A sharp decline in deaths from malnutrition and infectious diseases like measles and tuberculosis has caused a shift in global mortality patterns over the past 20 years, according to a report published on Thursday, with far more of the world’s population now living into old age and dying from diseases mostly associated with rich countries, like cancer and heart disease. Tony Karumba/Agence...
China Is Said to Consider Plan to Deal With Failed Banks
Label: BusinessHONG KONG — China’s new leadership is preparing to introduce bank deposit insurance as the first step in financial reforms to be started soon at a top-level meeting in Beijing, a government official and banking policy advisers said. Sheng Li/ReutersResidents waiting to deposit money at an Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Shenyang. A consensus has...
Dec
12
Jenni Rivera jet linked to troubled company and executive
Label: World So far, this much is clear: Jenni Rivera, one of the most celebrated artists in the Latin world, died when her private jet went...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 13
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you'll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Music, comedy strike defiant tone at Sandy concert
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Music and comedy royalty struck a defiant tone in a benefit concert for Superstorm Sandy victims on Wednesday, asking for help to rebuild a New York metropolitan area most of them know well.The sold-out Madison Square Garden show was televised, streamed online and aired on radio all over the world. Producers said up to 2 billion people could experience the concert live.“When are you...
Eli Lilly to Conduct Additional Study of Alzheimer’s Drug
Label: HealthThe drug maker Eli Lilly & Company said on Wednesday that it planned an additional study of an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that failed to improve the condition of people with the disease, saying that it remained hopeful about the drug’s prospects. The newest study is expected to get under way in the third quarter of 2013 and will focus on patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease. Lilly...
State of the Art: Google Maps App for iPhone Goes in the Right Direction - Review
Label: BusinessIt was one of the biggest tech headlines of the year: in September, Apple dropped its contract with Google, which had always supplied the data for the iPhone’s Maps app. For various strategic reasons, Apple preferred to write a new app, based on a new database of the world that Apple intended to assemble itself. As everybody knows by now, Apple got lost along the way. It was like a 22-car...
Dec
11
Famed sitarist Ravi Shankar dies at 92
Label: World Ravi Shankar, the revered master of the sitar who introduced Indian music to much of the Western world, died Tuesday in San...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 12
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Spice Girls take stage at musical premiere
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – The Spice Girls took to the stage on Tuesday after the world premiere of a new musical loosely based on their meteoric rise to fame in the 1990s, earning huge cheers from an audience that only really got going at the encore.“Viva Forever!” was the brainchild of producer Judy Craymer, whose “Mamma Mia!” musical based on the hits of ABBA has earned nearly $ 2 billion worldwide and...
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