Business
Reuters - NEW YORK, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Global equities and the euro rallied on Tuesday after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he would resign, sparking optimism that a new leader will act more aggressively to tackle Italy's debt... |
Xinhua - ATHENS, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Greek main opposition leader Antonis Samaras rejected on Tuesday of European Union's (EU) demand that Greek political leaders sign a written commitment to fully implement bailout package sealed last month. |
ABC News - The price of crude has jumped 22 percent since the beginning of October and is nearing $100 a barrel. For most of the summer, oil prices drifted lower on fears that the US was headed toward another recession. |
Inquirer.net - TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Inc. said it had sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) “and/or a preliminary injunction” to prevent the implementation of an ordinance banning open pit mining in Zamboanga del Norte province. |
Inquirer.net - Money placed by banks in the special deposit account (SDA) facility of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas continued to rise, hitting a new high as of the end of September. |
Reuters Canada - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus admitted on Tuesday it hid losses on securities investments dating back two decades, bowing to weeks of pressure to explain a series of baffling transactions that have put the future ... |
Health
Huffington Post - MANILA, Philippines -- The World Health Organization said a study has found that Filipino mothers who have been influenced by advertisements or their doctors to use infant formula are two to four times more ... |
Los Angeles Times (blog) - --The Times' Broderick Turner says he noticed Magic Johnson's celebratory mood during Monday's news conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Lakers star's abrupt retirement after testing positive for HIV. |
Straits Times - He may suffer from a nerve disease which affects his gait, but former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew who spoke at the sidelines of an annual tree planting ceremony in Tanjong Pagar GRC, is adamant that the ailment has had no bearing on his mind and will. |
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Computer analysis of brain scans could help predict how serious or long term a psychotic patient's illness may become and help doctors make more accurate decisions about how best to treat them, researchers said on ... |
AFP - WASHINGTON - A new vaccine-like therapy that summons a host of antibodies to fight lupus has shown promise in early European trials, researchers said at a US conference on Tuesday. |
Huffington Post - Just banning soda from schools doesn't actually curb student consumption of sugary drinks, according to new research. Access to and student purchasing of sugar-sweetened beverages in states that ban soda from schools and states that have no beverage ... |
Cigar Aficionado - A federal judge on Monday blocked a Food and Drug Administration requirement that would have forced cigarette makers to affix graphic warning labels to their products beginning next year. |
ABC News (blog) - A new experimental cancer vaccine that targets the immune system has shown some early progress in improving survival in women with metastatic breast or ovarian cancer. |
WebMD - Nov. 8, 2011 -- Babies who gain weight most quickly are at highest risk of obesity later in childhood, a Harvard study finds. Infants who gain the most weight at age 1-6 months are most likely to be obese at ages 5 and 10 years. |
Huffington Post - Another big study has established a link between an increased risk of blood clots and newer oral birth control pills that contain drospirenone. |
Chicagoist - This was definitely the most disgusting story we've come across in a while: NPR reported that a woman in Nashville was selling lollipops, licked and sucked on by her chicken pox-infected children, to parents around the country. |
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RedOrbit - Indian researchers said on Monday that they were close to developing an “electronic nose” that is capable of sniffing out tuberculosis on someone's breath. |
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