Coffee drinkers may have another reason to enjoy their daily brew. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says caffeine can cut the risk of developing skin cancer by killing damaged cells that could turn into tumors. The study says coffee could even be applied directly to the skin. The researchers […]
Australian Arrested in U.S. in Connection With Attack on Sydney Girl
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 10:00 pm (UTC-5)
Police in Australia say an Australian businessman has been arrested in the United States in connection with an attack on a Sydney teen in which a fake bomb was attached to her neck. New South Wales state police said Tuesday a 50-year-old man was arrested Monday in Louisville in the Kentucky, in an operation involving […]
China’s Business Journal Calls for Widening of Yuan Trade Range
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 9:40 pm (UTC-5)
An editorial published in the government-run China Securities Journal says the time is right for Beijing to widen the trading range of its currency, the yuan, against the U.S. dollar. The editorial, published Tuesday, says the wider yuan trading range would improve the currency’s flexibility, lower expectations of a protracted rise in the yuan’s value, […]
Oldest Bataan March Survivor Dies at 105
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 9:00 pm (UTC-5)
The oldest survivor of the harrowing World War II march from Bataan province near the Philippine capital, Manila, to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp has died at the age of 105. Albert Brown died Sunday at a nursing home in the northern U.S. state of Illinois. He survived the so-called Bataan Death March that U.S. and […]
Japanese Tourist Swept Over Niagara Falls, Presumed Drowned
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
Rescuers looking for a young female Japanese student who was swept over Niagara Falls Sunday have instead found the body of an unidentified man. Canadian and U.S. authorities say they are working to identify the man and that the two incidents are unrelated. Police say the Japanese student was on the Canadian side of the […]
Beijing to Subsidize Conservation of Tibet’s Grassland
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 8:40 pm (UTC-5)
The Chinese government says it will invest more than $300 million a year for the next five years to help conserve endangered grassland in Tibet. Chinese news media quoted Tibetan agricultural authorities Monday as saying the money will help subsidize the ban on grazing, improvement of livestock breeds and other grassland conservation measures. An official […]
US: Gadhafi Fires First Scud Missile of Conflict
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 8:25 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. military official says Libyan government forces have fired a scud missile for the first time in their conflict with anti-government rebels. The official, who asked not to be named, said the missile landed in the desert about 80 kilometers outside Brega. Libyan forces and the rebels have battled over the strategic oil port […]
Indian Activists Protest Bolivia Highway Project
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 8:05 pm (UTC-5)
At least 500 Indian activists have held a demonstration in Bolivia to protest a government plan to build a 300-kilometer highway through the Amazon rainforest. The protesters gathered Monday in the Amazon city of Trinidad for a 600-kilometer march, which is expected to culminate in the Bolivian capital, La Paz. The demonstrators say the $415 […]
Oldest Bataan March Survivor Dies at 105
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 7:50 pm (UTC-5)
The oldest survivor of the harrowing World War Two march from Bataan province near the Philippine capital Manila to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp has died at the age of 105. Albert Brown died Sunday in a nursing home in southern Illinois. He survived the so-called Bataan Death March, that U.S. and Filipino prisoners were forced […]
Obama: American People Have No Patience with Washington ‘Shenanigans’
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama, on a campaign-style bus tour of the U.S. Midwest, says politicians should not “play games” with the economy when there are so many people in the country without jobs. Mr. Obama was speaking at a so-called town hall meeting at a farm in the state of Iowa Monday evening. He said the […]
