Business
 | MiamiHerald.com - WASHINGTON -- European leaders closed a pivotal week Friday with an agreement in principle to join a new treaty that would force all but one European Union nation into common budget discipline and would empower EU courts to enforce the ... |
 | Inquirer.net - Leading South Korean water resources and power firm Korea Water Resources Corp. plans to invest as much as $1 billion in equity for various water and power projects in the Philippines over the next three years, according to K-Water representative in ... |
 | Vox Bikol - GMA Network, Inc. has appointed Felipe S. Yalong as the Company's new Executive Vice President effective December 1, 2011. The new GMA EVP will remain the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Group Head of its Corporate Services Group. |
 | Financial Times - Oil prices fell on an unexpected rise in US oil inventories, which pushed the West Texas Intermediate contract briefly below the $100-a-barrel mark. |
 | BusinessWeek - Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer said that the liquidity measures the central bank announced yesterday amount to a “bazooka” that should help lower borrowing costs for euro area states. |
 | eTaiwan News - AP Portugal's statistics agency says the country's economy shrank by 0.6 percent in the third quarter _ a sharper contraction than its previous estimate of 0.4 percent. |
 | BBC News - Some of Europe's top insurance companies have been warned their credit rating could be downgraded as a result of the European financial crisis. |
 | Standart News - Bulgaria's economy will register an economic growth of 1.9% for 2011 and 1.3% for 2012, show the new forecasts of the IMF which register a significant drop compared to its prognosis made in September 2011. |
 | Inquirer.net - HONG KONG—Asian markets fell Friday on fears Europe's leaders will not agree to a deal to tackle their debt crisis as the first day of a crucial summit broke up with plans for a full treaty change in tatters. |
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - Hungary's economy ministry published grudging remarks about Erste Bank, after the Austrian company announced it would enact layoffs and close down branches in Hungary. |
Health
 | Wall Street Journal (India) - LONDON (Dow Jones)--GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) Friday said its drug Tykerb failed to achieve its target in a clinical trial testing its role in women with early breast cancer. |
 | AllMediaNY - The Brazilian government has initiated a multi-million dollar agenda aimed at combating the countries growing problem of crack cocaine usage. |
 | eMaxHealth - Just cutting carbohydrate intake a couple of days a week could help women lower their insulin levels, lose weight and curb their risk of breast cancer. |
 | AFP - RIO DE JANEIRO - A meningitis epidemic has killed 109 people in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia since the start of the year, according to a report released by local authorities Friday. |
 | WebMD - Dec. 9, 2011 (San Antonio) -- A drug given to protect bones during breast cancer treatment extended the lives of young women with the disease, researchers report. |
 | Huffington Post - On the most recent episode of abysmally-marketed NBC sitcom Whitney, the title character and her live-in boyfriend, Alex, decided to adopt new holiday traditions instead of miserably visiting their families as they always had in the past. |
 | CBC.ca - Abortion does not increase a woman's chance of developing mental health problems, according to the largest study ever to investigate the issue. |
 | Globe and Mail - It was only a week in May, but it was a terrifying time for Elizabeth Nanyange. For a week, her clinic had none of the medicine she needed to prevent her from transmitting the AIDS virus to her unborn child. |
 | U.S. News & World Report - FRIDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Flu vaccination is easy to get and one of the best ways to protect your health during the flu season, but too few Americans take advantage of it, experts say. |
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