Spanish banks set aside billions for toxic assets
(AP)
- AP - Spain's three top banks said Tuesday they will set aside an additional euro6.1 billion ($8 billion) to meet a new government demand for all banks to boost their buffers against troubled real estate assets.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:57:43 GMT
AP - A spokesman for Greece's private creditors says Greek Premier Lucas Papademos will soon tell eurozone finance ministers the contents of a deal to reduce the country's massive debt.
AP - Thousands of fans roared as New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hoisted the team's Super Bowl trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float Tuesday during a victory parade through New York City, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg quipped should now be nicknamed the "Big Blue Apple."
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:49:22 GMT
Exultant Giants fans celebrate Super Bowl with parade
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Exultant fans of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants packed into downtown Manhattan for a victory parade on Tuesday, blowing on horns, dancing salsa and hoisting signs with the triumphant line "Believe in Blue."
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:01 GMT
AP - Alberto Contador is considering appealing his two-year doping ban handed down to him by sport's highest court, maintaining his innocence a day after being stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:40:17 GMT
Allthelook Science News
Man who warned of Challenger disaster dies at 73
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AP - The man who warned his employer of the equipment quirk that led to the deadly explosion of the space shuttle Challenger has died. Roger Boisjoly was 73.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:50 GMT
President Plays With Marshmallows at White House Science Fair
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- LiveScience.com - "The Secret Service isn't happy about this," President Barack Obama joked with eighth-grader Joey Hudy, of Phoenix, Ariz., as he convinced the kid to launch a marshmallow across the crowded room today (Feb. 7) at the White House.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:40:02 GMT
Popular Opinion on Climate Change Traced to Political Elites
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LiveScience.com - It seems the general public just can't make up its mind about the existence of man-made climate change. Rather than steadily increasing or decreasing over the last decade, the U.S. public's concern over our warming planet has jumped up and down, according to Gallup polls. But what exactly is driving this seesawing of opinions on climate change?
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:44:59 GMT
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Models form rights group ahead of New York Fashion Week
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Reuters - Fashion models in the United States launched a rights group on Monday ahead of New York Fashion Week to seek workplace standards including backstage privacy to stop unauthorized nude photos and a program to provide confidential advice on dealing with sexual harassment.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:08:06 GMT
AP - The final day of Paris's spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection.
AP - Coroner's officials on Tuesday ruled Don Cornelius' death a suicide, nearly a week after the "Soul Train" creator and host killed himself with a gunshot to the head.
AP - Coroner's officials on Tuesday ruled Don Cornelius' death a suicide, nearly a week after the "Soul Train" creator and host killed himself with a gunshot to the head.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:48:18 GMT
'Cupcake Wars' judge settles Conn. name lawsuit
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- AP - A judge on the Food Network reality television show "Cupcake Wars" has resolved her lawsuit with a Connecticut cupcake store over its name.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:46:07 GMT