Asian shares wobbly due to jitters on Europe (Reuters)

Asian shares wobbly due to jitters on Europe (Reuters)

Asian shares wobbly due to jitters on Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:42 PM PST

A man is reflected on an electronic board displaying stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo November 10, 2011. REUTERS/Toru HanaiReuters - Asian shares wobbled on Thursday as doubts deepened about Europe's ability to stop its sovereign debt crisis from spinning out of control, with Germany and France split over the European Central Bank's bond buying role.

Blair regrets passing freedom of information law (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:29 PM PST

In this Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 photo, former Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks during an interview in London. Blair was once a leading advocate for the people's right to know what their government is doing behind closed doors. But even before Britain's law passed, he had hurriedly watered down his original plans and stalled the bill's progress. The former prime minister, who stood down in 2007, accepts that rules on access to information can help democracy, but he argues that they can also undermine government. Critics suspect that, in truth, his change of mind reflects an unease at the public response to the Iraq war, and his realization - seemingly shortly after he took office - that the information law could expose activities by his party that voters may find unacceptable. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Poised on the brink of power, Tony Blair made an impassioned vow: Britain's jealously-held culture of official secrecy would be dramatically swept away.

Physicists Create Light From Nothingness

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:16 PM PST

In the beginning, the vacuum was without form, and void. Then the physicists said, 'Let there be light!', and nothing happened. Then the physicists built a superconducting quantum interference device. And then there was light.


Greece braced for large protests in Athens

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:26 PM PST

Uprising of 1973 against military rule to be remembered on a day expected to be marked by anti-austerity protests


US-Mexican team claims 'major' drug bust

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:02 PM PST

At least 14 tonnes of marijuana found inside "sophisticated" cross-border tunnel, leading to arrest of two people.


US assures Manila of 2nd warship amid Spratlys row (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:58 PM PST

AP - The United States will provide a second warship to the ill-equipped Philippine military as it confronts China in increasingly tense territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Thursday.


Lee Yin Yee's Xinyi Glass Suspends Plan For Solar Glass Spinoff

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:31 PM PST

Hong Kong-listed Xinyi Glass Holdings, one of China's largest makers of auto glass, said Wednesday it has suspended plans to spin off and list its solar glass business, the latest sign of difficulty facing the global solar industry. Shares in U.S.-listed Chinese panel makers have??tanked amid falling prices and a cloudy industry outlook. Suntech has ...


Celebrity, Inc.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:27 PM PST

As part of her MoneyZen series, women and money expert Manisha Thakor highlights every day personal finance lessons that can be extracted from Jo Piazza's new book Celebrity, Inc.


Glory Days For Energy, U.S. Stocks

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:23 PM PST

?Come back home to the refinery, hiring man said son if it was up to me?? -?? , Born In The USA The hiring man at the refinery is bummin?.?? Don?t come looking for a job from him.?? Why not??? The crack spread is moving the wrong way for refiners, my friend. What say you, ...


Oil near $102 after 36 percent rally in 6 weeks (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:25 PM PST

Nebraska State Senator Paul Lambert of Lincoln, center, votes in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, on a measure that would trigger an environmental review of proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline routes within Nebraska. The measure has won first-round legislative approval, despite criticism that state taxpayers will foot the bill. Lawmakers advanced the measure Wednesday following debate over who should pay for the environmental assessment, to be conducted by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. At right is Sen. Norman Wallman of Cortland, and top left is Speaker Mike Flood of Norfolk. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Oil prices fell slightly to near $102 a barrel Thursday in Asia, pausing a 36 percent rally during the last six weeks.

Decide.com Expands Gadget Pricing Service, Goes Mobile

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:02 PM PST

Since the shopping service Decide.com launched in beta test mode last June, promising to bring price prediction to electronics gadgets, it claims to have been 77% accurate in predicting when you should buy or wait for a price drop or new model. Shoppers could search in four categories?televisions, laptop computers, cameras, and phones?and get a ...


Are You Paying More In Property Taxes Than Warren Buffett?

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST

? This story appears (in a different form) in the December 5, 2011 issue of Forbes magazine. drew lots of attention to himself a few months ago for paying a very low rate of income taxes. Ever wonder what the simple-living billionaire investor pays in property taxes? He?s lived in the same house in , ...


GovCloud Still Good After 2 Years

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:59 PM PST

Agency Executive still bullish on GovCloud after 2yr deployment.


Raid survivor says FARC 'still a force'

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:12 PM PST

Ex-bodyguard of deceased commander challenges claims by Colombian government that group is almost defeated.


Asian stocks waver as Europe crisis fears weigh (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:20 PM PST

Lauren Belski, 31, of Brooklyn reads in a newly tent-free Zuccotti Park during the early morning hours, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in New York. The Republican Party and the tea party seemed to be a natural political pairing. Democrats and the Occupy Wall Street protesters have a more complicated relationship. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)AP - Asian stocks wavered on Thursday, looking for direction after a credit ratings agency warning that U.S. banks could be hit hard if Europe's debt crisis spreads beyond financially troubled countries like Greece.

Kuwait opposition protesters disrupt parliament (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:05 PM PST

Dozens of Kuwaitis briefly stormed Kuwait's parliament building as hundreds of others protested outside in Kuwait City late Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Opposition lawmakers warned Wednesday of a growing political crisis after dozens of anti-government protesters muscled their way into the parliament during debate over efforts to question Prime Minister Sheik Nasser Al Mohammad Al Sabah about corruption allegations. (AP Photo/Nasser Waggi)AP - Opposition lawmakers warned Wednesday of a growing political crisis after dozens of anti-government protesters muscled their way into Kuwait's parliament during debate over efforts to question the prime minister about corruption allegations.

2 newspaper employees reported missing in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:47 PM PST

AP - Authorities in northern Mexico are looking for two distribution employees of a national newspaper who were reported missing earlier this week.


Overseas money buoys life in Bangladesh village (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:15 PM PST

Reuters - Mohammad Majnu Miah has bought some land and rebuilt his house, in which a television and CD player take pride of place, thanks to the remittances his wife and son send him from the Maldives, where they have worked for six years.


VIDEO: Will Burma become Asean chair?

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:07 PM PST

The ten member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations are meeting in Bali this week for their annual summit. During the summit they will decide whether to allow Burma to host their meeting in 2014.


VIDEO: Man arrested after bullets hit White House

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:37 PM PST

A man wanted in connection with a shooting near the White House has been arrested in Pennsylvania.


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