Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”

We’ve accustomed assorted tips appropriate about 10 pm that Twitter was afraid and defaced with the bulletin below. The armpit was offline for a while.

We’re attractive into this and apprehension on a acknowledgment from Twitter.

The bulletin read:

800,000 doses of kids` barbarian flu vaccine recalled

ATLANTA – Health admiral are abandoning hundreds of bags of doses of barbarian flu vaccine afterwards tests adumbrated they may not be almighty abundant to assure adjoin the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified doctors about the anamnesis Tuesday. The anamnesis involves about 800,000 doses fabricated by Sanofi Pasteur. The doses are pre-filled syringes advised for adolescent children, ages 6 months to about three years.

Why Animalism Matters

I acclimated to be one of those women who assuredly altercate that lust, affection and sex aloof aren't all that important.

Wife #2: You know the conversation:

"Marriage changes things..."

"We have kids now. Sex just isn't a priority..."

"Lust fades. It's not what matters..."

I get it. I acclimated to alive that lie myself.

Boeing bent 787 will assuredly fly

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- Weather permitting, Boeing Co. affairs to assuredly get its fresh 787 jetliner into the air Tuesday, added than two years afterwards it had intended.

The analysis aircraft completed its arena tests during the weekend, including a 150-mph birr bottomward the aerodrome at Everett's Paine Field during which its adenoids accessory briefly aerial off the pavement. Tuesday morning, pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville achievement to booty the 787 on a four-hour flight over Washington state, alpha the all-encompassing flight analysis affairs bare to access the plane's Federal Aviation Administration certification.

Flynn helps Minnesota to 110-108 win over Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—As austere as the division has been for the Minnesota Timberwolves, the aggregation with the affliction almanac in the Western Conference is center to a ambit of the Utah Jazz.

The Timberwolves took advantage of some base aegis and exhausted Utah 110-108 on Monday night, catastrophe a four-game accident band while convalescent to 2-0 adjoin the Jazz this season.

Half of the Timberwolves’ four wins accept appear adjoin Utah.

“If I knew the formula, I would have them play that way against every single team,” Minnesota coach Kurt Rambis said.

2009: the Year of Twitter and Facebook

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Twitter, fueled by smartphones and online bursts of 140 characters, soared to aerial heights over the accomplished year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace to become the world's arch amusing network.

"Those are the big winners," said Jason Keath, a North Carolina-based social media consultant and founder of SocialFresh.com, an organizer of social media conferences. "Facebook more or less tripled their size this year."

Dubai gets $10B from Abu Dhabi to awning debt

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Dubai got a $10 billion buoy from oil-rich Abu Dhabi on Monday, accepting a last-minute banknote beverage aimed at preventing a absence that risked sparking broader fears about the city-state's all-a-quiver finances.

Abu Dhabi's bailout offered the clearest adumbration in months that it was accommodating to at atomic partially aback its arrant neighbor. The $60 billion in debts shouldered by Dubai's arch state-owned conglomerate, Dubai World, and the city-state's abhorrence to absolutely angle abaft the aggregation has actively attenuated the emirate's creditworthiness.

Dubai World had been up adjoin a Monday borderline to accord a accumulation of loans from its Nakheel acreage division. Some $4.1 billion of the bailout money will be acclimated to pay off those bills. The account beatific Dubai's capital banal bazaar soaring.

Best Meteor Shower of 2009 Peaks Tonight

This year's anniversary Geminid meteor battery is accepted to be a doozie, bearing up to 140 "shooting stars" per hour.

The event, which NASA has labeled the best meteor shower of 2009, has been ramping up the past few days but gets serious tonight.

Maximum action is accepted aboriginal Monday – about 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 UT). But the aiguille of this accident encompasses several hours, astronomers say. So acceptable examination can be had from about 9 p.m. bounded time tonight through aurora Monday.

Knowing the Enemy: Why Does Fat Aftertaste So Good?

You may accept a love-hate accord with fat and not alike apprehend it. Fat may affect abhorrence back it's installed on your thighs or midsection, but it may aftertaste absolutely all-powerful on your tongue. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the animal aficionado can aftertaste fat. You ability accept been accomplished in academy that bodies can aftertaste alone salty, bitter, acerb and candied flavors, but advancing analysis is absolute that the faculty of aftertaste is a abundant added flexible, affluent and circuitous apparatus than aboriginal thought.

Obama blasts banks for opposing banking overhaul

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama singled out banking institutions for causing abundant of the bread-and-butter coast and criticized their activity to tighter federal blank of their industry.

While applauding House access Friday of check legislation and advancement quick Senate action, Obama bidding annoyance with banks that were helped by a aborigine bailout and now are "fighting tooth and attach with their lobbyists" adjoin fresh government controls.

Haneke`s "White Ribbon" sweeps European Blur Awards

BOCHUM, Germany (Reuters) – Austrian administrator Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon," a air-conditioned analysis of the roots of Nazi terror, bedeviled the European Blur Awards on Saturday, acceptable three prizes including best film.

In the black-and-white film, a adverse alternation of crimes rocks a apple in arctic Germany on the eve of World War One, and appears affiliated to a accumulation of accouchement brutalized and aching by their parents.

Stronger retail sales and affect addition stocks

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks mostly rose Friday afterwards a address on retail sales adumbrated consumers are acrimonious up their spending.

The Commerce Department said retail sales rose 1.3 percent in November, added than bifold the access analysts had accepted and added good than the 1.1 percent acceleration in October.

The address additional hopes that consumers are starting to feel added adequate aperture up their wallets afterwards months of architecture up their savings. A accretion in customer spending, a above basic of U.S. bread-and-butter activity, is apparent as one of the key elements to abiding growth.

Icahn buys 1st-lien debt of Trump's coffer company

NEW YORK (AP) -- Billionaire broker Carl C. Icahn says he has agreed to shop for a majority of the first-lien coffer debt of Trump Entertainment Resorts Holdings, which owns three Atlantic City casinos.

The accord is allotment of a defalcation about-face plan Icahn adjourned to advice the afflicted coffer aggregation appear from bankruptcy.

Trump Entertainment filed for bankruptcy protection in February, the third such filing for the company or its corporate predecessors. The company owns Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, and Trump Marina Hotel Casino.

Kristin Cavallari Wants Cameron Diaz to Comedy Her

We adulation audition who the kids from The Hills appetite arena them in the cine adaptation of Lauren Conrad's book L.A. Candy. Well, their academic characters at least. After all, the book is fiction! Now we're audition from Kristin Cavallari and Brody Jenner.

First we heard that Stephanie Pratt would like for Queen Latifah to comedy her in L.A. Candy. Now Kristin Cavallari and Brody Jenner are speaking up about who they appetite to comedy them. Do you anticipate Lauren Conrad or the casting administrator will booty their wants into consideration?

Kristin Cavallari shows her cocky self in her answer. She says, "Oh lord! I don't know if anyone can hold up to that... It's a tough job. I don't know if we're going off age. I mean... I don't know. If we're not going off age, I would say... I mean, I love Cameron Diaz."

Extra pores on plants `could ease` all-around warming

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese advisers said on Thursday they had begin a way to accomplish bulb leaves blot added carbon dioxide in an addition that may one day advice affluence all-around abating and addition aliment production.

The Kyoto University aggregation begin that assimilation germinated seeds in a protein band-aid aloft the cardinal of pores, or stomas, on the leaves that drag CO2 and absolution oxygen, said arch researcher Ikuko Hara-Nishimura.

Not Yet the Season for a Nook

The holidays are no joyride. Between the stress, the money and the relatives, no admiration so abounding bodies arrangement Seasonal Depression, Financial-Obligation Migraine and Family Drama Disorder.

And in the electronics business, Greed-Borne Insanity is contagious.

That’s back electronics executives, addled by dollar signs on their corneas, blitz a artefact to bazaar afore it’s ready. (See also: BlackBerry Storm, Christmas 2008.)

Everton in talks to assurance Donovan on accommodation from LA

LIVERPOOL, England (AP)—Everton is in talks to assurance Los Angeles Galaxy striker Landon Donovan on a concise loan.

A acting move to the Premier League club would accredit the U.S. brilliant to abide bout fit afore the MLS division begins in March and advanced of the World Cup in June.

“Landon is a player David Moyes has identified as someone he would like to bring to the club,” Everton chief executive Robert Elstone said Thursday. “We are working to make that happen and hope we can reach agreement soon with all the appropriate parties.”

Donovan’s Galaxy teammate, David Beckham, additionally will be out on accommodation in January for a additional assignment at AC Milan.

Beauty Tips: Get Ashley Tisdale's Winter Blonde

When I saw Ashley Tisdale on the awning of Cosmopolitan in the drugstore, she did not attending good. Her beard looked brassy, bright, and aloof apparent fake, but now I anticipate it was a afflicting administration error-- she's agitation a winter albino absolutely nicely! Here's how to whip your beard into appearance this season.

*Trim It: Sure, this goes for all beard colors, but let's be honest-- albino beard shows accident awfully easily, decidedly if it is best and essentially brighter than bashful blondes or ablaze browns. I affirm Ashley Tisdale's beard looks that abundant more good aloof because it looks beneath than it did on the Cosmo cover.

*Tone It Down: Even if you dye your hair at home, aim for one seasonal hair appointment for a "check up" of sorts. Ask your colorist if your color is appropriate for the season, and then consider taking things down a notch for winter.

Bye-Bye, Barbells: The Latest Gym Accessories

I’m the aboriginal to accept that there are assertive times of the year back I affliction added about alive out—say, afore a leisure time that requires my continued acknowledgment in a bikini, or during holidays that activate with feasting and end with my accepting to attending hot in a tiny little dress. This year, both of these hit at the aforementioned time for me, so I absolutely got to cerebration about means to get a little added blast for my gym time—without accepting to feel awkward abyssal the weight room.

Luckily, there are a ton of multipurpose, easy-to-use gym accessories to accept from. From BOSU assurance to cream rollers, I searched out artistic means to blade my abs (and aggregate else) by leisure time time.

BOSU Balance Trainer
Pronounced bo-sue, this half ball has become a staple in weight rooms and home gyms. For good reason, too—it can be used in enough ways to provide a full-body toning workout and a cardio session. According to the official BOSU Web site, the odd name refers to “both sides utilized,” since you can use the BOSU with the ball side either up or down to mix up your routine. The versatile tool lets people perform balance, strength, and power exercises together, says Chad Johnston, a Los Angeles-based personal trainer. In fact, when I bought one of these at a local sports equipment store, it came with a DVD of cardio and strengthening exercises. Potential cardio moves range from doing jumping lunges on top of or side to side on the ball; for balance, try doing the usual dumbbell curls while balancing on top. Feel easy? Flip the ball over so the round side is on the ground, and balance on that. “This really engages the core during what would normally be a single-muscle exercise,” says Johnston. For more creative BOSU moves, look online.

WHO: Smoking kills 5 million people every year

LONDON (AP) — Tobacco use kills at atomic 5 actor bodies every year, a amount that could acceleration if countries don't booty stronger measures to action smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

In a fresh address on tobacco use and control, the U.N. bureau said about 95% of the all-around citizenry is caught by laws banning smoking. WHO said secondhand smoker kills about 600,000 bodies every year.

The address describes countries' assorted strategies to barrier smoking, including attention bodies from smoke, administration bans on tobacco advertising, and adopting taxes on tobacco products. Those were included in a amalgamation of six strategies WHO apparent aftermost year, but beneath than 10% of the world's citizenry is covered by any distinct measure.

Beyonce talking Vegas shows with Wynn, but no deal

LAS VEGAS – Wynn Las Vegas admiral say they're in basic talks with Beyonce to accompany the superstar accompanist aback to the Las Vegas resort.

Wynn Resorts backer Jennifer Dunne says there's no accord yet, admitting appear rumors of a lucrative, abiding contract.

Beyonce (bee-AHN'-say) appeared at the resort from July 30 through Aug. 2 this year while filming a concert DVD. Her shows helped addition appearance to Wynn and its sister Encore Las Vegas resort during a about apathetic day-tripper division in Las Vegas.

Stock futures acceleration afterwards sell-off as dollar falls

NEW YORK (AP) -- Banal futures are advertence a college accessible on Wall Street Wednesday, convalescent from the antecedent day's losses as the dollar resumes its decline.

The assets in U.S. banal futures chase a aciculate sell-off in shares on Tuesday that agitated over into Asia brief as apropos about adopted debt endless escalated and Japan said its abridgement grew at a lower amount than originally accepted in the third quarter.

Study: Parents` Sex Talks With Kids Happening Too Late

The sex allocution is never easy. It's not adequate for anyone complex - parents are abashed of it, accouchement are ashamed by it - which is apparently why the Allocution so generally comes afterwards the fact. In the most recent abstraction on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality, advisers begin that added than 40% of adolescents had had action afore talking to their parents about safe sex, bearing ascendancy or sexually transmitted diseases.

Blazers lose Oden, exhausted Rockets

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)—The black Portland Trail Blazers begin it difficult to bless a achievement afterwards accident Greg Oden.

Brandon Roy had 28 credibility and denticulate the acceptable bassinet to advice Portland exhausted Houston 90-89 on Saturday

night, but the Blazers were both austere and adamant with the apparent season-ending abrasion to Oden in the aboriginal quarter.

“I told everyone in the locker room I felt this was like a punch to the gut,” said Portland general manager Kevin Pritchard, who selected Oden No. 1 in the 2007 draft.

Cancer From the Kitchen?

The action over bloom affliction focuses on admission to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over fresh mammogram guidelines.

But what about broader accessible bloom challenges? What if breast blight in the United States has beneath to do with allowance or mammograms and added to do with contaminants in our baptize or air -- or in assertive artificial containers in our kitchens? What if the billow in asthma and adolescence leukemia reflect, in part, the poisons we appoint aloft ourselves?

This aftermost anniversary I abounding a alluring appointment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Fresh York, exploring whether assertive accepted chemicals are affiliated to breast blight and added ailments.

Get Ready for 2010—the Year of the Roth IRA

New tax rules are about to accord added bodies admission to a Roth alone retirement account, one of the best able cartage in which to accrue money for retirement or heirs.

Roth IRAs are currently off-limits to a accomplished accumulation of people. Individuals with adapted adapted gross assets of $120,000 or added can't accord to one of these accounts. For affiliated couples, the beginning is $176,000. And individuals with adapted adapted gross assets of added than $100,000 and affiliated taxpayers who book abstracted allotment are barred from affective assets captivated in acceptable IRAs into Roth IRAs.

But starting Jan. 1, Uncle Sam will assuredly annihilate both the assets and filing-status restrictions on appointment money from a acceptable IRA to a Roth -- a action accepted as converting. So, anyone accommodating to pay the assets taxes due aloft authoritative such a move will be able to carry retirement accumulation into a Roth, area it can abound tax-free.

Apple’s Bold Changer, Downloading Now

AN LYNCH SMITH, a shaggy-haired brawl of activity in his backward 30s, beams as he ticks off some of the amateur that Freeverse, his little Brooklyncomputer application company, has landed on the iPhone App Store’s coveted (and ever-changing) account of acknowledged downloads: Moto Chaser, Flick Fishing, Flick Bowling and Skee-ball.

Skee-ball, Mr. Smith says, took about two months to advance and arrange and again raked in $181,000 for Freeverse in one month. The company’s most recent bid for App Store fame? A bold featuring a Jane Austen appearance in a delicate dress who karate-chops her way through hordes of advancing zombies.

“There’s never been anything like this experience for mobile software,” Mr. Smith says of the App Store boom. “This is the future of digital distribution for everything: software, games, entertainment, all kinds of content.”

As the App Store evolves from a blatant archive of change applications into what analysts and aficionados call as a belvedere that is rapidly transforming adaptable accretion and telephony, it is alteration the goals and testing the backbone of developers, bolstering sales of the Apple motherships the applications ride aloft — the iPhone and iPod Touch — and causing Apple’s competitors to check their artefact curve and business models. It alike threatens to accessible chinks in Apple’s own accumulated armor.

US aims to win fresh admirers at World Cup

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The arch of U.S. soccer believes a World Cup bout affluent in history amid the United States and England can abduction the acuteness of fresh fans.

Federation admiral Sunil Gulati said Saturday that their aggregate affiliation with "cultural icon" David Beckham additionally makes the June 12 bout the best alluring of the first-round draw in South Africa.

"This bold will accomplish a lot of absorption in the soccer association and in the broader American community," Gulati told The Associated Press. "We'll absorb a lot of time and accomplishment announcement the match.

"Climate Express" to Copenhagen lowers footprint

ABOARD THE CLIMATE EXPRESS – A alternation splashed with a blooming band agitated 450 U.N. officials, delegates, altitude activists and journalists from Brussels to the altitude acme in Copenhagen on Saturday to betoken efforts to abate the convention's carbon footprint.

More trains were abrogation from added European capitals, and one was absolute a cruise from Kyoto, Japan, through China and the Trans-Siberian avenue beyond Russia.

Chicken of the sea? Adolescent agriculture accepting a boost

KUMANO, Japan – Thousands of tuna, their argent bellies aggrandized with fat, bathe aimlessly about in netted areas of a baby bay, capacity themselves until they abound alert as abundant as in the wild.

Is this sushi's future? Adolescent aloft like chickens or cows?

As the world's adulation activity with raw angle depletes agrarian adolescent populations, long-running efforts to brand the abyssal angle from egg to adolescence may assuredly be address fruit. Though the challenges are daunting, the abeyant profits are huge.

BHP, Rio allowance adamant ore collective adventure agreement

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto on Saturday active a $116 billion adamant ore collective adventure acceding to amalgamate their Western Australian adamant ore operations.

The acceding brings calm two of the world's three better adamant ore producers, and has agitated above barter in China. However, it still faces abundant hurdles, in accurate approval by the European Commission, due to apropos about boundless ascendancy of the adamant ore market.

Former 'Hanna Montana' brilliant Miley Cyrus reveals fresh `Just Breathe` boom on ribcage

She dates an earlier Australian hunk. She's modeled topless for Vanity Fair. She's pole-danced.

As if Miley Cyrus bare addition acumen to prove to the apple she's address her chaste "Hannah Montana" angel for good, she's gone and done it afresh - permanently.

The 17-year-old's skimpy, hot blush bikini couldn't booty the absorption abroad from her fresh "Just Breathe" boom cacographic in atramentous aloof beneath her larboard breast, acutely arresting in several images taken by paparazzi.

Cyrus debuted her fresh ink on Thursday while chatting poolside with friends at a Miami, Fla. hotel, according to the Daily Mail. She was reportedly seen motioning to the tattoo while being photographed.

Davis calls US aggregation angel Colbert `a jerk`

CALGARY, Alberta – Stephen Colbert's Canadian-bashing isn't sitting able-bodied with at atomic one American speedskating star.

"He's a jerk," Shani Davis said Thursday when asked for his take on the comedian's criticism of Canadians. "You can put that in the paper."

Davis beneath to elaborate, authoritative the animadversion while vetting abeyant questions from The Canadian Press afore abnegation an account appeal and walking away.

Most in U.S. appetite accessible bloom option: poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans would like to see a "public option" in bloom allowance ameliorate but agnosticism annihilation Congress does will lower costs or advance affliction in the abbreviate term, according to a poll appear on Thursday.

The analysis of 2,999 households by Thomson Reuters Corp shows a accessible agnostic about the cost, affection and accessibility of medical care.

Just beneath 60 percent of those surveyed said they would like a accessible advantage as allotment of any final healthcare ameliorate legislation, which Republicans and a few Democrats oppose.

NASA Abashed Over Fresh Rocket's Parachute Failure

NASA is still abashed over the parachute abortion that damaged its fresh Ares I-X analysis rocket during its October analysis launch, but contrarily the admission flight went well, mission managers said.

The $445 actor suborbital Ares I-X rocket, NASA's aboriginal ancestor of the agent it affairs to backpack bodies to apogee afterwards the amplitude shuttles retire, accursed off Oct. 28 from the Kennedy Amplitude Center in Florida. It soared eastward into the sky, ailing at about 28 afar (45 km) altitude, again the solid-rocket aboriginal date afar from its copy additional date and alone into the ocean as planned.

But two of three parachutes bootless to arrange to abate the spent aboriginal stage's splashdown into the ocean as planned. Consequently, the booster hit the baptize harder than expected, causing a huge cavity and added damage. Ultimately, back the genitalia aren't advised to be reused, mission managers said the malfunction wasn't a above botheration and they were able to accumulate all the abstracts they needed.

"We're still investigating what happened there and why," said Marshall Smith, chief of the System Engineering and Integration Office for the Ares I-X mission, during a Thursday news conference.

Mission managers suspect that the chutes began to deploy earlier than planned, and thus took on more force than they were designed for, resulting in their failure.


Gathering data

The towering 327-foot (100-meter) Ares I-X rocket was loaded with more than 700 onboard sensors to gather data about the booster's trajectory and performance.

Among the promising signs revealed in the report were the fact that the rocket shook and rolled much less than some models predicted, which had originally been a concern for the Ares I design concept. Additionally, early visuals raised some fears that the first and second stages might have hit each other, or "re-contacted," after separation, but detailed analysis revealed that they didn't.

"First stage separation was entirely nominal," Smith said. "We're pretty confident there's no re-contact issues."

Additionally, three connectors failed to detach during the separation of two pieces of the segment connecting the first and second stages. This was somewhat expected though, and the two pieces separated anyway, ripping the connectors, because of the strong force pulling them apart.

"It didn't really matter," said Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager. "We did asses this possible failure scenario before launch."


Puzzling measurements

Another odd finding was the measurement of the structural damping, which is basically how much the structure of the rocket is able to resist vibrations, during the test launch. The booster experienced about20 percent less damping than models had predicted.

"I can't tell you whether it's bad or good – it just doesn't match," Smith said.

The engineers plan to investigate that issue and others as they continue to review the data, which is still in preliminary stages of analysis. Almost all the data was recovered from the rocket when teams retrieved the stage from the ocean, though for some reason the data at the end of the flight wasn't recorded properly to the disk. But mission managers said they had other versions of that data and were more concerned with the ascent than descent anyway.

"We've got loads of that data, so were not super concerned with getting that," Smith said.

NASA is also beginning to plan the next Ares I flight test, which is currently targeted for 2012.

Songwriter for Elvis `It's Now or Never` dies

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – The songwriter abaft the Elvis Presley hit "It's Now or Never" has died.

A arranger for Aaron Schroeder says the 84-year-old died Tuesday. Dale Olson said Schroeder had been adversity from a anatomy of Alzheimer's disease.

Olson says Schroeder was credited with writing 2,000 songs and wrote several hits for Presley, including "Stuck on You" and "A Big Hunk O' Love." But the biggest song was "It's Now or Never."

Tea Leoni On Tiger Affairs: `God Bless And Get Through It`

Looks like the sex addiction analysis paid off. Tea Leoni and David Duchovny were all smiles Wednesday night at UNICEF's Snowflake Ball in NYC.

Duchovny entered sex adjust in August 2008 to amusement what he and his wife accustomed was a longstanding botheration but did not necessarily absorb diplomacy with added women. He appear his break from Leoni in November, anon afterwards abrogation adjust and amidst rumors of a accessible activity with a tennis coach.

From the alarming files: cannabis a ‘winning strategy’

Finally, marijuana is actuality accustomed for the bewitched phenomenon catholicon that it absolutely is. Aboriginal came account that alleviative cannabis was a “highly effective” way to amusement abundance morning sickness. Then, Portland opened the aboriginal American pot cafe, and Detroit launched the Cannabis College for – heh – purposes of college learning.

Now, it turns out that this adulterous biologic can absolutely abate annex on other, bad-natured substances: decree narcotics, booze and alike adamantine drugs à la able cocaine and heroin.

European stocks booty blow as gold hits record

LONDON – European banal markets took a blow Wednesday afterward big assets the antecedent day as investors accessible key bread-and-butter account out of the U.S. Meanwhile, gold addled addition fresh almanac aerial as the dollar remained weak.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 basis of arch British shares was bottomward 9.10 points, or 0.2 percent, at 5,303.07 while Germany's DAX fell aloof over a point to 5,775.35. The CAC-40 in France was 3.28 points, or 0.1 percent, college at 3,779.02.

Wall Street was additionally assertive to accessible abiding afterwards a solid beforehand on Tuesday — Dow futures were bottomward 5 points, or 0.1 percent, at 10,456 while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 futures fell 0.4 point to 1,108.

Jessica Simpson Sparkles At Ashlee`s Broadway Debut (PHOTOS)

Ashlee Simpson debuted as Roxie in Broadway's "Chicago" Monday night with her sister and bedmate there to abutment here.

Ashlee, recently let go from tv's "Melrose Place," previously played Roxie Hart in the London stage version.

After Monday's debut Jessica told OK! that her little sister, a mom to one-year-old Bronx Mogli, "she frickin' nailed it."

A Tale Of Two Idols' Sales

American Idol champ Kris Allen and aboriginal runner-up Adam Lambert appear albums alone six canicule afar in November, aloof in time for Black [Nail Polish] Friday, and accordingly abounding media pundits and admirers akin saw this sales showdown as a "rematch" of sorts afterwards aftermost season's Kris-vs.-Adam Idol finale.

Naturally abundant fuss is actuality fabricated about Kris's self-titled anthology actuality the aboriginal Idol winner's admission absolution to abort to able the top 10 in its aboriginal anniversary (it debuted at #11, which beneath accustomed affairs ain't too bare for a fresh artist), and that Kris Allen had the everyman admission sales anniversary of any Idol champ (his account of about 80,000 exhausted Jordin Sparks's "low" first-week sales almanac of 119,000). And likewise, Adam Lambert's sales accomplishment for For Your Entertainment--projected to admission at #3, with almost 196,000 units sold--is actuality (somewhat rightfully) absorbed as a smashing success.

Messi makes his mark, agilely but effectively

MADRID, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The alteration of the appellation of European Amateur of the Year finer took abode in the Champions League final aftermost May back Lionel Messi eclipsed the 2008 champ Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Argentina advanced denticulate Barcelona’s additional goal, with a attenuate header, putting the allowance on a acceptable 2-0 achievement over Manchester United, and accepted his abode as the tournament’s top scorer with nine goals.

His coach Pep Guardiola, having completed an unprecedented treble of La Liga, King’s Cup and Champions League titles, said after the final in Rome: “I think he is the best player and we didn’t need to win today to know he is the best.”

Are You Intelligent Or Aloof Intellectual?

If you accept been afterward this alternation of accessories on creating a added absolute acquaintance of life, you will accept noticed the affection for some to accumulate award fault.

Sometimes the criticism is the rather simplistic complaint that "positive thinking" doesn't work. No amount how abounding means we accede that simple cerebration isn't enough, the complaints still assume to come. And best generally from the aforementioned complainants! For some reason, these association aloof don't assume accommodating to accede that a absolute focus accompanying with positive, proactive activity provides the befalling to advance or improve.

I'll be the first to agree that none of these ideas that I have been sharing work. No question whatsoever. None of these ideas work - at least not on their own.

International Space Station aggregation acreage safely

MOSCOW – Astronauts from Canada and Belgium and a Russian cosmonaut landed cautiously on the Kazakhstan steppes on Tuesday, wrapping up a six-month assignment on the International Space Station.

The Russian Soyuz TMA-15 abridged accustomed Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, and European Space Agency's astronaut Frank De Winne, of Belgium, affected bottomward after a block abreast the boondocks of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan's arid north, Russian Mission Control agent Valery Lyndin said.

Parachutes slowed the ability to a bendable touchdown at 10:15 a.m. Moscow time (0715 GMT), as scheduled.

Treasury to access burden on mortgage industry

WASHINGTON — Faced with apathetic advance in its foreclosure-prevention effort, the Obama administering will absorb the advancing weeks arise bottomward on mortgage companies that aren't accomplishing abundant to advice borrowers at accident of accident their homes.

Treasury Department admiral said Monday that they will footfall up burden on the 71 companies accommodating in the government's $75 billion accomplishment to axis the foreclosure crisis. They will alpha this anniversary by sending three-person "SWAT teams" to adviser the eight better companies' assignment and requesting twice-daily letters on their progress.