Business
 | Economic Times - LONDON: Crude oil fell from a one-week high in New York on Wednesday as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to raise its production ceiling, moving the group's supply target nearer to current output levels. |
 | Washington Post - THE DOW: The Dow Jones industrial average fell for a third day in a row as a growing sense that Europe's leaders have failed to contain that region's debt crisis swept through financial markets Wednesday. |
 | BusinessWeek - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Olivier Blanchard, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, said Italy and Spain can demonstrate that they are solvent with “reasonable” borrowing costs and policies. |
 | Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., Japan's biggest beermaker by volume, plans takeovers across Southeast Asia (SEA) to access wider margins in a market of more than half a billion people ... |
 | Business Times (subscription) - (SINGAPORE) Hong Kong has claimed pole position in a ranking of the world's financial systems this year, beating the United States, the United Kingdom, and close competitor Singapore with the help of strong initial public offering (IPO) ... |
 | Reuters Blogs (blog) - The US Treasury bond market may be in for a bit of a rollercoaster ride over the near term as each new day seems to bring another deluge of debt, with the government trying to clear out all it can before the holidays. |
 | Washington Post - LABOR DEAL: Indonesian workers at Freeport-McMoRan's largest gold and copper mine ended a three-month strike after getting a 37 percent wage hike and improved benefits. |
Health
 | Turn to 10.com - Join NBC 10, Coast 93.3, and the Rhode Island Blood Center for our annual Holiday Blood Drive. It's Monday, Dec. 19th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Warwick, from 11 to 7. (more) Join Barbara Morse Silva and give the gift of life this holiday season. |
 | The Independent - Thinking of Paris in December once conjured up images of Parisians braving the cold as they walk alo... How long before internet access ranks alongside gas, electricity and water as one of the 'essentials... It is hard to fathom that a society could ... |
 | Metro - A new record purchase has been set by a tourist who bought nearly 50000 euros (£42320) worth of top-end duty free wine at the Parisian airport of Charles de Gaulle. |
 | TopNews United States - After concluding the findings of a latest research, a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne has claimed to acknowledge almost identical genetic changes in the stem cells when compared with that of human cancers. |
 | DAWN.com - “Because I'm always wet and the urine smells, other women won't speak to me. Even my husband,” says Hasrat Bibi. —AFP Photo KABUL: Three times Hasrat Bibi gave birth. |
 | Inquirer.net - I finished pre-law last year, took a break, wandered around the capital, enjoyed the perks of being an urban professional—working on weekdays partying on weekends—had several casual, short-time engagements and lived a life of promiscuity. |
 | The Associated Press - SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chilean doctors successfully separated conjoined twin girls in a marathon 20-hour surgery, saying Wednesday that the operation went extremely well despite challenges. |
 | Houston Chronicle (blog) - Note: If they all have their back to you they're trying very hard to ignore you. Scientists may have just found an evolutionary answer for why that idiot keeps hanging all over you at the bar without taking the hint that you're just not that into him. |
 | Montreal Gazette - A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin, published online by the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine, indicates that smokers who successfully quit smoking find themselves ... |
 | The Drum - Five patients have died in two years after operations to insert a so-called Lap-Band - a silicone ring implanted around the stomach to discourage overeating. |
 | Gothamist - According to the journal Biology Letters, bedbugs are more likely to feed on shaved limbs than on hairy ones—and hair helps warn us about the creatures. |
 | Salon - Not so fast, Baby Boomers! Though Buehler's study relies on extensive data from more than 1300 mothers of young children across the US - tracked over an exhaustive 10-year period - the research is far from flawless. |
 | New York Daily News - Malaria caused the death of an estimated 655000 people last year, with 86 percent of victims children aged under five, World Health Organisation figures showed on Tuesday. |
 | Huffington Post Canada - Childhood cancer survivors are not at a higher risk of having children with birth defects, suggests a new study. The study of 4699 children of 1128 men and 1627 women who were five-year childhood cancer survivors found no increased risk of birth ... |
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