Business
 | Manila Bulletin - By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT MANILA, Philippines - The foreign business community has failed to attain its $7.5 billion annual FDI growth target set by the foreign business community to hit a total of $75 billion FDIs by 2020 under its “Arangkada ... |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - KORONADAL -- The Tampakan copper-gold project -- threatened by a South Cotabato provincial government ban on open pit mining -- covers significantly higher mineral resources than initially estimated, Australia's Indophil Resources NL announced on ... |
 | The Chosun Ilbo - As Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz intensify, some energy experts are calling on Arab Gulf states to find alternative ways to export their petroleum. |
 | Channel News Asia - NEW YORK: The euro gained ground against the dollar on Friday as US economic growth numbers disappointed and hopes remained alive that a Greek debt deal with private creditors is looming. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - The US economy grew at its fastest pace in 1-1/2 years in the fourth quarter, but a rebuilding of stocks by businesses and slower business spending warned of weaker growth in early 2012. |
 | Financial Times - By Michael Mackenzie in New York Low interest rates from the US Federal Reserve are designed to have a dual positive effect: to help the economy and debtors. |
 | Financial Times (blog) - It looks like officials at the World Economic Forum have learned their lessons after all. Fresh from the embarrassment of not having any high level officials from China attending Davos this year, WEF officials are apparently in discussions over moving ... |
 | Canada.com - By Fiona Govan, The Daily Telegraph January 27, 2012 6:08 PM A woman gives a coin to unemployed Miguel Ballesteros as he begs for money to buy food and pay the rent for his house, in downtown Malaga, southern Spain January 27, 2012. |
 | Huffington Post (blog) - The light of democracy is being extinguished across the continent in which it was born. An unaccountable European elite is ignoring the basic principles of democracy and betraying the founding vision of the EU. |
 | Wall Street Journal - By Anusha Shrivastava Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The dollar faces a rocky road next week as foreign-exchange markets focus on employment data, a European Union meeting and details of a Greek bond restructuring. |
 | Breaking Travel News - Indonesia's national airline, Garuda Indonesia, has announced the addition of a third daily flight between Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta starting February 19th 2012. |
Health
 | CBS News - (AP) MARSEILLE, France - French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company accused of supplying potentially faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women. |
 | Health Aim (blog) - A new study showed that at least 7 percent of American teens and adults have the human papillomavirus in their mouths. This could explain why the rates of throat and mouth cancer have increased in the past 25 years. |
 | STLtoday.com - The university, located in Town & Country, has not allowed smoking in buildings on the main campus for some time. Now, it is not allowed on the grounds of the main campus. |
 | AFP - WASHINGTON - A California man who donates his sperm for free to couples who want to have a baby is being investigated by US regulators but insists he will continue his efforts as a matter of goodwill. |
 | AFP - GENEVA - Cholera cases have soared in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN said on Friday, bringing the number of people infected in the year-long outbreak to 22000 with 584 deaths. |
 | Toronto Star - Sharon Jayson Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has started her own investigation into the mysterious illness that's caused symptoms of facial tics and verbal outbursts among teenagers in Le Roy, NY, in light of new evidence about a toxic chemical ... |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - LAHORE: Hundreds of workers and officials of Labour Party Pakistan, trade unions and other progressive parties on Friday held a protest rally in front of the Lahore Press Club against pharmaceutical companies and Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) ... |
 | CBC.ca - People who work 11 or more hours a day have double the odds of becoming depressed compared with those who don't work overtime, a British study suggests. |
 | ABC News (blog) - We all may be guilty of overindulging in our favorite food every now and then. But it seems like one British teen has taken her single food addiction to a whole new level. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Researchers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that percentages of Americans receiving recommended screenings for breast cancer, cervical cancer and colorectal cancer in 2010 did not reach targets -- with racial ... |
 | New York Times - To the Editor: Re “New Autism Rule Will Trim Many, a Study Suggests” (front page, Jan. 20): Narrowing the definition of autism is a bad idea and narrows the opportunities to make significant inroads in helping children affected by this condition, ... |
 | Hindustan Times - Debunking the long-held belief that fried foods spell disaster for your cardiovascular health, a new study conducted in Spain, has found out that as long as you use olive or sunflower oil, fried foods may not be so bad after all. |
 | ABC7Chicago.com - January 27, 2012 (WLS) -- A genetic test can predict which early-stage lung cancers will return after surgery. The study in the journal Lancet looked at the two largest clinical studies ever done on the molecular genetics of lung cancer. |
 | The Independent - Which city should you move to in 2012 for the best job and house-price prospects? Our Online House H... As Olympic fever sweeps the globe, it's important for travellers to retain a healthy degree of skept... Which part of the country has seen house ... |
 | Medical News Today - A recent study that took place at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, and was published in the January edition of Current Biology, states that detecting autism symptoms in babies as young as 6 months old can ... |
 | Voice of America (blog) - If you think the odds of having a heart attack or stroke in your lifetime are low, you could be kidding yourself. Even if you are at low risk of having a cardiac incident in the short term, having one or two risk factors - such as high blood pressure ... |
 | Written by  Huffington Post - They're no good at poetry. They don't buy flowers. But scientists are reporting that male mice have their own special way of impressing the ladies: Scientists already knew that male mice send out high-pitched mating calls, inaudible to the human ear. |
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