Tuesday, November 1, 2011

A few drinks a week could raise risk of breast cancer

A few drinks a week could raise risk of breast cancer


A few drinks a week could raise risk of breast cancer

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:23 AM PDT

Some women who drink to their health may want to reconsider. A new study shows that women who routinely have even small amounts of alcohol, as few as three drinks a week, have an elevated risk of breast cancer.


Prime Minister on Eurozone crisis: Much more needs to be done

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:16 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expected the G20 to signal a "strong and coordinated approach" to put the global economy back on track, while addressing medium term structural issues.


New fission suspected at Japan nuclear plant

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:04 AM PDT

The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Wednesday it feared nuclear fission had resumed within one of its reactors despite a shutdown. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said it had begun injecting water and boric acid into Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which began leaking radiation after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.


Filipino-born conjoined twins separated after 9-hour operation

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 03:48 AM PDT

Twin 2-year-old girls who were joined at the chest and abdomen were separated Tuesday during a lengthy, complex procedure at Stanford University's children's hospital. The operation that gave sisters Angelina and Angelica Sabuco their independence took more than nine hours and a team of more than 40 people, including doctors, nurses and other personnel.


Moscow's Mars volunteers to 'land' after 520 days

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 03:46 AM PDT

Six volunteers on Friday will emerge blinking into the outside world after spending almost one-and-a-half-years in isolation at a Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars. The six men, who have spent 520 days in a capsule in a car park outside the Moscow institute, will at 1000 GMT open the hatch of their module that slammed shut on June 3, 2010, before being taken for a barrage of medical tests.


US, world markets fall after Greece's Prime Minister announces referendum on EU bailout package

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 03:03 AM PDT

A wave of selling swept across Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after Greece's prime minister said he would call a national vote on an unpopular European plan to rescue that nation's economy.


Assange extradition case: Judgment today

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:37 PM PDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will on Wednesday learn on the verdict in his fight against his extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct, the organization said.


Syria's Assad warns West against intervention

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:53 PM PDT

Syrian President Bashar Assad warned the Middle East will burn if the West intervenes in his country's 7-month-old uprising, threatening to turn the region into "tens of Afghanistans."


Plane from New Jersey carrying 231 onboard makes emergency landing

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:57 PM PDT

A Boeing 767 from Newark, New Jersey, carrying 231 people onboard made a dramatic emergency landing in Warsaw on Tuesday after its landing gear failed to open.


Hillary Clinton's mother, Dorothy, dies

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:50 PM PDT

Dorothy Rodham, mother of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton's mother-in-law, died Tuesday at age 92 after an illness.


UN investigators find new signs of Syria-Pakistan nuke tie

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:32 PM PDT

U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.


'Bankgok is a toilet without a flush'

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 09:11 AM PDT

As Thailand's ailing king surveys the calamitous scene from his 16th floor hospital window, the 83-year-old monarch encounters an element that has challenged, virtually obsessed, him most of his life: water. It's rising around him, the floodwaters sweeping through Bangkok and overflowing the banks of the Menam Chao Phraya, the River of Kings, that rushes right past Siriraj Hospital, where he has lived wheelchair-bound for the past two years.


China sends outspoken artist $2.4 million tax bill

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:55 AM PDT

Outspoken artist Ai Weiwei said on Tuesday that Chinese authorities are demanding he pay $2.4 million in back taxes and fines in a new show of government pressure on the dissident detained for nearly three months earlier this year.


2-year-old twins joined at chest to undergo surgery

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:43 AM PDT

In many ways, Angelina and Angelica Sabuco are like many other two-year-olds. The twin sisters love dancing and drawing. Their faces light up when they see a Dora the Explorer game. And for their recent birthday, they enjoyed frosted cakes adorned with Disney princesses.


For Pakistan, deep ties to militant network may trump US pressure

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:15 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other senior administration officials visited Pakistan in October to demand that Pakistan's spy agency either deliver the Haqqani network, a virulent part of the insurgency fighting American forces in Afghanistan, to the negotiating table or help fight them in their stronghold in Pakistan's rugged tribal areas.


US: October snowstorm disrupts Halloween across Northeast

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:23 AM PDT

Twelve-year-old McKenzie Gallasso was deciding between dressing as a witch or a werewolf when the phone rang Monday with bad news: Halloween had been canceled. Police in her Hartford suburb of South Windsor advised families to call off trick-or-treating because of the October storm that downed power lines and left three-quarters of the town without electricity.


China launches unmanned spacecraft for first space docking

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:55 AM PDT

China today successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft for its maiden docking mission, paving the way for its first space station by 2020 to rival Mir, the space lab being run by Russian and US astronauts.


FBI says Russians were a 'new breed' of spy

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:07 AM PDT

Anna Chapman wasn't just a member of one of the largest rings of Russian sleeper agents ever rolled up by the FBI, officials say. The 29-year-old former real estate agent, who became a lingerie model and corporate spokeswoman back in Moscow, represented a new breed of Russian spies adapted to the post-Cold War world.


South African women raped for being lesbians: Report

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:58 AM PDT

Human rights campaigners say at least 10 lesbian women in South Africa are sexually assaulted every week by men who claim to be "curing" their victims of homosexuality, according to a CNN report. The sexual attacks are often accompanied by "horrifying violence" that the women are left permanently scarred or fatally injured, says the Daily Mail.


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