13 Gadgets to Prepare You for a Natural Disaster

affiliate marketing 1. Wind-Up RadioRadios may seem like primitive technology in the digital age, but they’re still very effective in relaying information during an emergency. The one pictured uses solar power, features a hand-crank for backup power and even includes a flashlight.Click here to view this gallery. affiliate...

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Amy Winehouse wedding dress stolen: family foundation

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – Two dresses worn by late British singer Amy Winehouse have been stolen from her house, her family’s charitable foundation told Reuters on Thursday.The two dresses were due to be auctioned as part of charity events later this year and next in London and New York to raise money for The Amy Winehouse...

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Watch: Cancer Touches Everyone: Dogs and Humans

affiliate marketing Home > Video > Health > Health NewsCancer Touches Everyone: Dogs and Humans affiliate marketing Cancer Touches Everyone: Dogs and HumansTwo Million Dogs hopes to eradicate cancer through education and research.Magic Johnson’s HIV Announcement: Nov. 7,...

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Anthony Scianna’s Storybook Ending

affiliate marketing Francesco Nazardo for Bloomberg BusinessweekA typical Friday night at FairyTail LoungeTo enter the FairyTail Lounge, a one-year-old New York nightclub opened by three former commodities traders, guests pass through a sparkle-splattered door into a small room so shimmery it looks like it was painted by Tinker Bell....

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Blake Shelton pulls off surprise win at CMAs

affiliate marketing NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Winning the Country Music Association Awards’ entertainer of the year is a top honor and always counted as a career high point. But for Blake Shelton it wasn’t even the most memorable moment of an amazing Thursday night.“The Voice” star took home three trophies, including his third straight...

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Europe approves high-price gene therapy

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – European officials have approved the Western world’s first gene therapy drug from a small Dutch biotech company, in a milestone for the novel medical technology that fixes faulty genes.The formal clearance from the European Commission paves the way for a launch next summer of the treatment for an...

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Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers, several executed

affiliate marketing BEIRUT (Reuters) – Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers on Thursday in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria’s main north-south highway, a monitoring group said.Some of the dead were shot after they had surrendered, according to video footage. Rebels berated them, calling them “Assad’s...

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Flamboyant Megaupload founder unveils file-sharing sequel

affiliate marketing WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Like a good Hollywood sequel, Megaupload is back.Kim Dotcom, the founder of the shuttered file-sharing site that housed everything from family photos to blockbuster films, on Thursday announced a new online storage service called Mega that will give users direct control – and responsibility...

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“The Details” Review: airless all-star comedy is devilishly dull

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The devil is in “The Details,” but only in that this smug and airless comedy feels like 91 minutes in hell. The first few minutes promise a Rube Goldberg whirligig of bad behavior, unhappy coincidences and plain old rotten luck, but all writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes (“Mean Creek”) can...

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Whoppers of 2012, Final Edition

affiliate marketing SummaryWith only days to go until Election Day 2012, we look here at the most egregiously false and misleading claims from the entire presidential campaign. Some examples:President Barack Obama claimed Mitt Romney is planning to raise taxes by $ 2,000 on middle-income taxpayers and/or cut taxes by $ 5 trillion....

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Mexico’s Day of Dead brings memories of missing

affiliate marketing MEXICO CITY (AP) — Maria Elena Salazar refuses to set out plates of her missing son’s favorite foods or orange flowers as offerings for the deceased on Mexico‘s Day of the Dead, even though she hasn’t seen him in three-and-a-half years.The 50-year-old former teacher is convinced that Hugo Gonzalez Salazar, a university...

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Ahead of the Bell: US consumer confidence

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of Americans’ confidence in the economy likely rose for a second straight month on expectations that business conditions will improve and hiring will pick up.Economists forecast that the Conference Board, a private research group, will report that its monthly consumer confidence index rose...

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