Google's Android software in 3 out of 4 smartphones

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Full house in Toon Town: Oscars get 21 animated submissions

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Frankenweenie” and “Hotel Transylvania” are among the 21 animated films submitted for the 2013 Oscars, the Academy announced on Friday.The record number of submissions all but guarantees that the category will have a full slate of five nominees for only the fourth time in...

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Nurses Who Saved NICU Babies Remember Harrowing Hurricane Night

affiliate marketing Nurses at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at New York University’s Langone Medical Center have challenging jobs, even in the best of times. Their patients are babies, some weighing as little as 2 pounds, who require constant and careful care as they struggle to stay alive.On Monday night, as superstorm Sandy bore...

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Romney, Obama look for edge as campaign nears end

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Three days. Nine states — give or take. A magic 270 electoral votes. For President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney, the final touch-and-go stretch of campaigning is down to the numbers.New hiring reports or a new jobless rate. Spending totals or early vote totals. Percentage points and rhetorical points. Frequency of stops or size of crowds. In a game of metrics, each camp...

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Gruesome video raises concerns about Syria rebels

affiliate marketing BEIRUT (AP) — A video that appears to show a unit of Syrian rebels kicking terrified, captured soldiers and then executing them with machine guns raised concerns Friday about rebel brutality at a time when the United States is making its strongest push yet to forge an opposition movement it can work with.U.N. officials...

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Google's Android software in 3 out of 4 smartphones

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Photojournalists “Witness” war zones in new HBO series

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some people liken a bad day at work to being in a war zone but for the photojournalists chronicled in HBO’s upcoming documentary series “Witness,” that’s not an exaggeration.The series, which premieres on November 5 and will air every Monday for the rest of the month, follows photojournalists...

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Factbox: Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, is pursuing the White House for the second time.Here are key facts about him. affiliate marketing - Romney, 65, espouses traditional Republican positions to cut taxes,...

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Bloomberg cancels marathon amid outcry

Eric Gordon will be out 4-6 weeks with a knee injury reports Yahoo! Sports' @SpearsNBAyahoo --> http://t.co/JXGOW...

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Canada will push to keep bank capital rules on schedule

affiliate marketing OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will urge all countries to stick to the agreed schedule for implementing tougher bank capital rules at a November 4-5 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 nations, a senior finance ministry official said on Thursday.The so-called Basel III rules are the world’s...

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Apple rolls out iPad mini in Sydney to shorter lines

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Cablevision says Sandy outage hit half of its customers

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp said on Thursday about half of its 3.3 million customers in the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey area had lost power in the wake of superstorm Sandy, causing widespread disruptions to its service.Cablevision said in a statement that 1.6 million of its...

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UK cost agency backs melanoma drugs after price cuts

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – Two new drugs for skin cancer have been recommended for use on Britain’s state-run health service after the rival manufacturers – Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb – agreed to cut their prices.The move underscores the growing pressure on drug companies to cut deals with austerity-hit European governments...

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Fuel scarce as East Coast struggles to recover

NEW YORK/SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (Reuters) - Rescuers searched flooded homes for survivors, drivers lined up for hours to get scarce gasoline and millions remained without power on Thursday as New York City and nearby towns struggled to recover from one of the biggest storms to hit the United States. New York subway trains crawled back to limited service after being shut down since...

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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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