Fashions of fitness: Exit Pilates? Enter Bootcamp?
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – tcamp is hot, Pilates is not, according to a new survey forecasting fitness trends for 2011.
Saudis uncover country’s 1st-ever artifact from pharaonic culture
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Saudi officials on Sunday announced the discovery of the country’s first-ever artifact from pharaonic culture — a 3,100-year-old inscription carrying the signature of King Ramses III.
Laptop use bad for sperm quality
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Using a laptop computer as the name suggests may not be good for male reproductive health, according to a study.
Olbermann will be back on air Tuesday
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – MSNBC says prime-time TV host Keith Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, ending his suspension for violating NBC’s rules against making political donations after two shows.
Hollywood actors, studios reach new contract
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Hollywood actors’ unions and major studios announced Sunday they had reached a new, three-year contract averting the kind of strike that paralyzed the U.S. entertainment industry for 100 days in 2008.
US vice president pledges unwavering support for Israel
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Vice President Joe Biden told Jewish groups on Sunday that the U.S. under the Obama administration remains a steadfast and unwavering ally to Israel.
Families, church press Cuba on dissidents’ release
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Dozens of human rights activists marched and shouted “Freedom” here Sunday to press the Cuban government to meet its own deadline for freeing a large group of political prisoners.
20 killed over weekend in Mexican border city
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – At least 20 people were killed in drug-gang violence over the weekend in this northern Mexican border city, including seven found dead outside one house.
Deadline nears for 9/11 rescue workers to accept compensation
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Thousands of rescue workers sickened after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York have until the end of Monday to accept a settlement that could near US$800 million.
Guts from Chile, glory for Ethiopia in NYC Marathon
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Gebre Gebremariam saw his country’s greatest marathoner pull up in pain on the Queensboro Bridge, at the 16th mile (26th kilometer). He urged Haile Gebrselassie to keep going, but what the world-record holder felt in his right knee…
US nuclear plant shuts down to repair pipe leaking radioactive water
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Workers at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant detected radioactive water seeping from a leaky pipe in the complex Sunday, forcing the plant to shut down to make repairs. The Nuclear Regulatory Comission said the public was not in any…
Republicans flex muscle; Obama promises ‘corrections’
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Flexing their new-found political muscle, U.S. Republicans have promised a string of investigations into Barack Obama’s administration as the president vowed to make some “corrections.”
Web browser pioneer has new way to surf
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – The Web has changed a lot since Marc Andreessen revolutionized the Internet with the introduction of his Netscape browser in the mid-1990s. That’s why he’s betting people are ready to try a different Web-surfing technique on a new …
More bodies found near erupting Indonesian volcano
Rescue workers found six more bodies on the slopes of Indonesias Merapi Volcano Monday, bringing the death toll to 141.
MI5 launches recruitment drive for women
British intelligence agency MI5 Monday began a recruitment campaign targeting women after violence in a TV show appeared to be scaring away would-be female recruits, a media report said Monday.