The five men accused in a brutal gang rape that led to nationwide protests entered not guilty pleas on Saturday to the 13 charges filed against them.The charges — including gang rape, murder, kidnapping and conspiracy — stem from the Dec. 16 rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student who later died from her injuries. Reports of the attack led to days of protests in India...
Netflix CEO fights for the right to post company milestones on Facebook
Label: TechnologyIt may not seem like the most pressing matter in an era of massive financial scandals, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to go after Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings for posting information about Netflix company milestones on his Facebook (FB) page. According to Bloomberg, the SEC believes that Hastings’ Facebook post, which announced that Netflix users had watched more than...
Barney Bush Dies
Label: Lifestyle People Pets By Kristin Boehm 02/02/2013 at 09:30 AM EST George W. and Barney Bush boarding Air Force One in 2004 Luke Frazza/AFP/Getty Barney, the perky black Scottish Terrier who made the White House his home alongside President George W. Bush and his family from...
New rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation's schools.For the first time, the government is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out...
Lesson of Te'o: Heartbreak is heartbreak
Label: Business I'm not sure what's more weird, the idea that Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o fell in love with a woman who didn't exist or the soap opera sideshow that has developed around the saga of his fake dead girlfriend.We've moved from skepticism to voyeuristic obsession since the story broke last month. Katie Couric's television ratings soared when...
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Scotland Yard Official, April Casburn, Sentenced to Jail in Murdoch Hacking Scandal
Label: WorldLONDON — A senior police officer in Scotland Yard’s counterterrorism command, Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, was sentenced to a 15-month prison term on Friday for seeking cash payments from Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid in return for information about a Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking at the paper. A unanimous jury verdict after a four-day trial earlier...
Drew Barrymore Wears Sweatpants She Finds on the Floor
Label: Lifestyle Stylewatch Style News Now 01/31/2013 at 09:00 AM ET Daniel Jackson for Harper’s BAZAARIf you take away the fact that she’s a multi-talented movie star, producer, former CoverGirl and current cosmetics mogul who got married in Chanel,...
Hedgehog Alert! Prickly pets can carry salmonella
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Add those cute little hedgehogs to the list of pets that can make you sick.In the last year, 20 people were infected by a rare but dangerous form of salmonella bacteria, and one person died in January. The illnesses were linked to contact with hedgehogs kept as pets, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Health officials on Thursday...
Cardinal Mahony relieved of duties over handling of abuse
Label: Business In a move unprecedented in the American Catholic Church, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez announced Thursday that he had relieved...
Jan
31
IHT Rendezvous: Europeans Dismantle People-Smuggling Ring
Label: WorldLONDON — European police said on Wednesday that they had dismantled a criminal network that smuggled illegal migrants into the European Union, arresting more than 100 suspects across the Continent, from France to the Balkans.The network smuggled people principally from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and Turkey.Europol, a joint law enforcement agency set up to fight serious crime in the 27-member...
Facebook slumps as mobile ad growth fails to impress
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Shares of Facebook Inc were set to open 7 percent lower on Thursday as a surge in fourth-quarter mobile advertising revenue failed to live up to Wall Street’s high expectations.Three brokerages downgraded the stock of the No. 1 social network, which has struggled to develop a full-fledged mobile advertising business.Facebook has long established itself as one of the most important websites,...
Elton John's Family Album
Label: Lifestyle 01/31/2013 at 10:00 AM EST Like any parents about to welcome their second child, Elton John and partner David Furnish wondered how their 2-year-old son Zachary would react when his little brother Elijah came home.Turns out, they had nothing to worry about.
Zachary "is as excited as we are," says John, 65,...
Sex to burn calories? Authors expose obesity myths
Label: HealthFact or fiction? Sex burns a lot of calories. Snacking or skipping breakfast is bad. School gym classes make a big difference in kids' weight.All are myths or at least presumptions that may not be true, say researchers who reviewed the science behind some widely held obesity beliefs and found it lacking.Their report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine says dogma and fallacies are detracting...
Trial begins for Moreno Valley school board member Mike Rios
Label: Business The young woman on the witness stand said Mike Rios approached her on the street with a school district business card and a...
Jan
30
India Ink: No Knowledge of Pakistan Complaints, Indian Officials Say
Label: WorldFollowing the recent killings of Indian and Pakistani soldiers near the Kashmir border, a local newspaper reported classified United Nations documents show that the cycle of violence between troops of the two countries has continued despite the cease-fire in 2003.The Hindu, a national English-language daily newspaper, said Wednesday that Pakistan has repeatedly complained to the United Nations Military...
Yandex puts mobile app blocked by Facebook on hold
Label: TechnologyMOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian internet company Yandex has put an experimental application that allows users to search social networking sites from mobile devices on hold after it was blocked by Facebook.Facebook, which launched its own search tool earlier this month, blocked the Wonder app three hours after its launch on January 24 for U.S. users.The application allows users to look for recommendations...
Kate's Perfect Nose Inspires Women to Have Plastic Surgery
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 01/30/2013 at 10:00 AM EST Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge REX USA; AFP/Getty; REX USA The dresses she wears fly off the shelves. Her hair is the envy of women around the world. And she's even helped boost sales of hosiery in the U.K. So is it any wonder that women also want...
Soldier with new arms determined to be independent
Label: HealthBALTIMORE (AP) — After weeks of round-the-clock medical care, Brendan Marrocco insisted on rolling his own wheelchair into a news conference using his new transplanted arms. Then he brushed his hair to one side.Such simple tasks would go unnoticed in most patients. But for Marrocco, who lost all four limbs while serving in Iraq, these little actions demonstrate how far he's come only six weeks after...
Slain doctor remembered for faith and zest for life
Label: Business He was remembered by patients and colleagues as a caring and talented physician, one who followed his father's footsteps into...
Jan
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With Timbuktu Retaken, France Signals It Plans to Pull Back in Mali
Label: WorldEric Feferberg/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA Malian soldier tried to disperse looters in the streets of Timbuktu on Tuesday. SEGOU, Mali — French paratroopers arrived in the ancient desert oasis of Timbuktu on Monday, securing its airport and main roads as thousands of residents poured out of its narrow, mud-walled streets to greet French and Malian troops, waving the two countries’ flags,...
Children’s magazine promotes adult video games
Label: TechnologyLONDON (Reuters) – A British magazine distributed by a joint venture of Conde Nast and Hearst Corporation and aimed at primary school children has been featuring images of adult-rated video games.The most recent issue of Cool Kidz, which is published by privately-owned LCD Publishing, contained images of five games that carried age ratings of 18 years, under the European gaming industry’s PEGI rating...
Miranda Lambert: Dog Betty Is a Daddy's Girl
Label: Lifestyle People Pets By Jessica Herndon 01/29/2013 at 09:05 AM EST As a busy mom of six – to pooches, that is! – Miranda Lambert often makes time for her furry brood by bringing some of her and husband Blake Shelton's pets on the road."I have two small dogs, Delta and Cher, so they are usually the ones who go on tour,"...
Soldier talks about his new arms after transplant
Label: HealthBALTIMORE (AP) — A soldier who lost all four limbs in an Iraq roadside bombing has two new arms following a double transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Twenty-six-year-old Brendan Marrocco along with the surgeons who treated him will be at the Baltimore hospital on Tuesday to discuss the new limbs.The transplants are only the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant ever conducted in the United...
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