Bryan Denton for The New York TimesSupporters of Ismail Khan gathered outside Herat city on Nov. 1. HERAT, Afghanistan — One of the most powerful mujahedeen commanders in Afghanistan, Ismail Khan, is calling on his followers to reorganize and defend the country against the Taliban as Western militaries withdraw, in a public demonstration of faltering confidence in the national government and the Western-built...
Ads are Invading Gadgets and Apps that You Already Paid For
Label: Technology
Most of us are used to seeing ads on stuff that we get for free, like smartphone and tablet apps or online news websites. But you’re probably also used to being able to pay to remove ads, whether by getting the premium version of an app or even upgrading to a new computer that doesn’t have so much garbage on it.As it turns out, this strategy doesn’t work...
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Attend Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Premiere Together
Label: Lifestyle 11/12/2012 at 10:45 PM EST Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Matt Sayles/Invision/AP Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are back together – as a couple and now on the red carpet.On Monday night, they attended their first public Hollywood event together since...
British medical journal slams Roche on Tamiflu
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — A leading British medical journal is asking the drug maker Roche to release all its data on Tamiflu, claiming there is no evidence the drug can actually stop the flu.The drug has been stockpiled by dozens of governments worldwide in case of a global flu outbreak and was widely used during the 2009 swine flu pandemic.On Monday, one of the researchers linked to the BMJ journal called for...
Lobbying effort derails plan for L.A. real estate tax
Label: Business If Los Angeles City Council members vote Tuesday to place a sales tax hike on next year's ballot, they will have delivered a...
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The New Islamists: Tunisia Battles Over Pulpits and a Revolution’s Legacy
Label: WorldMoises Saman for The New York TimesFemale students at the Grand Mosque in Kairouan, Tunisia, a site of anti-Western sermons. KAIROUAN, Tunisia — On the Friday after Tunisia’s president fell, Mohamed al-Khelif mounted the pulpit of this city’s historic Grand Mosque to deliver a full-throttle attack on the country’s corrupt culture, to condemn its close ties with the West and to demand that a new constitution...
HTC shares jump after settles patent issues with Apple
Label: Technology
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Shares of HTC Corp jumped by their permitted daily limit on Monday after the Taiwanese smartphone maker announced a global patent settlement and 10-year licensing agreement with Apple Inc, allowing the struggling company to focus on product development.The settlement would give HTC a short-term boost, analysts suggested, but long-term...
Tori Spelling Introduces Son Finn Davey
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 11/11/2012 at 08:00 PM ET Michael Simon/StartraksMeet Finn Davey McDermott!Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott introduce their fourth child, posing inside the 10-week-old’s nursery in a set of recently released photos.After a difficult pregnancy that included hospitalization...
Food labels multiply, some confuse consumers
Label: HealthFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Want to avoid pesticides and antibiotics in your produce, meat, and dairy foods? Prefer to pay more to make sure farm animals were treated humanely, farmworkers got their lunch breaks, bees or birds were protected by the farmer and that ranchers didn't kill predators?Food labels claim to certify a wide array of sustainable practices. Hundreds of so-called eco-labels have cropped...
Los Angeles' new porn condom law a hot topic in the industry
Label: Business For the most part, the group assembled in the Sofitel meeting room appeared classically corporate: heavy on suits and button-down...
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