Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe brother of Sakine Cansiz (on poster), one of three Kurdish activists found shot on Thursday, said his family was convinced that it was a professional assassination. PARIS — With her signature long hennaed hair, fiery resolve and olive-green military fatigues, Sakine Cansiz was a feminist, guerrilla fighter and former political prisoner as adept at...
“Storage Wars” porn lawsuit: alleged Brandi Passante video distributor found in contempt
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Miss America Contestant Alexis Wineman Talks About Growing Up with Autism
Label: Lifestyle By Mark Gray 01/12/2013 at 03:00 PM EST Seven years ago, a bubbly and emotional Montana girl received news that her brain functioned differently than others: She was diagnosed with autism. On Saturday, that same girl could be crowed the new Miss America.Alexis Wineman, 18, is the youngest of the 53 women vying...
Q&A: Scramble for vaccine as flu season heats up
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Missed flu-shot day at the office last fall? And all those "get vaccinated" ads? A scramble for shots is under way as late-comers seek protection from a miserable flu strain already spreading through much of the country.Federal health officials said Friday that there is still some flu vaccine available and it's not too late to benefit from it. But people may have to call around to...
Robbers at Nordstrom raped hostage, made women take off clothes, police say
Label: Business This post has been updated.One female hostage held overnight at the Nordstrom Rack in Westchester was sexually assaulted and another was stabbed, Los Angeles police said Friday.The two were among 14 hostages held by two robbers at the clothing store. About a half hour into the ordeal, which began at 11 p.m. Thursday, the hostages were led into a bathroom, said sources familiar with the investigation.The...
Jan
11
At War Blog: Highlights From Karzai, Obama News Conference
Label: World President Obama, after meeting with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, said Friday that the United States would be able to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in coming months because of gains made by Afghan security forces.As the Times’s Mark Landler reported, Mr. Obama also made it clear that he contemplated leaving relatively few troops in Afghanistan after the NATO combat...
Video game retail sales continued to slide in December, down 22% from 2011
Label: TechnologyTitle Post: Video game retail sales continued to slide in December, down 22% from 2011Url Post: http://www.news.fluser.com/video-game-retail-sales-continued-to-slide-in-december-down-22-from-2011/Link To Post : Video game retail sales continued to slide in December, down 22% from 2011Rating: 100%based on 99998 ratings.5 user reviews.Author: Fluser SeoLinkThanks for visiting the blog, If any criticism...
Britney Spears: The X Factor Made Me Miss Performing
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch The X Factor By Marisa Laudadio and Aaron Parsley 01/11/2013 at 03:50 PM EST It's official: Britney Spears is moving on after one season as a judge on The X Factor. "I've made the very difficult decision not to return for another season," Spears, who mentored the show's youngest contestants, said in a...
Flu more widespread in US; eases off in some areas
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Flu is more widespread across the nation, but the number of hard-hit states has declined, health officials said Friday.Flu season started early this winter, and includes a strain that tends to make people sicker. Health officials have forecast a potentially bad flu season, following last year's unusually mild one. The latest numbers, however, hint that the flu season may already have...
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...
Jan
10
Blasts in Pakistan Kill at Least 88 and Raise Fears Over Elections
Label: WorldWaheed Khan/European Pressphoto AgencyThe worst violence was concentrated in the southwestern city of Quetta, where two explosions killed at least 57 people and wounded more than 110, the police said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Bomb blasts in two Pakistani cities killed at least 88 people on Thursday and wounded more than 270, offering harrowing evidence of how the country’s myriad internal conflicts...
Can Social Media Help You Lose Weight?
Label: TechnologyAt the start of the New Year, when weight loss is often a priority, building a support team to help keep us on track can be extremely helpful. This might typically consist of family members, friends, co-workers, or perhaps even a nutritionist or registered dietitian. But today, support can also be found online. Plenty of Web sites focus on losing weight, and include communities that provide support...
William & Kate's Future Home: Anmer Hall?
Label: Lifestyle By Simon Perry 01/10/2013 at 04:00 PM EST Anmer Hall, on the Sandringham estate REX USA It's a house fit for a (future) king. That's the speculation in Britain, where the magnificent Anmer Hall on the Sandringham estate, Queen Elizabeth's retreat in Norfolk, has been mentioned as a possible...
Flu season hits 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 have limited visitors, and one Pennsylvania hospital set up a tent outside its ER to handle the feverish patients.Flu season in the U.S. has hit early and, in some places, hard. But whether this will be considered a bad season by the time it has run its course in the spring...
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...
Jan
09
Global Update: China Moves to Prevent Spread of Yellow Fever From Africa
Label: WorldIn a move that underlines how many Chinese citizens now work in Africa, China’s quarantine officials recently urged greater efforts to make sure that a yellow fever epidemic now raging in Sudan does not come back to China. Local health authorities were asked to scan all travelers arriving from Sudan for fevers. Chinese citizens planning travel to Sudan were advised to get yellow fever shots....
Nintendo president describes Wii U sales as ‘not bad’
Label: TechnologyNintendo’s (NTDOY) new Wii U gaming console came out of the gate strong and saw first-week sales reach 400,000 units in the U.S., however sales have since stalled and the system has been labeled a flop by some. While consumer interest in the company’s new console has slowed right out of the gate, Nintendo’s president recently said that he isn’t worried even though sales aren’t where he hoped...
It's a Girl for Rosie O'Donnell
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 01/09/2013 at 03:30 PM ET It’s baby number five for Rosie O’Donnell!The comedian and wife Michelle Rounds welcomed daughter Dakota through adoption on Saturday, Jan. 5, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. Weighing in at 5 lbs., 5 oz., “moms and baby are healthy and happy.”O’Donnell,...
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 a tantalizing hint 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...
Judge weeps at "Dating Game" serial killer's 'horrific acts'
Label: Business
California serial killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to additional prison time in New York for the murders of two more women, a case that brought a veteran judge to tears during the hearing.Alcala, who is already on death row in California for the murders of four women and a girl, pleaded guilty in December to the 1971 murder of Cornelia Crilley and the 1977 murder of Ellen Hover, both in...
Jan
08
China Says It Will Overhaul Re-education System
Label: WorldBEIJING — China will start overhauling its draconian system of re-education through labor in the coming year, according to the state news media, signaling the incoming leadership’s determination to alter one of the government’s more widely despised cudgels for punishing petty criminals, religious dissidents, petitioners and other perceived social irritants. The brief announcement on Monday,...
Sony unveils Xperia Z Android phone with full HD display
Label: TechnologyTitle Post: Sony unveils Xperia Z Android phone with full HD displayUrl Post: http://www.news.fluser.com/sony-unveils-xperia-z-android-phone-with-full-hd-display/Link To Post : Sony unveils Xperia Z Android phone with full HD displayRating: 100%based on 99998 ratings.5 user reviews.Author: Fluser SeoLinkThanks for visiting the blog, If any criticism and suggestions please leave a comm...
Harley Pasternak: How Better Sleep Keeps Your Weight Down
Label: Lifestyle Only on People.com By Harley Pasternak 01/08/2013 at 03:45 PM EST Harley Pasternak Courtesy Harley Pasternak Sleep well, stay lean!When I don't get a good night's sleep, I'm exhausted, grumpy and starving! Needless to say, I don't have the energy to do my daily...
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...
Serial killer stalked, killed 3 young mothers at bars, LAPD says
Label: Business Authorities on Monday announced the arrest of a 72-year-old man who they allege is a serial killer responsible for the slayings of at least three women in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Officials would not elaborate on the backgrounds of the
victims but said all three had children.Los Angeles Police Department detectives allege that Samuel Little preyed on women in downtown and Central L.A.,...
Jan
07
Supporters Back Strike at Newspaper in China
Label: WorldJames Pomfret/ReutersDemonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of Southern Weekend Monday in Guangzhou, China. BEIJING — Hundreds of people gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China on Monday to show their support for journalists who had declared a strike to protest what they called overbearing censorship by provincial propaganda officials. The journalists,...
LG kicks off CES with 55-inch ‘ultra-HD’ TV
Label: TechnologyLAS VEGAS (AP) — LG unveiled a 55-inch TV that sports “ultrahigh-definition” resolution with four times the sharpness of regular HD television sets, kicking off what is likely to be a mini-obsession with the latest super-clear format at the annual International CES gadget show.The model announced Monday is the smallest in a 2013 lineup that includes 65-inch and 84-inch versions. But the smaller size...
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