Fat chance? The robot that helps you lose weigth

Imagine something between a computer game and a pet that helps make you slim.

One inventor did just that and came up with Autom – a robot that will look dieters in the eye and tell them what they need to hear.

Korea’s Queen of Cannes returns

Jeon Do-yeon is ready to reclaim her place as one of the most influential women in entertainment.

Art dealer faces jail over Picasso fake

LOS ANGELES – A California art dealer agreed to plead guilty in a case in which she was accused of selling a fake Pablo Picasso drawing for $2 million and telling the buyer that the work came from the Malcolm Forbes family estate.

This season’s fashion trends – can you wear them?

Mention this year’s obsession with leggings as pants (and God forbid jeggings) to Carson Kressley and you can almost hear him throw up a little in his mouth.

Mexico issues travel alert over new Ariz. immigration law

Typically the subject of global travel warnings due to rampant, drug-fueled violence, Mexico issued an unusual alert Tuesday to Mexican citizens in Arizona. The country warned that the state’s adoption of a strict immigration enforcement law has created “a negative political environment for migrant communities and for all Mexican visitors.”

Obama Sticks to a Deadline in Iraq

When President Obama approved a plan to withdraw combat forces from Iraq this summer, it was based on the assumption that a newly elected government would be in place by the time Americans headed home.

Ukraine parliament hit by brawl, eggs, smoke bombs

Lawmakers brawled, threw eggs at each other and set off smoke bombs in Ukraine’s parliament Tuesday as the legislature erupted into chaos over a vote allowing the Russian navy to keep using a port on the Black Sea.

SNOOKER: CHINA SO FRAGILE

Yesterday, in the wake of Ding Junhui’s defeat by Shaun Murphy, a press room previously half-filled by Chinese reporters was curiously free of Asian faces covering a tournament devoid of local interest.

China ends entry ban for foreigners with HIV/AIDS

China has revoked a ban on people with HIV/AIDS entering the country, softening a decades-old policy that drew sharp criticism this year when an Australian writer was blocked after declaring himself HIV-positive.

Peasant Inventors Go to Town

Any visitor to urban China will quickly spot jerry rigged contraptions: bikes converted to garbage trucks, makeshift clothes lines and any manner of item refashioned with a fresh purpose.