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...
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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...
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