LONDON — The widespread satisfaction expressed in France at the government’s decision to intervene militarily against Islamic militants in Mali was tempered on Saturday by news of a failed overnight French hostage rescue mission on the other side of Africa.After reports emerged from Somalia of a helicopter-borne commando raid in the south of the country, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French defense minister...
The Worst ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Player Ever
Label: TechnologyWe realize there’s only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: RELATED: Movie and Television Characters Need a Lesson in Talking TrashIf we’re ever on Wheel of Fortune...
Taylor Swift, Marie Osmond Draw Love, Laughs from Readers This Week
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 01/12/2013 at 08:30 AM EST Taylor Swift and Rachael, Gabriel and Marie Osmond Steve Granitz/Wireimage; Courtesy R&C What's on the minds of PEOPLE readers this week? We love receiving your feedback, and as always, you weighed in with plenty...
Flu season puts businesses and employees in a bind
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half the 70 employees at a Ford dealership in Clarksville, Ind., have been out sick at some point in the past month. It didn't have to be that way, the boss says."If people had stayed home in the first place, a lot of times that spread wouldn't have happened," says Marty Book, a vice president at Carriage Ford. "But people really want to get out and do their jobs, and sometimes...
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IHT Rendezvous: Top Pirate Quits as Tide Turns Against Somali Raiders
Label: WorldLONDON — A notorious Somali sea raider known as Big Mouth is a pirate with a retirement plan.He announced this week that he was quitting after an eight-year career in which he and his pirate crews plagued shipping in the Indian Ocean and raised millions of dollars in ransom.Big Mouth — Mohamed Abdi Hassan — was named in a United Nations report last year as one of the most notorious and influential...
Skype founder browses globe for next tech earner
Label: TechnologyLONDON (Reuters) – Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of internet phone service Skype, believes the next hot tech business will just as likely spring from Istanbul or Sao Paolo as from Silicon Valley or the coolest districts of London.And he is prepared to fly around the world to find it.“Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it’s not just one city block,” the Swedish entrepreneur and venture capitalist...
Survivor: Caramoan - Fans vs. Favorites: See Who's Back
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch By Patrick Gomez 01/11/2013 at 09:00 AM EST From left: Phillip Sheppard, Malcolm Freberg and Brandon Hantz CBS/Landov (3) The 26th season of Survivor will be the ultimate "Redemption Island" for ten returning contestants who will face off against ten newcomers...
Flu season strikes early and, in some places, hard
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — From the Rocky Mountains to New England, hospitals are swamped with people with flu symptoms. Some medical centers are turning away visitors or making them wear face masks, and one Pennsylvania hospital set up a tent outside its ER to deal with the feverish patients.Flu season in the U.S. has struck early and, in many places, hard.While flu normally doesn't blanket the country until...
Woman murders girl, 2, feeding her chili power, police say
Label: Business An Apple Valley woman accused of fatally poisoning her boyfriend’s 2-year-old toddler with chili powder pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder, a prosecutor said. Amanda Sorensen, 21, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and child abuse causing death. She appeared in court Thursday, said Kathleen DiDonato, a deputy district attorney. DiDonato declined to talk about the specifics of the...
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India Ink: The Delhi Gang Rape Accused: Vinay Sharma, a 'Quiet and Simple' Boy
Label: WorldTo keep her children warm on Wednesday night, Champa Devi tried to get a small fire going by puffing air into four pieces of wood outside their home in a South Delhi slum.“I am heartbroken,” she said, coughing as a cloud of smoke billowed around her. “When I wake up, it feels like my heart has been torn away.”Ms. Champa, 37, is the mother of Vinay Sharma, one of the six accused in the gang rape of...
Netflix announces ‘Super HD’ and 3D streaming for select ISPs
Label: TechnologyNetflix (NFLX) on Tuesday announced new enhanced streaming options for users on select ISPs. Following a series of rumors that suggested as much, Netflix has confirmed the availability of “Super HD” streaming — which is simply Netflix’s branding for 1080p content — and 3D video streaming. Both services are available immediately with a huge caveat: only Netflix subscribers with Cablevision or Google...
It's a Girl for Lily Allen
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 01/10/2013 at 08:30 AM ET PA Photos/LandovCue the lullabies: Lily Allen is a mom — again!The “Smile” singer and her husband Sam Cooper welcomed her second daughter — and the baby girl shares her special day with rock legends Elvis and David Bowie. Marnie Rose arrived...
Retooling Pap test to spot more kinds of cancer
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — For years, doctors have lamented that there's no Pap test for deadly ovarian cancer. Wednesday, scientists reported encouraging signs that one day, there might be.Researchers are trying to retool the Pap, a test for cervical cancer that millions of women get, so that it could spot early signs of other gynecologic cancers, too.How? It turns out that cells can flake off of tumors in...
Irvine City Council overhauls oversight, spending on Great Park
Label: Business Capping a raucous eight-hour-plus meeting, the Irvine City Council early Wednesday voted to overhaul the oversight and spending...
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Record Heat Fuels Widespread Fires in Australia
Label: WorldLukas Coch/European Pressphoto AgencyFirefighters battled a grass fire in Oura, near Wagga Wagga, Australia, on Tuesday. On Monday, Australia’s hottest day on record, the national average was 104.59 degrees. SYDNEY, Australia — Australia on Wednesday was grappling with an unprecedented heat wave that has sparked raging bushfires across some of the country’s most populated regions — pushing firefighters...
European businesses slow to go online: study
Label: TechnologyBRUSSELS (Reuters) – European businesses are not doing enough to use the internet to grow their customer base and promote products, Belgian database and marketing firm Email-Brokers said after studying 13 million websites.Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands have the highest proportion of companies online but even in these countries 40 percent of business have no internet presence, it found.The European...
Taylor Swift Steps Out in Los Angeles Post-Split
Label: Lifestyle 01/09/2013 at 09:45 AM EST She's marching on!Following the end of a whirlwind romance with One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles that took her from New York City to northern England, the ski slopes of Utah and the British Virgin Isles, Taylor Swift stepped out alone in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The Grammy-winning...
Report: Death rates from cancer still inching down
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Death rates from cancer are continuing to inch down, researchers reported Monday.Now the question is how to hold onto those gains, and do even better, even as the population gets older and fatter, both risks for developing cancer."There has been clear progress," said Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society, which compiled the annual cancer report with government and cancer...
Charlie Sheen downplays Baja encounter with L.A. mayor
Label: Business Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa found himself sucked deeper into the Charlie Sheen-TMZ-Hollywood gossip vortex Tuesday,...
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Huge Amounts Spent on Immigration, Study Finds
Label: WorldJohn Moore/Getty ImagesA man suspected of being an illegal immigrant from Mexico was searched by a federal immigration officer in Phoenix last April. The Obama administration spent nearly $18 billion on immigration enforcement last year, significantly more than its spending on all the other major federal law enforcement agencies combined, according to a report published Monday by the Migration Policy...
Conn. lawmaker apologizes over Facebook post
Label: TechnologyHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut lawmaker has apologized after saying in a Facebook post that shooting victim and former Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords should “stay out of my towns.”Giffords last week visited Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 young children and six adults at an elementary school last month. The Democrat, who met with families of the victims, was critically wounded...
Miranda Lambert Is 'Protective' Over Time With Husband Blake Shelton
Label: Lifestyle By Maggie Coughlan 01/08/2013 at 09:45 AM EST Despite countless awards, hit records and a doting husband, Miranda Lambert isn't always so confident. "I"m insecure about tons of things!" she says in Redbook's February issue – available on newsstands Tuesday.
"I cry onstage once a week, singing 'The House That...
Report: Death rates from cancer still inching down
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Death rates from cancer are continuing to inch down, researchers reported Monday.Now the question is how to hold onto those gains, and do even better, even as the population gets older and fatter, both risks for developing cancer."There has been clear progress," said Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society, which compiled the annual cancer report with government and cancer...
Brown seeks to lift state inmate caps
Label: Business Gov. Jerry Brown says there's no need to do more to reduce crowding in state prisons, and population caps should be lifted.In...
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