Business
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks rallied, preventing a second straight weekly decline for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, and commodities climbed as US consumer confidence improved and Europe took steps to address its debt crisis. |
 | Channel News Asia - NEW YORK: The benchmark US oil price on Friday neared the $100 mark last seen in late July as market bullishness followed a rise in confidence that Europe is moving toward a resolution of its debt crisis. |
Journal Online - ANGELES City -- A businessman here questioned the P1-billion rehabilitation budget for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). |
 | Port Technology International (press release) - Manila-based terminal operator ICTSI saw revenues surge durign the first nine months of 2011. Image: ICTSI International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) recorded a net profit of US$101.4 million for the first nine months of 2011. |
 | Reuters - Use the Reuters Breakingviews stress test calculator to calculate how the Target core Tier 1 capital ratio and sovereign haircut levels affect the amount of capital banks need to pass the stress test. |
 | Bloomberg - Standard & Poor's said a “technical error” unrelated to France's credit rating was the cause of the message issued yesterday that roiled markets when the company mistakenly suggested the country had been ... |
 | Times of India - The bankers seem unwilling to provide fresh support, arguing that the promoters first need to infuse capital. NEW DELHI: A public pitch by civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi on Friday for a financial bailout for Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher ... |
 | The Press Association - Organisers of the Lord Mayor's Show have urged demonstrators outside St Paul's Cathedral in London not to disrupt the annual procession. |
Health
 | msnbc.com - Strange news on the wonderfully weird human body and the medical curiosities that make you go huh, eww or ouch! Got a delightfully disturbing idea? |
 | Hindustan Times - The new rules also require the producers to prominently scroll anti-tobacco health warning at the bottom of the screen during display. |
 | CBSSports.com (blog) - Celebrated certainly isn't the right word, but it's been 20 years since Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive. When he made the announcement, most thought it was a death sentence. |
 | USA Today - By HealthDay Eating a high-fiber diet may reduce your risk of colorectal cancer, especially if the fiber is from cereal and whole grains, according to a new review. |
 | Los Angeles Times - When it comes to quitting smoking, the lungs might be willing but the flesh is weak. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that while about 69% of smokers last year wanted to quit, only about a tenth were able to do so. |
 | Huffington Post - Good news for diabetics: The painful finger prick tests used to measure blood sugar might become a distant memory. Now researchers say tears could provide that same information. |
 | DigitalJournal.com - London - These patients are trapped in the limbo of the permanent vegetative state (PVS). Unresponsive to everything around them, they appear totally oblivious to the world. |
 | New York Daily News - Fat monkeys spend their time in a 420-square-meter enclosure at Ohama park in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture on May 4, 2008. A local report in April said that about 30 percent of the some 50 Macaca mulatta monkeys appeared to be overweight, due to overfeeding ... |
 | National Post (blog) - Brandy Lane Homes, Shiplake Management and the Wise Group are getting hairy! During November, the developers of The Station Condos on the Subway are donating $500 for every suite they sell at that condominium (to a maximum of $50000) to Movember. |
 | MedReps (subscription) - Amid the controversy surrounding the use of stem cells in medical procedures, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first blood cord product in the world for biotechnology sales. |
 | CBS News - A new study links the episodes - which doctors call transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs - to a marked increase in the death rate of older people but a minimal effect on the mortality of people under age 50. |
 | WebMD - Nov. 11, 2011 -- Go ahead and smile. It may be Mother Nature's way of giving you a youthful appearance. A new study showed that when people looked at photos of happy faces, they guessed the age of the person in the photo as younger ... |
 | Register - A prototype fingerprint scanner has been developed that can detect the presence of opiates, cannabis, or cocaine in the sweat on a user's fingertip. |
 | WTMA - Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The world's leading cause of death for children under age five is a disease that can be cured with a simple dose of antibiotics costing only $1: pneumonia. |
 | PhysOrg.com - This photomicrograph of a blood smear contains a macro- and microgametocyte of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite. Image: Wikipedia. |
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