Recommended: Stopping US obesity could save nearly $550 billion, report finds – msnbc.com
By Judith GrahamKaiser Health News Cut the growth in rates of obesity by just 1 percent a year over the next two decades, and you’ll slice health care costs by $ 85 billion. Keep obesity rates at their current levels – which is well below a 33 percent increase being projected — and you’ll save [...]
VIDEO: Arizona wildfire continues to grow
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Al-Qaeda bomb ‘foiled by insider’
8 May 2012 Last updated at 10:01 ET The FBI has said the plot never posed a threat to public safety, and security will remain right A plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to attack a US-bound plane was foiled by an insider who infiltrated an al-Qaeda-linked terror cell, US officials say. The seized device is [...]
Jimmy Choo launches street style blog
AFP Relax News – 2 hrs 21 mins ago Jimmy Choo has teamed up with top fashion photographer Eddie Newton to launch new site Choo 24:7 Stylemakers, where both amateur snappers and professionals can upload their street style pictures. Responding to the growing interest in street style photography and the social aspect of sharing fashion via blogs [...]
Russia’s Putin asks parliament to back Medvedev
By Gleb Bryanski and Timothy Heritage | Reuters – 42 mins ago MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin asked Russia‘s lower house on Tuesday to confirm his ally Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister in a job swap that has angered many Russians and sparked protests against the men’s grip on power. “I count on your support,” Putin [...]
