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Monday 30 December 2013

Todays Global News, 31/12/2013

The hospital's lawyer, Douglas Straus, said in a letter to Dolan on Sunday that the hospital has required three conditions to transfer Jahi, including assurance from the new facility. Until there is a definite commitment by a facility to accept Jahi's body upon specified terms, I don't think I can tackle... - Click Here For More

GRENOBLE, France (Reuters) - Seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher was fighting for his life on Monday after suffering severe head injuries in a skiing accident in the French Alps resort of Meribel, doctors said. - Click Here For More

Food & Drug Administration (FDA) rejected Lemtrada for launch in the worlds biggest drug market on the grounds that Genzyme had not shown its benefits outweighed its serious adverse effects, Sanofi said on Monday. PARIS (Reuters) - Sanofis Lemtrada multiple sclerosis treatment has failed to win approval from U. S. regulators,... - Click Here For More

BEIJING (Reuters) - Communist Party officials must not smoke in public places or buy cigarettes using public funds, and should encourage their colleagues to quit smoking, a top Chinese government body said in a circular on Sunday evening. "The phenomenon of smoking in public places remains prevalent, especially for a small... - Click Here For More

TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp and Japans other mid-tier camera makers have a battle on their hands to win over a smartphone selfie generation to mirrorless cameras that held such promise when they were launched around five years ago. If you look mid-to-long term, digital camera makers are slipping and the... - Click Here For More

PARIS (Reuters) - A 75-year-old Frenchman was feeding himself and chatting to his family, more than a week after becoming the first person to be fitted with an artificial heart made by French biomedical company Carmat, one of his surgeons said. Heart-assistance devices have been used for decades as a temporary... - Click Here For More

Two vans carrying (18) prisoners left Ofer prison and were headed to Ramallah in the West Bank, the official said, adding three other prisoners were being released to the Gaza Strip and five others to east Jerusalem. Ofer Prison (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Israel released early Tuesday 26 Palestinian prisoners, a... - Click Here For More

Men carry out work on electricity power lines near Tamworth, central England, August 7, 2010. (Reuters) - Members of Britains parliament are set to summon the chiefs of energy network companies over the slow pace of restoring power services after a Christmas storm, The Daily Telegraph reported, quoting the chairman of... - Click Here For More

The revival of Harold Pinters Betrayal starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall not only broke its own weekly record by pulling in $1. 4 million over nine shows but producers also crowed that the show had made history as having the best single week for a play ever on... - Click Here For More

FARGO, North Dakota (Reuters) - A BNSF train carrying crude oil in North Dakota collided with another train on Monday setting off a series of explosions that left at least 10 cars ablaze, the latest in a string of incidents that have raised alarms over growing oil-by-rail traffic. Local residents heard... - Click Here For More

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese troops killed dozens of armed youths who attacked the airport, a military barracks and state television headquarters in the capital Kinshasa on Monday in incidents claimed by a disgruntled religious leader. Government officials said the Kinshasa assault was carried out by untrained youths in civilian clothes with... - Click Here For More

A White House spokeswoman said the United States would welcome closer cooperation with Russia on security preparations for the Games. U. S. figure skater Ross Miner, who won silver in Vancouver, is well aware of the vulnerability of major sporting events. So, while many Olympic leaders offered reassurance on the day... - Click Here For More

Al-Azhar students have been protesting for weeks against the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood -- a group that Egyptian authorities on Wednesday designated a terrorist organization and stepped up their crackdown on its members and activities. Al-Jazeera network said in a statement that four... - Click Here For More

JUBA (Reuters) - Ugandas president said on Monday the nations of East Africa had agreed to move in to defeat South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar if he rejected a ceasefire offer, threatening to turn an outburst of ethnic fighting into a regional conflict. What we have said is there is... - Click Here For More

Israeli hard-liners typically oppose the release of Palestinian prisoners and, as with past releases, the Israeli government plans to announce the construction of new Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank— a move expected to anger the Palestinians. State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said Kerry will discuss with... - Click Here For More

Scouts for Equality will continue to advocate for a fully inclusive membership policy, to help build a stronger, more inclusive Boy Scouts of America. Brad Haddock, an executive board member of the BSA, told the Associated Press that the scouts are hoping the transition will happen seamlessly, noting that many churches... - Click Here For More

Men dressed as Vikings take part in the torchlight procession as it makes its way through Edinburgh for the start of the Hogmanay celebrations on December 30, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. - Click Here For More
Sydney (AFP) - Most passengers and some crew from a scientific expedition ship stranded off Antarctica will be evacuated by helicopter to a Chinese icebreaker if weather conditions improve, Russia said Monday. Authorities decided to resort to the helicopter evacuation after the Aurora Australis rescue icebreaker was forced to retreat in... - Click Here For More

"If the Bundestag is keeping lists of its collection secret, hindering the press in its investigations, protecting the perpetrators of Aryanization and not informing the heirs, I would wish those responsible to show more sensibility and tact," Council President Dieter Graumann told Bild. (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2013. BERLIN (Reuters) -... - Click Here For More

NEW YORK (AP) -- At least 70 journalists were killed on the job around the world in 2013, including 29 who died covering the civil war in Syria and 10 slain in Iraq, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. While the number of journalists killed for their work has declined... - Click Here For More

That's a major concern in a country mostly founded by secular Jews seeking a national home, in which a growing religious minority is increasingly at odds with less traditional brethren, and a major festering problem in the continuing occupation of millions of Palestinians in the West Bank — some of whom,... - Click Here For More

VOLGOGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - A bomb ripped a bus apart in Volgograd on Monday, killing 14 people in the second deadly attack blamed on suicide bombers in the southern Russian city in 24 hours and raising fears of Islamist attacks on the Winter Olympics. President Vladimir Putin, who has staked his... - Click Here For More

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's government is likely to call a presidential election before parliamentary polls, officials said on Monday, rearranging the political timetable in a way that could see army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi elected head of state by April. Holding the presidential election first would "accelerate the process of... - Click Here For More

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Fighting erupted when Iraqi police broke up a Sunni Muslim protest camp in the western Anbar province on Monday, leaving at least 13 people dead, police and medical sources said. Calling Maliki's government a "sectarian government that wants to smash and eradicate the Sunni people in its... - Click Here For More

It is hoped that whilst in Tehran the group will be able to make arrangements for a return delegation from the Majlis (the Iranian parliament) to visit the UK, said the statement, adding that Britains Foreign Office had helped arrange the visit. On Monday, the office of Jack Straw, a former... - Click Here For More
Electricity production in the North African nation has been affected since July when armed protesters demanding regional autonomy blockaded the main oil facilities in the east. Tripoli (AFP) - Production at two oilfields in southern Libya has restarted after it was suspended for several months, a national oil company official said... - Click Here For More

The central bank said that inflation slowed after the government took exceptional and historic actions to combat a speculative run-up in prices by groups trying to destabilize the country. Prices jumped 4. 8 percent in November and 2. 2 percent in December, according to the report. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — For... - Click Here For More

Hasan said that security forces also discovered a cache of explosives in a village outside Manama, dismantled a car bomb and arrested 13 wanted people, including a Saudi national, as they attempted to flee Bahrain in a boat. Dubai (AFP) - Bahraini authorities said Monday they have seized a boat smuggling... - Click Here For More

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A volcano in eastern El Salvador belched more ash and gases on Monday after a big eruption on Sunday that drove more than 1,600 people into emergency shelters. The Chaparrastique volcano is still producing gases combined with small emissions of ash, which is normal after an eruption,... - Click Here For More

Saturday 28 December 2013

global news 28/12/13

DENVER (Reuters) - The world's first state-licensed marijuana retailers, catering to Colorado's newly legal recreational market for pot, are stocking their shelves ahead of a New Year's grand opening that supporters and detractors alike see as a turning point in America's drug culture. Possession, cultivation and private personal consumption of marijuana... - Click Here For More
Douglas Straus, a lawyer for the hospital, said in a letter made public Friday that before the hospital would comply with the familys request to move Jahi, it would need to speak directly with officials at any nursing home to make sure they understand her condition, including the fact that Jahi... - Click Here For More Cyrus, who rose to prominence as a teen star of the Disney musical TV series Hannah Montana, has become a bad girl of pop music since her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in September when she twerked (a sexually suggestive dance) during a performance of Thickes hit Blurred Lines.... - Click Here For More
Many past studies have examined broad parenting styles, however this study looked at how specific parenting strategies may help protect youth from cigarette smoking initiation, said Cassandra Stanton, an assistant professor in the oncology department at Georgetown University, who led the study. Researchers surveyed middle schoolers from diverse backgrounds and found... - Click Here For More Another explanation could be that obesity, clearly linked to blood pressure, is more common for black women than for white women in the general population, Flack said. To investigate the persistently high rates of high blood pressure in the South, Sampsons group used a large database with recent information on men... - Click Here For More
Prior research has already concluded that two common bacteria that cause colds, ear infections, and strep throat dont often live for long outside the human body, but a new study finds that they can linger a lot longer than previously thought. Your best defense? Well-scrubbed hands. University of Buffalo researchers in... - Click Here For More
Rhoen-Klinikum bought the hospital in central Germany from the state in 2006 and at the time promised to invest in particle therapy, a method for fighting cancer in which protons or charged ions are fired at tumors while sparing surrounding healthy tissue. FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germanys state of Hesse said on... - Click Here For More
China is also the worlds biggest producer and exporter of batteries, including solar cells, and the new measures will seek to impose better standards and higher barriers to entry for the sector, a major source of heavy metal pollution in the countrys soil and water. BEIJING (Reuters) - China will raise... - Click Here For More
Cases have been reported in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Tunisia as well as in several countries in Europe, and scientists are increasingly focused on a link between the human infections and camels as a possible animal reservoir of the virus. LONDON (Reuters) - Four more... - Click Here For More
On Thursday, the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced an increase in compensation for shidu couples - although it failed to raise much cheer ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, or Spring Festival, at the end of January. Many shidu parents are victims of Chinas strict family planning policy,... - Click Here For More
In July, government regulations go into effect making hand and face transplants subject to the same strict oversight by UNOS, which manages the U. S. transplant program, as heart or kidney transplants. The government is preparing to regulate the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ... - Click Here For More
In July, government regulations go into effect making hand and face transplants subject to the same strict oversight by UNOS, which manages the U. S. transplant program, as heart or kidney transplants. The government is preparing to regulate the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ... - Click Here For More
Australia clinched the Ashes inside 14 playing days with huge Test wins in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, and England appeared incapable of preventing Michael Clarkes team from taking a 4-0 series lead ahead of the fifth and final Test in Sydney later this week. The tourists looked deflated after skipper Alastair... - Click Here For More
They include regional heavyweight Poland and the Czech Republic, which experts believe could meet eurozone entry targets on deficits and inflation within three to four years. Concerns over the influence of Soviet-era master Russia and their small size prompted the Baltic trio to relish eurozone entry, but larger economies like Poland... - Click Here For More
Paris (AFP) - A Europe badly shaken by a faltering economy and rising populism is set to commemorate the centenary of Word War I, the conflict still known as the Great War that scarred the continent and shaped the 20th century. Vladimir Putins Russia, meanwhile, has seized on the chance to... - Click Here For More
In April, when he was still in the minors, Puig was charged with reckless driving and speeding after Chattanooga, Tenn. , police clocked him going 97 mph in a 50 mph zone. Authorities said Puig was arrested and charged with reckless driving and taken to the Collier County Jail for processing.... - Click Here For More
Wellington (AFP) - Incensed New Zealand cricket great Richard Hadlee claims TV host Piers Morgan could have been killed by Brett Lee in an exhibition over and he wants the former Australian speedster punished. Crickets governing body, the International Cricket Council, has an edict of fair play and upholding the spirit... - Click Here For More
Erdogan also changed police regulations to ensure that corruption probes are funneled through top police and judiciary close to the government, but a Turkish high court overturned that move. I urge Turkey ... to take all the necessary measures to ensure that allegations of wrongdoing are addressed without discrimination or preference... - Click Here For More LIENZ, Austria (AP) — Anna Fenninger of Austria used a flawless second run to win a womens World Cup giant slalom Saturday for her fifth career victory. American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin came 0. 51 back in third for her second podium finish in GS after finishing runner-up in Beaver Creek on... - Click Here For More
BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Aiming for back-to-back victories, Canadas Erik Guay simply wants to maintain his form for Sundays World Cup downhill on the physically demanding Stelvio course. The Bode Miller-led U. S. speed team, by contrast, is still looking for its first podium finish of the season — with the... - Click Here For More
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are over. U. S. Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are... - Click Here For More
Abu Dhabi (AFP) - Novak Djokovic saw off David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2 in the final of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship on Saturday and wasted no time looking forward to the season ahead with his new coach Boris Becker. It was also his fifth straight title since losing the US Open... - Click Here For More
As a result, the president is ending his fifth year in office in a defensive crouch, says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, and may have to be content with simply protecting his health care law and other Democratic-backed programs that Republicans are eager to repeal. The tea party forces that pulled House... - Click Here For More
BANGUI (Reuters) - Hundreds of people tried to flee inter-religious violence in Central African Republic on Saturday aboard emergency flights to neighboring Chad, while nearby countries appealed for help to rescue their citizens from the mounting humanitarian crisis. Tit-for-tat violence between Muslim Seleka rebels, who seized power in March, and Christian... - Click Here For More
Mattos is one of more than 1 million Americans who will lose federal unemployment benefits at years end. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage... - Click Here For More
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces arrested a prominent Sunni Muslim lawmaker and supporter of anti-government protests in a raid on his home in the western province of Anbar, sparking clashes in which at least five people were killed, police sources said. Lieutenant-General Ali Ghaidan, commander of Iraqi ground forces,... - Click Here For More
In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, firefighters hose down burning vehicles after a Syrian aircraft pummeled masaken hanano, an opposition neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. BEIRUT (AP)... - Click Here For More
Police say they entered eastern Cairo's Al-Azhar campus, the site of frequent clashes in recent weeks, and deployed around other Egyptian universities to prevent supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi from intimidating other students trying to take the tests. Students at al-Azhar, a stronghold of Morsi supporters, have been protesting for... - Click Here For More
The disputes that Haass has been trying to bring hinge on Catholic opposition to Protestant marches — long a trigger point for Northern Ireland violence — and the contested rights of both sides to fly their preferred British and Irish flags, an argument that has recently led to street blockades and... - Click Here For More
KOTHACHERUVU, India (AP) — A fire engulfed a coach of an express train in southern India on Saturday, killing at least 26 passengers, many of whom became trapped and suffocated after the doors failed to open, officials said. Firefighters put out the blaze in the burning coach and retrieved at least... - Click Here For More
BANGKOK (AP) — Gunmen killed an anti-government activist and wounded two others in Thailands capital on Saturday, while protesters elsewhere blocked candidates from registering for upcoming elections, deepening a political crisis that threatens to derail democracy in the Southeast Asian nation. Hundreds of candidates Saturday were registering for the polls, but... - Click Here For More
But June also was the month that Gouaux and her father filed a complaint against Freeman. And on Oct. 23, he pleaded guilty to one of two criminal telephone-harassment charges based on that complaint, Lafourche Parish Clerk of Court Vernon H. Rodrigue said. Freeman, 38, was given a deferred sentence of... - Click Here For More
One of the biggest problems for woman in Egypt is sexual harassment. A U. N. report released in April said the issue had reached unprecedented levels, with 99. 3 percent of women in the country reporting that they have been subjected to sexual harassment. With the Middle Easts hit TV show... - Click Here For More
From the governor to the states congressional delegation and local university leaders, Hawaii has spared no effort in laying the groundwork for a potential library, gently pressing Obamas sister and close friends, and setting aside prime oceanfront real estate just in case Hawaiis favorite son chooses Oahu to host the monument... - Click Here For More
These four military personnel were operating in an area near the coastal city of Sabratha in northwestern Libya as part of security preparedness efforts when they were taken into custody, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. WASHINGTON (AP) — Four U. S. military personnel investigating potential evacuation routes... - Click Here For More
Defense officials beat back efforts to more drastically revamp the military justice system that would take authority away from commanders and allow victims of rape and sexual assault to go outside the chain of command for prosecutions. As a result, the crime has been vastly underreported — a fact that became... - Click Here For More
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that gay weddings can continue in conservative, Mormon-dominated Utah while the state fights a judges ruling that struck down a ban on sex-same marriage. The 3-cent increase approved Tuesday in the price of a first-class stamp is aimed at helping the Postal Service recover from... - Click Here For More
FILE - This July 26, 2011 file photo provided by Kevin Armstrong, shows Kevin and his son, Tyler Armstrong, 7, after reaching the summit of Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada, Calif. On Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, Tyler, now 9, became the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit... - Click Here For More
In addition to the encrypted PIN numbers, the stolen data from Target included customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the embedded code on the magnetic strip on back of the card. But the company issued a statement Friday saying that additional forensic work has shown that... - Click Here For More
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1 million Americans are bracing for a harrowing, post-Christmas jolt as extended federal unemployment benefits come to a sudden halt this weekend, with potentially significant implications for the recovering U. S. economy. Bush, the benefits were designed as a cushion for the millions of U. S.... - Click Here For More

Friday 27 December 2013

Global News 27/12/13

We see this intense traffic as a sign that people are eager for affordable health insurance, said Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency in charge of the overhaul. For a multitude of reasons, including technical difficulties with the site or trouble understanding... - Click Here For More
In July, government regulations go into effect making hand and face transplants subject to the same strict oversight by UNOS, which manages the U. S. transplant program, as heart or kidney transplants. The government is preparing to regulate the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ... - Click Here For More
Cases have been reported in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Tunisia as well as in several countries in Europe, and scientists are increasingly focused on a link between the human infections and camels as a possible animal reservoir of the virus. LONDON (Reuters) - Four more... - Click Here For More
On Thursday, the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced an increase in compensation for shidu couples - although it failed to raise much cheer ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, or Spring Festival, at the end of January. Many shidu parents are victims of Chinas strict family planning policy,... - Click Here For More
Kevin Davis of the nonprofit research organization RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and his colleagues calculated that the cities of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Providence and Washington, DC, combined, could collect between $690 million and $729 million per year in cigarette taxes if trafficking stopped. Davis and his... - Click Here For More
In July, government regulations go into effect making hand and face transplants subject to the same strict oversight by UNOS, which manages the U. S. transplant program, as heart or kidney transplants. The government is preparing to regulate the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ... - Click Here For More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning, but a Palestinian official called the finding "politicized" and said an investigation would continue. "Yasser Arafat died not from the effects of radiation but of natural causes," Vladimir Uiba, head of Russia's... - Click Here For More
Pakistan's tribal areas on its border with Afghanistan serve as safe havens for al Qaeda, the Taliban and other militant groups, and the Islamabad government has been under pressure from the United States to do more to eliminate the insurgency. (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2013. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U. S.... - Click Here For More
From next year, couples in cities who have lost their only child and in which the woman is 49 or older will get 340 yuan ($56) per parent a month, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement. BEIJING (Reuters) - China is to more than triple the... - Click Here For More
The family of Jahi McMath will wait until Thursday to discuss a possible appeal of a judges decision allowing a hospital to remove her from life support, said Omari Sealey, the girls uncle. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo ruled on Tuesday that the hospital could remove Jahi from the... - Click Here For More
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, celebrating his first Christmas as Roman Catholic leader, on Wednesday called on atheists to unite with believers of all religions and work for a homemade peace that can spread across the world. Peters Basilica, the same spot where he emerged to the world as pope... - Click Here For More
Caplan, who leads the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center and is not involved in Jahis case, told The Associated Press that once brain death has been declared, a hospital is under no obligation to keep a patient on a ventilator. Jahis family has been fighting with hospital... - Click Here For More
Frazier, who complained he had a botched 2010 surgery, left a suicide note outlining plans for his attack before targeting physicians in a deadly rampage at a medical office that left one doctor dead and another critically wounded, police said Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. RENO, Nev. (AP) — Newly released 911... - Click Here For More
WASHINGTON (AP) — Although multiple problems have snarled the rollout of President Barack Obamas signature health care law, its hardly the first time a new, sprawling government program has been beset by early technical glitches, political hostility and gloom-and-doom denouncements. President Franklin D. Although multiple problems have snarled the rollout of... - Click Here For More
Police released new details on Tuesday, a week after the shooting, in response to questions posed by the Associated Press, revealing that Frazier had been a Urology Nevada patient, although investigators had yet to determine whether either doctor he shot had treated him. Police said they were still trying to determine... - Click Here For More
Caplan, who leads the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center and is not involved in Jahis case, told The Associated Press that once brain death has been declared, a hospital is under no obligation to keep a patient on a ventilator. Jahis family has been battling with hospital... - Click Here For More
Critics have accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of trying to stifle a corruption investigation targeting some of his allies by dismissing police chiefs and changing the rules on how the probes are conducted. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish high court has suspended an attempt by the government to funnel... - Click Here For More
State police said their report from the investigation into last years Newtown school massacre will be released at 3 p. m. Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The planned release Friday of thousands of pages of police documents from the investigation into last years school massacre in Newtown... - Click Here For More Moscow (AFP) - The freed members of the Pussy Riot punk band said Friday they still wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin out of power and would like ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to replace him. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alyokhina, 25, made their call for the Russian strongman to go at their... - Click Here For More
Wawrinka lost to David Ferrer aon the same day and the match between him and Murray was to decide who would finish fifth in the unofficial three-day tournament that sees the worlds top two players - Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic joining in at the semi-final stage. Murray looked much sharper... - Click Here For More
Although pro-Syrian, Murr later says he was threatened by Syrias intelligence chief in Lebanon. — Sept. 25, 2005: Prominent anchorwoman May Chidiac of the leading anti-Syrian TV station LBC loses an arm and a leg from a bomb placed under her car. — Dec. 12, 2005: Gibran Tueni, a prominent anti-Syrian... - Click Here For More
Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are invited to cast secret ballots for their favorite film work from the past year until Jan. 8, 2014. Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are invited to cast secret ballots for their favorite film work from... - Click Here For More
The summit, which is focusing on South Sudan, is expected to produce a roadmap for peace talks between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar, Kiirs political rival who is accused of orchestrating a failed coup that the government says sparked unrest across the oil-producing East African country. There... - Click Here For More
Hezbollah is pressing hard to be granted similar powers in security & foreign policy matters that Syria exercised in Lebanon for 15 years, he said, in reference to Syrias nearly 30-year military and political hegemony in Lebanon that ended after Rafiq Hariris 2005 murder. But Sunni leader Hariri was quick to... - Click Here For More
Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Five British Greenpeace activists and one Canadian flew out of Russia on Friday following an amnesty which halted their prosecution for a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental group said. Greenpeace said the activists will continue to leave Russia Friday and among them is... - Click Here For More
ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court blocked a government attempt to force police to disclose investigations to their superiors, officials said on Friday, in a setback for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogans attempts to manage fallout from a high-level corruption scandal. Denying wrongdoing and portraying the case a foreign-orchestrated plot, the Erdogan... - Click Here For More KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in an eastern district of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, killing three service members and wounding six Afghans, officials said. The bomber struck the convoy about a kilometer (half mile) from NATOs Camp Phoenix base, Kabul... - Click Here For More
Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007 and more than 100,000 migrants from the two countries already work in Britain, albeit under work restrictions that limit their access to jobs and state benefits like health care. For months, Britains tabloids have repeatedly warned of the horrors they believe will ensue... - Click Here For More
Armored vehicles closed main squares and city centers in Cairo and other major cities after Morsis group, the Muslim Brotherhood, and its allies announced new protests in defiance of the interim governments latest move labeling the group as a terrorist organization. CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces fired tear gas and... - Click Here For More
The Lafourche Parish sheriff said Jeanne Gouaux had filed multiple protective orders against Freeman, who had pleaded guilty to harassment charges and was allowed only supervised visits with their four children. The suspect, Ben Freeman, 38, was the ex-husband of Gouauxs daughter Jeanne, Lafourche Parish Sheriffs Office spokesman Brennan Matherne said... - Click Here For More
TOKYO (AP) — The governor of Okinawa gave the go-ahead Friday for land reclamation to begin for a new U. S. military base, advancing the effort to consolidate the massive U. S. troop presence on the southern Japanese island but also making protests from residents likely. Gov. - Click Here For More
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to build 1,400 homes in its settlements in the occupied West Bank and will announce the projects next week after releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners, an Israeli official said on Friday. The Israeli government official said about 600 homes would be announced in Ramat Shlomo,... - Click Here For More
BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful car bomb tore through a business district in the center of the Lebanese capital Friday, killing a prominent pro-Western politician and at least five other people in an assassination certain to hike sectarian tensions already soaring because of the civil war in neighboring Syria. The bombing... - Click Here For More
Ankara (AFP) - The Turkish lira hit a record low Friday as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, embroiled in a major graft probe, faced new mass protests and growing calls to resign. The currency fell to 2. 1467 lira to the dollar while the Istanbul stock exchange, the BIST 100, dropped... - Click Here For More
Two Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) delegations have travelled to Juba since violence erupted on December 15 in the worlds newest state but they have not managed to get Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar to meet. (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2013. NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir... - Click Here For More
Fridays gains followed a strong session on Wall Street Thursday, when news that new U. S. unemployment benefit claims fell last week were taken as the latest sign the U. S. economy is gathering steam. After a 0. 8 percent gain to 16,479. 88 Thursday, Dow Jones Industrial Average index futures... - Click Here For More
Witnesses reported heavy fighting overnight in Malakal, capital of the oil-producing Upper Nile State, and both government forces allied to President Salva Kiir and rebels loyal to ex-vice president Riek Machar insisted they were in control after days of street battles. Fighting has since spread to half of South Sudans 10... - Click Here For More
HONG KONG (AP) — Jet Li says hes being treated for an overactive thyroid, but hes determined to fight the condition head-on. Li said he’s being treated for an overactive thyroid, but he’s determined to fight the condition head-on. FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 file photo, Chinese actor... - Click Here For More
Nakaima had been a bitter critic of the central government, which he says is unsympathetic to the southern tropical island and still treats it as an unsinkable aircraft carrier of the US military, more than 40 years after it was handed back to Japan. More than 17 years after the two... - Click Here For More
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailands army chief on Friday urged both sides in the countrys bitter political dispute to show restraint, but did not explicitly rule out the possibility of a coup. Thailand has been wracked by two months of political tensions and occasionally violent street protests pitting the government of Prime... - Click Here For More
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailands powerful army chief refused on Friday to rule out military intervention to defuse an escalating political crisis, the latest blow for a government determined a February election will go ahead despite deadly clashes with protesters. The first two years of Yinglucks government had been relatively smooth until... - Click Here For More
A 72-year-old development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by al-Qaida more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released to negotiate his release. In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 photo, Dr. 6. Connecticut authorities plan to make state police documents from the investigation into last years... - Click Here For More
England were restricted in their first innings by a hostile spell from Mitchell Johnson, but the Australians also laboured for runs with veteran opener Chris Rogers crawling to his third half-century of the series and wicketkeeper Haddin again defying England. - Click Here For More
The Snow Dragon was hoping to reach the ship by Friday evening, but changing weather conditions and the thickness of the ice could slow its progress, said Andrea Hayward-Maher, spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the rescue. SYDNEY (AP) — A ship that has been trapped in... - Click Here For More
BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful bombing rocked a central business district of central Beirut Friday, setting cars ablaze and killing five people, including a senior aide to former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, officials said. Chatah, a prominent economist and former ambassador to the U. S. , was one of the... - Click Here For More
One woman who rents an apartment to foreigners for $25 a night in the upscale Vedado neighborhood says her business provides a stable income that supports her and allows her to help her son and granddaughter. In this Dec. Two women who sell $1. 25 box lunches to Cubans and foreigners... - Click Here For More
A month after President Barack Obama announced people could keep insurance policies slated for cancellation under the federal health overhaul, the reversal has gotten a mixed response from insurers, state regulators and consumers. RALEIGH, N. C. (AP) — President Barack Obamas decision a month ago that allowed people to keep insurance... - Click Here For More
Machar denies there was a coup attempt, and some officials with the ruling party insist violence broke out when presidential guards from Kiirs majority Dinka tribe tried to disarm guards from the Nuer ethnic group, leading to wider military clashes along ethnic lines. The top U. N. humanitarian official in South... - Click Here For More
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is appalled by the continuing inter-communal violence, including reports Thursday of dozens more bodies found on the streets of Bangui, and called on the transitional authorities to rein in those fomenting and perpetrating the violence, U. N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said. The U. N. chief welcomed... - Click Here For More
The bomb targeted Mohammed Chatah, a former finance minister and a senior aide to former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, in his car as he drove through central Beirut, security officials said. BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful car bomb tore through a business district in the center of the Lebanese capital Friday,... - Click Here For More
Young people were more apt to see improvement: 40 percent of people under age 30 called 2013 a better year than 2012, compared with 25 percent of people age 65 or older. —The public splits evenly on how the year turned out for the country, 25 percent saying it was better... - Click Here For More
Our whole family had just celebrated Christmas together in Panama City, as well as celebrated T. J. s graduation from Florida State just three weeks ago, Bobby Bowden said in a statement released by the University of Akron, where son Terry is the football coach. In September 2004, Bobby Bowdens grandson,... - Click Here For More
Transport Minister Chadchart Sitthipunt said the bus smashed through the safety barrier of the Phamuang bridge, whose highest pillar stands at 50 metres (164 feet) tall and which links north and northeast Thailand. Bangkok (AFP) - A bus carrying New Year travellers plunged off one of Thailands highest bridges in the... - Click Here For More
Amazon has refunded shipping costs, Kohl’s has promised to pay the full price of items that didn’t arrive on time, and Groupon has given $25 gift cards to affected customers. “Retailers think they can take orders up to the last minute, but they just can’t pick and pack fast enough,” saidForrester... - Click Here For More
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police arrested dozens more Muslim Brotherhood supporters and deployed across Cairo before Friday prayers, as the government anticipated further protests from the Islamist movement despite having clamped down on dissent. The declaration against the Brotherhood came after the government accused the group of carrying out a suicide... - Click Here For More
China is also the worlds biggest producer and exporter of batteries, including solar cells, and the new measures will seek to impose better standards and higher barriers to entry for the sector, a major source of heavy metal pollution in the countrys soil and water. BEIJING (Reuters) - China will raise... - Click Here For More
Ankara (AFP) - Turkeys top court on Friday blocked implementation of a government decree ordering police to inform their superiors before launching investigations issued by public prosecutors, local media reported. The government decree was introduced last week after police conducted raids targeting senior figures including the sons of ministers and businessmen... - Click Here For More
Cairo (AFP) - At least 148 pro-Islamist protesters were arrested on Friday after they rallied in several Egyptian cities, police said, as the authorities vowed to repress demonstrations by the Muslim Brotherhood. Fridays crackdown comes two days after the government declared the movement, to which deposed president Mohamed Morsi belongs, a... - Click Here For More
Addressing regional leaders at an emergency summit on South Sudan held by the east African body Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta urged Kiir and former vice president Riek Machar to seize the small window of opportunity and start peace talks. Kenyatta said South Sudan and regional... - Click Here For More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six more of the 30 Greenpeace activists arrested in a protest over Arctic oil drilling left Russia on Friday after being granted an amnesty, the environmental group said. Russias treatment of the activists from 18 countries - who spent two months in detention and faced hooliganism charges punishable... - Click Here For More
Moscow (AFP) - A Greenpeace activist who spent more than two months in prison in Russia over a protest against oil drilling said on Friday the ordeal had made her even more dedicated to saving the Arctic environment. Oulahsen and 29 other crew members of the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship were... - Click Here For More BELGRADE (Reuters) - A bomb blast overnight shook the offices of Montenegros leading daily Vijesti in the latest attack on a newspaper known for its criticism of the authorities under the countrys long-term leader Milo Djukanovic. Vijesti is a fierce critic of Djukanovic - Montenegros dominant figure since the collapse of... - Click Here For More
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has approved a pilot scheme allowing private companies to piggy back on the countrys three dominant telecommunications providers to offer own-brand mobile services, opening the worlds largest mobile phone market to increased competition. The pilot opens up the market for privately run companies to offer discounts or... - Click Here For More
The Obama administrations pro-consumer tack could threaten deals that eliminate big competitors within an industry, such as a Sprint bid for T-Mobile or a Comcast bid for Time Warner Cable. In cable, antitrust experts say that a Time Warner Cable merger with a smaller competitor, such as Charter or Cox, raises... - Click Here For More
BlackBerry abandoned its plan to sell itself last month after a two-month review of strategic options and talks with potential buyers that included Facebook, Lenovo and private equity firms such as Cerberus Capital. (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2013. - Click Here For More
Hulu must face privacy lawsuit, U. S. Go to Mail". (Reuters) - Hulu has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the video streaming service of illegally sharing users viewing history with Facebook Inc and business metrics company comScore Inc. They claimed that Hulu sent such information... - Click Here For More
The Disney board did not change Igers $2. 5 million salary from 2012 when he earned $40. 2 million. In awarding Iger a $13. 6 million cash performance bonus, the boards compensation committee said Disney did beat Igers four financial performance measures taken together. Igers bonus was reduced by $3 million... - Click Here For More
According to the report, the success of “Chromecast will generate demand for Android TV in the market and turn the Android TV system into a core entertainment device in families because of its smartphone connectivity. ” The future of Apple TV is still an exciting mystery, but as of this writing, Chromecast... - Click Here For More
Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins took a pair of emergency space walks last Saturday and again on Tuesday, Christmas Eve, in order to repair a faulty valve system. Commander Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy begin at about 8 a. m. , Eastern and NASA will livestream... - Click Here For More
The investigation also confirmed that Chien's naughty crew managed to rake in NT$33,566,000 or about US$1. 12 million, in the form of false expense claims plus rebates from a supplier. Earlier today, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office concluded its investigation on the HTC saga that mainly involved ex-lead designer Thomas Chien... - Click Here For More
A group of security researchers has published a pair Snapchat security exploits, claiming the popular social startup has ignored requests to address them since August -- prior to any Facebook acquisition talk. The Gibson Security team is hoping that'll force the company to respond to the problems, which they say could... - Click Here For More
The PlayStation 4 might not play CDs (yet) and an official YouTube app is still MIA, but that doesn't mean music and music videos are out of reach. Much like its previous-gen counterpart, the video application offers concerts, interviews, custom playlists and even crams the PS4's native social-features in for good... - Click Here For More
Amidst a recent spate of Model S fires, Tesla has upgraded the software on the EV to prevent unsafe charging, according to a tweet from Tesla S owner @ddenboer. Meanwhile, per Tesla's request, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is still looking into several recent fires, two of which were caused... - Click Here For More
"Apart from creating all the environments digitally, there's a lot of CG animated characters such as dinosaurs and robots that requires talented people and lots of time," David Sandberg, the project's writer, director, and star, explains. That, in a nutshell, is Kung Fury, a proposed short action movie currently seeking $200,000... - Click Here For More
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — The North American Aerospace Defense Commands Santa-tracking program logged 19. 58 million unique visitors to its website on Christmas Eve. The Christmas tradition of tracking Santa began in 1955 when a local newspaper advertisement invited children to call Santa but mistakenly listed the hotline... - Click Here For More
"We have made the decision to remove our HERE Maps app from the Apple App Store because recent changes to iOS 7 harm the user experience. iPhone users can continue to use the mobile web version of HERE Maps under m. here. com, offering them location needs, such as search, routing,... - Click Here For More
In order to land on the Martian surface, NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity went through seven minutes of terror: it plummeted from the sky at 13,000 miles per hour, with only a supersonic parachute and a set of rocket motors to keep it from becoming a crater. - Click Here For More
The process of manufacturing cheese results in lots of leftover saltwater, which under the program is now being mixed into a spray that thaws out winter roads and keeps cars moving, reports The New York Times. In this case, the salt in question has already been procured for another task making... - Click Here For More
Previously, the custom version of Android was already available on a special edition of the N1, and now everyone has access to CyanogenMod's vision of what Google's OS can be: namely, bloat-free and better performing. The N1 may be a niche phone, but this close relationship with Oppo could get CyanogenMod... - Click Here For More
Get better reviews from people who actually have this product! 5 What would the early 80's have been, without the Atari 2600? Talk about the Atari 2600 with other people who own it too! The initial library includes hundreds of games for the Astrocade, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, ColecoVision and Magnavox... - Click Here For More
Swedish digital games store Viagame decided to find out with an unusual test: strapping a real race car driver into the same vehicle as a decorated video gamer to go head-to-head in both the real and virtual worlds. All this took place at the Circuit de Catalunya, a race track in... - Click Here For More
Netflix outage interrupts streaming in US, Canada and Latin America (update: fixed! All rights reserved. Netflix outage interrupts streaming in US, Canada and Latin America (update: fixed! Netflix outage interrupts streaming in US, Canada and Latin America (update: fixed! Update: Netflix support says the issues have been fixed, which indicates service... - Click Here For More
The entire 2013 holiday season was the best ever for Amazon, with more than 36. 8 million items ordered worldwide on Cyber Monday, which is a record-breaking 426 items per second, and millions of customers unwrapped Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets this holiday season. “Amazon Prime membership continues to grow,... - Click Here For More
We have already seen reports stating that Samsung is working on a fitness tracking band that will launch early next year, and now a new report from Korea Herald claims LG also has plans to take on the Jawbone UP, Nike FuelBand and other fitness trackers with its own dedicated tracking... - Click Here For More
An AVR microcontroller stores several different designs, which materialize in tiny jello shots using a cocktail of banana liquor, food coloring and a bit of corn starch to turn the liquid into a gel. Barista Bots, one of the most popular attractions at this year's South by Southwest festival in Austin,... - Click Here For More
However, when looking at the obvious iOS vs Android rivalry, the report found the former held a comfortable shopping lead for the period. “As a percentage of total online sales, iOS was more than five times higher than Android,” the report says, “driving 23% vs 4. 6% for Android. ” On average,... - Click Here For More
Viacom chief executive Philippe Dauman described the deal as a “model of collaboration for the new multi platform television industry. ” An unnamed exec whose company also negotiated a deal earlier this year said that “there is always a certain amount of food fighting” with Time Warner Cable, but this year... - Click Here For More
You'll want to avoid using bandwidth-heavy apps like Netflix when away from WiFi, for instance, but miserly software like Candy Crush Saga is safe even with basic internet service. The CTIA-run page shows the typical data consumption of popular mobile apps and compares it against capped US wireless plans. Know My... - Click Here For More
Released this week only for Mac, the new emulator lets you drag and drop games from any of twelve different classic video game systems right into its interface, navigate using their cover art, and even hook up a wide variety of game controllers to play them with a minimum of fuss... - Click Here For More
A quick glance at BlackBerry’s recent history might scare off even the most uninformed investors, so Lazaridis took advantage of the huge spike following the Foxconn news and interim CEO Jason Chen’s confidence-building comments during the company’s earnings call to dump a significant portion of his stake. - Click Here For More
Companies including Google and the Huffington Post are trying everything from deploying moderators to forcing people to use their real names in order to restore civil discourse on online comment threads. Starting this week, when youre watching a video on YouTube, youll see comments sorted by people you care about first,... - Click Here For More
Daily Roundup: Taiwan fines Apple, LG HomeChat, Siri photo-tagging patent and more! Daily Roundup: Taiwan fines Apple, LG HomeChat, Siri photo-tagging patent and more! Daily Roundup: Taiwan fines Apple, LG HomeChat, Siri photo-tagging patent and more! Apple awoke to a not-so-merry surprise on Christmas day as Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission accused... - Click Here For More
According to TorrentFreak, 5. 9 million people downloaded the season finale of Game of Thrones. AMC shows took the No. 2 and No. 3 spots as Breaking Bad racked up 4. 2 million torrent downloads and an episode of The Walking Dead was downloaded 3. 5 million times. The wildly popular... - Click Here For More
Bioshock Infinite, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons will be added to the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection throughout the month of January. That's on the PS3 side; Don't Starve will be the latest free title available on PlayStation 4, and PS Vita owners will be... - Click Here For More
Now, after multiple app updates, Gibson Security says the exploits detailed in its initial report have still not been addressed. “Given that it’s been around four months since our last Snapchat release, we figured we’d do a refresher on the latest version, and see which of the released exploits had been... - Click Here For More
Throw out all the wrapping paper, finish eating the leftover turkey and have the last of the eggnog, because Christmas has come and gone. If you're not sure how to do that, check out this helpful primer on the new Engadget. All rights reserved. - Click Here For More
Wilkinson, whose film credits include Man of Steel, Tron: Legacy and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part II, said he especially loved playing with fabrics, colors and prints for Bales charming con-man. LOS ANGELES (AP) — From Christian Bales burgundy velour blazer to Amy Adams plunging sequin halter dress, American Hustle... - Click Here For More
Now, 31 years and roughly 11,000 games later, Thomasson is the newly crowned world record holder for having the largest collection of video games. Still an active collector, Lecce hasnt counted his games in the last few years and doesnt know what his number has grown to, but he has no... - Click Here For More