26 October 2012 Last updated at 15:36 ETContinue reading the main story Shares in Trinity Mirror slid 16% on Friday as the media group’s newspapers face allegations of phone hacking.Ex-England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is among four people taking legal action against the group’s print business, Mirror Group Newspapers.The claims...
Amnesty Int: Ivory Coast torturing detainees
Label: World ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast security officials are torturing dozens of detainees by administering electric shocks and other forms of abuse, Amnesty International alleged Friday.The victims include people charged with endangering state security in the wake of a recent spate of attacks targeting military installations. Since early August, unknown gunmen have...
Star Silicon Valley analyst felled by Facebook IPO fallout
Label: Technology SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The firing of Citigroup stock analyst Mark Mahaney on Friday in the regulatory fallout from Facebook Inc’s initial public offering was greeted with shock and dismay in Silicon Valley, where Mahaney was a well-known and well-liked figure.“Pretty shocked,” was the reaction of Jacob Funds Chief Executive Ryan Jacob, who described Mahaney as one...
Rolling Stones play $20 surprise gig in Paris
Label: Lifestyle PARIS (Reuters) – The Rolling Stones performed an energetic warm-up gig in Paris on Thursday for a few hundred fans after announcing on Twitter that tickets would go on sale for 15 euros ($ 19.45) just hours in advance.“I can’t believe we’re all still standing up, you’d think by now one or two of us would be sitting down, but we’re not,” lead singer Mick Jagger, 69,...
Trans fats raise cholesterol, not blood sugar
Label: Health NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although trans fats raise your levels of “bad” cholesterol, they don’t appear to have lasting impacts on your blood sugar, according to a new review of the medical evidence.Researchers found that both blood sugar and insulin, the hormone that keeps blood sugar levels in check, were similar regardless of how much trans fat people ate. The...
Justin Timberlake apologizes for “distasteful” homeless video
Label: Lifestyle LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Singer Justin Timberlake apologized on Friday for what he called a “distasteful” video that features homeless people in Los Angeles congratulating him and new wife Jessica Biel on their wedding.The video was made by a friend of Timberlake’s and intended as a humorous gift for the couple’s lavish wedding in Italy last week. The joke backfired...
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Katy Perry wears her ballot at Obama rally
Label: Lifestyle LAS VEGAS (AP) — Katy Perry‘s doing her best get-out-the vote effort: At a rally for President Barack Obama, she wore a tight white dress imprinted like a ballot, and a square box on her right hip filled in the names of Obama and Joe Biden.Perry gave a free concert at a park in a historically minority neighborhood just northwest of downtown Las Vegas to screaming fans...
Tax gains lift Merck, but sales disappoint
Label: Health (Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc reported a higher-than-expected third-quarter profit, as a favorable tax rate and lower merger costs helped offset plunging sales of its former flagship product, Singulair, an asthma drug that began facing cheaper generics in August.But overall company sales came in slightly below Wall Street expectations, as Singulair’s decline outpaced...
Oil rebounds to over $86 a barrel on US growth
Label: Business Faster-than-expected economic growth in the United States helped the price of oil reverse early losses on Friday and climb back above $ 86 a barrel.By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for December delivery was up 22 cents to $ 86.27 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 32 cents to finish at $ 86.05 a barrel...
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