Business
Taipei Times - Star performer oil hit an eight-month peak this week on the back of simmering tensions in key crude producer Iran, but other commodities enjoyed mixed fortunes as traders tracked the Greek debt crisis. |
Reuters - By Barry Moody | ROME (Reuters) - Whether or not Greece secures a new bailout to avoid bankruptcy next month, relations between Athens and Germany look close to breaking point. |
CNNGo.com - By CNNGo staff 17 February, 2012 From a Michelin restaurant or an airplane? Not much difference in the case of Etihad. Airline food has had a rough ride over the years, being likened to all manner of barely edible substances including “pure plastic” ... |
The Hindu - A small group of airfield traffic controllers caused severe disruptions to the flight operations at Germany's Frankfurt airport for the second day as they stepped up their strike demanding shorter working hours and higher salaries. |
Health
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - Surrounding yourself with people with similar health goals can help you achieve them, a new study shows. When clustered in competing teams with the same goal of losing weight, obese and overweight members who reported to have had ... |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - Over-consumption of calories in a day can double the risk of memory loss, according to a study from the American Academy of Neurology. |
AFP - SAO PAULO - Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is recovering from cancer radiation therapy, on Saturday thanked a Sao Paulo samba school for its planned tribute to his life but said he could not be with them. |
GMA News - In Saudi Arabia, where some 1.2 million Filipinos are residing, more patients are said to be insulting and committing violent acts against doctors and other health workers, whether they are Saudi nationals or expatriates. |
Dentistry.co.uk - That's according to the Department of Health today in light of a case of an elderly woman who died from Legionnaire's disease after she contracted the infection from a dental practice in Italy. |
Tempo - Decades-old assumptions about the odds of reaching very old age may be wrong, which could put 100 out of reach for many seniors, a new study finds. |
The Seattle Times - A new study adds to the growing body of science suggesting that with some infections, including those of the sinuses, antibiotics aren't the best course of treatment. |
Washington Post - SAN FRANCISCO - The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old. |
Hindustan Times - Babies still too small to speak know how to make jokes and form friendships, say researchers at an Australian university who have spent two years filming thebehaviour of young children. |
Manila Bulletin - By FR. BEL R. SAN LUIS, SVD MANILA, Philippines - A Divine Word missionary, Fr. Jan Szweda, SVD, who did further studies in Manila, related to me about experiencing acute back pains already as young missionary in Papua New Guinea. |
Daily Mail - By Jane Bunce Just a year after outbreaks of swine flu killed more than 500 people, the country is having a much-needed reprieve from the dreaded winter curse. |
The State Column - After debate and deadlock between bird flu scientists and the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the two controversial bird flu research studies will be published in full in ... |
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