Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Sweeps the Razzies

By Stephen M. Silverman 02/23/2013 at 10:00 PM EST Taylor Lautner and Mackenzie Foy, in Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Andrew Cooper, SMPSP/Summit Who's misérable now?The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Adam Sandler and Rihanna are among the "winners" of the 33rd annual Golden Raspberry Awards...

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FDA approves new targeted breast cancer drug

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.The drug Kadcyla from Roche combines the established drug Herceptin with a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines together. The chemical keeps the cocktail intact until it binds to a cancer cell, delivering a potent...

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Investors face another Washington deadline

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors face another Washington-imposed deadline on government spending cuts next week, but it's not generating the same level of fear as two months ago when the "fiscal cliff" loomed large. Investors in sectors most likely to be affected by the cuts, like defense, seem untroubled that the budget talks could send stocks tumbling. Talks on the U.S. budget...

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Catholic Church Fills Growing Void in Africa

LAGOS, Nigeria — The young woman slept soundly on the cool marble floor before the altar, a break from the chaos at home. In the courtyard, neighborhood teenagers filled giant jerrycans with purified water from a stone fountain. In an aisle, a rail-thin young woman from a nearby slum said she had not eaten since yesterday but was expecting sustenance here. Behind its high spiked iron gates...

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Einhorn scores legal victory vs. Apple in cash scuffle

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge handed outspoken hedge fund manager David Einhorn a victory in his battle with Apple Inc on Friday, blocking the iPhone maker from moving forward with a shareholder vote on a controversial proposal to limit the company’s ability to issue preferred stock.U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan granted a motion by Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital for a preliminary...

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Courtney Lopez: Gia Thinks Our Dog Is Having a Baby

Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 02/22/2013 at 01:00 PM ET Denise Truscello/Wireimage Mario Lopez is a man of his word.Following a December wedding, the EXTRA host declared he and wife Courtney would get to work expanding their family immediately — and he wasn’t kidding.In January, the couple discovered...

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FDA approves new targeted breast cancer drug

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.The drug Kadcyla from Roche combines the established drug Herceptin with a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines together. The chemical keeps the cocktail intact until it binds to a cancer cell, delivering a potent...

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U.S., Japan agree on approach to Trans-Pacific Partnership talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Japan on Friday agreed on language aimed at giving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe political cover to bring the world's third-largest economy into negotiations on a U.S.-led free trade agreement in the Asia Pacific region. In a carefully worded statement following Abe's meeting with President Barack Obama, the two countries reaffirmed that...

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BBC Portrayed as Top-Heavy, Bickering and Dysfunctional

LONDON — A senior press officer for the British Broadcasting Corporation darkly volunteers to “drip poison” to discredit a BBC reporter he suspects of having leaked embarrassing information. The woman in charge of the corporation’s news divisions accuses Newsnight, a public-affairs program she oversees, of being out of touch and “sneery” toward rival BBC shows. And, as investigators seek...

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Goldman: PlayStation 4 could send Sony into a ‘downward spiral’

Count Goldman Sachs analyst Takashi Watanabe as being pessimistic on the PlayStation 4′s chances for success. Per Business Insider, Watanabe has penned a new research note that casts doubt not only on Sony’s (SNE) new console specifically, but on the gaming console business as a whole. Specifically, Watanabe thinks that smartphones and tablets are poised to erode consoles’ installed...

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Cirque Du Soleil Announces New Michael Jackson-Themed Show in Las Vegas

By Mark Gray 02/21/2013 at 09:15 PM EST The logo Courtesy Cirque du Soleil The King of Pop will live in Vegas!The long-rumored Cirque Du Soleil show based on the music of Michael Jackson was formally announced Thursday afternoon. Premiering June 29 at Las Vegas's...

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APNewsBreak: Govs to hear Oregon health care plan

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber will brief other state leaders this weekend on his plan to lower Medicaid costs, touting an overhaul that President Barack Obama highlighted in his State of the Union address for its potential to lower the deficit even as health care expenses climb.The Oregon Democrat leaves for Washington, D.C., on Friday to pitch his plan that changes the way doctors...

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Wall Street ends lower on growth worries

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a second straight day on Thursday and the S&P 500 posted its worst two-day loss since November after reports cast doubt over the health of the U.S. and euro-zone economies. But a late-day rally helped stocks erase some of their losses with most of the pullback concentrated in the technology- heavy Nasdaq. The move suggested investors were...

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Embezzlement Scandal Threatens Spain’s Royal Family

MADRID — The Web site of the Spanish royal family features pictures of the king, Juan Carlos I, in a blue sash, his bejeweled wife, Queen Sofía, and the couple’s three glamorous children. But most of the photographs of the dashing Duke of Palma, the king’s son-in-law, were scrubbed from the site last month. The duke’s official biography was also banished from the site. And for more than a...

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Sony unveils new PlayStation 4 console

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sony Corp took the wraps off its next-generation video game console called “PlayStation 4” on Wednesday that will allow users to stream and play video games hosted on servers.The company revealed the new console, which will succeed the seven-year-old PlayStation 3, in New York.The controller dubbed “DualShock 4″ will have a touch pad, Mark Cerny, lead system architect on PlayStation...

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Baby Girl on the Way for Big Brother's Britney Haynes

Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 02/20/2013 at 08:45 PM ET Britney Haynes is expecting a little houseguest of her own!“Halfway there and it’s definitely a GIRL!! She arrives in July; couldn’t be happier,” the Big Brother star Tweeted Wednesday.Along with her tweet, Haynes, 25, posted a photo of herself...

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Scientists use 3-D printing to help grow an ear

WASHINGTON (AP) — Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells.The work reported Wednesday is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.It's part of the hot field of tissue regeneration, trying...

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Wall Street ends down sharply after Fed minutes

TORONTO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Canada's Rebecca Marino, a rising star in women's tennis, stepped away from the sport in search of a normal life on Wednesday, weary of battling depression and cyber-bullies. Ranked number 38 in the world two years ago, the 22-year-old admitted she had long suffered from depression and was no longer willing to make the sacrifices necessary to reach the top. "After thinking...

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Egypts Floods Smuggling Tunnels to Gaza With Sewage

Hatem Moussa/Associated PressA Palestinian clearing a tunnel of sewage in Rafah, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. GAZA —The Egyptian military is resorting to a pungent new tactic to shut down the smuggling tunnels connecting Sinai and Gaza: flooding them with sewage. Along with the stink, the approach is raising new questions about relations between Egypt’s new Islamist leaders and their...

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Sony’s “Evolution of PlayStation” Videos Lead Up to Wednesday’s Event

Sony‘s PlayStation brand has been around almost 20 years now, in the United States. And in anticipation of its Wednesday “#PlayStation2013″ event, at which it is widely expected to unveil its next-generation PlayStation console, Sony has published a series of “Evolution of PlayStation” videos on YouTube and its own site. These videos present a (somewhat one-sided) history of the PlayStation brand,...

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What's Next for Mindy McCready's Two Young Boys?

By Steve Helling 02/19/2013 at 07:00 PM EST Mindy McCready's apparent suicide on Sunday has left her two young sons in custodial limbo.The boys – Zander, 6, and Zayne, 10 months – had been in state custody since Feb. 7, when McCready called police to ask for help in making her father and stepmother leave her...

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Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year

CHICAGO (AP) — Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines."The big picture is that this is a big problem that has gotten much worse quickly," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which gathered and analyzed...

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M&A deals lift Wall Street shares nearer a record high

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as this year's ongoing surge in merger activity suggested investors were still finding value in the market even as indexes closed in on all-time highs. Office Depot Inc surged 9.4 percent to $5.02 after a person familiar with the matter said the No. 2 U.S. office supply retailer was in advanced talks to merge with smaller rival OfficeMax...

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Oslo Journal: In Norway, TV Program on Firewood Elicits Passions

Kyrre Lien for The New York TimesLars Mytting at his home in Elverum, Norway. His best-selling book, “Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood — and the Soul of Wood-Burning” inspired a TV program about cutting, stacking and burning firewood. OSLO — The TV program, on the topic of firewood, consisted mostly of people in parkas chatting and chopping in the woods and then eight hours...

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