ROME — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that the United States would provide food rations and medical supplies to the Free Syrian Army, the military wing of the opposition that is fighting to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The assistance represents the first time that the United States has publicly committed itself to sending nonlethal support for armed factions that...
HP sells webOS operating system to LG Electronics
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it will sell the webOS operating system to South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc, unloading the smartphone software it acquired through a $ 1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010.LG will use the operating software, used in now-defunct Palm smartphones years ago, for its “smart” or Internet-connected TVs. The Asian electronics company had worked...
Feb
27
Josh Brolin and Diane Lane's Split Was 'Mutual,' Says James Brolin
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 02/27/2013 at 12:30 PM EST James Brolin said his son Josh is doing fine in the wake of his impending divorce from Diane Lane, calling their split "mutual."Brolin – who accompanied wife Barbra Streisand as she performed at the Oscars Sunday night – said his son, 45, was watching the Academy...
Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital
Label: HealthBOSTON (AP) — A Vermont nurse disfigured in a 2007 lye attack has received a new face at a Boston hospital.Carmen Blandin Tarleton's full facial transplant at Brigham & Women's Hospital included transplanting a female donor's facial skin to Tarleton's neck, nose and lips, along with facial muscles, arteries and nerves.Hospital officials say the 44-year-old Thetford, Vt., woman suffered burns on...
S&P 500 rises more than 1 percent
Label: BusinessLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, was briefly hospitalized due to her bipolar disorder, the actress' spokeswoman said on Tuesday after video emerged of Fisher giving an unusual stage performance. The video came from a show Fisher gave aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean last week, according to celebrity website TMZ, which posted...
News Analysis: Now Gathering in Rome, a Conclave of Fallible Cardinals
Label: WorldDmitry Lovetsky/Associated PressSt. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday. Roman Catholic cardinals were gathering at the Vatican amid scandal to choose a new pope. The sudden resignation of the most senior Roman Catholic cardinal in Britain, who stepped aside on Monday in the face of accusations that he made unwanted sexual advances toward priests years ago, showed that the taint of scandal could force a cardinal...
HP sells webOS operating system to LG Electronics
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it will sell the webOS operating system to South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc, unloading the smartphone software it acquired through a $ 1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010.LG will use the operating software, used in now-defunct Palm smartphones years ago, for its “smart” or Internet-connected TVs. The Asian electronics company had worked...
Feb
26
Ben Affleck Finally Comes Clean - and Shaves His Beard!
Label: Lifestyle 02/26/2013 at 12:40 PM EST Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck David Livingston/Getty And what did Ben Affleck do after his Argo won Best Picture on Sunday night? He took it all off – his facial hair, that is.A friend of the actor-filmmaker's confirms to PEOPLE that following the Oscars ceremony...
C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general.Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the best known and most influential person to carry that title. Koop, a 6-foot-1 evangelical Presbyterian with a biblical prophet's beard, donned a public health uniform...
Dow, S&P rise as Bernanke defends policy, warns on cuts
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks mostly rose on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed's bond-buying stimulus before Congress, but warned forced spending cuts that could be triggered this week represented a headwind for the economy. Gains in homebuilders and other consumer stocks, following strong economic data, kept the S&P 500 nearly unchanged, while a 5...
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