extend the landing gear, or undercarriage, failed. The failure of an entire undercarriage was unprecedented for a Boeing 767 and highly unusual overall, according to aviation data and experts.

The pilots discovered there was a problem about half an hour after leaving Newark, said LOT president Marcin Pirog. They circled the plane above the airport for about one hour before descending, partly to keep trying to release the landing gear, and partly to use up fuel to lessen the risk of a blaze.

The pilot told passengers four hours into the flight that the plane faced technical problems, said a passenger who gave only her first name, Malgorzata.

"The pilot addressed us a number of times and said we should follow instructions. Later, a flight attendant said there might be a fire, and at that point people began to get nervous and uncertain," she said.

"I started to cry, and the men around me were also crying," said another passenger, Krystyna Dabrowska, 62. "I thought that was the end of me."

By the time the plane landed, escorted by two Polish F-16 fighter jets, its fuel tanks were nearly empty, LOT spokesman Leszek Chorzewski said.

A fire brigade laid out special flame retardant foam for the plane to land on. On landing, sparks flew from the engine and small fires erupted under the plane but were immediately put out by firefighters.

The landing itself was so smooth that "we all thought we had landed on wheels," said Andrzej Pinno, a 68-year-old passenger.

Passengers even applauded, but then grew alarmed when sparks and black smoke rose from the plane. "This is the moment where we realized this was not a normal landing," added Pinno.

Passengers were then evacuated using emergency slides. They were taken to a medical center where they were kept several hours before being released to anxious relatives gathered at the airport.

"We were waiting for a crash, and we waited and waited and waited ? and thank God it never happened," said Greg Cohen, a passenger from Livingston, New Jersey. "It was a very lucky flight, a very, very great pilot. We are very fortunate."

Echoing the passengers, Polish officials and national media declared the pilots and rest of the crew heroes. LOT said there were 11 crew and 220 passengers on Flight LO 016.

LOT airlines president, Pirog, told reporters that Wrona and co-pilot Jerzy Szwartz carried out a "perfect emergency landing," which prevented anyone from being injured. "Unfortunately it rarely ends this way," Pirog said.

Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski congratulated and thanked the crew and emergency workers for ensuring no one was hurt. He said he planned to decorate the crew members with state honors.

"I thank everyone with my whole heart in the name of Poland," said Komorowski, who spoke briefly by phone with the pilot.

Within hours, at least six Facebook fan pages devoted to Capt. Wrona had appeared. On Twitter, admiration was profuse. One Tweeter insisted, "Give that pilot a medal!" Others drew comparisons to Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who became a national hero in the U.S. when he landed a crippled US Airways jet in the Hudson River and saved 155 lives.

LOT, Poland's national flag carrier, said that Wrona was one of its most experienced pilots and had been flying Boeings for 20 years. He is also experienced in flying gliders, and some media reports suggested that may have helped him make such a successful emergency landing.

Andrzej Majchrzak, head of Wrona's glider club in the southwestern city of Leszno, said that glider pilots are specially trained to make delicate landings.

"The pilot's skills are of enormous importance ... It takes a very delicate approach to make a careful touchdown and avoid damaging the glider, which is a very delicate machine," Majchrzak said.

He said Wrona, a club member since 2001, is a "responsible pilot, not one who would take risks that could end in tragedy."

Officials said Warsaw's Frederic Chopin International Airport would remain closed until Thursday. Flights which had been scheduled to land in Warsaw have been diverted to Lodz, Gdansk and Krakow. The airport has two intersecting runways. The plane landed at the intersection, leaving both unusable temporarily.

The undercarriage of the Boeing 767 is made up of three parts, one under the nose and one below each of two wings. According to data from the Aviation Safety Network, there has never been such an incident involving the failure of the entire undercarriage on a Boeing 767.

Patrick Smith, a Boston-based pilot who flies the Boeing 767 for a major U.S. airline, said something "very mysterious" must have occurred.

"Something pretty high up in the architecture of the landing system must have happened for all three gears not to come down," Smith said. "Something that was obviously common to all three gears."

He said, however, that he did not expect the incident to have any lasting impact on Boeing, or on LOT.

"It's a plane with a long, proven track record and an excellent safety record. And the same applies to LOT."

The landing occurred on All Saints' Day, a major holiday in largely Roman Catholic Poland when people visit the graveyards of departed loved ones and national heroes. Many Poles on Tuesday also paid homage to the 96 people who were killed in the plane crash in Russia last year, including the then president, Kaczynski , and dozens of other state officials.

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AP aviation writer Slobodan Lekic in Brussels contributed to this report.

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House committee OKs new penalties against Iran (AP)

WASHINGTON ? A House committee has approved new and tougher penalties against Iran, focusing on companies that do business with Tehran as well as its central bank.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved two bills aimed at clamping down on Iran's nuclear weapons program. The committee chairwoman, GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (ih-lay-AH'-nah rahs LAY'-tih-nehn) of Florida, says Iran's oil income and business indirectly benefit a government that sponsors terrorism.

The U.S. and the U.N. have imposed several rounds of penalties already because of widespread suspicions that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran denies that and says its program is for peaceful purposes.

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd), has acknowledged that the current penalties were impeding Iran's financial institutions.

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Deaths From Abuse of Painkillers Triple in a Decade: CDC (HealthDay)

TUESDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- The number of deaths from prescription drug overdoses has tripled in a decade, hitting a peak of 36,000 fatalities in 2008, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday.

"The unfortunate and shocking news is that we are in the midst of an epidemic of prescription overdose in this country," Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a midday news conference.

Since 1999, there have been significant increases not only in overdose death rates, but in the sales of prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone, and admission for treatment of abuse of these drugs, the CDC said.

"Now there are more peopled killed by prescription narcotics than from heroin and cocaine combined," Frieden said.

In 1999 there were 4,000 deaths related to painkillers, but by 2008 that number had risen by a factor of three, to 15,000 deaths.

By 2010, 12 million Americans said they were using opioid pain relievers without a prescription. In 2009, almost 500,000 emergency room visits were for abuse of these painkillers. This costs health insurance companies as much as $72 billion a year in direct costs, the CDC said in a report titled Vital Sign Report: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses in the U.S.

According to the report, more men than women die of overdoses from prescription painkillers, and the overdose rates are highest among middle-aged adults. Also, people living in rural areas are almost twice as likely to overdose on opioid pain relievers than city residents, the report said.

Among ethnic groups the highest overdose rates are among whites and American Indian or Alaska Natives. An estimated one in 10 American Indians and Alaska Natives abuses opioid pain relievers, compared with one in 20 whites and one in 30 blacks, according to the report.

Part of the impetus for the epidemic is an increase in the number of prescriptions being written, Frieden said. "Enough narcotics are prescribed to give every adult in America one month of prescription narcotics," he said. "This stems from a few irresponsible doctors. The burden of dangerous drugs is being created more by a few irresponsible doctors than by drug pushers on street corners."

Much of the responsibility for stopping the epidemic rests with the states and their regulation of prescription drugs, Frieden said. "State policy can make a huge difference in allowing or controlling this epidemic to proceed," he said.

Part of the problem: More of these drugs are available. Between 1999 and 2010, the amount of opioid painkillers sold to pharmacies, hospitals and doctors increased fourfold, the report said.

In addition, states are reporting problems with so-called "pill mills," where doctors prescribe large quantities of painkillers to people who don't need them. People are also getting prescriptions by going from doctor to doctor -- called "doctor shopping."

The epidemic also varies state to state. In 2008 and 2009, abuse of prescription painkillers ranged from one in 12 people in Oklahoma to one in 30 in Nebraska, the CDC found.

"Prescription painkillers are meant to help people in pain," Frieden said. "They are, however, highly addictive. Palliation of pain is a right and people with chronic pain, such as people with cancer whose pain cannot be relieved otherwise, can benefit enormously from effective pain relief," he said.

There are a number of steps that can be taken to combat the problem, Frieden said. First, states need to monitor who is prescribing these drugs and to whom, to identify doctors and patients who are getting prescriptions for non-medical use.

States also need to take action against abusers, Frieden said. One way is to limit patients with known drug problems to a single doctor for prescribing and a single pharmacy for filling prescriptions.

States also need to shut down pill mills and doctor shopping, Frieden said. Doctors can have their license revoked for prescribing abuses, he said.

Dr. Jeffrey N. Bernstein, medical director of the Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami, said that "poisoning death has now become the number-one cause of unintentional death, surpassing car accidents. A large percentage of those deaths involve opioid pain meds."

One reason these drugs have become so popular is that they're relatively easy to get, Bernstein said. "It's a lot easier to go to a doctor and get a prescription, or to buy somebody's prescription, or to steal it out of somebody's medicine cabinet than it is to go to one of the bad neighborhoods and take a chance with a dealer where you are somewhat risking your own life," he said.

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For more on prescription drug abuse, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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Android Market v3.3.11 APK now available, adds auto-update by default and other new settings

The latest revision of Google's Android Market app is hitting handsets now, and while it doesn't bring any new tabs for music, Android Police mentions a few changes you might find notable. Among them are the ability to select auto updating for apps as the default option, as well as a setting to auto update only when connected via to the internet via WiFi. One change stolen from Honeycomb is a setting to automatically add homescreen shortcuts for new apps, while the UI has also been tweaked with a smaller font, new app drawer icon, and voice search button. As usual, it will probably automatically appear on your device eventually, but those who can't wait can hit the source link and download the ripped APK of v3.1.11 right now.

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GOP group minus leaders Romney, Cain talk economy (AP)

PELLA, Iowa ? One by one, five Republican candidates for president took the stage Tuesday in the state that holds the first presidential contest to pitch themselves as the strongest to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama on voters' top issue: jobs.

Absent from the forum was the one Republican who has made that argument central to his second campaign for the White House: Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor, sitting atop most polls and a pile of cash, was in New York raising money.

And businessman Herman Cain took a pass, too, staying in Washington to deal with the fallout of the disclosure of sexual harassment allegations from the 1990s while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association.

So Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich looked to fill that vacuum, jockeying for relevance on corporate tax policy in hopes of gaining an edge with economic conservatives two months before the Iowa caucuses. In a GOP primary campaign with few major policy distinctions, the 90-minute forum illuminated incremental differences as the candidates worked to demonstrate savvy on voters' top concern.

Of those on stage, only Perry said he favored maintaining a tax on reintroducing corporate profits held offshore to the U.S.

"I would put a five-and-a-quarter percent rate on that money for one year, to allow it to be brought back in, to be able to create jobs," the Texas governor told the audience of about 400 at Vermeer Manufacturing, an agricultural plant, in Pella. Today the money is taxed at the 35-percent corporate rate.

Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, favors requiring no tax on the money if it is spent on a manufacturing plant and equipment. And Bachmann, Gingrich and Paul said they support a zero-percent tax, without strings.

"Without a doubt, it's their money," said Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman. "Profits are stimulus. That's the true stimulus."

All the candidates on stage called for vastly cutting federal regulations and overturning the health care law. They also support incentives ? to varying degrees ? for U.S. companies to bring money generated overseas back into the country on the argument the infusion of cash will spark expansion and hiring. Estimates range from $1.2 to 1.7 trillion in off-shore profits.

Studies have shown, however, that a similar holiday under President George W. Bush and a GOP-controlled Congress in 2004 and 2005 had little effect on job growth.

The forum was one of several this year in Iowa and New Hampshire, where the voting begins in January. The appearances are important for lesser-known candidates to meet voters in key early-voting states. Most of the multicandidate events in Iowa so far have been sponsored by social conservative groups, a potent force in Iowa's GOP caucus electorate. This one was put on by the National Manufacturers Association in hopes of giving Iowans a better sense of where candidates stand economically.

But the meeting's value was unclear, considering Romney, who is stressing his decades as an investment capital firm executive as proof of his economic savvy, and Cain, who is running on his record as a businessman, weren't there. Both are running ahead of the others in national and state polls.

"The ones that weren't here were the ones that missed out," said Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a pro-business Republican elected again last year after a dozen years away from the office and who co-hosted the event.

Romney chose to stick with his policy not to appear with his rivals on stage, except at nationally televised debates, even though he's competing more aggressively in Iowa than he had earlier this year and is trying to win over the pro-business segment of the GOP that lifted Branstad to victory last year.

"In my book it hurts him," said undecided Iowa Republican Connie Richards, a nursing home administrator who attended the Pella forum. "If they have an economic plan to present, I want to hear it, and I didn't today."

Of all of Romney's rivals, Perry is working the hardest to emerge as Romney's chief challenge on the economy ? and he has the money to do it.

But even though he had the opportunity, Perry took a pass on jabbing at Romney and focused on promoting his own plans.

"In Texas, or in Iowa, or whatever state it is, we know that the way you create jobs is not by overtaxing, overregulating or overlitigating," Perry said.

Paul, a libertarian Texas representative, ignited laughter when asked what he would like to hear Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke say at a scheduled Wednesday meeting on interest rates. "He was resigning," said Paul, who has called for the elimination of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Bachmann stressed opening international markets and declaring a moratorium on federal regulations. "We need the federal government to get off our back."

Santorum pitched his plan to eliminate the corporate income tax for companies that make products in the United States, saying: "We need to make more things in America again."

Although all the candidates sharply criticized Obama's approach to the economy, Gingrich was most aggressive, calling the president, "a left-wing radical," and arguing that unemployment compensation should require job-training.

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