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<START> Hub Group, Inc. Schedules Fourth Quarter, Full Year 2011 Earnings Conference Call (Nasdaq: HUBG) will hold a conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, January 26, 2012 to discuss its fourth quarter and full year 2011 results. The results will be announced via press release prior to the call on Janu... |
Was Rick Santorum good? Or was he lucky? Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition Event, Monday March 7, 2011 in Waukee, Iowa. (Steve Pope - GETTY IMAGES) Much of the punditry on Rick Santorum's strong finish in Iowa is attributing his late success to his social conservatism, or the e... |
68 years for man after Va. detective's killing VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A man will spend 68 years in prison for his role in the slaying of an undercover Virginia Beach police detective. Media outlets report that 30-year-old Marshall Demetrius Moyd was sentenced Wednesday in Virginia Beach Circuit Court. A jury convicted M... |
UK heading for first double-dip recession since 1975 Unemployment is already at a 17-year high of 2.68m, or 8.4pc. Confirmation that the British economy is shrinking for the first time since the weather-affected 0.5pc contraction in the final quarter of 2010 sparked a rash of warnings of a second recession. George Buck... |
Romney backer crashes Gingrich event with Freddie Mac attack While Newt Gingrich largely avoided attacking Mitt Romney at a campaign event here Tuesday, the ongoing back-and-forth between the two men still played out away from the stump, as a Romney surrogate mixed it up with Gingrich's spokesman. Rep. Connie Mack, a R... |
Boston Bruins Goalie Tim Thomas Skips White House Visit to Make Political Statement Larry Downing / Rueters U.S. President Barack Obama poses with a team jersey as he welcomes the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup champions Boston Bruins to the East Room of the White House. You can look at Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas" decision ... |
UK Police: Ritual Killing Possible in Horse Death British police say the mutilation and brutal death of a horse may have been the result of a pagan ritual. The body of a 2-year-old stallion named Erik was found earlier this month near the village of Stithians in western England. The horse had had its genitals cut off, ... |
A Standoff Between Two Species of Millipedes on Tasmania On the Australian island of Tasmania, two species of millipedes maintain a mysterious standoff, according to a new study - separated by a 140-mile boundary they rarely cross. The boundary, just a few hundred feet wide in most places, is especially unusual because... |
Have a delicious New Year: The best foodie events in 2012 Le Cordon Bleu School Christmas dinner not all it should have been? Well, you're in luck: Le Cordon Bleu, the French cookery school par excellence, is opening a vast new "international flagship institute" in London's Bloomsbury Square on 13 January, recognition,... |
Nightshift at the shipyards of Dhaka Workers work at a shipbuilding yard next to the Buriganga River in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka January 10, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj More about: Dhaka, India, The world of work |
Falcons beat Bucs, 45-24, clinch NFC's No. 5 seed Jan 1 08:29 PM US/Eastern ATLANTA (AP) - Julio Jones caught two touchdown passes in a span of 26 seconds, Michael Turner ran for two scores and the Atlanta Falcons used a team-record 42 first-half points to cruise to a 45-24 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday t... |
Words & Ideas - latimes.com Words & Ideas Compiled by Liesl Bradner. David Marin: The author discusses and signs "This Is Us: The New All-American Family." Vromans Bookstore, 3729 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. 3 p.m. Jeff Garlin: The actor, comedian and author discusses and signs "Curbing It," about how he dedicated an ... |
Boy has 'parasitic twin' living inside him Surgeons in Peru have removed a "parasitic twin" from inside a three-year-old boy's stomach. Isbac Pacunda was taken to hospital after complaining of stomach pains, where doctors discovered the 25cm fetus lodged in his abdomen. Doctor Marco Antonio Flores said: "Through giving... |
Employers Face IRS Crackdown on Contractor Classification PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using independent contractors reduces the paperwork, tax burden and hassles associated with hiring employees. Tax specialist Christopher Ezold warns that employers can expect changes in 2012. The IRS and the U.S. Depar... |
Liz Claiborne changing name to Fifth & Pacific NEW YORK (AP) - Liz Claiborne Inc. is changing its name to Fifth & Pacific Cos. now that the clothing maker has sold its namesake brand and plans to concentrate on its Juicy Couture, Lucky Brand and Kate Spade labels. The name change, which the New York company previously ... |
Company Cautions Against Linking Well, Ohio Quakes Boos, applause and the occasional outburst marked a gathering of about 500 Ohio residents seeking explanations for a series of earthquakes that has hit their area since deep injection drilling came to town. At a news conference after the forum Wednesday, the company sa... |
Australian Open: Andy Murray ups his game to reach fourth round Published on Saturday 21 January 2012 10:09 Andy Murray turned in a wonderful performance to sweep past Michael Llodra and move into the fourth round of the Australian Open today. This was the world number four at approaching his very best. He displayed al... |
Iraqi deaths rise after U.S. withdrawal BAGHDAD, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Deaths of Iraqis since the U.S. military withdrew in mid-December have reached one of the highest tolls for that amount of time in two years, statistics show. Security officials say 31 people, including eight police officers, were killed by a suicide car... |
Gingrich Turns Ex-Wife's Interview Into Attack on Media The most vibrant episode of tonight's Republican debate happened at the very beginning, as Newt Gingrich dismissed an explosive interview given by his ex-wife and accused the mainstream media of shielding President Obama. CNN moderator John King opened the forum b... |
Amir Mirzaei Hekmati: Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday, in a case adding to the accelerating tension between the United States and Iran. Iran charges that as a former U.S. Marine... |
Health chiefs aim to cure huge waiting list backlog Published on Friday 27 January 2012 12:05 The Evening News can also reveal that external auditors have been brought in to probe the health board's official figures on hitting Scottish Government waiting time targets for the length of time patients should wait for proc... |
As Top-Ranked Men's Teams Fall, Baylor Women Keep Winning Krista Pirtle of The Lariat at Baylor University will file reports about the top-ranked Baylor Lady Bears throughout the season for The Quad. As top seeds fell all over the country in men's basketball on Saturday, No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears" coach Kim Mulkey watche... |
England announce pre-Euro 2012 friendlies England will face Norway and Belgium in their final two friendlies before Euro 2012. Fabio Capello's men will head to Oslo to take on Norway on Saturday, May 26 in the same Ullevaal Stadion in which they famously lost to the Scandinavians in 1981, prompting Bjorge Lillelien's m... |
COL BKB: Nebraska 70, Indiana 69 LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Two free throws by Jorge Brian Diaz with 11 seconds to play Wednesday gave Nebraska a shocking 70-69 victory over No. 13 Indiana. The Hoosiers lost their third in a row and have dropped four out of seven since the start of Big Ten Conference action. India... |
"Alcatraz" Viewers Search Former Prison for High Tech Secret Room Alcatraz. Credit: Getty Images. The new Fox series "Alcatraz" has only been on the air for a week, but fans are apparently already going bonkers over the show. TMZ reports some are going on scheduled guided tours of the former prison that sits on an isla... |
Tiger Woods will make 2012 PGA Tour debut at Pebble Beach Tiger Woods, who had previously announced he would skip the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in La Jolla this year, instead will make his 2012 PGA Tour debut Feb. 9-12 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Woods played at Pebble Beach in the 2010 U.S. ... |
Triple killing sparked by teen feud? PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A 30-year-old Philadelphia man was charged Wednesday with shooting four teenagers who had a beef with his stepsons, killing three of them, authorities said. A federal marshal said Axel Barreto was tracked to a Knights Inn in Bensalem, a Bucks County su... |
Prince Harry gives rare interview about his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II Prince Harry salutes Chelsea Pensioners as he attends the Founder's Day Parade at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on June 9, 2011, in London, England. (CBS/AP) Prince Harry gave a rare interview about his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, saying that ... |
Is America ready for a Mormon president? While the religion of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hasn't been much of a factor thus far in the Republican nomination for president, their Mormon beliefs face a different test with next week's primary in South Carolina. "It's going to b... |
Off-Duty A.T.F. Officer Is Killed While Intervening After Robbery An off-duty special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was fatally shot on Saturday afternoon when he, along with at least one other law enforcement officer and a retired officer, tried to stop a robber who had just held up... |
Pycnogenol® (French Maritime Pine Bark Extract) Shown to Improve Visible Signs of Aging in New Clinical Trial HOBOKEN, N.J., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Human skin is the body's first line of defense and often mirrors the health, nutritional status and age of a person. Over time, skin shows signs of aging due to the... |
Progress made in Greek debt talks, negotiators say January 21, 2012 -- Updated 1637 GMT (0037 HKT) A deal on restructuring Greek debt must be reached in order for Greece to receive further bailout funds from the EU and IMF. Progress has been made, a spokesman for private investor negotiators says Talks in Athens hinge ... |
House votes on permanent electronic duck stamp WASHINGTON (AP) - The e-Duck Stamp would become a permanent part of federal law under legislation passed by the House Monday. Since 1934, migratory waterfowl hunters over the age of 16 have been required to buy the federal migratory bird hunting and conservation stamps, or... |
Obama turns to roots as key year dawns US President Barack Obama opened a landmark year on Sunday by paying homage to his roots as he wraps up his vacation in his native Hawaii. Obama visited the graveyard of his grandfather, a World War II veteran, in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, and the... |
Sony Adds Ultra-high-speed Interface Compatibility to Its Line of SD Media PARK RIDGE, N.J., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At CES 2012, Sony announced it is expanding its line of SD cards with a new flagship series designed for ultra-high speed interface (UHS-I) compatibility, giving DSLR users superb speed and high pe... |
Oakland Raiders fan falls from bleachers after game OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - A football fan fell from bleachers at an Oakland Raiders game on Sunday as he tried to attract the attention of players leaving the field after a game against the San Diego Chargers, the team said. Juan Salceto, 17, was leaning over a railin... |
BP sues Halliburton for full cost of Gulf disaster British oil giant BP is pushing US energy services firm Halliburton to pay for all the costs BP incurred in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in US history. In a US federal court filing, BP said that it was seeking full repayment of da... |
Fed Chairman Bernanke to lecture students WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will give a series of four lectures to college students at George Washington University in March, the central bank said on Thursday. It was the latest in a series of steps, including periodic press conferences, to imp... |
2012 Mazda3: It's light, not lite The best small cars under that marketing regime were those that helped improve sales-fleet fuel economy without costing manufacturers much money or offering the consumer anything except a few more miles per gallon. Even Japanese automobile manufacturers, specialists in the production o... |
Documentary From Emad Burnat's Camera Competes at Sundance Emad Burnat, a farmer and videographer, with his son Gibreel near the wall of separation in the West Bank. BILIN, West Bank - Emad Burnat was born to the land and, like generations of his family in this hilltop West Bank village, he has eked out a modest living... |
U.S. CO2 emissions to stay below 2005 levels as coal use shrinks Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:23am EST NEW YORK - U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will be 7 percent lower than their 2005 level of nearly 6 billion metric tons in 2020 as coal's share of electricity production continues a steady descent over the next two decades, ... |
Over 100 dogs in U-Haul prompts review of Long Beach rescuers Long Beach animal control officials had received three complaints about a well-known dog boarding facility in the days before the operators were arrested and charged with 128 counts of animal cruelty in Tennessee, officials said. Bonnie Sheehan, 55, and Pame... |
Sheriff: Suicidal Ariz couple wanted deputies dead Sheriff: Suicidal Ariz couple wanted deputies dead - US news updated 2 hours 23 minutes ago YUMA, Ariz. - An Arizona couple who committed suicide last month planned to lure sheriff's deputies to their remote, desert home and kill as many as possible before ending their... |
Tom Cruise rings in New Year at top of box office Tom Cruise's latest "Mission: Impossible" film topped the North American box office for a second week, ringing up $38.2 million over the long New Year weekend, industry data showed Tuesday. "Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol," the actor's fourth outing in the action f... |
Oil gives up gains after US GDP lags estimates Jan 27 10:33 AM US/Eastern NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices are flat with a report showed the U.S. economy grew at a slightly slower than expected pace in the fourth quarter. The Commerce Department said Friday that the economy grew at a modest 2.8 percent in the final three mon... |
Google pockets money from illegal Olympic ticket touts Google has said that it was not responsible for the actions or able to monitor the activities of every company which advertises with it. However, despite now removing the adverts, it took a week for Google to do so after the Metropolitan Police asked the search eng... |
Nick Clegg warns against 'needless rivalry' in Europe |
Transparency Life Sciences, LLC Launched as World's First Drug Development Company Based on Open Innovation NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Transparency Life Sciences, LLC (TLS) the world's first drug development company based on open innovation, announced its official launch today with the int... |
El Salvador Massacre Apology on 20-Year Peace Mark El Salvador's president has formally apologized for the 1981 El Mozote massacre and acknowledged the government's responsibility for killing 936 civilians in a counterinsurgency operation. President Mauricio Funes says the army committed "the biggest massacre of civili... |
SPX Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell its Service Solutions Business to Robert Bosch GmbH for $1.15 Billion CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Service Solutions business to Robert Bosch GmbH for $1.1... |
Adele to Perform at the Grammys January 31, 2012, 11:39 am Adele will perform at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, making her first appearance since undergoing throat surgery last fall, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday. "It's an absolute honor to be included in such a night, and for ... |
Two rashers of bacon a day increases cancer risk by 20% Published on Friday 13 January 2012 00:31 Eating two rashers of bacon a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19 per cent and the risk goes up if a person eats more, experts have said. Eating 50 grammes of processed meat every day - the equivalent to o... |
Obama Political Advisor: Romney Is "The 25 Percent Man" One of President Obama's chief political strategists tried to coin a new nickname for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, thrashing his political positions and what he says the GOP candidate stands for. David Axelrod called Romney the "25 percent man" d... |
St. Louis Cardinals to visit White House January 10, 2012 -- Updated 0010 GMT (0810 HKT) The St. Louis Cardinals celebrate after defeating the Texas Rangers 6-2 to win the World Series in October. St. Louis Cardinals baseball team will visit the White House on January 17 They'll meet with President Barack Obama to mark... |
Mississippi State's Fletcher Cox Declares for N.F.L. Draft Mississippi State defensive tackle Fletcher Cox is skipping his senior season and declaring for the N.F.L. draft. Cox is considered one of the country's best defensive line prospects and is projected by N.F.L. evaluators as a second-round pick, though some anal... |
Burma to cut prison sentences Burma's government has announced it will cut the sentences of some prisoners and commute some death sentences to life imprisonment, citing humanitarian grounds. State media on Monday said president Thein Sein had signed a clemency order to mark the country's 64th anniversary of independenc... |
What does Egypt's parliament look like? |
Picasso Works Stolen From Greece's Largest Art Museum Image Credit: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images ABC News" Carlos Boettcher reports: Thieves executed a brazen early-morning burglary of Greece's largest art museum Monday, making off with three works, including one by the 20th-century master Pablo Picasso. The burg... |
Demolition no barrier to late arrival of new fence RESIDENTS close to a derelict building scheduled for demolition have been left "gobsmacked" after council chiefs installed a steel fence around the property. The city council was asked to replace the fence three years ago after the existing one was removed due to a cra... |
Report: Iowa results show Santorum with 34-vote lead Results will boost Rick Santorum's campaign, spokesman says Santorum had a 34-vote advantage over Mitt Romney in Iowa, a newspaper reports Romney was thought to have won the caucuses by eight votes The certified results are to be released Thursday morning (CNN) -- Ri... |
Miller in title talk after Cardiff blitz Reading Kenny Miller claimed Cardiff City can win the Championship, and his team-mates backed up his words with immediate actions in a first-half blitz to sink Reading and move closer to the top of the division. The Royals arrived in south Wales having won their last four Champi... |
French parents win case over son's 'demonic' name A court in France on Thursday rejected a prosecutors' request for a couple to be barred from naming their son Daemon after a character in television series "The Vampire Diaries." Prosecutors had brought Lionel and Blandine Defontaine, from Busigny in northern France, to... |
Chevron warns on Q4 profit, shares drop (Reuters) - Chevron Corp (CVX.N) warned that fourth-quarter profit would be significantly below the previous quarter, with production still falling short of prior expectations and its refining operations about breaking even. Shares of the second-largest U.S. oil company fell more... |
Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier speak Mandarin Sunday's Wizards game was, as I've noted, a celebration of the Chinese New Year. And while the Wizards lost the game, there were several all-time highlights, featuring Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier sprinkling Mandarin expressions into their Comcast SportsNet broadcast.... |
Four Door Media Licensed to Build Mercedes-Benz SL550 LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Four Door Media, Inc. announced today the signing of a licensing agreement with Mercedes-Benz Accessories GmbH to build a unique version of the Mercedes-Benz SL550, among the most exciting, recognizable and desirab... |
Van Halen Plays Mini-Gig at Cafe Wha? David Lee Roth, left, and Eddie Van Halen trade licks at Van Halen's promotional set at Cafe Wha? on Thursday night. As press briefings go, it rocked. On Thursday night, Van Halen took to the stage of the venerable Cafe Wha? on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, capacity 250. "... |
On Our Radar: Capsized Ship Stirs Environmental Worries January 17, 2012, 10:30 am With an estimated 2,380 metric tons of fuel on board, the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship is "an ecological time bomb," the mayor of the Tuscan island of Giglio says. The waters are treasured by divers. A Dutch salvage vessel is expe... |
What's eating Antony Worrall Thompson? Every little helps, so the supermarket chain says, but that doesn't mean helping oneself. Staff at Tesco in Henley-on-Thames called police after catching celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson apparently acting out his own festive recipe for Porridge - shoplifting cheese and wine ... |
Friends: US bomb plot suspect was radical, loner TAMPA, Florida - The Kosovo-born American citizen accused of plotting bomb attacks around Tampa was a loner who had grown increasingly radical in his Muslim faith and publicly railed against Jews and Christians in videos he posted on the Internet, according to relatives ... |
Send in Questions for Melinda Gates January 1, 2012, 9:00 pm Melinda Gates will be traveling shortly to Bangladesh to look at maternal health, child health and women's issues (including family planning and reproductive health) - and she has agreed to answer your questions about these topics while she's there. So please... |
Ala. family lives amid rubble from April tornado (AP) - Geraldine Horton steps out of her apartment into a broken world that looks much as it did the day after a killer tornado plowed through town last spring. Buildings are sliced in two across the street from her home and next door; broken bricks litter her parking lo... |
Coughlin Talks About Special Team Feeling Here's a partial transcript of Tom Coughlin's conference call with reporters on Monday. The full version is at Giants.com. The last question refers to how Ann Mara, the widow of Wellington Mara, interrupted a postgame interview by Terry Bradshaw on Fox, telling him he never pic... |
UK animators in plea for tax breaks Animation UK, which represents producers including Aardman Animations and Astley Baker Davies, has written to George Osborne, Chancellor, warning him that Britain is losing its best animation talent, and calling for tax breaks before the industry is wiped out altogether. The sector i... |
Dotcom dilemma for world bodies International internet regulators are trying to reassure world bodies such as the UN and the IMF about an expansion of website address names that they say threatens their online identities. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has just begun accepting applic... |
Live Blogging the Iowa Caucuses January 3, 2012, 6:03 pm Welcome to FiveThirtyEight's live blog of the Iowa caucuses. The real action will not get underway until 8 p.m. New York time, when caucuses convene around the state - and it is likely to be at least another hour or so after that before we start seeing the first ... |
"We Bought a Zoo" - Review - NYTimes.com Cameron Crowe may be the last of the Hollywood romantics. He's best known for his stories about love and longing, for films that immortalize the moment when characters bare their hearts, as when John Cusack serenades a girl with a boom box in "Say Anything" and Renée Zellweger t... |
N.Y. school to review environmental tests in medical mystery School will review environmental tests in the area Activist Erin Brockovich is looking into a 1970 train derailment (CNN) -- A school system in upstate New York, where more than a dozen female high school students are suffering from uncontrolled verbal outbur... |
The biggest screen stars - Telegraph In his poem that begins "Look at the stars!," Gerard Manley Hopkins speaks of the night sky as "grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies." Hopkins, that sharpest of observers, had seen something of the stars, in rural Lancashire and Wales. Today, what with light pollution in... |
Two men convicted with Lawrence murder LONDON - A court on Tuesday convicted two men of the 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, a landmark case that exposed racism in the London police and led to a change in the law allowing suspects to be tried twice for the same crime. The 18-year-old school student was s... |
Iowa GOP to Announce Final Caucus Results. Will It Matter If Santorum Won? On Thursday morning, we'll finally know who won the Iowa caucuses. Since Mitt Romney edged Rick Santorum by a mere eight votes on caucus night two weeks ago, Iowa's counties and precincts have submitted forms to document their vote totals to the... |
Washington's most powerful; secondhand smoke debate Tom Park and Laurie Park at their condo at The Velocity in Capitol Riverfront. The Capital Riverfront Business Improvement District released its annual report yesterday. (Jay Premack - 2010 WASHINGTON POST FILE PHOTO) If you had one local story to share with others, w... |
State of the union address: excerpts hint at campaign to come Barack Obama will use his annual state of the union speech to launch his 2012 re-election campaign, portraying himself as the champion of working-class America against the small, wealthy elite he claims is protected by the Republicans. As the Republicans tor... |
Montana teacher found dead, 1 in custody January 13, 2012 -- Updated 1842 GMT (0242 HKT) Sidney Public Schools says it learned Sherry Arnold was dead on Friday morning The FBI says a man is in custody and another "is being questioned" in her case Arnold was last seen six days ago while out on a morning run (CNN) -- A 4... |
Syria rejects Arab troops proposal Syria on Tuesday ruled out any deployment of Arab troops as proposed by Qatar to halt 10 months of deadly unrest, as army defectors urged the UN Security Council to intervene. "Syria rejects the statements of officials of Qatar on sending Arab troops to worsen the crisis... and pave t... |
Gary Dobson and David Norris' sentences restricted by law of 1993 Stephen Lawrence's killers would have faced double the amount of time behind bars if they had carried out the racist murder today, the Old Bailey trial judge said. Mr Justice Treacy told Gary Dobson and David Norris: "In modern times an adult committing ... |
Black Hollywood Weighs Whether to Support Obama a Second Time When Mattie Lawson's husband, Michael, suggested in 2003 that they consider hosting a political fundraiser at their lavish Los Angeles estate for a new up-and-comer in the field, she immediately said no. The prominent African-American couple - he a recently ... |
November trade deficit hits $47.8 billion WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. trade deficit widened in November for the first time in five months, largely because of a spike in the price of imported oil. Still, exports fell for a second straight month, a sign that Europe's slowdown has begun to affect the U.S. economy. The trad... |
Warning over 'grade inflation' as first-class degrees double But other academics warned that more radical reform was needed. Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said grades had been inflated to such an extent that a "starred first" was required to mark out the most exceptional talent. Employ... |
Boxing: Amir Khan granted rematch by WBA World Boxing Association vice president Gilberto Jesus Mendoza has confirmed they have granted Amir Khan a rematch against Lamont Peterson. Richard Schaefer, chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, reported overnight that the governing body had notified him of their "official ... |
David Hockney-mania overloads Royal Academy website According to reports, both options for booking tickets have been struggling since early this morning, meaning that some art-lovers keen to secure a ticket ahead of the opening on Saturday have so far been left disappointed. Three days before The Real Van Gogh: The Art... |
Dior: Holding Couture to the Light At 2:30 p.m. Monday, I arrived at Dior, on Avenue Montaigne. Whenever couture is shown in the house, in the grand salons on the third floor, an enormous throng of spectators and paparazzi gathers outside. It sounds far more glamorous than it really is. As I reached the main door, a bl... |
When Kevin Darley picked up a passenger as well as the German Derby Back in 1999 Kevin Darley got go the surprise of his life after winning the German Derby on Belenus when ex-jockey Mario Hofer jumped on behind him as the horse paraded in front of the grandstand at Hamburg. "My biggest concern was that the big cigar h... |
Insurer Aon to move headquarters to London CHICAGO, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Insurance giant Aon is moving its headquarters to London to get closer to the action, the company said Friday. The insurance firm that operates 500 offices with 61,000 employees worldwide, said London provided better access to emerging markets and to ... |
A Recipe for Simplifying Life: Ditch All the Recipes What's the first step toward cooking and eating better this year? Perhaps you should start by learning how to boil water. While that may not sound like much of a cooking technique, you will gain a new appreciation for the hidden potential of boiled food after reading... |
Lakers don't get a day off The Lakers were due for a day off Saturday, having just played back-to-back road games against NBA powers before taking a charter flight that put them back in Los Angeles around 3:30 a.m. They didn't get it. Coach Mike Brown required his players to report to the team's practice facility, wher... |
GOP ad hits and misses Campaign ads have been playing a role in American politics for more than two centuries now. And these days, they have a special kind of power. But what type of ads have been working in the presidential campaigning so far -- and which ones haven't? GOP pollster Frank Luntz, president and chief exe... |
Off-shore earthquake rattles Japan - UPI.com TOKYO, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Parts of Japan were shaken by a strong off-shore earthquake Sunday, seismologists said. The Japan Meteorological Agency measured it at a 7.0-magnitude, while the U.S. Geological Survey placed it at 6.8. No tsunami warning was issued, Kyodo News reporte... |
What's He Got to Hide? Irada Humbatova/Reuters The case of two Swedish journalists imprisoned in Ethiopia sheds light on a harsh campaign of repression. IN a filthy Ethiopian prison that is overridden with lice, fleas and huge rats, two Swedes are serving an 11-year prison sentence for committing journalism. Martin Sch... |
Costa cruise hit rocks in 2005 - and firm tried to cover it up Italian magistrates will be asked to investigate claims that Costa Cruises, owner of the Concordia ocean liner which ran aground off the Italian coast 11 days ago, tried to cover up a similar incident in 2005, when their Fortuna vessel allegedly struck rock... |
'Declaration of War': Movie review War, by its very nature, doesn't give you weekends or nights off. There may be time between assaults, but the momentary cease-fires are unpredictable at best. So it is in "Declaration of War," a vibrant and heartfelt French film that captures the mood and the memories of young parents... |
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