31 December, 2012

World giving enthusiastic welcome to 2013

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LONDON (AP) — Lavish fireworks displays ushered in 2013 across the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday, and Europe was holding scaled-back festi...

Sony No Longer Shipping PlayStation 2 in Japan

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You may have grown up with it. Your children may have, too. Sony ‘s PlayStation 2 home game console, released in 2000, was one of the most ...

Armstrong better, Green Day to resume tour in 2013

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Green Day is going back on the road. The Grammy-winning punk band announced new tour dates Monday. The band canceled t...

AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

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A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sa...

House to miss deadline for cliff deal vote

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the " fiscal cliff ." House R...
30 December, 2012

US family pleas for couple missing in Afghanistan

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KABUL (AP) — The family of an ailing, pregnant American woman missing in Afghanistan with her Canadian husband has broken months of silence...

Autonomy’s Lynch defends record as HP confirms Federal probe

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LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch , the founder of the software firm sold to Hewlett-Packard last year in a deal tainted by accusations of accou...

'The Hobbit' stays atop box office for third week

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — " The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey " continues to rule them all at the box office, staying on top for a third-...

Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital , located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi , freely ...

Top Republican Senator urges Biden to break ‘fiscal cliff’ impasse

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is shown in this C-Span video footage as he addresses the Senate … Republican Senate Minority ...