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| New wave of Syrian refugees flee to Turkey Aljazeera.com A new wave of Syrian refugees who fled government bombardments in the central province of Hama have crossed into Turkey. About 700 Syrians, mostly women and children, arrived in the the Turkish border town of Reyhanli on Monday, Turkish officials ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Israel to build 942 new homes in east Jerusalem The Independent Israel has advanced the process of building 942 more settler homes in east Jerusalem closer, under a new fast-track plan to tighten its grip on the territory, which the Palestinians claim as the capital of a future state. A government planning ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UN Approves New Arms Treaty Debate, Opposed by US Gun Lobby THISDAY Live The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Monday to restart negotiations on a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global trade in conventional arms, a pact the powerful U.S. National Rifle Association has been lobbying hard ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Can Blatche Make Good On New Basketball Life With Brooklyn? NBA.com (blog) HANGTIME SOUTHWEST – Andray Blatche can be a baaaaaad man. By both interpretations of the vernacular. His talent (if not always his effort) is undeniably positive, a big man with a handle so supple he makes guys half his size envious. And, man, does ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| LDP's new lineup eyes upper house election in Japan Xinhua .. Tuesday announced his party's new leadership lineup that will prepare for next summer's House of Councilors election. In the new leadership team, Masahiko Komura and Shigeru Ishiba remain the party's vice president and secretary general, respectively. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New York's Best Basketball Players, As Picked by Insiders New York Times He's the only four-time first-team All-City New York player in the history of The New York Post. He made first-team All-City as a freshman even though Jack Curran never started him in a game. Curran didn't think it would be healthy for him to start as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Best Games for Your New Tablet or Smartphone Kotaku The Best Games for Your New Tablet or Smartphone Look, let's not call them prayers. Rather, you can say that your deepest desires were answered when you got a shiny new smartphone or tablet under the Christams tree today. Sure, you'll need it to stay ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| India: Music's new ambassadors GlobalPost NEW DELHI, India — When sitar master Ravi Shankar finally succumbed to time last week, Indian music lost its first and most famous ambassador. But a healthy crop of musicians are carrying the torch — straddling pop, indie, Bollywood and classical genres. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Japan approves Novo's new combination insulin Ryzodeg Reuters COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said on Tuesday Japan's health regulator had approved its new combination insulin, that it plans to market as Ryzodeg, for the treatment of diabetes. Ryzodeg is a combination of Novo's new ultra ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Iran media report new cyberattack by Stuxnet worm Yahoo! News (blog) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency says there has been another cyberattack by the sophisticated computer worm Stuxnet, this time on the industries in the country's south. Tuesday's report by ISNA quotes provincial civil defense ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Turkey Central Bank Unveils New Tool to Limit Bank Debt Risk Bloomberg The bank will begin relying on a new leverage ratio together with the capital adequacy ratio to guard against an expansion in debt, central bank Governor Erdem Basci said at a press conference in Ankara today. The measure will require banks with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mumabi Club gets new pavilion The Hindu Dadar Union Sports Club, which has produced legendary cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, got a new pavilion, something that was long overdue. "I remember Ian Chappell had come to our club to see where Sunil Gavaskar used to play and he ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New MTRCB chief: Parents make the best members Inquirer.net (blog) Lawyer Eugenio "Toto" Villareal, new chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), assures observers that the government agency will remain steadfast in its goal to protect young viewers from inappropriate content. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The best apps for your new Mac The Verge Well, aren't you lucky to get a new computer for the holidays! New Apple computers come with a fair mix of writing, photo editing, and music creation tools — and of course you'll want to grab essentials like Skype, Twitter, and GrabBox — but we .. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Shrub Willow Biofuel Heats Up New York Fracking Wars CleanTechnica Wow, that was fast. Just last summer, we noticed that scientists at Cornell University were developing shrub willow biofuel as a means of helping New York farmers to squeeze extra income from marginal land, and before the ink has dried on the research ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New Map of Earth's Animals Discovery News Alfred Russell Wallace was beaten to the punch in describing evolution by Charles Darwin, but Wallace's contributions to biology have been just as long-lived. Wallace drew a map of the Earth divided into regions by where animals live. Now, his map is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UCB gets Japan clearance for two new drugs Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB has secured two regulatory clearances in Japan, further cementing its worldwide shift to a new generation of drugs. The company said in a statement on Tuesday that the Japanese Ministry of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Newlyweds set out on two-year honeymoon New Zealand-London bicycle ride Daily News & Analysis A couple from Britain has reportedly planned to beat a previous tandem journey record of 38,143kms from New Zealand to London. Kat and Steve Turner, who had been attacked by dogs, battled through Arctic temperatures, searing heat, torrential rain ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Russia's black gold flows to Asia on new pipeline Pravda In Khabarovsk (a city in the Far East of Russia), a ceremony was held on December 25, 2012, to launch the second part of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean oil pipeline (ESPO). President of Transneft, Nikolay Tokarev, pressed the symbolic button to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Chinese president appoints five new ambassadors Xinhua 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has appointed five new ambassadors to foreign countries, according to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Tuesday. Xiao Qian has been appointed ambassador to Hungary, .. See all stories on this topic » |
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