WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Telecom Corp Ltd lowered its earnings guidance for the year and warned of hundreds of job cuts as the country’s biggest telecommunications company struggles to compete on broadband pricing and in its business operations.The top-10 firm warned that ongoing restructuring would result in more job losses down the line and could see full-year adjusted earnings come...
Survivor's Whitney Duncan: From Secret Marriage to Divorce to Engagement!
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch By Patrick Gomez 02/21/2013 at 06:45 PM EST Whitney Duncan and Keith Tollefson Monty Brinton/CBS; Inset: Courtesy Whitney Duncan Country singer and former Survivor contestant Whitney Duncan is engaged – and this time it's not a secret."I'm going to marry...
Flu shot doing poor job of protecting older people
Label: HealthATLANTA (AP) — It turns out this year's flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting older people, the most vulnerable age group.The vaccine is proving only 9 percent effective in those 65 and older against the harsh strain of the flu that is predominant this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.Health officials are baffled as to why this is so. But the...
Wall Street ends lower on growth worries
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a second straight day on Thursday and the S&P 500 posted its worst two-day loss since November after reports cast doubt over the health of the U.S. and euro-zone economies. But a late-day rally helped stocks erase some of their losses with most of the pullback concentrated in the technology- heavy Nasdaq. The move suggested investors were...
15 G.O.P. Senators Ask Obama to Withdraw Hagel Nomination
Label: WorldWASHINGTON — A group of 15 Republican senators insisted on Thursday that President Obama withdraw the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary, the latest move in a contentious battle to block the confirmation of their former colleague. But even as Republican senators tried to throw up another obstacle, Senate Democrats said they were pushing ahead with plans to hold a final...
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Cuban dissident blogger inflames splits in Brazil’s Congress
Label: TechnologyBRASILIA (Reuters) – Cold War politics appeared to take over Brazil‘s Congress on Wednesday during a visit by Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, with leftists heckling her as a pawn of U.S. imperialism and others praising her for standing up to Cuba‘s communist government.Sanchez, Cuba’s best-known dissident, has been followed by boisterous sympathizers of the Cuban government since she arrived in Brazil...
Oscar Preview: Les Mis, Chicago Casts to Sing & Dance
Label: Lifestyle By Stephen M. Silverman 02/20/2013 at 07:00 PM EST From left: Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, in Les Misérables, and Catherine Zeta Jones, in Chicago Universal (2); Miramax Strike up the band, for Sunday night's Oscars promise to be very musical.In the most detailed preview yet of what is...
Scientists use 3-D printing to help grow an ear
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells.The work reported Wednesday is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.It's part of the hot field of tissue regeneration, trying...
Wall Street ends down sharply after Fed minutes
Label: Business(Reuters) - And the Oscar for best pickup line in a movie goes to - Audrey Hepburn in the romantic thriller, "Charade." That's according to the results from women polled by the U.K.-based dating site Badoo.com and released on Wednesday before the Academy Awards on Sunday. "I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for," Hepburn told Cary Grant in the 1963 release, and, 50 years later, women still...
The Lede: Palestinian Filmmaker Describes Detention at Los Angeles Airport
Label: WorldThe trailer for “5 Broken Cameras,” Emad Burnat’s autobiographical film on life in the West Bank.The Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat, who had a hard time convincing immigration officers at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday that his invitation to this weekend’s Academy Awards was real, described his brief detention in a statement on Wednesday. Last night, on my way from Turkey to Los Angeles,...
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