WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole has been admitted to Washington’s Walter Reed Army medical center for what an aide called a “routine procedure,” media reports said on Tuesday.Dole, 89, “self-checked into the hospital for a routine procedure and will be discharged tomorrow,” an aide told NBC News. “He’s doing very well.”According to Politico, Senate Majority Leader...
U.S. declines to name China currency manipulator
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday said China‘s currency remained “significantly undervalued” but stopped short of labeling the world’s second-biggest economy a currency manipulator.In a congressionally mandated semi-annual report, the U.S. Treasury noted that yuan had risen 12.6 percent against the U.S. dollar in inflation-adjusted terms since June 2010. An official said it...
Nov
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Dog days in Cuba: from shih tzus to schnauzers
Label: WorldHAVANA (AP) — The Cuban capital has played host to political summits and art festivals, ballet tributes and international baseball competitions. Now dog lovers are getting their chance to take center stage.Hundreds of people from all over Cuba and several other countries came to a scruffy field near Revolution Plaza this past week to preen and fuss over the shih tzus, beagles, schnauzers and cocker...
Actor: CBS comedy ‘Two and a Half Men’ is ‘filth’
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The teenage actor who plays the half in the hit CBS comedy “Two and a Half Men” says it’s “filth” and through a video posted by a Christian church has urged viewers not to watch it.Nineteen-year-old Angus T. Jones has been on the show since he was 10 but says he doesn’t want to be on it. He says, “Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.”The video was posted...
Euro zone, IMF reach deal on long-term Greek debt
Label: BusinessBRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund clinched agreement on a new debt target for Greece on Monday in a breakthrough towards releasing an urgently needed tranche of loans to the near-bankrupt economy, officials said.After nearly 10 hours of talks at their third meeting on the issue in as many weeks, Greece’s international lenders agreed to reduce Greek...
Nov
25
Israel successfully tests missile defense system
Label: WorldJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel successfully tested its newest missile defense system Sunday, the military said, a step toward making the third leg of what Israel calls its “multilayer missile defense” operational.The “David’s Sling” system is designed to stop mid-range missiles. It successfully passed its test, shooting down its first missile in a drill Sunday in southern Israel, the military said.The system...
Nokia imaging chief to quit
Label: TechnologyHELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia‘s long-time imaging chief Damian Dinning has decided to leave the loss-making cellphone maker at the end of this month, the company said in a statement.The strong imaging capabilities of the new Lumia smartphone models are a key sales argument for the former market leader, which has been burning through cash while losing share in both high-end smartphones and cheaper handsets.Nokia’s...
Singer Bjork’s vocal cord surgery successful
Label: LifestyleLONDON (AP) — Icelandic singer Bjork says she has had successful surgery to remove a vocal cord polyp.The eccentric 47-year-old singer says on her official website that she had been trying to tackle the problem with exercises and diets since doctors first discovered the polyp, a benign growth on either one or both of the vocal cords, several years ago.Bjork said that she decided to undergo laser surgery...
Detecting Cancer…With a Cellphone?
Label: HealthSmartphone technology is often seen as much of nuisance as it is a convenience, but having that kind of communicative power at our fingertips has a surprising advantage; it’s serving as a bridge, bringing healthcare to third world countries that had previously been too remote and too costly to reach.The Kilimanjaro Cervical Screening Project is spearheading one use of smartphone technology in...
Aston Martin firm denies bid talk
Label: Business25 November 2012 Last updated at 07:38 ETThe owner of Aston Martin, Kuwait’s Investment Dar, has denied reports it has received competing bids for a 50% stake in the luxury British car brand.Italian private equity fund Investindustrial is widely reported to have made an offer of nearly £250m ($ 400m) for Aston Martin.India’s Mahindra and Mahindra is understood to have made a higher offer.But in an...
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