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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Azerbaijan police break up protest against violence in army

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• Azerbaijan police break up protest against violence in army
• Two Men. One Sky. The Silent Realization of a Purer Form of Flight
• News Analysis: America’s Productivity Climbs, but Wages Stagnate
• Web activist Aaron Swartz dies
• Explosives thrown at Cairo protesters, tents on fire
• Rebels in Myanmar Claim They Shot Down Government Helicopter
• 'Dangerous' pollution levels choke Beijing
• 'Dangerous' pollution levels choke Beijing
• Malaysia opposition holds mass election rally
• Hugo Chavez not in coma: brother
• Italian consul in Benghazi shot at in car but unhurt
• Talks fail to quell Pakistan Shia protests
• Slovenian coalition party asks premier to resign
• City Room: Cuomo Declares Public Health Emergency Over Flu Outbreak
• Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, Dies at 26
• Israel seeks to remove Palestinian tent outpost in West Bank
• Turkey wants France to explain contacts with Kurd leader
• Erdogan queries Hollande links with dead Kurd
• Rio indigenous on eviction alert
• Pakistan's latest political 'drone'

Azerbaijan police break up protest against violence in army Posted: 12 Jan 2013 01:04 PM PST BAKU (Reuters) - Police in Azerbaijan detained several young opposition activists on Saturday who protested in Baku against violence in the military, the first such demonstration in the oil-rich country.

Two Men. One Sky. The Silent Realization of a Purer Form of Flight Posted: 12 Jan 2013 12:22 PM PST Lofted nearly 8,000 feet by the hot air rising from the earth, two hang gliders raced in tight pursuit of the most prized feat in this high adrenaline niche sport: farthest ever flown.

News Analysis: America’s Productivity Climbs, but Wages Stagnate Posted: 12 Jan 2013 09:06 AM PST The debt-ceiling debate is unlikely to alter one major factor contributing to income inequality: stagnant wages.

Web activist Aaron Swartz dies Posted: 12 Jan 2013 12:54 PM PST Aaron Swartz, a celebrated internet freedom activist and early developer of the website Reddit, hangs himself at the age of 26.

Explosives thrown at Cairo protesters, tents on fire Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:58 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Unknown attackers threw petrol bombs at tents housing protesters outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo on Saturday, witnesses said.

Rebels in Myanmar Claim They Shot Down Government Helicopter Posted: 12 Jan 2013 12:10 PM PST Ethnic Kachin rebels battling Myanmar's army said they shot down a government helicopter, but the army denied the claim, saying on Saturday that engine failure caused the crash.

'Dangerous' pollution levels choke Beijing Posted: 12 Jan 2013 12:41 PM PST Pollution reading shown on website of US embassy in Chinese capital shows level of poor air quality off the index.

'Dangerous' pollution levels choke Beijing Posted: 12 Jan 2013 12:41 PM PST Pollution reading shown on website of US embassy in Chinese capital shows level of poor air quality off the index.

Malaysia opposition holds mass election rally Posted: 12 Jan 2013 04:40 AM PST Anwar Ibrahim's three-party alliance taps into anti-government sentiment ahead of key general elections in March.

Hugo Chavez not in coma: brother Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:46 AM 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.

Italian consul in Benghazi shot at in car but unhurt Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:48 AM PST TRIPOLI/ROME (Reuters) - An Italian consul came under fire in his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday but was unhurt, the Italian Foreign Ministry said.

Talks fail to quell Pakistan Shia protests Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:39 AM PST Demonstrators to continue protests over lack of security as talks between officials and Shia leaders end inconclusively.

Slovenian coalition party asks premier to resign Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:02 AM PST LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - A junior coalition party threatened on Saturday to quit the conservative government of financially troubled Slovenia unless Prime Minister Janez Jansa resigned over corruption allegations.

City Room: Cuomo Declares Public Health Emergency Over Flu Outbreak Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST With the nation in the grip of a severe influenza outbreak that has seen deaths reach epidemic levels, New York State declared a public health emergency on Saturday, making access to vaccines more easily available.

Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, Dies at 26 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:55 AM PST As a precocious teenager Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, a now ubiquitous format, and later became known for his efforts to make many Internet files available free online.

Israel seeks to remove Palestinian tent outpost in West Bank Posted: 12 Jan 2013 12:44 PM PST E1, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he was seeking court approval to remove an outpost of Palestinian tents pitched in an area of the occupied West Bank that Israel has earmarked for a new settlement.

Turkey wants France to explain contacts with Kurd leader Posted: 12 Jan 2013 10:54 AM PST ISTANBUL/PARIS (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan demanded on Saturday that French President Francois Hollande explain why he had met one of three Kurdish militants shot dead in Paris this week.

Erdogan queries Hollande links with dead Kurd Posted: 12 Jan 2013 10:42 AM PST Turkish PM calls on French president to clarify acknowledged meetings with one of the Kurdish activists shot in Paris.

Rio indigenous on eviction alert Posted: 12 Jan 2013 10:56 AM PST Police in Rio de Janeiro encircle a building next to the Maracana football stadium to evict a community that settled in the former Indigenous Museum.

Pakistan's latest political 'drone' Posted: 12 Jan 2013 10:45 AM PST Unease over role of man urging 'long march' on Islamabad

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