Bats: Mets' Dickey Wins Cy Young Award

Bats: Mets' Dickey Wins Cy Young Award


Bats: Mets' Dickey Wins Cy Young Award

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:02 PM PST

R.A. Dickey, who is the first knuckleballer to win the award and the third Mets pitcher, led the National League in innings pitched, strikeouts, complete games and shutouts.


Markets adjust to anaemic economy

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:04 PM PST

Global stock markets fall again, continuing a four-week-long slide, as investors lower their expectations for the global economic recovery.


Enigma tops its auction estimate

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 06:37 AM PST

A German Enigma encryption machine has sold for more than its estimated price at an auction in London during Turing's centenary year.


Israel hammers Hamas in Gaza offensive

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:14 PM PST

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would "open the gates of hell".


VIDEO: China urged to consider reform

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:42 PM PST

The new leaders of China's Communist Party are being encouraged to usher in change by critics of the political system.


VIDEO: European workers in austerity protests

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:27 PM PST

Workers across the European Union are staging a series of protests and strikes against rising unemployment and austerity measures.


Fiery Obama defends UN envoy Rice

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:27 PM PST

A fiery President Obama lambasts top Republicans as they attack UN Ambassador Susan Rice over the deadly attack on the US consulate in Libya.


John McAfee denies Belize murder

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:35 PM PST

Computer security pioneer John McAfee says he is hiding from police in Belize, who want to speak him over the killing of a US businessman.


5-Hour Energy Is Cited in 13 Death Reports

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:33 PM PST

A high-caffeine energy drink, 5-Hour Energy, has been cited as possibly being involved in 13 deaths, according to Food and Drug Administration records.


China set to unveil new leaders

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:59 PM PST

China is set to reveal the new leaders who will rule the country for the next decade, with Vice-President Xi Jinping on course to take the top post.


Frederick Humphries, F.B.I. Agent in Petraeus Case

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:47 PM PST

Frederick W. Humphries II, a counterterrorism agent, took the initial complaint from Jill Kelley about e-mails accusing her of inappropriate behavior toward David H. Petraeus.


State of the Art: A Review of New Activity-Tracking Bands From Nike and Jawbone

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:35 PM PST

Exercise lovers, your worries are over. Or some of them are, because Jawbone and Nike are introducing new wearable, accelerometer-based fitness-tracking bands.


WORLD: ‘Princelings’ Reshape China

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:43 PM PST

November 14, 2012 - China's "princelings" are emerging as an aristocratic class with an increasingly important say in ruling the country.


China set to unveil new leaders

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:59 PM PST

China is set to reveal the new leaders who will rule the country for the next decade, with Vice-President Xi Jinping on course to take the top post.


How will Egypt respond to Israeli strikes on Gaza?

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:32 PM PST

Egypt-watchers have wondered for months how the country's post-revolutionary, democratically elected, Muslim Brotherhood-allied government would respond to an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, which sits between the two countries. Now the world might find out.

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Israel 'ready to widen Gaza op'

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:45 PM PST

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the country's military is prepared to extend its operation against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.


MP 'attacked with rocks' at uni

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 01:22 PM PST

A Conservative MP says he was "attacked with rocks and missiles" during a protest at the University of Sussex.


Branagh heads Manchester festival

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:08 PM PST

Sir Kenneth Branagh is to appear in his first Shakespeare play for a decade, to be staged in an old church at next year's Manchester International Festival.


Alzheimer’s Tied to Mutation Harming Immune Response

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:54 PM PST

A mutation to a gene, TREM2, is suspected of interfering with the brain's ability to prevent the buildup of toxic shards of a protein that accumulate in plaques on the brain.


Violent protests continue in Jordan

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:31 PM PST

Demonstrators clash with police and chant slogans against the king as anger grows over fuel price hikes.


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