Chocolate, massage, and mammogram?

Chocolate, massage, and mammogram?


Chocolate, massage, and mammogram?

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:14 AM PST

Would you like a little chocolate fondue with your mammogram? As more controversial research questions the effectiveness of the annual screening, US mammogram clinics are throwing parties to woo women back in.

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Malaysians visiting Thailand should get health insurance

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:11 AM PST

Malaysians visiting Thailand are advised to get a health insurance policy to avoid being overcharged when seeking medical treatment in that country.

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Ramasamy must apologise to party: Karpal

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:11 AM PST

DAP national chairman Karpal Singh said Penang DAP deputy chairman P. Ramasamy must make a public apology for reportedly labelling him as a 'godfather', and should respect veteran leaders.

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Chelsea Clinton exits shadows with US television job

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:01 AM PST

Chelsea Clinton, the only child of America's most famous political couple, on Monday will abandon her once-cherished privacy, making a debut with a high-profile role on national television.

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Myanmar eases censorship for some: local media

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST

Myanmar has loosened restrictions on dozens of business and crime publications, local media reported Sunday, but kept news titles in the grip of strict censorship rules.

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Russians look for change after anti-Putin rallies

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST

Russians sought out the first signs of change Sunday after tens of thousands rallied across the country and swarmed Moscow in the biggest ever show of defiance against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule.

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Philippine plane crash searched for victims, clues

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:59 PM PST

Philippine investigators Sunday combed through the smouldering wreckage of a Manila slum, hunting for more victims of a light plane crash as well as clues over the accident that left at least 13 dead.

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Noriega en route to Panama after 22 years

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:58 PM PST

Former Panama strongman Manuel Noriega flew out of France on Sunday, beginning his return home to more prison time two decades after being ousted in a bloody US invasion.

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Australia hails 'breakthrough' climate talks

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:57 PM PST

Australia on Sunday welcomed a deal reached at marathon climate talks in South Africa as an "important breakthrough" in tackling global warming.

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Tokyo lights up with Christmas decorations

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:09 PM PST

(Japan-AFP) - Tokyo streets all light up at night with Christmas decorations, despite feared electricity shortages in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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Philippines gunmen free US teenager after 5 months

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:56 PM PST

MANILA, Dec 11 ― Philippine gunmen late yesterday freed a US teenager after holding him captive for nearly five months on an island in the troubled south of the country, security officials said. Kevin Eric Lunsmann, 14, and his mother and a cousin, had been vacationing near Zamboanga City in July when gunmen stormed their beachfront house, ...



USGS says 6.5 magnitude quake hit southwest Mexico

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:28 PM PST

MEXICO CITY, Dec 11 ― A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico yesterday, killing at least two people, knocking out lights in parts of the capital and sending people rushing into the streets. There were no immediate reports of severe damage or injuries in Mexico City but emergency services said an 18-year-old man was killed when a roof ...



Wearing John Malkovich

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:17 PM PST

(France-AFP) - American actor John Malkovich presents his new clothing collection in Paris a few weeks after opening a concept store in Milan. Malokovich's designs, under the label Technobohemian, are billed as embodying a "bohemian dandy" style, "for men rooted in the 21st century spirit". Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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China's obese teens seek help

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:33 PM PST

(China-AFP) - China's youth are facing a weight problem according to recent statistics. As a result, many slimming centres are opening up across the country full of new, young customers looking to change their unhealthy habits. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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Strong earthquake rattles Mexico, two dead

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 08:07 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, killing at least two people, knocking out lights in parts of the capital and sending people rushing into the streets.



U.N. climate talks seal legal pact on global warming

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:59 PM PST

DURBAN (Reuters) - U.N. climate change talks agreed on a pact on Sunday that for the first time would force all the biggest polluters to take action to slow the pace of global changing.



U.N. climate conference extends Kyoto Protocol

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:54 PM PST

DURBAN (Reuters) - A U.N. conference on climate change approved on Sunday a measure to extend the Kyoto Protocol, which binds some developed countries to legally binding cuts of greenhouse gas emissions.



Strong earthquake rattles Mexico City

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:36 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, knocking out lights in parts of the capital and sending people rushing into the streets.



USGS says 6.7 magnitude quake hit southwest Mexico

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:06 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Guerrero state in southwest Mexico at 19:47 local time on Saturday (0147 GMT Sunday), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.



World's nations set course for 2015 global climate pact

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:08 PM PST

A marathon UN climate conference on Sunday approved a roadmap towards an accord that for the first time will bring all major emitters of greenhouse gases under a single legal roof.

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