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By
Edith Honan. NEW YORK | Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:11pm EDT. NEW YORK
(Reuters) - Former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned after
tweeting lewd pictures of himself, is considering a run for New York
City mayor, in what many see as wide ...
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Authorities
say a man who lived like a hermit for decades in the woods of central
Maine and may be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries has been
captured.
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A
week after the death of "Buckwild"reality-TV star Shain Gandee, MTV has
decided to cancel the series. Production on the show's second season
was suspended after news broke last week that the 21-year-old had been
found dead in his truck, along with his ...
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The
world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, has led the tributes to the
pioneer of IVF, who has died aged 87. Prof Sir Robert Edwards was
knighted in 2011, five decades after he began experimenting with IVF.
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Tokyo
(CNN) -- Two PAC 3 Patriot anti-missile batteries currently occupy what
is normally a baseball pitch in the leafy grounds of Japan's Ministry
of Defense.
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BEIRUT
- The leader of Al Nusra Front, militant Islamist fighters whose role
in the Syria uprising has raised concerns in Washington, acknowledged
Wednesday for the first time his group's affiliation with Al Qaeda and
the extremist movement's Iraq affiliate.
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Aron
Lund is a Swedish researcher who writes on Syrian jihadists for the
Swedish Institute for International Affairs. He is also one of the
best-informed observers of the insurgency in Syria.
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KUALA
LUMPUR—Malaysia set May 5 to hold what could be its closest general
elections ever, pitting the National Front coalition and its
decades-long rule amid strong economic growth against the opposition and
its pledge to boost living standards and ...
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FORT
MEADE, Md. - The military on Wednesday tightened rules on reporters
covering the court-martial proceedings against Pfc. Bradley Manning
because of a bootleg recording of him speaking at a pretrial hearing in
February that surfaced online.
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A
6-year-old boy shot in the head by his 4-year-old playmate died of his
wounds as investigators in a New Jersey town tried to determine how the
younger boy got hold of a loaded .22-caliber rifle and whether charges
would be filed.
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President
Barack Obama's proposed changes to entitlement programs to curb federal
spending already have sparked opposition from seniors and liberal
groups, but they may still fall short of cuts sought by Republicans for
any bipartisan agreement on deficit ...
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LONDON
- Stock markets rallied on Wednesday, pushing the Standard & Poor's
500 to a record high, after the release of the minutes to the last
policy meeting of the U.S.
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By
Angela Moon. NEW YORK | Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:47pm EDT. NEW YORK
(Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 climbing to a
new all-time intraday record as investors scooped up technology and
financial shares that recently lagged ...
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China
posted an unexpected trade deficit of $884 million in March as imports
surged by more than 14% following the Lunar New Year holiday.
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Some
50,000 tonnes of meat supplied by two Dutch trading companies and sold
as beef across Europe since January 2011 may have contained horsemeat.
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In
February, we reported that Dropbox was snapping up large corporate
accounts, and had released some new security controls. Since then, the
cloud storage company has received innumerable requests from IT admins
for an integration with Active Directory ...
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As
Google's I/O developer event approaches, details about a new unified
messaging service linking all of Google's platforms have been emerging
through internal developer conversations, brief glimpses behind the
curtain provided by error messages, and ...
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Earlier
this week in a peculiar sudden change of direction, Apple removed the
app-discovery application AppGratis from the iTunes App Store —l eaving
AppGratis CEO Simon Dawlat "in total disbelief," seeing as the tech
giant had approved an iPad version ...
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Diddyup! Kate Upton on Feb. 12 in New York City. (Photo: Gilbert Carrasquillo, FilmMagic). A "hot couple alert" may be in order.
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The
intense tangle of litigation between director Julie Taymor and the
producers of Broadway's “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has been
settled, the parties announced Wednesday.
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While
the singer donned his signature suit and tie, his White House
performance was a pretty casual affair. By Emily Blake. Over the past
few months, it seems Justin Timberlake wouldn't be caught dead in an
unpressed suit or tousled hairdo.
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Law
enforcement sources said Wednesday Lindsay Lohan has made arrangmeent
to enter a rehab in New York state in May. Lohan's legal team is not
disclosing the details, but during a late-night appearance with David
Letterman during an appearance on ...
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The
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication Adderall has become
the excuse du jour for players testing positive for a banned substance
in the NFL.
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It's
not often you see a game-winning goaltending call. How about one on a
3-pointer!?! Cue up the atrocious Suns. With the score tied Tuesday
night, Rockets star James Harden heaved a 3-pointer as time expired.
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During
a timeout in Tuesday's game against New Orleans, Kobe Bryant had a talk
with Pau Gasol. "I basically told him, dude, especially when I'm not in
the game, you just gotta go to the block and not move," Bryant
recalled.
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Generations
of Eastern European housewives doing battle against bedbugs spread bean
leaves around the floor of an infested room at night.
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"Dark
lightning" that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast
airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, scientists find.
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WASHINGTON
| Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:37pm EDT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack
Obama's proposed 2014 budget includes an increase of $3.9 billion to
support the administration's healthcare overhaul, and cuts programs such
as immunizations ...
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A
new study has revealed that a gene that was once thought to be weakly
associated with Alzheimer's disease risk in white people may almost
double the risk of developing the debilitating neurological disease when
it's present in African-Americans.
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Humans
are on the cusp of discovering how the universe works on its biggest
and smallest scales, Stephen Hawking said during a lecture Tuesday in
Los Angeles.
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