Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesPrime Minister David Cameron en route to Parliament to deliver a statement on the Algeria hostage crisis. LONDON — With more than 60 hostages still missing and many feared dead, Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament on Friday that the Qaeda-linked attack on a remote Algerian gas installation demonstrated the need for Britain and its western allies, including the United...
With an air kiss or empty hug, Te’oing is Twitter craze
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (Reuters) – Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame linebacker entangled in a girlfriend hoax that gives a whole new meaning to the term “air kiss,” is inspiring a new fad racing through social media: Te’oing.An avalanche of pictures of people hugging empty chairs or puckering up to an otherwise empty room were posted to Twitter with the hashtag #Te’oing days after the college football star’s story about...
7 Stunning Dresses You May Have Missed!
Label: Lifestyle Sure, the Golden Globes fashion was predictably glam, but some of the best gowns that weekend never made it to your TV screen. Check out the looks you may have missed Credit: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic Updated: Thursday Jan 17, 2013 | 01:00 PM EST By: Alex Apatoff ...
Flu season 'bad one for the elderly,' CDC says
Label: HealthThe number of older people hospitalized with the flu has risen sharply, prompting federal officials to take unusual steps to make more flu medicines available and to urge wider use of them as soon as symptoms appear.The U.S. is about halfway through this flu season, and "it's shaping up to be a worse-than-average season" and a bad one for the elderly, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers...
Market flat on mixed earnings from Intel, Morgan Stanley
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed on Friday as a weak outlook from tech heavyweight Intel offset a better-than-expected quarterly profit at Morgan Stanley. Still, the S&P 500 was on track for a third week in a row of gains and remained near a five-year high. Shares of Intel Corp slumped 6.7 percent to $21.17 a day after it forecast quarterly revenue below...
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IHT Rendezvous: Jihadist Kingpin Suspected in Hostage Seizure
Label: WorldLONDON — Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed smuggler-jihadist said to be behind the seizure of foreign hostages at a gas plant in Algeria, has been a notorious kingpin of the Sahara for more than a decade.As a successful kidnapper, cigarette smuggler — he is nicknamed “Mr. Marlboro” — and go-between for Al Qaeda, Mr. Belmokhtar has been a wanted man in his native Algeria after returning from training...
Amazon holiday results to show sales tax impact
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Acting as a tax collector may have hurt Amazon.com, Inc’s holiday sales analysts and industry executives said, but they expect to know more when the internet retailer reports its fourth-quarter results on January 29.Best Buy Co., an archrival of Amazon in consumer electronics, saw holiday online sales increase in three states where Amazon started collecting sales tax ahead...
Uma Thurman: Why My Daughter Has Five Names
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 01/17/2013 at 11:00 AM ET What’s in a name? Apparently every last one on Uma Thurman‘s list of favorites!After the actress and her boyfriend Arpad Busson revealed they had decided on Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence for their baby girl born in July,...
Study: NYC better than LA at cutting kids' obesity
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — A new study shows New York City is doing better than Los Angeles in the battle against childhood obesity, at least for low-income children.From 2003 to 2011, obesity rates for poor children dropped in New York to around 16 percent. But they rose in Los Angeles and ended at about 20 percent.The researchers focused on children ages 3 and 4 enrolled in a government program that provides...
S&P 500 at five-year high with boost from data, eBay
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks climbed on Thursday, with the S&P 500 advancing to a five-year intraday high on signs of strength in the housing and job markets and on better-than-expected results from online marketplace eBay . The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell to a five-year low last week and housing starts jumped last month to the highest since...
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