News Headlines (111) 31 December 2012

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► Article: Like Math? Thank Your Motivation, Not IQ - by Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | Date: 28 December 2012 

► Oregon man seeks a mate by wearing a Wife Wanted sign - Wed, Dec 26, 2012 - Odd News  :: Sandy McCulloch, a Corvallis, Oregon 82-year-old wears a paper sign around his neck that reads, "WANTED: A WIFE." His low-tech message describes that he's searching for a companion over the age of 60 who loves books, has a sense of humor, and lives in Corvallis. The idea for McCulloch's sign came from a conversation he had with a hospital greeter. When waiting to have coffee with his friend, a hospital minister, he was asked by the greeter if she could help him with anything.

► Hot Links: Lindsay Lohan spends $250,000 to redecorate house  || Get Ready For Lindsay Lohan's Bravo Home Makeover 

► Gwyneth Paltrow to publish second cookbook 

► Memo From Miami | Louis Vuitton's Objets Nomades 

► 2012's Top 20 Most Fashionable Items On Polyvore The Huffington Post Canada  |  Posted: 12/18/2012

► New Year's Eve Dresses: 10 Sparkly Outfits To Wear When You Ring In 2013

► Victorian zoological map redrawn - Patterns that inspired Darwin and Wallace get an update 

► Chinese scientists find evidence for speed of gravity

► Chemistry may save some coral from acidity 

► ScienceShot: Plants ... in ... Space!

► Who killed Ramses III

► Female Fish Are More Attracted to Bi-Curious Males :: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/12/female-fish-are-more-attracted-bi-curious-males/59934/ || TELEGRAPH - Female fish attracted to males that exhibit gay behaviour. Female fish are attracted to males that "flirt" with other males, a study has found.  

► Surprising 'Mini' Supermassive Black Hole Found in Unlikely Home - by SPACE.com Staff Date: 06 November 2012

► EPA Releases Update on Ongoing Hydraulic Fracturing Study :: http://energy.aol.com/2012/12/21/epa-releases-update-on-ongoing-hydraulic-fracturing-study/ || NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Breaking Fuel From the Rock

► Nearly One in Three Children With Food Allergies Experience Bullying, Survey Shows Dec. 24, 2012— Nearly a third of children diagnosed with food allergies who participated in a recent study are bullied, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Almost eight percent of children in the U.S. are allergic to foods such as peanuts, tree-nuts, milk, eggs, and shellfish. 

► China opens world's longest bullet train line - Between Beijing and Guangzhou, 22 hours is now eight hours. But some say it's still cheaper and faster to fly 

► Stella McCartney awarded OBE in 2013 New Year Honours List 

► The top 10 tech 'fails' of 2012  -  By Doug Gross, CNN | December 28, 2012 





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Hillary Clinton Hospitalized With Blood Clot. Published on Dec 30, 2012 :: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. (Dec. 30) || ► Clinton on Qaddafi: We came, we saw, he died. Published on Oct 20, 2011 ::  Speaking between network interviews, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jokes with reporter on early, unconfirmed reports that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed.

ehehehhee....

► Raw: Baby Boom at British Zoo. Published on Dec 30, 2012 :: Chester Zoo, in northwest England, saw something of a baby boom in 2012. As well as a baby orangutan and an okapi foal, zookeepers delivered an Asian elephant calf.


► Last-Minute Fiscal Cliff Talks in Senate. Published on Dec 29, 2012 :: Senate leaders groped for a last-minute compromise Saturday to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly prevent deep spending cuts at the dawn of the new year. (Dec. 29)

► Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot

► Hillary Clinton Is Not Well - By Adam Clark Estes 

► Obama: U.S. has good leads on who carried out Benghazi attacks

► Senate adjourns to Monday, eve of 'fiscal cliff' 

► No end to Syria war if sides refuse to talk: envoy 

► Venezuela Cancels New Year's Festivities After Chavez Suffers 'New Complications'

► President's brother speaks out on Colombia talks - Associated Press

► 6 Best iPhone Apps of 2012

► The Rich Will Pay More Taxes Next Year No Matter What 




► Kim Kardashian Pregnant: Her Family Reacts to the Big News

► Kanye West, Kim Kardashian expecting 1st child

► Matthew McConaughey Names His Son Livingston




► 2013 H o r o s c o p e s

► US 'fiscal cliff' talks go to wire 

US Congressional leaders have one more day to avert the "fiscal cliff" of tax rises and spending cuts as talks end on Sunday without a deal.
* Mardell: Obama's fiscal trap 
* Obama on fiscal deal hopes -VIDEO
* Five ways the cliff might hit
* Q&A: The US fiscal cliff
* Fiscal cliff: Possible scenarios
* Naming the 'fiscal cliff'

► Russian plane crash impact captured by Moscow driver. 30 December 2012 - Footage of the moment a Russian plane ran off a runway and hit a motorway in Moscow has emerged. At least four crew members were killed when the Red Wings Tupolev-204 overshot the runway. No passengers were on board. A motorist happened to be filming in his car as he drove along the road when the plane crashed. Peter Dobbie reports. (VIDEO) || NEWS 

► Local government reform 'success' in Helmand. 31 December 2012 - When foreign combat troops pull out of Afghanistan in 2014, Afghan troops will try to fill the gap. In the troubled province of Helmand in the south-west, the security effort has been backed up by local government reform, one of the more significant successes of western intervention. It has been so successful that the British officials who introduced it have been asked to take it to other provinces. David Loyn reports. (VIDEO) || NEWS

► A tour of a Soviet era nuclear bunker targeting the West. 30 December 2012  - Only now are Germans learning the full extent of their past when the East was ruled by the Soviet Union. North of Berlin, for example, there is a hidden nuclear base about which the East German government itself had little knowledge. In 1959, though, nuclear missiles were stationed there, targeted at Western Europe. BBC correspondent Steve Evans has this guided tour. (VIDEO)

► Japan school teaches art of being a mascot. 31 December 2012 - Demand from theme parks, companies and even government offices is fuelling a mini-boom in the use of mascots in Japan. Choko Oohira is making it her mission to ensure that quantity doesn't undermine quality by teaching mascot skills at her own school. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. (VIDEO)

► 31 December -Italian TV boss criticises sexy showgirls - By Alan Johnston BBC News, Rome 

► 31 December 2012 - Belle de Jour's history of anonymity

► 31 December 2012 - The hard task of inventing a truly great dish By Anna-Louise Taylor BBC Food  

► 31 December 2012- The top memes and viral videos of 2012 By Dave Lee and Mark Ward BBC technology reporters 

► 2012: A year of new frontiers

► Best of the best of 2012 science and tech articles

► Today's African Proverb :: "Bad dancing does not break an engagement" - A Luyia / Gisu proverb sent by Sheila Oder, Kampala, Uganda

► Video: Moment of deadly plane crash into Moscow highway. Published on Dec 29, 2012 :: A fatal passenger jet crash was caught on a dashboard camera. The plane skidded into a highway after making a hard landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Five people were killed, three others critically injured. Officials believe the cause could be pilot error. (VIDEO) || NEWS - Moscow plane crash: Deathtoll rises to five (VIDEO OF CARNAGE, PHOTOS) 

► Gang-rape epidemic: India mourns victim, proposes chemical castration for offenders

► Al-Qaeda offers bounty for US ambassador in Yemen 

► Silent sub: Russian noiseless Borei class nuclear submarine immersed

► RT recalls 2012: Putin;s back, opposition turmoil, Pussy Riot prank 

► Russians; nostalgia for USSR is dwindling - poll

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Happy New Law: US adoption in Russia no longer possible. Published on Dec 30, 2012 :: From New Year's Day, the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens will no longer be possible - after President Putin signed the measure into law. It's a tit-for-tat response to America's sanctions against Russian officials which it sees as human rights violators. Irina Galushko has more on the diplomatic spat. Also, Russian studies and history professor Stephen Cohen, from New York and Princeton Universities, says he's never been under any illusions about Russia-US relations.

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Obama pushes for gun control measures. Published on Dec 30, 2012 :: US President Barack Obama has used a television appearance to push for new gun control measures. It follows the shooting of 20 children and six adults this month, at a school in Connecticut. Al Jazeera's Daniel Lak reports from Washington.



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Inside Story - Confronting India's culture of rape. Published on Dec 31, 2012 :: Ghida Fakhry speaks to guetsts Ved Marwah, a former Commissioner of Police in New Delhi; Aisha Gill, a reader in criminology at the Univeristiy of Roehampton; Ranjana Kumar - director of the centre for social research.

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Venezuelans prefer Chavez be treated at home. Published on Dec 30, 2012 :: Ever since he was diagnosed with cancer last year, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez has been receiving treatment in Cuba. This has got some people to ask why he is not being treated at home. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports from Caracas.

Latest Headlines

■ Asian Nations Giving Enthusiastic Welcome to 2013 
■ Chavez Suffers New Complications in Cancer Fight
■ U.S. Family Pleas for Couple Missing in Afghanistan
■ 9 Killed in Tour Bus Crash Along Oregon Highway
■ Car Bombing Targeting Shiites in Pakistan Kills 19
■ Maine Man Held in Deaths of Teenage Tenants
■ Comedian Katt Williams Arrested in LA  || LATIMES - Comedian Katt Williams in trouble with police -- again
■ International Syria Envoy Warns of Surge in Deaths
■ German Magazine Mistakenly Publishes Bush Obituary 
■ Nobel Scientist Levi-Montalcini Dies in Rome, 103
■ Obama Wants Gun Violence Measures Passed in 2013
■ Spanish Police Arrest 17 Suspected Pimps 
■ At Least 15 Killed in Sect Attack in North Nigeria
■ CNN: Woman Accused in Newtown Scam 
■ CNN: Fiscal Cliff Could Put Your Tax Refund on Hold 

► France Strikes Down 75% Income Tax On the Rich 

By Bruce Crumley
* France's Colonial Hangover: Apologizing Abroad, Ignoring Injustice at Home
* France 'Biggest Problem' in Euro Crisis, Say German Officials

► Fiscal Cliff Disputes Remain as Deadline Nears

* Fiscal Cliff Will Force Big Business Against Mom and Pop

► Hillary Clinton Hospitalized with Blood Clot
► Hollywood Solves Its Fiscal Cliff Crisis: Hobbit, Django and Les Mis All Win Big 
► India Demands Change as It Mourns Gang Rape Victim

* India Rape Sparks Violent Protests (PHOTOS)

► Year in Review: Take TIME's 2012 News Quiz
► Hunt for the Vicuña: Can This Andean Animal Be a Cash Cow?

Featured

■ TIME's Top 10 New Species (PHOTOS)
■ Top 10 Comebacks of 2012 
■ TIME's Top 10 Songs of 2012 
■ The Year's 10 Worst Tweets

► 2012: Los Angeles celebrates - Los Angeles knows how to celebrate

P H O T O S

* Top films | Betsy Sharkey 
* Best albums | Randall Roberts 
* Celebrity portraits by The Times
* Readers picture the solar eclipse
* A year of triumphs
* Top 10 tech products
* Impact of the hurricane season
* Notable deaths

► 2012 in Review

3 PICTURES TODAY

A Russian man holds an ice cream as he swims with other people dressed as Santa Claus in an ice-hole of a pond in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on December 30, 2012, on the eve of the New Year's celebrations. AFP PHOTO/VALERY TITIEVSKY

A man is seen wrapped with pythons, some which include the Albino Burmese Python, as part of a show celebrating the coming Year of the Snake in the Chinese calendar, while spectators look on, in Malabon city, north of Manila December 28, 2012. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

A reveler dances during the "Carnaval de Cali Viejo" parade, on December 28, 2012, in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. This parade makes a tour of the popular people and the most important historical events of this region of Colombia. AFP PHOTO/Luis ROBAYO