Syria army quits base on strategic Aleppo road

affiliate marketing BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army abandoned its last base near the northern town of Saraqeb after a fierce assault by rebels, further isolating the strategically important second city Aleppo from the capital.But in a political setback to forces battling to topple President Bashar al-Assad, the United Nations said...

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Over 20 million tweets sent as Sandy struck

affiliate marketing SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter users flocked to the micro-messaging network this week as Hurricane Sandy swept through the eastern U.S. seaboard, sending more than 20 million tweets about the storm between Saturday and Thursday, the company said.This far exceeds the 13.7 million tweets sent during the Super Bowl...

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Disney-ABC Adds to Sandy “Day of Giving”

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Disney-ABC is expanding on plans to designate Monday a “Day of Giving” that will fill ABC’s schedule from morning until late night with calls to donate to Hurricane Sandy victims.Disney has announced a $ 2 million donation to hurricane relief, and from “Good Morning America” until “Jimmy...

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How Computational Models Are Improving Medicine [Video]

affiliate marketing Click here to view the video High-resolution electromechanical model of a heart; courtesy of N. Trayanova affiliate marketing The more we learn about cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s, the more vexingly complex they seem–and the more elusive their cures. Even...

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Factbox: Obama, Romney solutions to stimulating the economy

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – The health of the U.S. economy has been central to the campaign for the White House, with both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney seeking to convince voters they have a plan to usher in faster growth and job creation.The economy has struggled to break above a 2 percent annual...

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Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers, several executed

affiliate marketing BEIRUT (Reuters) – Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers on Thursday in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria’s main north-south highway, a monitoring group said.Some of the dead were shot after they had surrendered, according to video footage. Rebels berated them, calling them “Assad’s...

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UK: Apple must apologize again over copycat claims

affiliate marketing LONDON (AP) — British judges say Apple needs to apologize once more for falsely claiming that South Korea’s Samsung copied its iPad, the latest embarrassing episode in the tech rivals’ world-spanning patent battle.Apple Inc. was ordered to print an apology on its website after British judges repeatedly rejected its...

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Ralph Nader to Stephen Colbert: Give me your Super PAC cash!

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Stephen Colbert‘s super PAC is sitting on nearly $ 778,000 in cash, and five-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader knows exactly where to spend it.On Ralph Nader. affiliate marketing If only Colbert would listen.The longtime consumer...

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Pradaxa bleeding risk appears no worse than warfarin – FDA

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – The risk of serious bleeding among new users of Pradaxa, a blood-clot preventer made by Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim, appeared to be no higher than in patients on the widely used standard blood thinner warfarin, U.S. regulators said.The announcement Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may...

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US economy adds 171,000 new jobs

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Do ordinary Americans feel their economy is on the road to recovery? The US economy added 171,000 new jobs in October, which was much more than had been expected. But the official figures from the Labor Department showed that the unemployment rate still rose to 7.9%, having fallen to 7.8% in September, as more workers resumed the...

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Mexico’s Day of Dead brings memories of missing

affiliate marketing MEXICO CITY (AP) — Maria Elena Salazar refuses to set out plates of her missing son’s favorite foods or orange flowers as offerings for the deceased on Mexico‘s Day of the Dead, even though she hasn’t seen him in three-and-a-half years.The 50-year-old former teacher is convinced that Hugo Gonzalez Salazar, a university...

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‘Wreck-It Ralph’ celebrates video-game nostalgia

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (AP) — In Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” opening Friday, the title character is the bad guy from a fictional 1980s video game. Despite faithfully doing his job well for 30 years, he gets no respect at work, so he escapes through the wires of Litwak’s Family Fun Center searching for another game where he might...

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Kardashian boosts “X Factor” ratings, but wins few fans

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Khloe Kardashian‘s first outing as the new co-host of “The X Factor” helped boost the show’s audience by 30 percent, yet the reality star got mixed reviews for a nipple-baring debut that made headlines – but many TV critics found awkward.Kardashian, 28, best known for starring with socialite...

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Asian factories perk up, U.S. shows improvement

affiliate marketing NEW YORK/BEIJING (Reuters) – Asia‘s large economies started to pick up steam last month after a year of slower growth, surveys showed on Thursday, while U.S. manufacturing showed modest improvement.The jury was out on whether the data signaled sustained improvement in the fragile global economy, although analysts...

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Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce

affiliate marketing AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity on Tuesday after the end of a widely ignored four-day truce between President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces and insurgents.State television said “terrorists” had assassinated an air force general, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, in a Damascus suburb,...

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RIM starts carrier testing on BlackBerry 10 devices

affiliate marketing TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion has started carrier testing of its new line of BlackBerry 10 devices ahead of the launch of the devices in the first quarter of 2013, the company said on Wednesday.“In the last week, BlackBerry 10 achieved lab entry with more than 50 carriers, a key step in our preparedness for...

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Nic Cage starrer, Christian best-seller “Left Behind,” tops Arclight’s AFM lineup

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – On the eve of the AFM, Arclight Films has taken on international sales duties for the film adaptation of the Christian-themed best-seller, “Left Behind,” a representative for the film told TheWrap on Tuesday.The film, which will star Nicolas Cage and will be directed by Vic Armstrong, is...

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Vaccine Mistrust: Alive & Well in Romania

affiliate marketing Romania has the highest incidence of cervical cancer in Europe, so public health officials launched a HPV vaccination campaign there in 2008.They offered the vaccine to 10 and 11-year-old girls, the optimal age at which to get the vaccine since  HPV, the virus that causes most cervical cancer cases, is sexually...

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Panasonic Feels Pain of Chinese Backlash

affiliate marketing Those islands in the East China Sea at the center of the dispute between Japan and China are uninhabited, but we’re told they’re still worth fighting over because they might have valuable oil and gas nearby. Let’s hope so. That might at least provide some consolation to Japanese employees, executives, and shareholders...

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Cuba’s 2nd city without power, water after Sandy

affiliate marketing HAVANA (AP) — Residents of Cuba‘s second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island’s deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.Across the Caribbean, the storm’s death toll rose to 69,...

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