NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Friday, indicating a weak start to March, as lackluster U.S. and global data indicated an economic recovery that continues to struggle. Investors were also looking ahead to U.S. government budget cuts that were widely expected to take effect at the end of the day, barring an unlikely last-minute deal. The International...
British By-Election Shows New Support for Rightist Party
Label: WorldLONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives took a harsh pummeling on Friday with a by-election result that showed surging support for the United Kingdom Independence Party, a right-wing group whose deep inroads into the Conservative vote, if sustained at a general election in two years’ time, could oust the Conservative government and usher the Labour Party back into 10 Downing Street....
Paris Jackson Rocks a New Punk Look
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 03/01/2013 at 08:30 AM EST Punk rock Paris!Michael Jackson's daughter Paris, now 14, debuted a more edgy and downtown look this week when she Tweeted photos of herself wearing a knotted Pink Floyd T-shirt with a short, spiked jet black coif and exposed back tattoo.
Titling her Wednesday Tweet...
WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant's lifetime cancer risk."The additional risk is quite small...
Feb
28
S&P 500 index futures briefly turn negative
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a flat open on Thursday as investors found few reasons to keep pushing markets higher following a sharp two-day rally and a read on economic growth that was weaker than expected. Analysts said a pullback may be in store a day after major equity indexes posted their biggest daily advance since early January. Over the past two sessions,...
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: Feb. 28
Label: WorldNEWS Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, 52, the top contender to succeed the Castros in Cuba, will need to display the authority of a future president while acting as if he does not want the job. Damien Cave reports from Mexico City.In the waning hours of his troubled tenure, tens of thousands of believers gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Pope Benedict XVI’s valedictory address. Daniel J. Wakin reports...
HP sells webOS operating system to LG Electronics
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it will sell the webOS operating system to South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc, unloading the smartphone software it acquired through a $ 1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010.LG will use the operating software, used in now-defunct Palm smartphones years ago, for its “smart” or Internet-connected TVs. The Asian electronics company had worked...
Debbie Reynolds: Carrie Fisher Will Be 'Just Fine' After Hospitalization
Label: Lifestyle By Elaine Aradillas 02/28/2013 at 08:40 AM EST Carrie Fisher (left) and Debbie Reynolds Ethan Miller/Getty Carrie Fisher was briefly hospitalized last week for her bipolar disorder after a bizarre performance aboard a cruise ship, but her mother Debbie Reynolds...
Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home care
Label: HealthSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after their residents, government investigators have found.The report, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general, said Medicare paid about $5.1 billion for patients to stay in skilled nursing facilities that failed to...
Feb
27
Iran and Six Nations Agree to Continue Nuclear Talks
Label: WorldPool photo byThe European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and Iran’s chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, at the start of the talks. ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Two days of talks between six world powers and Iran over its nuclear program ended on Wednesday with specific agreement for further meetings in March and April over a proposal that would sharply constrain Iran’s stockpile of the most dangerous...
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