Chinese Interior Designer Gold Mantis Forges Alliance With HBA After Buying 70% Stake

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• Chinese Interior Designer Gold Mantis Forges Alliance With HBA After Buying 70% Stake
• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez not in coma, brother says
• VIDEO: Costa Concordia 'out by September'
• World's oldest woman dies at 115
• Air pollution in Beijing goes off the index
• VIDEO: Nepal bus crash 'leaves 29 dead'
• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez not in coma, brother says
• Health Tracking Gizmos For The New Year
• Israel evacuates Palestinians from tent outpost in West Bank
• Why The Java Bug Is A Big Deal
• Planets Outside Of Our Solar System
• Astronomers Find The Largest Known Spiral Galaxy
• LEGO Unveils Its Next Generation Robot
• Flu emergency declared in New York
• Lenin’s tomb should stay in Red Square, Putin says
• Palestinian protesters evicted from West Bank site
• Russia rejects Assad exit as precondition for Syria deal
• Italian consul in Benghazi shot at in car but unhurt
• Israel evacuates Palestinians from tent outpost in West Bank
• France bombs Mali rebels, African states ready troops

Chinese Interior Designer Gold Mantis Forges Alliance With HBA After Buying 70% Stake Posted: 12 Jan 2013 05:54 PM PST Suzhou Gold Mantis, the Chinese interior design leader whose CEO Ni Lin made the cover of Forbes Asia in September, has formally forged a strategic alliance with Hirsch Bedner Associates after completing the purchase of a 70% stake in the California-based company at the end of last month for $75 [...]

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez not in coma, brother says Posted: 12 Jan 2013 08:33 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's cancer-stricken president, Hugo Chavez, is recovering in Cuba and is not in a coma as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother, Adan Chavez, said after a visit to Havana. The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen or heard from since his December 11 cancer surgery - his fourth such operation after the disease was detected in his pelvic area in mid-2011 - leaving Venezuela in a state of suspense. ...

VIDEO: Costa Concordia 'out by September' Posted: 12 Jan 2013 09:00 PM PST The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in Italy will be removed by September at the latest, officials overseeing the work have said.

World's oldest woman dies at 115 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 09:44 PM PST TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world's oldest living female just last month has died at 115.

Air pollution in Beijing goes off the index Posted: 12 Jan 2013 10:53 PM PST BEIJING (AP) — People refused to venture outdoors and buildings disappeared into Beijing's murky skyline on Sunday as the capital's air quality went off the index.

VIDEO: Nepal bus crash 'leaves 29 dead' Posted: 12 Jan 2013 08:56 PM PST Police in Nepal say 29 people have died after a bus veered off a mountain road and crashed.

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez not in coma, brother says Posted: 12 Jan 2013 08:33 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's cancer-stricken president, Hugo Chavez, is recovering in Cuba and is not in a coma as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother, Adan Chavez, said after a visit to Havana.

Health Tracking Gizmos For The New Year Posted: 12 Jan 2013 03:41 PM PST The most popular New Year's Resolution is to get healthy or to lose weight.  Here are some ways to do just that with technology. Fitbit One.  Wow - I really like this device.  I have used this for the past couple weeks week and it is great.  This little device is smaller [...]

Israel evacuates Palestinians from tent outpost in West Bank Posted: 12 Jan 2013 07:59 PM PST E1, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli security forces evacuated about 100 Palestinians early on Sunday from an outpost of tents pitched in an area of the occupied West Bank that Israel has earmarked for a new settlement. Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Palestinian outpost, built in the geographically sensitive area known as E1, could remain for six days while the issue of the removal of the tents was being discussed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the meantime, ordered those gathered there to be evacuated. ...

Why The Java Bug Is A Big Deal Posted: 12 Jan 2013 03:17 PM PST A security flaw in the Java programming language might have a significant negative impact on business.

Planets Outside Of Our Solar System Posted: 12 Jan 2013 02:53 PM PST

Astronomers Find The Largest Known Spiral Galaxy Posted: 12 Jan 2013 02:53 PM PST Based on information from the GALEX program, astronomers have crowned spiral galaxy NGC 6872 the largest known galaxy in the universe.

LEGO Unveils Its Next Generation Robot Posted: 12 Jan 2013 02:16 PM PST LEGO has unveiled the third generation of its popular Mindstorms robot, which boasts new features in both its hardware and software.

Flu emergency declared in New York Posted: 12 Jan 2013 07:07 PM PST New York's governor makes the announcement as some 20,000 cases have been confirmed in the state alone this season.

Lenin’s tomb should stay in Red Square, Putin says Posted: 12 Jan 2013 06:44 PM PST MOSCOW — Vladimir Lenin's embalmed body has been on display in Red Square since 1924. Now another influential Vladi­mir has made clear that Lenin's tomb isn't going anywhere else. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently found time in his busy schedule — which lately has included banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children and giving Russian citizenship to French actor Gerard Depardieu — to compare Lenin's polished granite mausoleum to the relics of saints on display in Orthodox monasteries. Read full article >>

Palestinian protesters evicted from West Bank site Posted: 12 Jan 2013 09:55 PM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian protesters who pitched tents at a strategic West Bank site to protest plans to build a Jewish housing project there were evicted early Sunday, police said.

Russia rejects Assad exit as precondition for Syria deal Posted: 12 Jan 2013 06:20 PM PST MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia voiced support on Saturday for international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi but insisted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the country's conflict.

Italian consul in Benghazi shot at in car but unhurt Posted: 12 Jan 2013 06:19 PM PST BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - An Italian consul came under fire in his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday but was unhurt, Italy said, four months after the U.S. ambassador was killed in an attack on the U.S. mission in the city.

Israel evacuates Palestinians from tent outpost in West Bank Posted: 12 Jan 2013 10:14 PM PST E1, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli security forces evacuated about 100 Palestinians early on Sunday from an outpost of tents pitched in an area of the occupied West Bank that Israel has earmarked for a new settlement.

France bombs Mali rebels, African states ready troops Posted: 12 Jan 2013 06:21 PM PST BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - French aircraft pounded Islamist rebels in Mali for a second day on Saturday and neighboring West African states sped up their plans to deploy troops in an international campaign to prevent groups linked to al Qaeda expanding their power base.

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