BEIJING (Reuters) – China‘s ruling Communist Party will this month unveil its new top leadership team, expected to again be an all-male cast of politicians whose instincts are to move cautiously on reform.Sources close to the leadership say 10 main candidates are vying for seven seats on the party’s next Politburo Standing Committee, the peak decision-making...
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The app’s the thing as Shakespeare goes digital
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TORONTO (Reuters) – William Shakespeare‘s plays are getting a 21st century-style makeover in the form of new apps for tablets and smart phones nearly 500 years after the Bard took pen to parchment.Plays such as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Macbeth” spring to life in iPad apps released by Cambridge University Press, which pairs the texts with audio performances,...
Sharon Osbourne has double mastectomy
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LONDON (AP) — Sharon Osbourne says she had a double mastectomy after learning she carries a gene that increases the risk of developing breast cancer.Osbourne told Hello! magazine that “I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with that shadow hanging over me.”
The 60-year-old “America’s Got Talent” judge, who had colon...
Dog Tumors May Give Clues for Human Breast Cancer
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Luke Robinson never liked dogs much until an ex-girlfriend offered him a puppy while he was living in San Antonio, Texas. The Great Pyrenees he named Malcolm changed all that.“It was the first dog of my adult life,” said Robinson, 41. “He was my companion, my mate.”
But at the age of 6, Malcolm was diagnosed with bone...
UK service sector growth ‘slows’
Label: Business
5 November 2012 Last updated at 05:56 ETActivity in the UK service sector grew at its slowest pace in almost two years in October, a survey has suggested.
The PMI services index from Markit/CIPS fell to 50.6 from 52.2 in September. Any score above 50 indicates growth.Growth in new business eased, while employment in...
Nov
04
Red Cross’ App Helps Sandy Victims
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App Name: Hurricane by The American Red CrossPrice: Free
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Available Platforms: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, (requires iOS 4.2 or later), and AndroidWhat does this app do? Millions remained without power and the death toll in New York City topped...
AnnaLynne McCord to get “Scorned” With Billy Zane in new thriller
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – AnnaLynne McCord is about to become a woman “Scorned.”“90210″ star McCord has signed on for the revenge thriller “Scorned,” alongside “Titanic” star Billy Zane and Viva Bianca from Starz’s “Spartacus.”
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McCord and...
Anorexic Bakes to Gain Control Over Food
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Camilla Kuhns of Kirkland, Wash., makes the best cookies in the world. Ask anyone but her.Kuhns is a 29-year-old anorexic with a penchant for baking. She has never tasted one of her own confections. Her younger brother, Seth, samples dough and final products to let her know if anything is off, and her mother, Ilene,...
Comet gift vouchers are suspended
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4 November 2012 Last updated at 04:33 ET
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Comet customer: “It looks like a plague of locusts have been inside [the store] and cleaned the place out”
The administrators of the electrical retailer Comet have suspended the use of gift vouchers at the stores.
The shops have been open as usual over the weekend since administrators were called in on Friday.
The Comet website has returned in a slimmed down form, confirming store locations and answering questions about the administration.
There has been no sign of heavy discounting so far, but the website said a sale would be starting soon.
On the question of gift vouchers, it said: “The administrators are currently considering the position in relation to gift cards and gift vouchers and at this stage they cannot be used to pay for items.
“The administrators are reviewing this position urgently.”
Holders of gift vouchers would usually be considered as low priority creditors to a retailer going into administration, and would be unlikely to be able to use their vouchers.
The exception is when a chain is sold to new owners, who might decide to accept them as an act of goodwill to prevent the brand they have bought being tarnished.
The new website explained on its front page that administrators from Deloitte had been appointed.
Its question and answer section said that people who were waiting for items to be delivered that they had paid for would only be receiving those items if they were already in stock at a delivery centre.
“Where the item for an existing order is not currently in stock, this delivery cannot now be made,” it said.
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Brazil’s ‘pop-star priest’ gets mammoth new stage
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil‘s “pop-star priest” is already packing in the crowds at the newly opened mammoth sanctuary that he built for his campaign to stem the exodus of faithful from the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America’s biggest nation.Brazil still has more Catholics than any other country in the world, with...
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