LONDON — A crisis over horse meat in European food products deepened Thursday when British officials said tests showed that a powerful equine drug, potentially harmful to human health, may have entered the food chain in small quantities. Until now, the crisis had been seen primarily as an issue of fraud after products containing horse meat were labeled beef, with politicians insisting that,...
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West Involved in Security Breach at JFK
Label: Lifestyle By Tim Nudd 02/14/2013 at 08:00 AM EST Kim Kardashian and Kayne West Splash News Online Sorry, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. You'll have to endure the normal hassles of air travel, too. The couple, returning from Brazil, were involved in a security breach at...
Morning-after pill use up to 1 in 9 younger women
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — About 1 in 9 younger women have used the morning-after pill after sex, according to the first government report to focus on emergency contraception since its approval 15 years ago.The results come from a survey of females ages 15 to 44. Eleven percent of those who'd had sex reported using a morning-after pill. That's up from 4 percent in 2002, only a few years after the pills went...
Stock futures dip on Europe, Japan growth data; Cisco weighs
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock futures fell on Thursday in the wake of weaker-than-expected growth data from Europe and Japan and a disappointing outlook from technology bellwether Cisco Systems . Though weakness in Europe has persisted over recent quarters, underwhelming economic growth data from the region and from Japan, which could impact global growth and U.S. corporate profits, may...
Feb
13
IHT Rendezvous: Mario Draghi Takes the E.C.B.'s Message to Spain
Label: WorldMADRID—The European Central Bank and its president, Mario Draghi, want to ensure that their voices get heard beyond the financial district of Frankfurt.But their efforts to travel around Europe and spread their message more directly to its citizens have ended up backfiring, at least when it comes to visiting Spain, one of the countries at the center of the Continent’s debt crisis.Last May, the E.C.B....
One Direction, Taylor Swift Among Kids' Choice Awards Nominees
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 02/13/2013 at 08:50 AM EST One Direction, (from left) Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Harry Styles Jon Furniss/AP Time to get slimed! Wednesday brought the nominations for Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, set to air March 23 with Josh Duhamel as...
Study questions kidney cancer treatment in elderly
Label: HealthIn a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less likely to die over the next five years if doctors monitored them instead of operating right away.Even though nearly all of these tumors turned out to be cancer, they rarely proved fatal. And surgery roughly doubled patients' risk...
Stock futures point to modest gains at open
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to slight gains at the open on Wednesday, suggesting the market would continue a recent advance that lifted benchmark indexes to multi-year highs. Equities have been strong performers of late, buoyed largely by healthy growth in corporate earnings, with the S&P 500 gaining 6.5 percent so far this year. The Dow is about 1 percent from...
Feb
12
The Female Factor: Dancing on Behalf of a Billion
Label: WorldLONDON — Anyone who happens to be passing through Westminster at 11 o’clock on Valentine’s Day may — if things go as planned — catch an unusual glimpse of a few members of Parliament gathered somewhere in the shadow of Big Ben, dancing along the footpath. The actress Thandie Newton will be leading members of the public and a few politicians in a flash mob dance on Thursday to mark the One...
The Bachelor's Sean Lowe Blogs About His Dates in St. Croix
Label: Lifestyle Sean Lowe and Tierra on The Bachelor Sean Lowe is the star of season 17 of The Bachelor, which airs Mondays on ABC. The hunky Dallas businessman and entrepreneur is blogging about his romantic journey for PEOPLE.com. I'd developed really strong feelings for the final six women on The Bachelor – and I could hardly wait to take them to St. Croix. Our...
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