Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesA man injured by bombing in the Zaitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on Saturday that also killed one person. More Photos »GAZA CITY — Israel broadened its assault on the Gaza Strip on Saturday from mostly military targets to centers of government infrastructure, obliterating the four-story headquarters of the Hamas prime minister with a barrage of five bombs. The...
How new Kindle Fire compares with rivals
Label: Technology
Amazon.com Inc. started shipping a larger version of its Kindle Fire HD tablet computer on Thursday. Here’s a look at how it compares with the iPad and other tablets with similar screens.Amazon.com Inc.‘s Kindle Fire HD 8.9″:
— Price: $ 299 for 16 gigabytes of storage, $ 369 for 32 GB.— Screen size: 8.9 inches diagonally—...
President Obama Perfects the McKayla Maroney Scowl
Label: Lifestyle By Kristen Mascia 11/17/2012 at 01:45 PM EST Pete Souza/The White House/Getty Heads up, America: the President is not impressed.During the U.S. women's gymnastics team's visit to the White House on Thursday, president Barack Obama posed with McKayla Maroney,...
EU drug regulator OKs Novartis' meningitis B shot
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Europe's top drug regulator has recommended approval for the first vaccine against meningitis B, made by Novartis AG.There are five types of bacterial meningitis. While vaccines exist to protect against the other four, none has previously been licensed for type B meningitis. In Europe, type B is the most common, causing 3,000 to 5,000 cases every year.Meningitis mainly affects infants...
Girl, 15, forced into prostitution by family counselor
Label: Business A San Bernardino family counselor responsible for providing services to children and families also coerced a 15-year-old girl into prostitution and sold sexual services on the Internet, the San Bernardino County district attorney's office said Thursday.Daron Lamar Whitworth, 42, worked for EMQ FamiliesFirst, a nonprofit that provides social services, mental-health and foster care for young...
Nov
16
Tensions Escalate in Gaza Conflict
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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Reunite in L.A.
Label: Lifestyle By Jessica Herndon 11/16/2012 at 04:00 PM EST Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber in April 2012 Noel Vasquez/Getty Oh, young love.Less than a week after PEOPLE confirmed that Justin Bieber, 18, and Selena Gomez, 20, called it quits, the pair reunited in Los Angeles.
On...
EU drug regulator OKs Novartis' meningitis B shot
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Europe's top drug regulator has recommended approval for the first vaccine against meningitis B, made by Novartis AG.There are five types of bacterial meningitis. While vaccines exist to protect against the other four, none has previously been licensed for type B meningitis. In Europe, type B is the most common, causing 3,000 to 5,000 cases every year.Meningitis mainly affects infants...
Irvine plans review of Great Park funds
Label: Business Irvine leaders are planning a detailed review of the $200 million spent on what has been billed as the country's next great...
Nov
15
Palestinian Rockets Kill Three Israelis and Trigger Air Sirens in Tel Aviv
Label: WorldKIRYAT MALACHI, Israel — Israel and Hamas widened their deadly conflict over Gaza on Thursday, as militants fired dozens of rockets — including one that killed three civilians in an apartment block in this small southern Israeli town — and two longer-range rockets aimed at Tel Aviv, causing no harm but triggering the first air raid warning there set off by incoming fire from Gaza. The death toll in...
Jon Bon Jovi's Daughter: Drug Charges Dropped
Label: Lifestyle By Mike Fleeman 11/15/2012 at 04:40 PM EST Jon Bon Jovi and daughter Stephanie Dave M. Benett/Getty Jon Bon Jovi's daughter, Stephanie Rose Bongiovi, no longer faces drug charges because of New York's law applying to overdose cases in which there was a call for...
Diabetes rates rocket in Oklahoma, South
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — The nation's diabetes problem is getting worse, and the biggest jump over 15 years was in Oklahoma, according to a new federal report issued Thursday.The diabetes rate in Oklahoma more than tripled, and Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama also saw dramatic increases since 1995, the study showed.The South's growing weight problem is the main explanation, said Linda Geiss, lead author of the...
Justin Bieber freeway chase charged unconstitutional, judge says
Label: Business
A Los Angeles Superior court judge threw out charges related to a first-of-its-kind anti-paparazzi law Wednesday in the case of a freelance photographer who was charged in connection with a freeway chase involving pop star Justin Bieber. Judge Thomas Rubinson ruled that while Los Angeles city prosecutors could proceed with two traffic-related charges against Paul Raef, the two counts...
Nov
14
Israelis Launch Major Assault on Gaza, Killing Hamas Commander
Label: WorldGAZA — Israel on Wednesday launched one of the most ferocious assaults on Gaza since its invasion four years ago, hitting at least 20 targets in aerial attacks that killed the top military commander of Hamas, drew strong condemnation from Egypt and escalated the risks of a new war in the Middle East. The Israelis coupled the intensity of the airstrikes with the threat of another ground invasion...
NASCAR’s Keselowski can’t tweet in car anymore
Label: Technology
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Brad Keselowski became a social media darling after hopping on Twitter during a lengthy delay in the Daytona 500.Keselowski was the center of attention, and NASCAR seemed trendy and hip — a description its executives surely adored.
Turns out, tweeting from the car isn’t cool with NASCAR.Keselowski...
Peek-a-Boo! Kristen Stewart Stuns in a See-Through Bodysuit
Label: Lifestyle Stylewatch Style News Now 11/14/2012 at 03:30 PM ET Jon Furniss/Invision/APDamn, Kristen!For Wednesday’s London premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Stewart somehow topped her jaw-dropping Los Angeles premiere dress,...
Ireland probes death of ill abortion-seeker
Label: HealthDUBLIN (AP) — The debate over legalizing abortion in Ireland flared Wednesday after the government confirmed that a woman in the midst of a miscarriage was refused an abortion and died in an Irish hospital after suffering from blood poisoning.Prime Minister Enda Kenny said he was awaiting findings from three investigations into the death of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian woman who was 17...
Justin Bieber, driving Ferarri, gets second citation in 6 months
Label: Business
For the second time in six months, pop star Justin Bieber has been cited by authorities for a traffic violation involving a high-end sports car.But this time Bieber can't blame his traffic violation on the paparazzi. This time it was all Bieber during an apparent joyride Tuesday night in West Hollywood, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies.Bieber was pulled over in a white...
Nov
13
White House Supports Top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan
Label: WorldPresident Obama has faith in Gen. John R. Allen, the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, the White House spokesman said on Tuesday, after it was disclosed that the general was under investigation for what the Pentagon called “inappropriate communication” with the woman whose complaint to the F.B.I. set off the scandal involving David H. Petraeus’s extramarital affair. “The president...
Zynga CFO leaves for Facebook
Label: Technology
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Zynga Inc‘s chief financial officer, David Wehner, will leave the company for an executive position at Facebook Inc, the gaming company announced Tuesday as it reshuffled its upper ranks.David Ko, chief mobile officer, has been elevated to become Zynga‘s new chief operations officer.
Mark Vranesh,...
Psy to Be This Year's New Media Honoree at the American Music Awards
Label: Lifestyle 11/13/2012 at 04:00 PM EST Psy Dave Hogan/MTV 2012/Getty All the YouTube clicks have paid off for "Gangnam Style" rapper, Psy.He became an overnight sensation in the United States, and now the Korea-bred artist, also known as Park Jae-Sang, is being honored at...
Report: FDA wanted to close Mass pharmacy in 2003
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, federal health inspectors wanted to shut down the pharmacy linked to a recent deadly meningitis outbreak until it cleaned up its operations, according to congressional investigators.About 440 people have been sickened by contaminated steroid shots distributed by New England Compounding Center, and more than 32 deaths have been reported since the outbreak began...
Teen bitten 6 times by rattlesnakes while searching for cell signal
Label: Business A 16-year-old El Cajon girl is lucky to be alive after being bitten at least six times by rattlesnakes.
"On a scale from 1 to 10 the pain was 45," Vera Oliphant recalled.
The young woman was visiting her uncle in Jamul, Calif., east of San Diego about two weeks ago when she decided to walk up a hill, searching for cell phone reception.
"I heard them all over, I heard the rattles, then I ran,"...
Nov
12
Syrian Jet Strikes Close to Border With Turkey
Label: WorldGAZIANTEP, Turkey — Syria pulled both Turkey and Israel closer to military entanglements in its civil war on Monday, bombing a rebel-held Syrian village a few yards from the Turkish border in a deadly aerial assault and provoking Israeli tank commanders in the disputed Golan Heights into blasting mobile Syrian artillery units across their own armistice line. The escalations, which threatened...
Reese Witherspoon, Jim Toth & Ryan Phillippe: Soccer Cheering Section
Label: Lifestyle By Pernilla Cedenheim 11/12/2012 at 04:45 PM EST Ryan Phillippe, Jim Toth and Reese Witherspoon Ramey They're one big happy family – at least as far as soccer is concerned. On Saturday, Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth – who welcomed their first child...
British medical journal slams Roche on Tamiflu
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — A leading British medical journal is asking the drug maker Roche to release all its data on Tamiflu, claiming there is no evidence the drug can actually stop the flu.The drug has been stockpiled by dozens of governments worldwide in case of a global flu outbreak and was widely used during the 2009 swine flu pandemic.On Monday, one of the researchers linked to the BMJ journal called for...
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