Tuesday, 1 January 2013
New York,
Jan 1 : The sister of one of the Americans killed in the Sept. 11
attack on the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi said now that the State
Department seems to be done assigning blame...
Ex-Florida governor candidate McBride dies at 67
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Miami, Jan 1 :
Bill McBride, the Florida Democrat who defeated Janet Reno for the party's
gubernatorial nomination in 2002 but lost to Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, has died
at the age of 67.
His wife...
Reports: Rolling stones guitarist wood ties knot
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
London, Jan 1 : Two British newspapers say Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has
married his fiancee Sally Humphreys at a ceremony at London's Dorchester
Hotel.
The Sun and the Daily Mirror carried...
Police: US Sen. Crapo arrested, charged with DUI
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Alexandria, Jan 1 : US Sen. Michael Crapo was arrested and charged with driving under
the influence in a Washington, D.C., suburb, authorities said.
Police in
Alexandria, Va., said that the Idaho Republican...
Head-on crash amid holiday travel kills 4 in Ohio
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Cincinnati, Jan 1 : Four people were killed when a minivan carrying a family leaving a
Christmas party went the wrong way on a southwestern Ohio highway and hit
another minivan whose driver and family...
Yacht school friends missing without a trace
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
New York, Jan 1 : The disappearance of two friends has baffled authorities, who have
searched by air, water and in wooded areas for the men, who seemed to have
disappeared without a trace.
Zachary...
Anti-tax conservatives say no to tax-increase deal
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Boston, Jan 1 : In the city where a protest over tax policy sparked a revolution,
modern day tea party activists are cheering the recent Republican revolt in
Washington that embarrassed House Speaker...
Tata goes back to drawing board at stalled Indian car unit
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Pimpri, Jan 1 : Deep in Tata Motors' largest factory, engineers don 3D glasses to
play with car designs and prototypes projected from a 10-metre wide computer
screen. Their quest? The Indian automaker's...
Insight: Security fears dogged Canada debate on China energy bid
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Ottawa,
Jan 1 : In September, two months after China's state-owned CNOOC Ltd
made an unexpected $15.1 billion bid for Canadian energy company Nexen Inc,
Canada's spy agency told ministers that takeovers...
Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
San Francisco, Jan 1 : When Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos got word of a project at Google
Inc to scan and digitize product catalogs a decade ago, the seeds of a
burgeoning rivalry were planted.
The...
Audits of businesses for illegal immigrants rising
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Seattle, Jan 1 : US Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached its highest number
yet of companies audited for illegal immigrants on their payrolls this past
fiscal year.
Audits of employer I-9 forms...
Telepresence robots let employees 'beam' into work
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Palo Alto, Jan 1: Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and
roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon
Valley.
But Goecker isn't in California....
SMHS hospital sans adequate ticket counters
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Srinagar, Jan 1:
Failure of authorities to provide basic healthcare facilities at SMHS hospital
here is taking heavy toll on patients.
Long and unending queues of
patients are daily witnessed at SMHS...
Pesky power cuts haunt Hajin
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Hajin, Jan 1: Residents of
this held Kashmir town are facing pesky power cuts in harsh winter
season.
Locals said during 24 hours, the electricity supply remains
affected for 12 to 13 hours. “We even...
Gateway of IHK proves damp squib
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Qazigund, Jan 1 : The much
hyped project of the tourism department, The ‘Gateway of Kashmir’ complex at
Lewdoora, Qazigund, has proved to be a damp squib.
With no revenue being
generated from the...
Childhood hypersensitivity linked to OCD
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 1 :
In childhood, rituals like regular schedules for meal, bath, and bed times are a
healthy part of behavioral development.
But combined with oral and
tactile sensitivities, such as...
Mutation in gene that's critical for human development linked to arrhythmia
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 1: The biologic and genetic
mechanisms controlling the formation and function of the CCS are not well
understood, but new research with mice shows that altered function of a gene
called...
Oxidative DNA damage repair
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 1 : Oxidative stress
damages DNA. Researchers in the Vetsuisse Faculty have now decoded the mechanism
that repairs DNA damaged in this way.
This repair mechanism could lead
to less...
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