LONDON — European police said on Wednesday that they had dismantled a criminal network that smuggled illegal migrants into the European Union, arresting more than 100 suspects across the Continent, from France to the Balkans.The network smuggled people principally from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and Turkey.Europol, a joint law enforcement agency set up to fight serious crime in the 27-member...
Facebook slumps as mobile ad growth fails to impress
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Shares of Facebook Inc were set to open 7 percent lower on Thursday as a surge in fourth-quarter mobile advertising revenue failed to live up to Wall Street’s high expectations.Three brokerages downgraded the stock of the No. 1 social network, which has struggled to develop a full-fledged mobile advertising business.Facebook has long established itself as one of the most important websites,...
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Kate's Perfect Nose Inspires Women to Have Plastic Surgery
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 01/30/2013 at 10:00 AM EST Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge REX USA; AFP/Getty; REX USA The dresses she wears fly off the shelves. Her hair is the envy of women around the world. And she's even helped boost sales of hosiery in the U.K. So is it any wonder that women also want...
Soldier with new arms determined to be independent
Label: HealthBALTIMORE (AP) — After weeks of round-the-clock medical care, Brendan Marrocco insisted on rolling his own wheelchair into a news conference using his new transplanted arms. Then he brushed his hair to one side.Such simple tasks would go unnoticed in most patients. But for Marrocco, who lost all four limbs while serving in Iraq, these little actions demonstrate how far he's come only six weeks after...
Wall Street edges higher, Amazon offsets GDP
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were flat on Wednesday as an unexpectedly weak read on fourth-quarter economic activity was offset by strong results at Boeing and Amazon.com. Equities continued to shrug off negative news, with the S&P 500 staying above 1,500, a level that market technicians call an inflection point that will determine the overall direction in the near term. ...
IHT Rendezvous: Mali's Culture War: The Fate of the Timbuktu Manuscripts
Label: WorldLONDON — Scholars are urgently trying to determine the fate of a treasure store of ancient manuscripts in the city of Timbuktu.As French-led forces consolidated their hold on northern Mali, international scholars feared the worst: that retreating Islamic militants had torched the Ahmed Baba Institute, home to 30,000 priceless items of scholarship dating back to the 13th century.But many volumes may...
Yandex puts mobile app blocked by Facebook on hold
Label: TechnologyMOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian internet company Yandex has put an experimental application that allows users to search social networking sites from mobile devices on hold after it was blocked by Facebook.Facebook, which launched its own search tool earlier this month, blocked the Wonder app three hours after its launch on January 24 for U.S. users.The application allows users to look for recommendations...
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Levi and Jenny McClendon Welcome Ninth Child
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch By Tim Nudd 01/29/2013 at 10:00 AM EST Jenny McClendon is in seventh heaven!The former Raising Sextuplets welcomed her seventh child recently – a baby boy named Cash Allen McClendon.
"An unbelievable gift.... Beyond words!!!!" McClendon wrote on Facebook. "Meet Cash Allen McClendon ... 8lbs 0 oz. ......
Soldier talks about his new arms after transplant
Label: HealthBALTIMORE (AP) — A soldier who lost all four limbs in an Iraq roadside bombing has two new arms following a double transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Twenty-six-year-old Brendan Marrocco along with the surgeons who treated him will be at the Baltimore hospital on Tuesday to discuss the new limbs.The transplants are only the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant ever conducted in the United...
Wall Street little changed ahead of data
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed at the open on Tuesday as investors were cautious following a recent rally and before consumer confidence data. The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> rose 10.09 points or 0.07 percent, to 13,892.02, the S&P 500 <.spx> gained 0.05 point to 1,500.23 and the Nasdaq Composite <.ixic> dropped 8.27 points or 0.26 percent,...
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