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Activists have raised the number of those reportedly killed by regime forces in a district of central Syria to more than 90.

President Bashar Assad’s forces have killed at least 50 civilians including 13 children in central Syria, activists say, in one of the highest death tolls in one specific area since an internationally brokered cease-fire went into effect last month.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Adam Dunn hit his 15th homer, A.J. Pierzynski and Dayan Viciedo each went deep for the second time in as many nights, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 9-3 on Friday for their seventh win in eight games....

Earlier this week, I showed you how scientists can use a simple, hand-operated tool to collect stratified core samples of mud at the bottom of a swamp. The deeper the samples go down, the older the mud is—until, eventually, you're looking at 6000-year-old muck, the remains of a lake bed that filled in with sediment [...]

Once a shining light on Wall Street, JP Morgan’s impeccable record is stained by a multi-billion pound scandal, while chief executive Jamie Dimon has seen his hopes of becoming US Treasury Secretary shattered.

A Fresno motorcycle cop lassoed a runaway bull that was on the loose Friday in residential neighborhoods and forced the lockdown of two elementary schools. Sightings of the 1,500-pound bull running through the streets of the city took police officers -- and everyone else -- by surprise. "This is not an ordinary occurrence by any stretch," said police Lt. Burke Farrah. "We're a city of a half-m...

Researchers find gene essential to creating sperm in mice, which may pave way for male contraceptive pillHouse Dismantled to Free '700-Pound' Teenager

Amazon has added thousands of more items, ranging from bars of soap to rice cakes, to its site, which were previously considered uneconomical to ship because of the item's size, weight or low price.

Alex Salmond's pledge to keep the Queen and the pound in a separate Scotland has caused a serious rupture in the pro-independence referendum campaign on the eve of its launch today.

Once NASA's Curiosity rover safely touches down inside the Gale crater in August (*crosses fingers*), the real challenge begins. The 2,000-pound, 10-foot long rover will begin searching for traces of a wet Martian past. But first, researchers at the JPL needed to make sure its sampling arm was up to snuff—here's how they did it. [JPL] More »

Raw-sugar futures tumbled to fresh 20-month lows, breaking the 20 cents a pound level for the first time since September 2010.

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Punch Taverns, Britain's second-largest leased pub group, is trying to win shareholder support for a restructuring of its 2.3 billion pound ($3.6 billion) debt, banking...

The six-hour workout with the Navy Seals included 1,000 push-ups, 1,000 sit-ups, 1,000 jumping jacks, three miles of rowing, lifting a 250-pound log with seven teammates and carrying it the length of a football field, and a run up a mountain. Read full article >>

Romelu Lukaku becomes the second multi-million pound Chelsea striker to publicly complain about his treatment.Related StoriesChelsea fans line the streets for victory parade to celebrate the club's historic Champions League and FA Cup doubleChelsea striker Romelu Lukaku vows to 'never forgive' former manager Andre Villas-BoasGerman media blast Chelsea's Champions League victory over Bayern Muni...

The timer had started running 30 minutes ago. I was sweating from the exertion of rigging up a 500-pound tool string with my crew and the nervousness of being responsible of running a $2 million exploration job in an offshore oil platform in Africa.

Solange du mir diese Videos nicht zeigst, glaub ich dir erst mal kein Wort. Deine Aussage war ja auch, dass abfangende Flugzeuge nicht getroffen hätten. Ja, die Falschaussage war ein Fehler und gründet auf meinem eigenen Irrtum und nicht auf der Quelle; ich schrieb Kampfjäger anstatt Flugabwehr, welche die 1400 x 12.8-pound Flugabwehr-Geschosse im Sperrfeuer abgaben und trotzdem nichts runter h...

Odey Asset Management, the $7bn (£4.4bn) hedge fund run by Crispin Odey, has taken a multi-million pound stake in Buddi, the personal tagging firm led by Sara Murray.

Described as a strong 250-pound man, John Truesdale is the 40-year-old John Doe #2 accusing John Travolta of naughty, naughty things on the massage table. Now represented by Gloria Allred, Truesdale refuses to let anything slip about the case, but Gloria says : I can confirm that we do represent Mr. Truesdale, and that we have [...]

He’s the devilishly handsome actor who shot to fame playing the lead in the BBC’s multi-million pound hit series Robin Hood six years ago.

ALONG THE GUNFLINT TRAIL, Minn. -- If moose disappear from the boreal forest of northern Minnesota, as some biologists predict, they will not exit with a thunderous crash. Climate extinctions come quietly, even when they involve 1,000-pound herbivores. [More]

Rumors abound of a 30 million pound switch to the newly crowned Premier League champions, but the striker insists he is happy in Spain

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Roy Hibbert had 19 points and 18 rebounds, George Hill scored 20 and Danny Granger 17 as the Indiana Pacers, showing more balance, toughness and togetherness than Miami, throttled the Heat 94-75 on Thursday night in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals....

It took two medical vans and five EMTs, but 23-year-old Robert Gibbs made it from Northern California to the Los Angeles set of The Dr

The Qzina Institute of Chocolate & Pastry in California announced it broke the world record for the largest chocolate sculpture by recreating a Mexican pyramid. The sculpture of the Kukulkan pyramid in Chichen Itza, created by corporate chef Francois Mellet, measures 6 feet high and 12 feet by 12 feet at its base. Guinness World Records confirmed the 18,239.5-pound sculpture beat the previo...

Attention Hulu and Netflix: It's not TV, it's the Internet. Original programming needs to take more chances

The strengthening pound means holidays abroad are becoming more affordable. Eurozone countries provide good value this summer, as do Mexico, Turkey and Croatia thanks to the exchange rate.

Someone travelling to Rio in Brazil will get 24.5 per cent more this year, which equates to an extra £86 for every £500 that is converted to the local currency, the real.

Muhammad Shahid Nazir has notched up over a million YouTube hits after performing his 'one pound fish' song at Queen's market in east London.

Dalai Lama on Monday received the prestigious 1.1 million pound Templeton Prize in London and announced that most of the prize money will go to 'Save the Children' fund in India.

Dalai Lama on Monday received the prestigious 1.1 million pound Templeton Prize in London and announced that most of the prize money will go to 'Save the Children' fund in India.

Der ehemalige WADA-Präsident Richard Pound hat die Neubewertung des Erfurter Doping-Falles durch die Welt-Anti-Doping-Agentur scharf kritisiert.

Spirit Airlines has scrimped its way to become, pound for pound, the most profitable airline in the U.S., helping reshape budget air travel by charging for everything from boarding passes to drinking water.

Las Vegas judge rules animal control can euthanize a 120-pound dog that fatally mauled a 1-year-old boy.

HUNDREDS of stores expected to close after chain revealed it is unable to repay multi-million pound loan debt to biggest supplier American Greetings

The pound is about 7pc stronger against the euro than this time last year, but it has strengthened even more against some other currencies.

Leading bureaux de change are selling euros at a rate of 1.20 to the pound for the first time in three and a half years.

Greek shares fall nearly 8% at the open while French market is also down• Euro tumbles on election results• Mediterranean bond yieds, credit default swaps rise10.07am: The euro has tumbled this morning, hitting a three-month low against the dollar, at 3 1/2 year low against the pound and a 2 1/2 month trough against the yen.Traders reckon the euro has further to fall in coming ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. used his speed and accuracy to win a unanimous decision Saturday night over a game Miguel Cotto in one of his toughest fights ever.

Un millar de personas se manifiestan y piden el cierre del Casal Tramuntana

Cautions are down and many fans are griping. Their many submissions to my inbox say they want drama. They want action. They want fits of aggression played out with 3,400-pound cars bumping and banging into each other. What they want is NASCAR as a Michael Bay production.

New submitter DerekduPreez writes "Microsoft has revealed that it will increase volume licencing prices in the UK by an average of 29 percent to adjust for the 'sustained currency differences between European countries'. UK businesses have until 1st July to place their orders under the current prices before the changes take effect. Microsoft claims that because of sustained differences between ...

UK oil and gas group agrees to sell majority stake in Brazil’s largest gas distribution company for $1.8bn as it pursues a multibillion pound investment plan

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - Imperial Tobacco, the world's No. 4 cigarette group set a 500 million pound ($812 million) share buyback and said it saw a return to sales growth as the West and Gauloises...

A 150-pound fossil recovered last year in northern Kentucky is puzzling experts, who are trying to determine whether it was an animal, a mineral or a form of plant life from a time when the Cincinnati region was underwater. Scientists say the fossil is 450 million years old. ...

More heavy-handed behavior from the book world's 500-pound gorilla  FORTUNE -- Publishers who have had to deal with Amazon's (AMZN) arrogant reps know first hand the contempt with which they hold folks in the business of printing books on paper. Now that the company is in the media's spotlight following the Justice Department's ass-backwards antitrust suit, the rest of us are getting a taste f...

If you've walked around Capitol Hill recently, you may have heard someone ask: “What are they doing to the big statue up there?” Turns out it’s just scheduled maintenance. The 14,985-pound statue, named Freedom, needs to be cleaned and polished every few years. Read full article >>

Wreck-It Ralph, a 3D computer-animated Disney movie due out Nov. 2, will feature cameos from the gaming world’s most-beloved bad guys. Al…

 She wants to become the fattest person in the world, and NSIDE EDITION follows the 800 pound bride-to-be as she gets fitted for her wedding dress.

Trouble in the eurozone means the pound has been rising against the euro - and that means more for your pound when you travel abroad.

Some health authorities are spending less than a pound a day helping people with arthritis and other joint problems, while others spend three times that, according to a review that has found a postcode lottery of care.

(Reuters) - Heavy rains and snow will soon pound the eastern United States, possibly leading to downed trees, power outages and flight delays as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico moves through the region, meteorologists said on Saturday.

Sen. Scott Brown told an interviewer earlier today that he's given up alcohol and hasn't had anything to drink since New Year's - a resolution he said he plans to keep through Election Day, per the AP: During the interview, Brown called the decision "one of those New Year's things" that he did "on a stupid bet." Brown's campaign office declined to offer additional details about Brown's decis...

The British businessman whose death is at the heart of China's biggest political scandal for decades was attempting to win backing for a multi-million pound property project, according to sources with knowledge of his dealings.

SYRIA troops continue to pound rebel strongholds with deadly fire as the regime claims it honours the ceasefire.

(Phys.org) -- A new multi-million pound camera is producing its first detailed pictures of our neighboring galaxies, revealing vast, dusty stellar nurseries where the next generation of stars is being created. "This exquisite image from the galaxy M66 in the constellation Leo is exactly the promising start we were hoping for," said Dr. Stephen Serjeant, the team's co-leader from The Open Univer...

While Apple, Amazon and competition authorities globally tussle over book pricing, a fleet-of foot startup is quietly building an alternative platform others would do well to check out. txtr is one of the largest independent eBook platforms in Europe. The Berlin based startup began back in 2008, deciding, as one did back then, to bring out an eReading device called the "txtr reader". I actual...

Dozens of tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa overnight and one twister killed at least five people.

KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Tornadoes pummeled Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas on Saturday and severe weather struck a hospital in Iowa as residents of the U.S. Central and Southern Plains states hunkered down for a predicted major outbreak of twisters that could continue into the night.

Manny Pacquiao is considered by many to be the pound for pound number one boxer in the world. What makes him so dangerous is his ability to punch from unorthodox angles, and deliver the blow with great power, from a southpaw stands. Pacquiao is great...

The US dollar edged up against the rupee at Rs 51.14/15 per dollar but the Pound Sterling finished slightly lower at Rs 81.09/11 per pound at the close of the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market (Forex) here today.

Tens of thousands of Syrians demanding an end to the regime took to the streets on Friday under fire from government forces, who pressed their campaign to pound rebel cities into submission, activists said.

DAVID Beckham, Katy Perry, Lionel Messi and Derrick Rose pound the pavements in new Adidas ad

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico authorities have arrested three men found with a 220-pound calf in the backseat of their car....

Ruth Nash, from the Isle of Wight, was pregnant with twins when her waters broke at 22weeks. Sadly she lost her daughter but son Stanley battled on despite weighing just 1lb at birth.

In tranquil border town, civil war being fought in neighboring Syria is never very far away.

LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest defense contractor BAE Systems on Friday said it had won a 446 million pound ($709.58 million) deal to provide engineering support for Eurofighter Typhoon jets,...

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German utilities E.ON and RWE have pulled out of a 15 billion pound ($23.78 billion) plan to build new nuclear power stations in Britain, throwing into doubt the UK government's push for a new fleet of nuclear plants by 2025.

A 300-pound (136-kg) bronze statue of the Lorax, a character from the Dr. Seuss book and hit movie of the same name, has been stolen from the late author's San Diego estate.

Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and strength yielded an amazing material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made from 1 pound of it could carry five kitchen refrigerators, about 1,000 pounds. It is one of the lightest solid substances in the world.

Roy Moore, who defied a federal order to remove a 5,000-pound statue of the holy tablets from his Alabama courthouse, was removed as chief justice in 2003.

The British government may manage to hold off a cut to its triple-A rating, but it may not matter much for the pound.

UFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A 400-pound adult male gorilla escaped his cage at the Buffalo Zoo on Monday, biting a female zookeeper before being tranquilized and captured in what a SWAT team leader called, “the scariest thing I’ve ever done.” Zoo officials said Koga, a 24-year-old silverback gorilla, took advantage of an unlocked door in his living quarters on Monday morning ...

UFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A 400-pound adult male gorilla escaped his cage at the Buffalo Zoo on Monday, biting a female zookeeper before being tranquilized and captured in what a SWAT team leader called, “the scariest thing I’ve ever done.” Zoo officials said Koga, a 24-year-old silverback gorilla, took advantage of an unlocked door in his living quarters on Monday morning ...

UFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A 400-pound adult male gorilla escaped his cage at the Buffalo Zoo on Monday, biting a female zookeeper before being tranquilized and captured in what a SWAT team leader called, “the scariest thing I’ve ever done.” Zoo officials said Koga, a 24-year-old silverback gorilla, took advantage of an unlocked door in his living quarters on Monday morning ...

BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A 400-pound adult male gorilla escaped his cage at the Buffalo Zoo on Monday, biting a female zookeeper before being tranquilized and captured in what a SWAT team leader called, "the scariest thing I've ever done."

Every baker has a favourite to-go-cake in their repertoire. This one is mine, one that I endlesssly play around with, and it never fails to please. This version is naturally orange flavoured with the peel of the orange keenu, a fruit characteristic of winter months in North India. I have made several versions of this ... lime, lime & blueberry, coffee & chocolate chips, orange &am...

Barclays bank chief executive Bob Diamond received nearly £20-million last year even though the bank's profits fell and this has angered trade unions.

From the pound to the podium, two rescue dogs pawed their way to top honours this weekend at Crufts Dog Agility Competitions in Birmingham, England, the largest annual dog show in the world.

(Reuters) - Commodities and mining giant Glencore has made a 3.5 billion pound (US$5.5 billion) approach for Canada's biggest grain handler Viterra, Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper said on its website on Saturday.

Artillery and tanks pound northern opposition stronghold, as UN envoy Kofi Annan meets with Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.

Thanks to the partying and backslapping going on in the antivaccine movement over the reversal of the decision of the British General Medical Council to strike Professor John Walker-Smith off of the medical record, after a brief absence vaccines are back on the agenda of this blog. Antivaccine cranks view the decision as a vindication and exoneration of antivaccine guru Andrew Wakefield even th...

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Syrian forces bombarded parts of the shattered city of Homs on Saturday and for a second day blocked Red Cross aid meant for civilians stranded for weeks without food and fuel in the former rebel stronghold, activists and aid workers said.

The 6-7, 240-pound prospect suffered injury on the next-to-last play against Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl.

MEDICS stitch wounds with thread. Hungry residents risk sniper fire or shelling to hunt for food on the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

A giant 27-pound lobster wont be going into a pot of boiling water. A shrimp fisherman caught the huge crustacean in his nets last week. He named it Rocky, and turned it over to the state Department of Marine Resources. Officials say the big guy will be set free

A row over boardroom pay at EasyJet will come to a head later today as its founder and largest shareholder urges investors to vote down a motion to award its top executives a multi-million pound pay package.

As readers of my blogs may know I have long argued that advances in research and education through cyber-infrastructure (or eInfrastructure) can be largely justified, if not entirely paid for through the energy savings of using clouds, networks or outsourcing. But a big impediment in adopting cyber-infrastructure in most jurisdictions is the lack of financial incentives. The energy savings of...

DAVID Higgins, the Australian-born head of Britain's main railway network, yesterday surrendered a bonus of up to pound stg. 336,000 ($496,000).

by Amit Kumar Singh As an observer's point of view, the world- from a tiny atom to a vast galaxy, seems no less than mystery and apparently can only be comprehended through 'something'that is more mysterious than  mystery itself and when we search for this ‘something’ , nothing seems more reasonable than  our brain- A three pound jelly type structure consisting billions of neurons. There wou...

Activists claim the military carried out a night of shelling on the city of Homs killing 200 people including women and children.

About 20 suspected insurgents have been killed in attacks by Pakistani jets near the Afghan border, officials say.

Britain did not welcome the euro and preferred to keep the good old British pound sterling. However, the country found itself in deep debt, like many of its European partners. Every minute of the EU membership costs London 100,000 pounds. Many Britons pinned their hopes on the Conservatives, but the latter failed to cope with the financial crisis

LONDON (AP) -- Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester will not be accepting a 1 million pound ($1.5 million) bonus that drew criticism from British politicians, the bank said Sunday....

Headline Title:  Olympic commissioner on why she quit over Dow 26 January 2012 When sports fans and athletes arrive in London this summer to celebrate the Olympic Games, the victims of a gas leak disaster that happened on a winter night in central India almost 30 years ago are...

Call it the clash of the Oscar titans. Because, in our humble opinion, the true Best Actress in a Leading Role fight will come down to heavyweights Viola Davis and Meryl Streep. And...

Former benefactor of English cricket faces multi-billion pound charges.

The bullishness is bubbling over for General Electric (GE). Analysts haven’t had this many Buy ratings on GE since 2008, Marketwatch said today. The Street expects the conglomerate’ to say its earnings jumped 22% in the fourth quarter when it reports on Friday. The fourth quarter tends to be GE’s strongest for industrial orders, Sterne [...]

With big bucks come big responsibility. A Tokyo man says he bought a nearly 600-pound bluefin tuna for over $735,000 — the most expensive tuna ever sold anywhere, ever — because he wanted to “lift up Japan’s spirits,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The giant fish was caught in Oma, a town in northeastern Japan, the area hardest hit by last year’s earthquake and tsunami. Dep...

Click to listen to Escort's 'Why Oh Why (Pound Sterling Remix)' Escort recently released their latest album entitled simply enough Escort The Pound Sterling remix of the Brooklyn-based 16-member disco orchestra's track "Why Oh Why" has the catchy pop hooks that Escort is known for Random Notes Keyboardist and group founder Eugene Cho...

Shares of enterprise storage technology provider Fusion-IO (FIO) are rocketing today, up $2.85, or almost 12%, at $27.05, and at one point as high as $27.94 after the stock got two new thumbs up, from Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.  Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty raised her rating on the shares to Overweight from Equal Weight, [...]

British police investigating the "horrific" murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve have offered a 50,000-pound reward to trace the killer.

The Czech Republic had no trouble opening the IIHF world junior hockey championship on a winning note Tuesday night in Edmonton, rolling to a 7-0 win over Denmark in Pool B action at Rexall Place

Gained pounds when pregnant

Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd was locked up in federal custody on Thursday as his stunned teammates learned he had been charged with try ing to set up a drug-dealing network following his arrest with more than a pound of cocaine.

Last summer #1 registrar Go Daddy announced that the company had entered into an agreement with 3 private equity firms to make a strategic investment n the company. That agreement was finalized today. Terms of the deal were not announced but it likely involved hundreds of millions of dollars going to Go Daddy .

Nach der Neonazi-Terrorserie in Deutschland und dem Doppelanschlag in Norwegen erschoss nun ein Rechtsextremist in Italien zwei Schwarze. Der Täter ist Buchautor und Anhänger der neofaschistischen Vereinigung "Casa Pound", die deutschen Neonazis als Vorbild dient.

INVESTIGATIONS in Britain into phone hacking are focusing on a 700,000 pound deal struck between News International and Max Clifford.

The FAA says a five-pound metal cylinder that came crashing through the roof of a Massachusetts warehouse is not a plane part, but otherwise ...

Seven people go on trial on Monday for the multi-million pound theft of a Monet, Sisley and two Breughels in Nice but their leader claims the FBI's art crimes chief "ordered" the heist.

The company said the jobs were being created to help deliver 40 ‘significant’ new models and variants over the next five years under a multi-billion pound investment in new vehicles.

A powerful storm that resembles a hurricane with snow, a "snowicane" , continues to pound western Alaska. "The potentially historic 'superstorm'... is making 'landfall' in Alaska today with a pressure equivalent to a Category 4 Hurricane," said AccuWeather.com's Jesse Ferrell. [More]

Florence Welch continues her superhero morph from arty rocker to pop diva with this mighty single "All of the ghouls come out to play/And every demon wants his pound of flesh" she sings over a pregnant drone like Glinda the Good Witch about to be very bad indeed Listen to "Shake...