France Sends Troops to Mali to Help Counter Islamist Advance

Romaric Hien/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFighters of the hard-line Salafi group Ansar Dine in August. The group has controlled Timbuktu and much of northern Mali since a coup d’état and a successful revolt against the central authority in March. BAMAKO, Mali — France sent armed forces into combat in Mali on Friday, answering an urgent plea from the government of its former colony in West Africa...

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Video game retail sales continued to slide in December, down 22% from 2011

Title Post: Video game retail sales continued to slide in December, down 22% from 2011Url Post: http://www.news.fluser.com/video-game-retail-sales-continued-to-slide-in-december-down-22-from-2011/Link To Post : Video game retail sales continued to slide in December, down 22% from 2011Rating: 100%based on 99998 ratings.5 user reviews.Author: Fluser SeoLinkThanks for visiting the blog, If any criticism...

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Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult Split: Report

01/11/2013 at 02:40 PM EST Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult Gregg DeGuire/Wireimage; Landov Will Jennifer Lawrence be flying solo this awards season?The Silver Linings Playbook star, 22, has split from her longtime boyfriend, British actor Nicholas Hoult,...

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China's one-child law: Less competitive adults?

BEIJING (AP) — They're called "little emperors" — the children born in China under a law that generally limits urban families to having just one child.They grow up as the sole focus of doting parents. How does this affect them? What does it mean to Chinese society if generations of kids are raised this way?Concerns about the "only child" practice in China have been expressed before. Now researchers...

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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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