NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed in choppy morning trading on Thursday as upbeat guidance from Broadcom partially offset weakness in Apple shares, while traders kept an eye on fiscal negotiations in Washington. Extending Wednesday's 6.4 percent decline, Apple was trading down 0.7 percent at $535 early on Thursday, after falling as much as 3.7 percent at the open, which...
Dec
05
Confrontation between rival protesters looms in Egypt crisis
Label: WorldCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called for a rally backing President Mohamed Mursi outside his palace on Wednesday and leftists planned a counter-demonstration, raising fears of clashes in a crisis over a disputed push for a new constitution. Mursi returned to work at his compound a day after it came under siege from opposition protesters furious at his drive to ratify a...
Austrian farmers dip into Internet “milking” craze
Label: TechnologyVIENNA (Reuters) – Dumping a bottle of milk over your head and filming it for a video post on the Internet has become a popular youth craze, but Austrian farmers say the spillage is a crying shame.“Milking”, as the trend is known, is among a variety of tongue-in-cheek stunts in which young people shoot pictures or videos of themselves posing as owls, planks of wood, or famous people and then share...
Melissa Joan Hart, Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi Sport Ugly Christmas Sweaters
Label: Lifestyle By Maggie Coughlan 12/05/2012 at 10:45 AM EST Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Melissa Joan Hart Courtesy Nicole Polizzi; GABRIELLE REVERE It's sweater weather!With the holidays just around the corner, it's time to bust out your traditional ugly – and even not-so-ugly...
Longer tamoxifen use cuts breast cancer deaths
Label: HealthBreast cancer patients taking the drug tamoxifen can cut their chances of having the disease come back or kill them if they stay on the pills for 10 years instead of five years as doctors recommend now, a major study finds.The results could change treatment, especially for younger women. The findings are a surprise because earlier research suggested that taking the hormone-blocking drug for longer...
Wall Street flat, Freeport offsets China comments
Label: BusinessFacebook (FB) announced on Tuesday that it will begin opening Facebook Messenger to consumers who do not have a Facebook account, starting in countries like India and South Africa, and later rolling out the service in the United States and Europe. This is a belated acknowledgement of a staggering strategic mistake Facebook made two years ago. That is when the messaging app competition was still...
Dec
04
NATO warns Syria not to use chemical weapons
Label: WorldBEIRUT (Reuters) - NATO told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday that any use of chemical weapons in his fight against encroaching rebel forces would be met by an immediate international response. The warning from NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen came as U.S. government sources said Washington had information that Syria was making what could be seen as preparations...
Swiss spy agency warns U.S., Britain about huge data leak
Label: TechnologyZURICH (Reuters) – Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland‘s intelligence service, European national security sources said.Intelligence agencies in the United States and Britain are among those who were warned by Swiss authorities that their data could have been put in...
Taylor Swift & Harry Styles Hold Hands After Long Night in NYC
Label: Lifestyle By Tim Nudd 12/04/2012 at 10:20 AM EST Taylor Swift and Harry Styles Alequin/Bosch/INF They're getting closer by the day. After strolling together in Central Park on Sunday, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles graduated to publicly holding hands early Tuesday after...
Tapping citizen-scientists for a novel gut check
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — The bacterial zoo inside your gut could look very different if you're a vegetarian or an Atkins dieter, a couch potato or an athlete, fat or thin.Now for a fee — $69 and up — and a stool sample, the curious can find out just what's living in their intestines and take part in one of the hottest new fields in science.Wait a minute: How many average Joes really want to pay for the privilege...
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