Wall Street climbs on China data; S&P nears resistance

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks climbed on Thursday on optimism about global growth spurred by stronger-than-expected exports in China, the world's second-biggest economy, and the S&P 500 hovered around a five-year high. Financial and energy stocks were the day's top gainers in afternoon trading. The financial sector index <.gspf> rose 1 percent and the energy sector <.gspe>...

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Two Separate Bombs Kill 32 in Pakistan

Waheed Khan/European Pressphoto AgencyA bomb in Quetta, Pakistan, on Thursday killed 11 people and wounded 27 others. PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) — Bomb blasts in two Pakistani cities on Thursday killed 32 people and injured more than 100, police and hospital officials said. A bomb in Quetta, the capital of the western province of Balochistan, killed 11 people and injured more than 40, police...

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Can Social Media Help You Lose Weight?

At the start of the New Year, when weight loss is often a priority, building a support team to help keep us on track can be extremely helpful. This might typically consist of family members, friends, co-workers, or perhaps even a nutritionist or registered dietitian. But today, support can also be found online. Plenty of Web sites focus on losing weight, and include communities that provide support...

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Dennis Tyler Finds Homes for More Than 7,000 Retired Greyhounds

Heroes Among Us By Emily Evans and Kristen Mascia 01/10/2013 at 02:05 PM EST Dennis Tyler and his greyhounds Jeffery Salter Dennis Tyler never expected to fall in love.But after he took in a former racing greyhound named Clara Voyant in 1991, Tyler soon...

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Retooling Pap test to spot more kinds of cancer

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, doctors have lamented that there's no Pap test for deadly ovarian cancer. Wednesday, scientists reported a tantalizing hint that one day, there might be.Researchers are trying to retool the Pap, a test for cervical cancer that millions of women get, so that it could spot early signs of other gynecologic cancers, too.How? It turns out that cells can flake off of tumors...

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Wall Street up after Alcoa earnings news

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday as Alcoa's better-than-expected revenue and a positive outlook boosted investor confidence ahead of an earnings season expected to show lackluster results. The session's rise was the first of the week after the market retreated from the S&P 500's highest point in five years, hit last Friday. Worries about a weak earnings season kept the...

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Iranian Captives Freed in Major Prisoner Exchange in Syria

ISTANBUL — More than 2,000 prisoners incarcerated by the Syrian authorities were being released on Wednesday in return for 48 Iranians freed by rebels after five months in captivity in what appeared to be the biggest prisoner swap since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began almost two years ago. The exchange, brokered by Turkey and Qatar, came days after Mr. Assad warned on...

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Nintendo president describes Wii U sales as ‘not bad’

Nintendo’s (NTDOY) new Wii U gaming console came out of the gate strong and saw first-week sales reach 400,000 units in the U.S., however sales have since stalled and the system has been labeled a flop by some. While consumer interest in the company’s new console has slowed right out of the gate, Nintendo’s president recently said that he isn’t worried even though sales aren’t where he hoped...

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Mark Wahlberg Does Weather and Traffic Reports in Philadelphia

TV Watch 01/09/2013 at 02:30 PM EST The weather is nice and mild in Philadelphia but things got pretty rowdy inside the weather room at local news station Fox 29's Good Day Philadelphia on Wednesday. Mark Wahlberg and his Broken City director, Allen Hughes, took over the forecasting duties for weather anchor...

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Report: Death rates from cancer still inching down

WASHINGTON (AP) — Death rates from cancer are continuing to inch down, researchers reported Monday.Now the question is how to hold onto those gains, and do even better, even as the population gets older and fatter, both risks for developing cancer."There has been clear progress," said Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society, which compiled the annual cancer report with government and cancer...

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