Alwaleed: Saudi prince buys $300m stake in TWITTER

A member of Saudi Arabia’s ruling royal family has become a significant shareholder in Twitter..

Source: www.ft.com

Police: 9 kids witness domestic beating involving burrito

Adrian Solis, 31, was arrested on charges of DUI, nine counts of child endangerment, domestic abuse and child seat violations after officers said he beat his girlfriend in front of the couple's nine children after a disagreement over a burrito. FULL STORY

Anonymous Attacks U.S. Agencies' Sites

Opponents of a controversial global copyright treaty counted three victories Friday as American government websites were hacked and the Eastern European nations..

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

China's GDP growth slides to 7.4%

Oct 17: China's economy grew 7.4% in the third quarter compared to the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. FULL STROY

New Drugs Raise Hope for Patients With M.S.

After decades of research, a rapid rollout of sophisticated treatments is changing how the disease is managed...

Source: www.nytimes.com

CLAIM: Obama's stimulus program cost more than Iraq war

Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats worried about voter wrath against....

Missouri train derailment

Foam that was used to extinguish a fire following a massive train collision and derailment is seen in Rockview, Mo., May 25, 2013. FULL STORY

A decade of slow growth?

By Fareed Zakaria From: Cnn.com: Every year at Davos, people like me try to get a sense of the mood of the place, take the temperature of people in this frosty mountain resort. Obviously, I will give you a highly impressionistic and personal picture, but it’s one I find useful since Davos does bring together leaders in government, business, media – even the NGO community – from all corners of the world. It is genuinely global in a way that few conferences are... FULL STORY

The FACTS: End of the World 2012 phenomenon

Guatemalan Maya natives kneel in front of a temple at the Tikal archaeological site on December 20, 2012. The exquisite site of Mayan ruins began hosting winter solstice ceremonies on Thursday as the region's indigenous people marked the end of an era.

The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on 21 December 2012 . This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.

Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae have been proposed as pertaining to this date, though none has been accepted by mainstream scholarship.

A New Age interpretation of this transition is that the date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 21 December 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era.

Others suggest that the date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of the next solar maximum, an interaction between Earth and the black hole at the center of the galaxy, or Earth's collision with a planet called Nibiru.

Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012.

Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture, While astronomers have rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience,stating that they conflict with simple astronomical observations. FULL STORY Source: wikipedia

Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges

Only 15 states have told the federal government they plan to operate health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting task of creating online marketplaces for two-thirds of the country. FULL STORY

Bloomberg: The Fiscal Cliff Will Drive the U.S. Into Recession

House Speaker John Boehner says he was "flabbergasted" when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner pitched the White House plan to save the nation from the "fiscal cliff." FULL STORY

6 Ways The Fiscal Cliff Could Affect You

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke used the term "fiscal cliff," it quickly became the newest Washington buzzphrase. As the deadline to avert the cliff nears, it has overtaken the European debt crisis as the most talked-about story in the financial media. The fiscal cliff refers to the enactment of a number of laws that would, if not changed before Jan. 1, 2013, FULL STORY

The U.S. Recovery Has Been Spectacular*

We need a real recovery. That's what Mitt Romney said during the campaign, and he was right. Five years since the start of the Great Recession, unemployment is still far too high. It's not for a lack of optimism among policymakers. As Evan Soltas pointed out, the Federal Reserve keeps predicting that prosperity is just around the corner, only to find it's not. Catchup growth is the new Godot. FULL STORY *Compared to almost every other rich country and almost every other financial crisis.

Fiscal cliff would drive the U.S. economy back into recession.

Fiscal cliff would drive the U.S. economy back into recession before end of 2013, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office said. Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that the most harmful consequences of the fiscal cliff, a fully armed and operational fiscal cliff would cost us 3.4 million jobs. Obama Fiscal Cliff Deal Risks Brush With Recession

Second woman in the expanding Petraeus scandal revealed

The fallout from Gen. David Petraeus's abrupt resignation Friday, appears to be just getting started. I’m sure he thought stepping down after the FBI opened an investigation into his extramarital affair weeks ago was “the honorable thing to do,” but it has awakened the beast. That beast is public scrutiny, and now the identity of the second woman in the “triangle scandal” that set his swift career demise in motion has been revealed. FULL STORY

Barack Obama wins election for second term as president

President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio. FULL STORY

'The Hunger Games' Catch Fire

From Deadline Hollywood...

Lionsgate just revised upwards its worldwide total to a massive $214.25 million for The Hunger Games which was projected to be the No. 1 title in virtually every single market globally...

Source: www.deadline.com
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Publisher and Author Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet publisher and blogger, died early this morning at age 43. A statement posted on his website said that Breitbart died "unexpectedly from natural causes" this morning...
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Source: http://abcnews.go.com

Eli Manning, New York Giants beat 49ers 20-17 in overtime

Eli Manning directed one short, final drive and Tynes kicked a game-winning 31-yard field goal in overtime..

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

North Korea Rally Introduces Era of Kim Jong-un

A crowd of tens of thousands mourned Mr. Kim’s father and declared allegiance to the dynastic transfer of power...

Source: www.nytimes.com