An Iranian dhow seized off the Yemeni coast was carrying sophisticated Chinese antiaircraft missiles, a development that could signal an escalation of Iran’s support to its Middle Eastern proxies, alarming other countries in the region and renewing a diplomatic challenge to the United States. Among the items aboard the dhow, according to a review of factory markings on weapons and their packing...
Modern Family Stars Stuck In Elevator
Label: Lifestyle By Sarah Michaud 03/02/2013 at 01:00 PM EST Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson Courtesy of Jesse Tyler Ferguson It was a Friday night to remember for a few members of the Modern Family cast – they spent an hour of it trapped in an elevator.Eric...
WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant's lifetime cancer risk."The additional risk is quite small...
Trutanich struggling in bid to keep his city attorney post
Label: Business With large numbers of Los Angeles voters yet to make up their minds, a new poll shows that first-term City Atty. Carmen Trutanich...
Bonnie Franklin Dies at 69
Label: Lifestyle Breaking News By Stephen M. Silverman 03/01/2013 at 01:35 PM EST One Day at a Time star Bonnie Franklin, who announced last September that she was suffering from pancreatic cancer, died of complications of the disease on Friday, her family told the Los Angeles Times. She was 69.Franklin died at her Los Angeles...
Population growth is threat to other species, poll respondents say
Label: Business Nearly two-thirds of American voters believe that human population growth is driving other animal species to extinction and...
Feb
28
India Ink: India’s Budget Targets Women
Label: WorldAt a time when India’s commitment to women’s rights is under scrutiny, the government’s annual budget released Thursday proposed a number of measures for women, including increased spending to improve their safety and a bank only for women.These provisions are part the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government’s broader focus on “inclusive” growth, through collecting more taxes from the...
Rob Kardashian Tweets His Way to Fitness
Label: Lifestyle By Cara Lynn Shultz 02/28/2013 at 01:30 PM EST Rob Kardashian in Feb. 2011 (left) and in Dec. 2012 Scott Kirkland/Getty, Seth Browarnik/Startraks Breaking up is hard to do. And if you're in the public eye like Rob Kardashian, it's proven to be a weighty issue.The...
Eric Garcetti showed political savvy during busy student years
Label: Business Fourth in a series of articles focusing on key periods in the lives of the mayoral hopefuls.Ben Jealous still recalls walking...
Feb
27
IHT Rendezvous: Will Turkey Make Peace With the Kurds?
Label: WorldLONDON — There is growing optimism that a ceasefire in Turkey’s three-decade war with Kurdish guerrillas will be declared to coincide with the Kurdish New Year in three weeks.Under a draft plan reported on Wednesday, the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., would lay down its arms on March 21 and withdraw its forces from Turkish territory by August.The potential for a breakthrough in ending...
Kathy Bates Joins American Horror Story, Ron Livingston Joins Boardwalk Empire
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 02/27/2013 at 01:45 PM EST Kathy Bates and Ron Livingston Retna; WireImage Two familiar stars will join the casts of American Horror Story and Boardwalk Empire for the shows' new seasons.Kathy Bates, who won an Oscar for her frightening role...
Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital
Label: HealthBOSTON (AP) — A Vermont nurse disfigured in a 2007 lye attack has received a new face at a Boston hospital.Carmen Blandin Tarleton's full facial transplant at Brigham & Women's Hospital included transplanting a female donor's facial skin to Tarleton's neck, nose and lips, along with facial muscles, arteries and nerves.Hospital officials say the 44-year-old Thetford, Vt., woman suffered burns on...
Imperial County betting its future on renewable energy
Label: Business Situated in the southeastern corner of California, bordering Arizona and Mexico, Imperial County has long depended on agriculture...
Feb
26
IHT Rendezvous: Memories of Floating Over Luxor, Now Tinged With the Macabre
Label: WorldMy 5-year-old son spent the entire hot-air balloon ride over Luxor crouched in the bottom of the basket, terrified of the flames that kept shooting into the balloon—the flames that produced the hot air that kept us afloat. He missed the glorious views: of the ancient ruins and the quilts of green grass, of the magnificent sunrise and the dancing shadows it created out of the dozens of other hot-air...
See the Most Amazing Oscar Red Carpet Run-Ins
Label: Lifestyle Halle Berry takes Quvenzhané Wallis under her wing, Adele trades compliments with Jennifer Aniston and more star encounters Credit: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty
Updated: Sunday Feb 24, 2013 | 09:00 PM EST By: Kiran Hefa Subscribe Now ...
C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general.Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the best known and most influential person to carry that title. Koop, a 6-foot-1 evangelical Presbyterian with a biblical prophet's beard, donned a public health uniform...
Does Eric Garcetti keep his word? Accounts vary
Label: Business Santiago Perez and his neighbors went straight to Councilman Eric Garcetti when they heard that a developer planned to build...
Feb
25
India Ink: ‘Life of Pi’ Shines at the Oscars
Label: WorldWhile no Indian film was up for nomination in the 85th annual Academy Awards, held Sunday night in Los Angeles, Taiwan-born Ang Lee’s win in the Best Director category for “Life of Pi’’ ensured a national connection to this year’s Oscars.The movie, based on the 2001 novel by Yann Martel, is set in the mid-1970s in the town of Pondicherry (now Puducherry), a former French colony in India. Mr. Lee shot...
Still Got It! Seven PEOPLE's Sexiest Men Alive Hit Oscar Red Carpet
Label: Lifestyle Years have passed for some of our favorites, but that didn't stop Ben Affleck, Richard Gere, Denzel Washington and more from looking stunning Credit: George Pimentel/Getty Updated: Monday Feb 25, 2013 | 01:30 PM EST Subscribe Now ...
FDA approves new targeted breast cancer drug
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.The drug Kadcyla from Roche combines the established drug Herceptin with a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines together. The chemical keeps the cocktail intact until it binds to a cancer cell, delivering a potent...
Mahony answers questions under oath about clergy sex abuse cases
Label: Business A "relatively unflappable" Cardinal Roger Mahony answered questions under oath for more than 3 1/2 hours Saturday about his...
Feb
24
In Last Sunday Address as Pope, Benedict Says He Will Continue to Serve
Label: WorldAndrew Medichini/Associated PressPope Benedict XVI delivered his final Sunday address from the window of his apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square. VATICAN CITY — In his last Sunday blessing before he retires, Pope Benedict XVI reassured Catholics that he was not abandoning them but would continue to serve the church even in his retirement. Romans, pilgrims and curious tourists filled...
You're Invited to PEOPLE.com's Oscars Party!
Label: Lifestyle 02/24/2013 at 08:40 AM EST From left: Bradley Cooper, Oscar, Jessica Chastain AFP/Getty; Wireimage; Splash News Online Oscars host Seth MacFarlane isn't the only one gearing up for Hollywood's biggest night – we are too! Be a part of the glamour and excitement Sunday starting at 6 p.m. ET/3...
FDA approves new targeted breast cancer drug
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.The drug Kadcyla from Roche combines the established drug Herceptin with a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines together. The chemical keeps the cocktail intact until it binds to a cancer cell, delivering a potent...
Paroled sex offenders disarming tracking devices
Label: Business SACRAMENTO — Thousands of paroled child molesters, rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in California are removing or disarming...
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