Business
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Online retail sales and payments made by mobile phone increased from a year earlier as shoppers flocked to the Web for deals and made purchases via wireless handsets on the first Monday after Thanksgiving. |
 | Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers are to agree on Tuesday on details of leveraging their EFSF bailout fund so it can help Italy or Spain should they need aid, and are likely to approve the next tranche of emergency ... |
 | Inquirer.net - Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad said Monday his department had proposed to Malacañang the setting aside of a P11.68-billion kitty for a P10,000-productivity enhancement incentive (PEI) or bonus for each national government ... |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - ECONOMIC GROWTH slowed drastically to just 3.2% in the third quarter, dragged down by a weak agriculture sector and a plunge in construction activity. |
 | Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) yesterday reported that consumer loans as of the end of the second quarter grew by 15.1 percent to P500 billion, mainly due to real estate residential loans. |
 | Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - Production at the country's Galoc oil field will be shut-in for roughly three months because of the scheduled upgrading of its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) Rubicon unit which shall be ... |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - CONSULTANTS from Singapore's Changi Airport have arrived in Manila to conduct an appraisal of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), the Department of Transportation and Communications said in a statement yesterday. |
 | Reuters - By Ian Chua The euro and commodity currencies looked set to consolidate overnight gains in Asia on Tuesday, having been boosted by hopes that European officials will finally make some progress in tackling their debt crisis this week. |
 | Inquirer.net - Officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways should divulge the identities of their relatives who had business dealings with the DPWH in the last five years, Secretary Rogelio Singson said Monday. |
 | Daily Mail - Britain should brace itself for a devastating financial crisis, the governor of the Bank of England warned last night. Sir Mervyn King told MPs there was no doubt the banking system was 'less safe' than three months ago ... |
 | Financial Post - Customers shop for electronics items during 'Black Friday' at a Best Buy store in San Diego, California. By David Pett and Hollie Shaw US consumers are spending in droves again, but even after months of retail sales growth and a record-breaking ... |
 | Washington Post - Oil prices climbed above $98 per barrel Monday after shoppers pumped up holiday retail sales in the US, and investors bet that Europe would find a last-minute solution to its financial crisis. |
Health
 | UK The Kentucky Kernel - HIV affects one in 500 college students across the United States, according to Brandy Reeves, the health education coordinator for University Health Services at UK. |
 | OzarksFirst.com - (Princeton, NJ) -- US adults who've ever managed to lose weight are more likely to cite dietary changes than exercise as the reason for their success. |
 | Malaya - PROMOTING healthy eating habits is key to ensuring the proper nutrition of children. However, in recent years, as the global trend in daily diets shifted to more highly-refined, high-sugar processed foods, the spotlight has turned to the presence of ... |
 | AFP - BRASILIA - Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern. |
 | Malaysia Star - Strong, healthy bones play a far greater role in our overall health than we realise. AS women, we are constantly inundated with messages about the importance of bone health. |
 | Inquirer.net - On its sixth year, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recently completed a worldwide fitness trend survey of 2620 ACSM certified professionals from Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa, North America and South America. |
 | Stars and Stripes - Melodena Cheadle sets mangoes out to ripen on the farm she owns in the Philippines with her retired Air Force husband, Rocky Cheadle. |
 | CBS News - (AP) CLEVELAND - The case of an 8-year-old Ohio third-grader weighing more than 200 pounds has renewed a debate about whether parents should lose custody if a child is severely obese. |
 | Times LIVE - Tenofovir gel - the South African-developed microbicide accepted around the world as the "best Aids prevention news in years" - has been found to have no effect in halting HIV transmission. |
 | Vancouver Sun - A sign stands in front of the Genetech headquarters July 14, 2008 in South San Francisco, California. Health Canada has ceased its authorization of the popular cancer drug Avastin for use by some breast cancer patients after it determined the drug "has ... |
 | Escapist Magazine - It's time to ride the topsy-turvy roller coaster of science! This week: a study suggests playing violent videogames for hours on end does indeed have an effect on the male brain. |
 | Toronto Sun - It's not just what we eat or the poisons around us. New research has found one mysterious cancer may be partly in your bones. Or more specifically in a person's genes, which could influence their risk of being diagnosed ... |
 | Houston Chronicle (blog) - Elfi Yaghi with her son Jihad at Charite hospital in Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen/AFP/Getty Images) A mother who already had 13 children, has given birth to Germany's largest natural-born baby, according to the Daily Mail. |
 | News-Medical.net - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), three cases of a new flu virus have been confirmed. These originated in pigs but apparently spread from person to person, in three Iowa children. |
 | Scope (blog) - At the risk of being overly depressing, we're all getting older. And there's more to bemoan than just the gray hairs and wrinkles that might be popping up. |
 | DigitalJournal.com (press release) - Mellow Mushroom Jacksonville will be joining forces with the National Movember Movement, and will be throwing their annual Movember Event on Thursday, December 1st, at 9734 Deer Lake Ct. |
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