NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks ended nearly flat on Wednesday, giving up most of the day's gains after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated that monetary policy won't be enough to offset damage from the "fiscal cliff." His comments followed the Federal Reserve's announcement of a new stimulus plan, which briefly pushed the S&P 500 to a seven-week high. The plan, the latest...
Ravi Shankar, Sitarist Who Introduced Indian Music to the West, Dies at 92
Label: WorldAssociated PressThe Beatles' George Harrison with Ravi Shankar in 1967. Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western classical musicians as well as the Beatles and other rock stars helped foster a worldwide appreciation of India’s traditional music, died on Tuesday in San Diego. He was 92. Mr. Shankar died in a hospital near his home, his family said in...
AP PHOTOS: Top 10 Search Trends of 2012
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (AP) — From the tragic to the downright silly, millions of people searched the Web in 2012 to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, a record-breaking skydiver and the death of a pop star.Google released its 12th annual “zeitgeist” report on Wednesday. The company calls it “an in-depth look at the spirit of the times as seen through the billions of searches on Google over the past...
Eva Herzigová Expecting Third Child
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 12/12/2012 at 05:00 PM ET Dave M. Benett/GettyThis model mama is expanding her brood!Eva Herzigová is five months pregnant with her third child, her agency Storm Models confirms to the Telegraph.She and husband Gregorio Marsiaj will welcome the baby in the spring.The...
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APNewsBreak: DA investigating Texas cancer agency
Label: HealthAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas prosecutor responsible for investigating public corruption among state officials said Tuesday that he has opened an investigation into the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency.Gregg Cox, director of the Travis County district attorney's public integrity unit, told The Associated Press that an investigation has begun into the Cancer Prevention and Research...
Big tech boosts S&P 500 to best close since election
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Tuesday, led by gains in technology companies, helping the S&P 500 end at its highest level since Election Day. A 2.2 percent gain to $541.39 in Apple's stock lifted the Nasdaq, as the largest U.S. company by market value rebounded from a week in which investors took profits before a possible tax rise next year. Prior to Tuesday's trading, Apple...
Kazakh Border Guard Sentenced in 15 Killings
Label: WorldMOSCOW — A military court in a remote city in eastern Kazakhstan sentenced a 20-year-old border guard to life in prison on Tuesday over the killings of 15 people, in a case that has drawn widespread skepticism of the authorities in the former Soviet state. In May, 14 soldiers and a gamekeeper were killed in Arkankergen, in a mountain range on the Chinese border, and the soldiers’ outpost...
Obama election tweet most repeated but Olympics tops on Twitter
Label: Technology(Reuters) – An election victory tweet from President Barack Obama — “Four more years” with a picture of him hugging his wife — was the most retweeted ever, but the U.S. election was topped by the Olympics as the most tweeted event this year.Obama’s tweet was retweeted (repeated) more than 810,000 times, Twitter said as it published a list of the most tweeted events in 2012. (http://2012.twitter.com/)“Within...
Megan Fox 'Screamed for an Epidural' During Delivery
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 12/11/2012 at 05:00 PM ET John Shearer/Invision/AP When it came to welcoming her first child, Megan Fox was prepared for the delivery to be a labor of love.But, one contraction later, and the actress’s dreams of being drug-free went out the window.“It hurts so bad....
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Surprise: New insurance fee in health overhaul law
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say. Most of that is likely to be passed...
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