Business
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Oil dropped the most in two weeks after a proposed European Union embargo of Iranian oil imports was said likely to be delayed for six months. |
 | The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - A study by Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) dubbed the Philippines a “fast-growth” economy due to improving fundamentals, which will propel the domestic economy to be the 16th largest economy by 2050. |
 | Tempo - Manila, Philippines - The Bureau of Customs (BoC) filed smuggling charges yesterday before the Department of Justice (DoJ) against two businessmen and two brokers of frozen meat and firecrackers. |
 | Voice of America - January 12, 2012 Spanish Government Successfully Raises Billions of Euros Dominic Laurie | London The start of 2012 has seen some optimism from the eurozone. |
 | Philippine Star - Perhaps inspired by the display of transparency of President Aquino who revealed the recent discovery of an alleged terror plot, government officials now warn the public about supposed possible oil shortage in the country. |
 | Washington Post - LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was in crisis talks with union leaders Thursday night in an effort to end a violent nationwide strike over his government's decision to withdraw long-standing fuel subsidies. |
 | ABS CBN News - By Paul Anthony A. Isla, BusinessMirror MANILA, Philippines - Petron Corp., one of the country's oil refiners, on Wednesday said it is investing in ExxonMobil's downstream oil operations in Malaysia. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Tina G. Santos This just may be the year the Philippines' premier airport is dropped from the world's worst list. The long-awaited rehabilitation of the 30-year-old Terminal 1 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) begins next week, ... |
Health
 | Macleans.ca (blog) - by Julia Belluz on Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:12pm - 0 Comments I interrupt our regular programming to cover some highly science-ish events unfolding as we speak: the French breast-implant saga. |
 | Voice of America - January 12, 2012 India Reports No Polio Cases for One Year Lisa Schlein | Geneva The World Health Organization reports that for the first time in history, India has been without a single case of polio for one year. |
 | GMA News - SEOUL - South Korean anti-smoking activists have gone to the constitutional court to try to shut down the country's cigarette industry, a court official said Thursday. |
 | Medical News Today - According to a study published in the European Heart Journal, owning a car and a television is associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, while physical activity during leisure time or work ... |
 | Daily Gossip - With more and more people using marijuana, researchers decided to take a second look at how this drug actually impacts the body. One of their first researched topics was the risk of lung damage caused by smoking joints. |
 | Big Think (blog) - The Consumer Electronics Show is not all quirky gadgets. New genome sequencing technology announced at the show suggests that companies are getting closer to sequencing an entire human's genome for $1000, the benchmark beyond which sequencing could be ... |
 | New York Times - The nicotine gum and patches that millions of smokers use to help kick their habit have no lasting benefit and may backfire in some cases, according to the most rigorous long-term study to date of so-called nicotine replacement therapy. |
 | NEWS.com.au - INTERNET addiction causes changes in the brain similar to that normally seen in people addicted to alcohol and drugs such as cocaine and cannabis, a study has found. |
 | New York Times - Drinking alcohol causes a pleasant feeling because it releases endorphins, the brain's natural opioids. But a new study has found that problem drinkers differ from social drinkers in the way alcohol affects one part of the brain. |
 | Huffington Post - Women undergoing in vitro fertilization should never have more than two embryos implanted, according to a new study out of the UK. |
 | Huffington Post (blog) - Mattel, who's been manufacturing thin, shapely, obviously carb-free, Barbie for over 50 years, was recently approached by two girls who'd had cancer, urging the company to introduce, "Beautiful and Bald Barbie," with the hope that the doll will help ... |
 | Herald Sun - Erin Langworthy speaks to Channel Nine after after her bungee cord snapped during a jump over the Zambesi River on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia, sending her plunging into the rapids below. |
 | Boston Herald - By William Weir / The Hartford Courant HARTFORD, Conn. - A three-year investigation into the work of a University of Connecticut researcher who focused on the health benefits of resveratrol - a chemical in red wine - found 145 instances of fabricated ... |
 | Chicago Tribune - CHICAGO (Reuters) - A respiratory illness that strikes the elderly knocked homicide off the list of the top killers in the United States for the first time in 45 years in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. |
 | Written by  in 4,681 Google+ circles The Guardian - Think you could invent a gadget that would be able to diagnose diseases as easily, quickly and accurately as the tricorder in Star Trek? |
 | MyFox Tampa Bay - TAMPA - Researchers have isolated a promising new hormone they say will increase energy expenditure without increasing activity level. |
 | Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Bungling medics dropped a donor heart in a city street just yards from the medical centre where a life-saving operation was about to be performed. |
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