Pole gets 30 years for killing 6 on Channel Island

affiliate marketing LONDON (AP) — A Polish builder who killed six people, including his wife and children, on the British Channel Island of Jersey has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Damian Rzeszowski, 31, carried out the knife attack in August 2011 at his home. He was said to have become depressed after his wife admitted to an...

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Panasonic may curb solar panel, lithium battery expansion: sources

TOKYO (Reuters) - Electronics conglomerate Panasonic Corp may curtail its expanded production of solar panels and small lithium batteries used in PCs and other devices as part of new round of restructuring, two sources at the company told Reuters. Panasonic recently built a solar panel plant in Malaysia for 45 billion yen ($564 million), upping capacity by one-third to 900 megawatts....

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Rolling Stones memorabilia auctioned after divorce

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – An assortment of Rolling Stones memorabilia and artwork provided by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and his ex-wife was sold in a two-day auction, Julien’s Auctions said on Sunday.The collection featured memorabilia spanning four decades from the guitarist’s work with the band, and included...

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Meningitis outbreak spreads to 19 states with case in Rhode Island

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Superstorm Sandy clobbers New York City

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline and hurled a record-breaking 13-foot (4-meter) surge of seawater at New York City on Monday, roaring ashore and putting the presidential campaign on hold a week before Election Day. At least 10 deaths were blamed on the storm.Sandy knocked out power to at least 5.2 million people across the U.S. East, and New York's main utility...

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Ukraine’s opposition doing well in election

affiliate marketing KIEV, Ukraine (AP) —Ukraine’s opposition parties performed strongly in Sunday’s parliamentary vote, according to an exit poll, but President Viktor Yanukovych‘s party could still retain control of the legislature as its members are likely to sweep individual races across the country. affiliate...

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SAP eyes "long" period of high sales growth: report

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“Argo” rises above “Cloud Atlas” as Sandy spooks

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Acclaimed Iran hostage thriller “Argo” brought home its first box-office win over a quiet weekend, leading movie charts with $ 12.4 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales as would-be moviegoers hunkered down for Hurricane Sandy.

The tally for “Argo,” directed by and starring Ben Affleck, topped the $ 9.4 million for new sci-fi drama “Cloud Atlas“. Halloween-themed animated film “Hotel Transylvania” scared up $ 9.5 million from Friday through Sunday, narrowly edging “Cloud Atlas“, studio estimates showed.

After two weeks in the No. 2 spot, “Argo” moved into the lead and lifted its domestic sales to $ 60.8 million through three weekends.

The movie, produced by Warner Bros. and GK Films for $ 44 million, tells the story of a mission to rescue U.S. government employees from Iran in 1979. The film has earned Oscar buzz after stellar reviews from critics and an “A+” grade from audiences polled by CinemaScore.

Dan Fellman, president of theatrical distribution for Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc, attributed the film’s jump to “great word-of-mouth”, which he called “the best form of advertising”.

“Cloud Atlas“, also from Warner Bros., fell short of industry forecasts for a $ 13 million debut at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters. Fellman said the film did better in larger cities, but struggled in the South and Midwest.

The film, starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, cost $ 100 million to make. Many in Hollywood thought the story, based on a philosophical novel by David Mitchell, was too complex to bring to the big screen.

The nearly three-hour film with six interweaving stories divided critics, with the harshest reviewers saying it would try audiences’ patience with multiple storylines and century-hopping plots. The film’s stars also shift characters. Hanks, for example, is a shady doctor in the 1840s, a nuclear scientist in the 1970s and a simple valley-dweller in the distant future.

But “Cloud Atlas” also drew praise as an ambitious and well-acted epic. Sixty-one percent of reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes website recommended the film.

“Hotel Transylvania” set a record for a September film opening in North America when it opened on September 28, and has performed solidly since then.

In the family comedy, Frankenstein, the Invisible Man and other monsters gather for a party at a high-end resort operated by Dracula. Their celebration is disrupted when a boy discovers the hotel and falls in love with Dracula’s daughter but must deal with her overprotective father.

The president of worldwide distribution for Sony Corp‘s Sony Pictures studio, Rory Bruer, wasn’t entirely surprised that the weeks-old movie beat “Cloud Atlas“, despite the latter movie’s buzz.

“Anything at this point doesn’t surprise me,” Bruer said. “It’s like an annuity that keeps on giving and giving.”

Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst at Hollywood.com, said the Halloween weekend gave the film a boost, and is “still the number one choice for families” among the spooky seasonal films currently playing.

This weekend was fairly quiet at the box office in North America, which Dergarabedian attributed to Hurricane Sandy, a storm menacing the East Coast of the United States.

However, the new James Bond movie “Skyfall” whipped up a storm of its own overseas, taking $ 77.7 million in 25 countries. The latest installment of the British spy saga took the top spot in all 25 countries, broke the all-time Saturday attendance record in the United Kingdom, and was the biggest film opening there of 2012. It will open in the United States on November 9.

Rounding out the weekend’s top five, low-budget horror sequel “Paranormal Activity 4″ grossed $ 8.7 million at domestic theaters. “Silent Hill: Revelation 3D” and “Taken 2″ tied for fifth place, each pulling in $ 8 million.

Two other new films failed to crack the top five.

New Halloween-themed comedy “Fun Size” brought in $ 4.1 million at domestic theaters, landing in tenth place. The $ 14 million production tells the story of a boy who goes missing among trick-or-treaters, sparking his teen sister’s frantic search to find him before her mother comes home.

Sports drama “Chasing Mavericks” disappointed, failing to break the top ten. The movie stars Gerard Butler in the story of a surfer who tries to conquer one of the biggest waves on Earth.

“Silent Hill: Revelation 3D” was released by Open Road Films, a joint venture between theater owners Regal Entertainment Group and AMC Entertainment Inc. Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc, released “Fun Size” and “Paranormal Activity 4″.

“Chasing Mavericks” was distributed by News Corp’s 20th Century Fox studio. Sony Corp’s movie division released “Hotel Transylvania“.

(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Andrea Burzynski; Editing by Will Dunham and Dale Hudson)

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U.S. regulator needs new authority over compounding pharmacies: report

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration‘s power to regulate compounded drugs similar to those linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak is legally nonbinding and lacks the authority of stringent standards imposed on drug manufacturers, according to a congressional report released on Sunday.The report,...

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Sandy: East Coast braces for epic hurricane, ‘life-threatening’ storm surge

Waves crash into a pier in Nags Head, N.C., Oct. 27, 2012. (Gerry Broome/AP)[UPDATED: 8:00 p.m. ET]"Superstorm." "The Perfect Storm." "Frankenstorm."Whatever you want to call it, the East Coast is bracing for Hurricane Sandy, a "rare hybrid storm" that is expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge to the mid-Atlantic coast, Long Island Sound and New York harbor, forecasters say, with winds expected...

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