Business
 | Financial Times - David Cameron has worked hard to establish a good working relationship with Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy in the 18 months since he became prime minister. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - RICE IMPORTS for next year could be higher than initially forecast, a Cabinet official yesterday said, following crop damage caused by a string of typhoons in the second half. |
 | CanadianBusiness.com - An oil pump works as the sun sets Wednesday, July 7, 2010, in the Persian Gulf desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Hasan Jamali NEW YORK, NY - Oil prices tumbled nearly four per cent on ... |
 | Inquirer.net - Oil yield from the Galoc oil field in offshore Northwest Palawan is seen increasing by 19.2 percent to 12.4 million stock tank barrels (MMstb) based on a reserves assessment as of the end of the first semester, from 10.4 MMstb as of end-2010. |
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - Haunted by the specter of an imminent credit rating downgrade to junk, and after a massive weakening in its currency recently, Hungary said Thursday that it will return to the bosom of the International Monetary Fund. |
 | Business Times (subscription) - By R SIVANITHY IF it isn't Europe, then it's Wall Street. A warning by Fitch Ratings over the exposure US banks have to the European debt crisis dragged the US stock market sharply lower on Wednesday and this in turn made for yet another weak day in ... |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - The former chief executive of scandal-hit Olympus Corp has called on Japanese police to ensure his safety after pledging to return to the country to help with investigations. |
 | New York Times - MADRID - Battling record unemployment and borrowing costs, the Spanish government is set this weekend to become the latest victim of Europe's debt crisis. |
 | BusinessWeek - Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- BASF SE, the world's biggest chemical maker, and steel company ThyssenKrupp AG are among at least 12 German businesses that have agreed to form an alliance to secure raw materials and combat shortages and ... |
 | CNN International - By the CNN Wire Staff Tokyo (CNN) -- Japanese authorities have halted the shipment of rice from some farms northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after finding higher-than-allowed levels of radioactive cesium, local authorities said ... |
Health
 | Empowered News - Angelica and Angelina Sabuco were the conjoined twins successfully separated last week at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. |
 | Inquirer.net - The Aquino government has earmarked P7.7 billion for reproductive health programs in the 2012 budget, prompting two senators to suggest that there may no longer be any need for Congress to pass the controversial reproductive ... |
 | The Guardian (blog) - Great news that GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation), revelling in the windfall it received at its funding conference in London earlier this year ($4.3 billion, which is $600 million more than it asked for), has announced it will ... |
 | Santiago Times - Activist groups this week strongly criticized the Chilean health ministry's newest HIV/AIDS prevention campaign, condemning it as yet another off-target attempt to take on HIV/AIDS without addressing real prevention techniques or the key audience ... |
 | Mindanao Examiner - Officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and KFI Center for Community Development Foundation during the signing of sponsorship contract agreement for the “Mindanao Run for Hope” slated on February 5, 2012. |
 | GlobalPost (blog) - President Barack Obama in his video for the American Cancer Society's "The Great American Smokeout” campaign. (Screengrab) President Barack Obama recently gave up smoking, and he's recorded a video urging others to do the same. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Buried in a thick spending bill before Congress that must be approved to prevent a government shutdown is one line dealing with tomato paste. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Cutting, burning and other forms of self-harm behaviors occur in 8% of all teenagers, according to a study released Thursday. While common, however, the study suggests that the practice of self-harm typically vanishes in late adolescence -- often ... |
 | Daily Mail - It is already said to give babies the best start in life but breast milk may also hold the key to beating diseases from Alzheimer's to cancer. |
 | News24 - Copenhagen/Stockholm - Raising awareness about the risks of overuse of antibiotics is needed to combat antibiotic resistance in Europe, health agencies said on Thursday. |
 | BusinessWeek - The British Medical Association is calling on the government to ban smoking at all times in cars, a step that would go beyond regulations elsewhere. |
 | New York Daily News - Researchers found that despite the huge price difference, both kinds of salt contained the same main ingredient: sodium chloride. What kind of salt do you use to cook with? |
 | CBS News - Nearly 5 million more CooperVision contact lenses are being recalled because they may cause blurry vision, eye pain, and injuries requiring medical treatment. |
 | Huffington Post - From the hand-painted to the perfectly coiffed handlebar, moustaches are sprouting all over the world in support of prostate cancer awareness now that Movember has the half-way mark. |
 | CBS News - (CBS) Good news, green tea aficionados. A new study shows that the famously healthful brew may shave points off your "bad" cholesterol level. |
 | NHS Choices - The popular Dukan diet has been slammed as “ineffective and without scientific basis”, The Daily Telegraph has today reported. |
 | Coastal Courier - Georgia school nurses are on the front line in providing essential care during school hours that allows children with diabetes to stay in class and learn. |
 | Heal Blog (blog) - by Art Writ, November 17th, 2011 Breast cancer considered as the number one disease affecting females is still on the mainstream. Many women are still affected by this disease and many more women are being diagnosed everyday. |
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