VIDEO: Obama rejects oil pipeline plan

VIDEO: Obama rejects oil pipeline plan

VIDEO: Obama rejects oil pipeline plan

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:41 PM PST

US President Barack Obama has rejected a proposal from a Canadian company to build a huge oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.


VIDEO: How will Sarkozy boost popularity?

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:49 PM PST

He is grappling with a rising jobless rate and the fallout from last week's decision by Standard and Poor's to downgrade France's triple-A credit status.


VIDEO: How will Sarkozy boost popularity?

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:49 PM PST

He is grappling with a rising jobless rate and the fallout from last week's decision by Standard and Poor's to downgrade France's triple-A credit status.


Ex-Israeli intelligence chief: Iran can build bomb (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:13 PM PST

AP - An Israeli newspaper is quoting a former Israeli military intelligence chief as saying Iran has all the components to build a nuclear bomb.


Nepal students block roads to protest fuel hike (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:43 PM PST

AP - Students in Nepal are burning tires to block traffic on key roads in the capital and in an eastern town to protest a government decision to boost the prices of gasoline, diesel and cooking fuel.


Europe plans new Syria sanctions

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 07:29 PM PST

The European Union is planning further sanctions against Syria, spokesman Michael Mann said Wednesday, as Syria continued its crackdown on anti-government protesters.

VIDEO: Dangers of working on shipwreck

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:53 PM PST

There is a serious risk that the shipwrecked liner, the Costa Concordia, could sink completely in rough seas.


VIDEO: Oil pipeline plan rejected by Obama

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:41 PM PST

President Obama has rejected a proposal by a Canadian company to build a huge oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.


Q&A: Russia's Blogger in Chief on the Anti-Putin Movement (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:40 PM PST

Time.com - TIME talks to Andrei Navalny, who has the most popular political blog in Russia and is the acclaimed leader of the largest antigovernment protests since the fall of the Soviet Union


Oil above $101 on hopes IMF to curb Europe crisis (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:55 PM PST

A group of demonstrators rally against the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline outside President Barack Obama's fundraiser at the W Hotel in San Francisco, October 25, 2011. REUTERS/Stephen LamAP - Oil rose above $101 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the IMF promised to raise lending to mitigate a worsening financial crisis in Europe. Stronger U.S. economic data also gave oil a lift.

Contempt hearing for Pakistan's PM adjourned until February (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:08 PM PST

Reuters - Pakistan's Supreme Court adjourned a contempt hearing for its prime minister on Thursday, leaving a brewing political crisis over corruption cases and presidential immunity unresolved, local television stations reported.


Yemen fighters 'to withdraw' if inmates freed

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:14 PM PST

Suspected al-Qaeda-linked group that took over Radda promises to withdraw from town if colleagues released from prison.


French panel rejects Armenia genocide bill

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:32 PM PST

Senate commission rejects bill to make it illegal to deny mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 to 1916.


Pakistan court puts off contempt case against PM (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:43 PM PST

Reuters - Pakistan's Supreme Court adjourned a contempt hearing for its prime minister on Thursday, leaving a brewing political crisis over corruption cases, presidential immunity and the possible fate of the government unresolved.


China's Wen defends Iran oil, warns on nuclear aims (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:08 PM PST

Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao defended his country's extensive oil trade with Iran against Western sanctions pressure in comments published on Thursday, and yet also warned Tehran against any effort to acquire nuclear weapons.


With the Tricorder X PRIZE Qualcomm Launches the New Era of Metadata Medicine

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 08:48 PM PST

The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize foreshadows a deep revolution in health care driven by an era of wireless sensing and metadata analytics in the Cloud.


New Bid to Stifle Iran Aid to Syria

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:01 PM PST

U.S. officials have uncovered an effort by Iran to help Syria mask its oil exports and evade an American and European embargo, in a potent new sign of Tehran's campaign to bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as his regime cracks down on public opposition.


Pakistan court puts off contempt case against PM

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:44 PM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court adjourned a contempt hearing for its prime minister on Thursday, leaving a brewing political crisis over corruption cases, presidential immunity and the possible fate of the government unresolved.

Why Top Talent Leaves: Top 10 Reasons Boiled Down to 1

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 08:36 PM PST

Eric Jackson, a fellow Forbes blogger I follow and find both funny and astute, wrote a really spot-on post last month about why top talent leaves large corporations. He offered ten reasons, all of which I agreed with ? and all of which I?ve seen played out again and again, over the course of 25 ...


Newmont Trails Gold And Fellow Miners, Looks Ripe For Mini Bounce

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 08:30 PM PST

Newmont has a short-term, positive edge of just over 1%. Despite this, the stock still has a neutral rating of 6 out of 10, after an intraday range on Wednesday from as low as 5 and as high as 7. The last significant pullback in the stock was in mid-December, when a three-day sell-off took the stock into oversold territory for two days in a row, and higher by more than 2% five days later.


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