TOKYO (Reuters) ? Toshiba Corp (6502.T) on Monday denied a newspaper report it was set to propose an equity tie-up with scandal-hit Olympus Corp (7733.T).
"There is no truth to this," a Toshiba spokesman told Reuters, after the Nikkan Kogyo said the company was expected to submit a business plan to Olympus's financial advisers.
(Reporting by Isabel Reynolds; Editing by Chris Gallagher)
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) ? Internet giants Google and Facebook told an Indian court on Monday that it is not possible for companies to block offensive content that appears on their websites, in a case that has stoked fears about censorship in the world's largest democracy.
Google and Facebook are among 21 companies that have been asked to develop a mechanism to block objectionable material, after a private petitioner took the websites to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians.
At the heart of the dispute is a law passed last year in the country that makes companies responsible for user content posted on their websites, requiring them to take it down within 36 hours in case of a complaint.
The case was originally filed in a lower court, but the companies have appealed to the Delhi High Court, challenging the lower court's ruling asking them to take down some content.
"The search engine only takes you till the website. What happens after that is beyond a search engine's control," Neeraj Kishan Kaul, a lawyer for Google's Indian unit, told a packed High Court hearing on Monday.
"If you use blocks, which is very easy for people to say, you will inadvertently block other things as well. For example: the word 'sex'. Even a government document like a voter ID list or a passport has the word 'sex'," he added.
Siddharth Luthra, a lawyer for Facebook told the court it was not possible for the social network to "single out" any individual on the basis of religion or views and said the users should be held responsible for content they post.
Less than a tenth of India's 1.2 billion population have access to Internet although its 100-odd million users make it the third biggest Internet market after China and the United States. Internet users in India are seen nearly tripling to 300 million over the next three years.
Despite the new rules to block offensive content, India's Internet access is still largely free unlike the tight controls in neighboring China.
Civil rights groups have opposed the new laws. But politicians say that posting offensive images in the socially conservative country with a history of violence between religious groups presents a danger to the public as Internet use grows.
The high court will resume hearing the case on Thursday, Justice Suresh Kait said. The judge was last week quoted by local media warning the websites of China-style controls if they did not create a means to curb material seen as offensive.
(Writing by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Matthias Williams)
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Two of the 129 Americans who escaped injury when a submerged rock brought down a cruise ship shortly after departing an Italian port Friday tell TODAY's Lester Holt that the crew appeared was unprepared and unsure about emergency procedures.
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By msnbc.com staff and news services
Updated at 10:40 a.m. ET:
Two more bodies were recovered from the capsized Italian cruise ship, raising the official death toll to 5, as investigators looked into accusations that the captain abandoned ship early.
The bodies were recovered by divers from a restaurant area that was under water. Fifteen people are still unaccounted for.
Updated at 10:10 a.m. ET:
Two?survivors of the Italian cruise ship that hit a reef are among those who said the captain abandoned ship early. A prosecutor earlier said he's investigating those allegations.
Ophelie Gondelle and David Du Pays of Marseille, France,?said they saw the captain in a lifeboat, covered by a blanket, well before all the passengers were off the ship. They insisted on telling a reporter what they saw, so incensed that ? according to them ? the captain had abandoned the ship before everyone had been evacuated.
"The commander left before and was on the dock before everyone was off," said Gondelle, 28, a French military officer.
"Normally the commander should leave at the end," said Du Pays, a police officer who said he helped an injured passenger to a rescue boat. "I did what I could."
Updated at 7:25 a.m. ET:
An Italian prosecutor confirms he's investigating?allegations from passengers and others that the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia abandoned the stricken liner before all the passengers had left.
Officials believe the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, had brought the 114,500-tonne vessel too close to the shore, where it struck the rock, tearing a large gash in the hull.

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A combination photo shows a South Korean couple after they were rescued from the Costa Concordia.
Three people are confirmed dead after the huge cruise ship carrying more than 4,200 people ran aground on Friday night. Three people -- a South Korean couple and a crew member -- have reportedly been rescued.
Rescuers found the crew member, chief purser Manrico Gianpetroni, after hearing his screams. He suffered a broken leg, Reuters reports.
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Rescue crews were searching for 17 missing people in our around the ship, down from around 40 people who were unaccounted for right after the luxury liner went down, Sky News reports.?
Updated at 6:50 a.m. ET:
The U.S. Embassy in Rome issues a statement revising the number of Americans estimated on board the Costa Concordia to 125 from 126.
"We continue to account for and provide emergency assistance to them," the Embassy via Twitter.
Panic ensues after a luxury cruise ship dubbed the "Floating Temple of Fun" runs aground off Italy. NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports.
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A Korean couple on their honeymoon were taken off the ship early on Sunday.? A third person, reportedly a crew member, was being removed late Sunday morning, according to Sky News.
Updated at 5:50 a.m. ET:
Reuters reports that teams are painstakingly checking thousands of rooms on the Costa Concordia for the nearly 40 people still missing after the huge vessels foundered and keeled over with more than 4,000 n board, killing at least three and injuring 70.
A Korean couple on their honeymoon were taken off the ship early on Sunday.? A third person, reportedly a crew member, was being removed late Sunday morning.
Reuters adds:
The task is akin to searching a small town - but one tilted on its side, and largely in darkness and submerged in freezing water. Scores of divers were taking part.
Just after dawn on Sunday, a team made voice contact with a third survivor still on board the ship. "We are doing the impossible to reach this person," coast guard spokesman Luciano Nicastro told Italian television.
After midnight, rescue workers had found the two South Koreans still alive in a cabin, after locating them from several decks above, and brought them ashore, looking dazed but unharmed.
The captain of the luxury 114,500-tonne ship, Francesco Schettino, was under arrest and accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said.
Updated at 5:43 a.m. ET:
Sky News is reporting that a rescue team has placed a third survivor on a stretcher and are in the process of removing him from the ship.
Updated at 5:20 a.m. ET:?
A third survivor was located inside the overturned Costa Concordia cruise ship off the western coast of Italy, a spokesman for Italian firefighters told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Rescuers had spoken to the person inside the ship but the survivor had not yet been removed, Luca Cari told the AP.
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Rescue crews circling the wreckage of a cruise ship that ran aground off the Tuscan coast have heard sounds from within the ship, Britain's Sky News reported on Sunday.
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Sources said that fire department crews had heard sounds from deck 3, Sky reported. A few dozen people remained unaccounted for.
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Crews in dinghies were seen Sunday morning touching the hull with their hands. They were near the site of the 160-foot-long gash where water flooded in and caused the ship to fall on its side.
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Coast guard officials have said divers will try to enter the belly of the ship in case anyone is still inside Italian news reports quoting local officials say some 40 people remain unaccounted for out of the 4,200 passengers and crew. Three people are confirmed dead.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Muhammad Ali soaked in familiar cheers and chants along with a rendition of "Happy Birthday" on Saturday night as friends and admirers celebrated the boxing champ's coming 70th birthday at a party in his Kentucky hometown.
As party-goers mingled in a lobby of the Muhammad Ali Center before the party, Ali walked slowly to a second-floor balcony overlooking them. The crowd immediately began to clap, then broke into chants of "Ali! Ali!" followed by singing as Ali watched for about two minutes.
The three-time world heavyweight champion, who is battling Parkinson's disease, leaned against a rail and raised his right hand to wave to the crowd. Ali walked on his own but was at times assisted by his wife, Lonnie, and his sister-in-law. After the brief appearance, Ali went to his party.
Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis said his boyhood idol is "still the greatest."
"I feel so proud and honored that we're able to show our feelings and show our support for him," Lewis said.
Lewis said Ali's strength and influence extended far beyond the boxing ring in his humanitarian efforts.
"What he's done outside the ring ? just the bravery, the poise, the feeling, the sacrifice," Lewis said "... He's truly a great man."
The guest list numbered 350 for the private party, which doubled as a $1,000-per-person fundraiser for the Ali Center, the six-year-old cultural and education complex designed to be a legacy to his social activism. The six-story center also retraces Ali's career, including his epic bouts against Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Sonny Liston.
Guests paid tribute to Ali beforehand.
"The reason I loved him is because of his confidence," University of Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari said. "He would talk and then back it up. He had great courage and who had more fun than him?"
The guest list also included Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee and three American hikers who were imprisoned in Iran. Ali, perhaps the most prominent U.S. Muslim, lobbied for their release. Rocker John Mellencamp headlined the entertainment.
Ali turns 70 on Tuesday, and the party in his hometown is the first of five planned in the next few months. Not long after Ali's dramatic appearance on the balcony, the crowd began filing into a banquet hall for the party, which was closed to the public and reporters.
The self-proclaimed "Greatest of All Time" remains one of the world's most recognizable figures, even though he's been largely absent from the public eye recently as he fights Parkinson's disease.
Lonnie Ali said Friday that her husband has mixed feelings about the landmark birthday.
"He's glad he's here to turn 70, but he wants to be reassured he doesn't look 70," she said.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on Jan. 17, 1942, Ali took up boxing at age 12, when his bike was stolen and he wanted to find and whip the culprit. The boy was introduced to Joe Martin, a police officer who coached boxing at a local gym.
Ali's brother, 68-year-old Rahaman Ali, recalled on Saturday night that the champ was cheerful and happy as a youngster.
"As a little boy he (said) he would be the world's greatest fighter and be a great man," he said.
Ali flourished in the ring, becoming a top amateur and Olympic gold medalist. He made his professional debut in Louisville and arranged for a local children's hospital to receive proceeds from the fight.
Lewis said Ali ranks as the greatest of heavyweights, and he said he was inspired by Ali's fights.
"I used to get mad if I didn't see the Ali shuffle," Lewis said. "So I was always watching him, expecting some type of antic."
Ali won the heavyweight title in 1964, defeating the heavily favored Sonny Liston. Soon after, Ali ? who was raised in a Baptist family ? announced his conversion to Islam and changed his name.
While in his prime, Ali was stripped of his heavyweight crown in 1967 for refusing to be drafted for military service during the Vietnam War. He cited his religious beliefs as the reason for his refusal.
His decision alienated Ali from many across the U.S. and resulted in a draft-evasion conviction. Ali found himself embroiled in a long legal fight that ended in 1971, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor.
Ali lost his first bid to regain the heavyweight crown when Frazier knocked him down and took a decision in the "Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in 1971.
Ali regained the heavyweight title in 1974, defeating Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle." A year later, he outlasted Frazier in the epic "Thrilla in Manila" bout.
Last year, a frail Ali rose from his seat and clapped for his deceased rival at Frazier's funeral.
Ali's last title came in 1978 when he defeated Leon Spinks.
Ali retired from boxing in 1981 and devoted himself to social causes. He traveled the world on humanitarian missions, mingling with the masses and rubbing elbows with world leaders. Ali received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2005.
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Tougher and stronger material is a hybrid of silkworm and spider-produced silks
Spiders don't just dance well; they also spin remarkably tougher silk than silkworms do. Unfortunately, they're also cannibalistic and territorial, making then unsuitable for commercial silk farming. Scientists from the University of Notre Dame, University of Wyoming, and Kraig BioCraft Laboratories believe they've created the answer to that problem in the form of genetically-modified silkworms that can spin material twice as tough as regular silk.Recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research details how the scientists inserted spider silk genes into the silkworms. The resulting insect still looks like its normal counterparts, except it has glowing red eyes instead of the usual black. The material this worm produces is a hybrid of its own silk and that of a spider's.
In the future, the hybrid silk can be used to make sutures, stronger bandages, and artificial limbs. Outside of its medical applications, it can also be used for parachutes, bulletproof vests, athletic clothing, and strong lightweight fabrics.
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Denver ? Ben Roethlisberger was rarin? to go after rallying the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth quarter.
Standing on the sideline, the banged-up quarterback with the balky ankle was anxiously waiting for his chance to take the field in overtime.
Given the new rules, all the Pittsburgh defense had to do was hold the Denver Broncos to a field goal ? or, even better, a punt ? and Roethlisberger would get another crack.
It didn?t happen.
The next time Roethlisberger stepped onto the field was to congratulate Tim Tebow and the Broncos. Tebow worked his magic yet again, hitting Demaryius Thomas for an 80-yard catch and run for a stunning 29-23 in the AFC wild-card game on Sunday.
The play that ended the season for the Steelers (12-5) took all of 11 seconds.
?Any loss stinks for me and this is no different,? Roethlisberger said. ?It?s hard to put into words right now. It?s a frustrating thing.?
Moments earlier, the Steelers were poised to steal an improbable win in regulation. With his team trailing 23-16 with less than 4 minutes remaining, Roethlisberger found Jerricho Cotchery in the end zone for the game-tying score.
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After getting the ball back with 1:37 remaining, Roethlisberger ? showing little effects from an ankle injury that?s been bothering him for about a month? drove the team to the outer edge of field-goal range.
From there, it unraveled. Roethlisberger had the ball jarred loose by Elvis Dumervil before pouncing on it. But it pushed the Steelers out of range and led to overtime.
The Broncos (9-8) won the coin toss and Tebow quickly went to work.
One play later, the capacity crowd was roaring and the Steelers were reeling. The Broncos move on to play New England next weekend.
?Nice job by those guys,? Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said. ?They made the significant plays tonight.?
The heavily favored Steelers entered this game a dinged-up bunch. Roethlisberger was bothered by an ankle injury, but still played.
And well, too, finishing 22-for-44 for 289 yards and one TD pass. He also threw an interception.
Tailback Rashard Mendenhall didn?t play due to a knee injury and Pro Bowl center Maurkice Pouncey was inactive for the game because of a sore ankle.
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