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Conservations wait as time is ripe for pandas to breed
The clock is ticking, and the heat is on. A giant male panda loaned to Britain by China has just 36 hours to make his move on his female companion or he’ll have to wait another year. Conservationists at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland put Yang Guang together in the same…
Obama calls Ryan budget ‘thinly-veiled social Darwinism’
A gladiatorial President Barack Obama on Tuesday accused Republicans of plotting “social Darwinism” and hammered out the economic vision on which he will build his bid for a second White House term. Obama, apparently bristling to start mixing it with his Republican foe ahead of November’s election, made an impassioned…
Saudi man blows $136,000 on bottle of champagne from 1990
A Saudi millionaire splurged $136,000 on a bottle of champagne at Dubai’s glitzy Cavalli club over the weekend, a UAE newspaper reported on Tuesday. “The Saudi Arabian and his friends guzzled” a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal in the early hours of Saturday morning, the 7DAYS newspaper said, citing the…
Facebook countersues Yahoo! over patent claims
Facebook on Tuesday fired back at Yahoo! with a countersuit charging that the floundering Internet pioneer is violating the social network’s patents — and not the other way around. The move came after Yahoo! filed suit against Facebook in a California court last month accusing the social networking giant of…
Study: women who ate broccoli more likely to survive breast cancer
Chinese women who ate cabbage, broccoli and leafy greens saw improved survival rates after breast cancer than women who did not eat these cruciferous vegetables, said a US study presented on Tuesday. The findings came from data on 4,886 Chinese breast cancer survivors age 20-75 who were diagnosed with stage…
Investor group to buy Philadelphia Inquirer for $50 million
A group of investors has agreed to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and related media assets for $55 million — less than half the price paid at a 2010 bankruptcy auction. The deal announced Monday for Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of The Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, is…
Oikos University shooter chose his victims, shot them execution style
A Korean-American former student at a California religious college lined up his victims and shot them them execution-style, police said Tuesday. Police were holding the suspect in the fatal shootings of seven people Monday at Oikos University in Oakland which stunned the tightly knit Korean American community in the area.…
Syrian troops enter rebel areas despite ceasefire pledge
Fierce clashes erupted on Tuesday as Syria’s regime sent reinforcements into rebel areas despite a truce pledge, and the UN said it was rushing a team to Damascus to pave the way for peace monitors. The surge in violence killed at least 38 people, including 25 civilians, mostly in north…
MIT project aims to bring household robots to all
Imagine going to a local store, picking out a design for a robot to help with some household chores, and having the device built within a matter of hours. That is the vision of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a five-year, $10 million project to bring the…
Cheney released from hospital after heart transplant surgery
Former US vice president Dick Cheney was released Tuesday from a Virginia hospital 10 days after heart transplant surgery, his spokeswoman said. The heart transplant March 25 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, was the latest in a series of operations and interventions for Cheney, who has had…
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