Business
 | Straits Times - MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) - President Barack Obama sought to steal the spotlight from Republican presidential candidates on Tuesday, challenging opposition lawmakers back in Washington to stand by their anti-tax pledges on one big measure. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - Slowdown … China's growth rate is predicted to fall from 10.6 per cent last year to 8.4 per cent in 2012. Photo: AP TURMOIL in Europe coupled with devastating natural disasters have taken a toll on growth in east Asia and the slowdown will continue ... |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - America has demanded a "commitment of significant resources" from Europe to stem its debt crisis as the US announced a shock cut to its growth forecast. |
 | BusinessWeek - Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Oil rose for the first time in four days as new sanctions against Iran and protests in Egypt raised concern that supplies will be disrupted. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - SECURING a positive outlook from Fitch Ratings will be an uphill climb for the Philippines, an executive from the debt watcher yesterday said. |
 | Inquirer.net - Shipbuilder HHIC-Philippines is putting up a power plant to supply its own electricity requirements in Subic Bay. PHOTO FROM HHIC-PHIL. |
 | Examiner.com - On Monday the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced in its annual greenhouse gas bulletin that worldwide levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continued to rise to record highs in 2010. |
Health
 | Santiago Times - A report by UNAIDS, a United Nations AIDS research program, commended Chile this week for its public education campaigns encouraging AIDS testing and for making medical treatment available for people diagnosed with AIDS. |
 | Daily Mail - Research has linked regular consumption with lower odds of endometrial cancer, the most common form of the disease. Women who drank four or more cups a day over many years were 25 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those ... |
 | Toronto Star - New Canadian guidelines generally calling for reduced breast cancer screening have triggered a mixture of outrage, concern and downright bewilderment. |
 | Newser - (Newser) - A British woman collapsed within minutes after using hair dye and is now in a coma, marking the second such tragedy in less than a month, the Daily Mail reports. |
 | Huffington Post - Over the past several years, researchers have noticed an odd pattern in the relationship between body weight and Alzheimer's disease: Middle-aged people have a higher long-term risk of developing the disease if they're overweight or ... |
 | Daily Mail - The autism epidemic seen in most Western countries in the past 30 years is one of the great medical mysteries of our time. The cause cannot be some great genetic shift - there simply hasn't been enough time for this to have happened. |
 | Savannah Tribune - Flu season has been in full swing since August, but it's never too late to guard yourself against infection. Dec. 4 is the first day of National Influenza Vaccination Week, and the Georgia Department of Public Health would like to emphasize the ... |
 | Hindustan Times - The more often married individuals above the age of 65 engage in sex, the more likely they are to be happy with both their lives and marriages. |
 | Detroit Free Press - Thomas Pervolarakis, 24, of Detroit, left, and Warren Friedl, 22, of Royal Oak show off their moustaches. Their team of University of Detroit Mercy dental students plans a shave-off tonight -- after raising $3775. |
 | Wirral Globe - MOVES by the British Medical Association in favour of banning smoking in cars are draconian. The BMA is flagrantly abusing the facts in its attempt to bully the Government into introducing such a ban. |
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