Clinton calls for overhaul of Syrian opposition

affiliate marketing ZAGREB (Reuters) – The United States called on Wednesday for an overhaul of Syria‘s opposition leadership, saying it was time to move beyond the Syrian National Council and bring in those “in the front lines fighting and dying”.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signaling a more active stance by Washington in attempts...

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Apple's Cook fields his A-team before a wary Wall Street

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's new go-to management team of mostly familiar faces failed to drum up much excitement on Wall Street, driving its shares to a three-month low on Wednesday. The world's most valuable technology company, which had faced questions about a visionary-leadership vacuum following the death of Steve Jobs, on Monday stunned investors by announcing...

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Broadway lights go up in post-Sandy NYC

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (AP) — The lights went up again on Broadway Wednesday for the first time since Hurricane Sandy hit New York, as entertainers headed back to work in a city still wracked by power-outages and a suspended subway system.Though some Broadway shows, including Disney’s “Mary Poppins” and “The Lion King” remained...

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Sony, Sharp in turnaround battle; Panasonic battered

affiliate marketing TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp is likely to say it returned to an operating profit for July-September after it sold a chemicals business, but investors still aren’t sure a consumer electronics revamp will deliver the profit growth the group seeks.Sony shares, valued at less than $ 12 billion, have dropped 19 percent...

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Storm leaves death, tears in its wake

Death blew in on the superstorm's wild winds and sea water torrents, claiming 90-year-olds and children with capriciously toppling trees, taking tall-ship adventurers in mountainous Atlantic waves and average folks just trying to deal with a freakish snowstorm. It felled both heroes rushing into harm's way and, ironically, people simply following advice to play it safe at home.At least 72 died as...

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Hurricane’s death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean

affiliate marketing PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering.Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti, which was pelted by three days of constant rains that ended only on Friday. affiliate...

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Apple's iPad mini packs full-sized punch but screen inferior: reviews

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's entry in the accelerating mobile tablet race squeezes about 35 percent more viewing space onto a lighter package than rival devices from Google or Amazon.com Inc, but it sports inferior resolution and a lofty price tag, two influential reviewers wrote on Tuesday. The iPad mini, which starts at $329 versus the $199 for Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's...

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‘Homeland’ hits series high, Showtime sets record

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES, Oct 30 (TheWrap.com) – Showtime‘s “Homeland” hit a series high with its Sunday episode — and it helped to deliver a first-time honor for the network, Showtime said Tuesday.With “Dexter,” in its seventh season, inching up 5 percent from last week to score 2.28 million total viewers, Sunday marked the first...

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Top medical innovations address headache, diabetes, cancer

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – The best medical innovations for next year include an almond-size device that’s implanted in the mouth to relieve severe headaches and a hand-held scanner resembling a blow dryer that detects skin cancer, the Cleveland Clinic said on Wednesday.The clinic’s annual list of the best medical innovations for...

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Millions in Northeast struggle after massive storm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The northeastern United States battled epic flood waters and lengthy power outages on Tuesday after the massive storm Sandy pummeled the coast with a record storm surge, high winds and heavy rains that killed at least 45 people and caused billion of dollars in losses. Millions of people in New York City and other hard-hit areas will spend days or weeks recovering...

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