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Barry Manilow hospitalized for hip muscle repair

Entertainment News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:25:04 +0000

Barry Manilow has been shaking his hips on stage for decades, and now he has to have those muscles repaired.

Lawmakers reach tentative deal to fund government

2012 Elections News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:11:15 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers moved closer to a deal on Monday to fund the government through next year, potentially avoiding a shutdown that would have further damaged Congress' tattered reputation ahead of the 2012 election. The group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers tentatively agreed on how to fund a wide range of government functions from homeland security to protecting the environment, congressional aides said. ...

2 students shot, wounded at Texas middle school

World News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:11:00 +0000

Authorities suspect hunters may have shot two South Texas middle school students who were wounded by gunfire Monday afternoon while trying out for a basketball team.

Kenya army, Somali militia swap Twitter insults

Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:08:33 +0000

Kenyan soldiers and members of an extremist Islamist militant group have been fighting each other in Somalia since Kenya invaded two months ago. Now, their spokesmen are taking the battle onto Twitter, with taunts, accusations and insults being directly traded in a rare engagement on the Internet.

Syria death toll exceeds 5,000: U.N. rights chief

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:01:33 +0000

AMMAN (Reuters) - More than 5,000 people have been killed in nine months of unrest in Syria, the U.N. human rights chief said, as an insurgency begins to overshadow what had been mostly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad. The latest figure reported to the U.N. Security Council by Navi Pillay is 1,000 higher than the one she announced just 10 days ago. The toll includes civilians, army defectors and those executed for refusing to shoot civilians, but not soldiers and other security personnel killed by opposition forces, she said. ...

Lawmakers freeze $700 million to Pakistan

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:55:01 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of a U.S. House-Senate negotiating panel have agreed to freeze $700 million in U.S. aid to Pakistan until it offers to help in the fight against improvised explosive devices in the region, exerting more pressure on a troubled strategic ally. Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid, and the cutback announced is only a small proportion of the billions in civil and military assistance it gets a year. ...

CBI charges Essar, Loop execs in telecoms case

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:44:58 +0000

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Central Bureau of investigation (CBI) filed fraud charges against five executives at Essar Group and Loop Telecom on Monday, as part of a sprawling probe into a multi-billion-dollar telecoms case that has rocked the country's political and business establishments. Alleged corruption in the sale of telecoms licences in 2007 and 2008 may have cost New Delhi up to $39 billion in lost revenue, and led to the arrest and sacking of a former telecoms minister and criminal charges against many top company executives. ...

Anti-Wall Street activists march on West Coast ports

U.S. News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:36:29 +0000

OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters tried to mount a blockade of major West Coast ports on Monday in a move seen as a test of their momentum, but fell short of imposing a large-scale disruption of commerce. The protesters marched on ports from California to Alaska, hoping to call attention to U.S. economic inequalities, high unemployment and a financial system they say is unfairly skewed toward the wealthy. ...

Gloves stay on in Gingrich-Huntsman N.H. debate

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:30:47 +0000

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - The gloves didn't have to come off on Monday night in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate between Republican rivals Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman, who found more agreement than strife on foreign policy issues. The debate pitted the current Republican front-runner against the former Utah governor who is trailing in the dead-last zone among the pack of candidates running to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama in November 2012. ...

HTC sues Citi in Taiwan after share price fall

Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:27:50 +0000

TAIPEI (Reuters) - HTC Corp, the world's No.4 smartphone maker, has filed a criminal complaint against Citigroup Inc's Taiwan unit, alleging the bank published false information that led to a fall in HTC's share price, a Taiwan prosecutor said on Tuesday. HTC, whose rapid rise in the cut-throat handset industry had made it an investor darling until early this year, has lost much of its luster in recent weeks as its models struggle to compete with Apple Inc's iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy range. Its shares have tumbled from a high of more than T$1,200 ($39. ...