Thursday, 25 July 2013
Kabul, July 26 (Newswire): The Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) said that the National Assembly has delayed approval of the election laws to the point that there is no longer sufficient time...
Ghazni airport to be operational within a year
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Kabul, July 26 (Newswire): Residents of Ghazni will soon have access to an airport in their province. Nangyalai Qalatwal, spokesman of the Ministry of Transport and Aviation, said that the construction...
Afghanistan: Quest for a 'decent interval'
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Kabul, July 26 (Newswire): History does not exactly repeat itself: the final outcome of the American intervention in Afghanistan will not be the same as the end result in Vietnam. But the negotiations...
Florida transgender student barred from using women’s bathroom
Thursday, 25 July 2013
London, July 26 (Newswire): Meet Alex Wilson, who is sort of between genders just now. Wilson, who was born male, is four years into a hormone therapy process designed to transform him into a female but...
Deal emerging on student loans, talks continue
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Washington, July 26 (Newswire): An emerging deal to lower interest rates on student loans took shape, offering Democrats promises that interest rates would not reach 10 percent and giving Republicans...
Study: Distant quakes can affect oil, gas fields
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Los Angeles, July 26 (Newswire): The powerful earthquake that rocked Japan in 2011 set off tremors around a West Texas oil field, according to new research that suggests oil and gas drilling operations...
There's no peace in the baby veronica case
Thursday, 25 July 2013
New York, July 26 (Newswire): Veronica has lived in two homes. Two years with her adoptive family, in South Carolina. Two years with her biological father, a member of the Cherokee nation, in Oklahoma....
5 free things in Havana, from cobblestones to cars
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Havana, July 26 (Newswire): For a city where people earn an average of $20 a month at government jobs, Havana can be a surprisingly pricey place — at least for tourists.From $6 daiquiris at El Floridita,...
Northern Colorado wants to secede from Colorado
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Washington, July 26 (Newswire): Will North Colorado become America's 51st state?That's what some residents in the Centennial State are pushing for. Representatives from eight northern counties convened,...
Tycoon’s ex-lover jailed 12 years for forged will
Thursday, 25 July 2013
New York, July 26 (Newswire): Chan Chun-chuen, the geomancer and lover of late Hong Kong property tycoon Nina Wang, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for forging a 2006 will that made him the beneficiary...
Microsoft revamps structure and management
Thursday, 25 July 2013
New York, July 26 (Newswire): Microsoft is breaking up its fiefdoms as it seeks to create better products, faster.The company said that it would dissolve its eight existing product divisions in favor...
E-book ruling cements Amazon’s virtual monopoly
Thursday, 25 July 2013
New York, July 26 (Newswire): A federal judge ruled that Apple (AAPL) had conspired with major book publishers in an effort to raise the prices of e-books. On the surface the widely expected ruling is...
Mortgage rates rise to the highest level in nearly 2 years
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Washington, July 26 (Newswire): The 30-year mortgage rate rose to its highest level in nearly two years this week, according to mortgage financing company Freddie Mac.After a slight pause, Freddie Mac...
The trade: Dump the gold miners
Thursday, 25 July 2013
New York, July 26 (Newswire): Today marks the beginning of a new segment on Breakout called "The Trade" where we don't just talk about markets, but tell you the best way to play the day's hottest stories....
Investors got it wrong last month, ‘follow the data’ & expect more fed stimulus: Economist
Thursday, 25 July 2013
New York, July 26 (Newswire): Global stock markets are once again rallying on the words of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Just two hours after the Fed released meeting minutes showing a split among policy...
Illegal constructions in Gulmarg
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Srinagar, July 26 (Newswire): The held Jammu and Kashmir High Court issued show cause notice to the Chief Executive Officer Gulmarg Development Authority as to why action can't be initiated against him...
Patients face inconvenience at PHC Natipora
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Srinagar, July 26 (Newswire): The residents of Natipora have complained that the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in the area was not working properly.A delegation of residents alleged that: "At times the...
Biscoe responds to ‘mammoth land lease arrears’
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Srinagar, July 26 (Newswire): Prompted by the show cause notice served for failing to clear "mammoth land lease arrears", the Tyndale Biscoe and Mallinson School authorities appeared before the...
Proteins enable essential enzyme to maintain its grip on DNA
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Islamabad, July 26 (Newswire): Scientists have identified a family of proteins that close a critical gap in an enzyme that is essential to all life, allowing the enzyme to maintain its grip on DNA and...
Skin sentry cells promote distinct immune responses
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Islamabad, July 26 (Newswire): A new study reveals that just as different soldiers in the field have different jobs, subsets of a type of immune cell that polices the barriers of the body can promote...
Vascular changes linked to dementia, experts say
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Islamabad, July 26 (Newswire): The same artery-clogging process (atherosclerosis) that causes heart disease can also result in age-related vascular cognitive impairments (VCI), according to a new American...
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