LOS ANGELES News, Feb 13, 2012

Health makes a comeback UPI.com The US consumer price index report is due on Friday. That leaves investments based on product news, mergers and acquisitions and the financial upheaval in Europe that is a bottomless pit of anxiety-provokingheadlines. The New York Times reported ... See all stories on this topic »

Private Equity Industry Attracts SEC Scrutiny New York Times By PETER LATTMAN Peter Foley/Bloomberg NewsBillionaires like Stephen A. Schwarzman, top, of the Blackstone Group, and Henry R. Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts have long attracted headlines for their audacious deals. In recent years, the private ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Baseball notebook: Offseason moves beef up American League offenses Columbus Dispatch “I think it's great,” said Lincecum, a two-time Cy Young Award winner with the San Francisco Giants. “I won't have to pitch to them anymore.” Just 106 days after the surprising St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series, baseball returned over the ... See all stories on this topic »

Whitney Houston: Music world pays homage to fallen superstar Detroit Free Press Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times From the Staples Center in Los Angeles to the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, on the Web and beyond, tearful fans, bereaved friends and saddened fellow artists had a simple message for Whitney Houston tonight: We ... See all stories on this topic »

Amplats earnings down, sees flat 2012 output Reuters * Safety stops now involve entire shafts, mines * Headline earnings down almost 30 pct as expected (Adds details, background) JOHANNESBURG, FEB 13 - Anglo American Platinum , the world's largest producer of the precious metal, said on Monday that ... See all stories on this topic »

Blog Nuggets: Attend Israeli apartheid week, win a trip to Syria National Post (blog) Bite-sized bits of bloggery based on today's headlines The eighth international Israeli apartheid week will be held in Toronto on March 5-10, organizers say. Mark it on your calendars! According to the release, this years events “will focus on the ... See all stories on this topic » National Post (blog)

Women's history in newspapers runs deep Vancouver Sun One could be forgiven for concluding the news biz was strictly a man'sworld – except for the pink-collar ghetto of that 'Women's Section.' Yet when I left that newspaper, the editor-in-chief — soon to be publisher — was a woman. Half the reporting ... See all stories on this topic »

A.M. Roundup: Testing the new lines Albany Times Union (blog) Here are headlines from the morning and weekend… If you re-ran the 2010 vote through the proposed 2012 lines, the majority parties in both the Assembly and Senate would increase their control, an analysis finds. (NY World) Alan Chartock on ... See all stories on this topic » Albany Times Union (blog)

Apple customers send quarter million petition to help iPad workers in China HULIQ 13, with BBC World News reporting that the petition “calls on Apple to do more to ensure its Chinese factory workers are treated better.” The campaign, on Change.org, follows numerous worldwide media reports about very poor working conditions at ... See all stories on this topic » HULIQ

50 years ago this week Jacksonville Daily Record It was a different era of history, culture and politics but there are often parallels between the kind of stories that made headlines then and today. As interesting as the differences may be, so are the similarities. These are some of the top stories ... See all stories on this topic »

Karotz Smart Rabbit (2012): Full Review LAPTOP Magazine In a wireless world, is there room for a talking robo-rabbit that must be plugged in at all times? Yes, at least according to French company Violet, which has just released its Karotz smart rabbit in the US market. This rabbit will read your RSS feeds ... See all stories on this topic »

Murder In The Courts: All In The Name Of Parental Rights? Forbes Murder in the courts isn't the image by which I would want theworld to remember 7-year-old Charles and 5-year-old Braden Powell. But that stark reality seems the only way for this country to look from behind their rose-colored glasses into the war of ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Emata: Filipinos are strong and brave Sun.Star To the media people, things like these are big stories. They hit the world headlines and the disasters spread from corner to corner. Many times, the country commands large spaces in the newspapers, radio and televisions with deafening big stories. See all stories on this topic »

Jonathan Takiff: Favorite Kindle Fire apps, most free or costing less than $5 Sacramento Bee NEWS GATHERING 101: To me, the most magical thing about a tablet computer is its ability to bring the world to your hands through so-called "content aggregators." These are focused, customizable search engines that show what's popping on websites, ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook economics, Apple phone wars, and 'Big Data' TechFlash Connect with TechFlash on our Facebook page for all the latest technology news headlines and commentary, plus information and access to special events, photos from events, promotions and more. by Michele Matassa Flores on Monday, February 13, 2012, ... See all stories on this topic »

Can India find room for the Irish? Irish Times Bashing out the fastest century in cricket World Cup history en route to beating the “aul enemy” led to front page headlines(“Fireland!”) and had Indians running to their maps. Cricket, along with domestic politics and Bollywood, is the national ... See all stories on this topic » Irish Times

On the Katechon and the Possibility of a Latin American Großraum Telos Press A recent Colombian periodical announced the news: by the end of 2011, the country's capital, Bogotá, reported an unemployment rate, at least by official accounts, 0.3% lower than that of the United States. The headlines, mediatic as they may intend, ... See all stories on this topic »

Perrier stepping aside at Le Bec-Fin Philadelphia Inquirer The city's pioneering French chef, who put Philadelphia on the world'sculinary map four decades ago, says he is stepping aside from the helm of his famed restaurant. On Thursday night, he told attendees at the Almost Famous Chef Competition at the ... See all stories on this topic »

U.S.-Traded ETF in First 2012 Drop as Greece Slams Oil: Russia Overnight Bloomberg Rusal (486), the world's largest aluminum producer, dropped 1.2 percent to HK$6.55 in Hong Kong trading as of 11:01 am local time. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index gained 0.2 percent today after Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos obtained approval from ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Warren Buffett's putting his trust in business SmartCompany.com.au The article is basically a restatement of Buffett's investment philosophy, but it is making headlines around the world for what many commentators see as an attack on the asset classes of bonds and gold. Buffett is particularly scathing of bonds, ... See all stories on this topic »

Investor, follow your heart Globe and Mail All of them made for troubling headlines Friday that sent a wave of worry crashing into global equity and commodity markets. Markets can be tough to navigate at the best of times. And these are far from the best of times. The welter of conflicting news ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Making of a modernist: Djuna Barnes' newspaper days on display at the Brooklyn ... Capital New York In the other, she clings around the waist of a fireman who is himself attached by harness to a rope, several stories above ground outside a brick building. Barnes looks up at the camera, her legs demurely crossed at the ankles while her feet, in heels, ... See all stories on this topic » Capital New York

That Luis Suarez is a dodgy piece of work who can't be trusted. The Sun There was also the infamous goal-line handball in the last minutes of extra-time that saved Uruguay from defeat by Ghana in the World Cup quarter-final in South Africa. Uruguay went on to win the penalty shoot-out and Suarez was acclaimed a hero in his ... See all stories on this topic »

Oil higher on Greek deal and evovling geopolitics International Business Times So far in both the Asian trading session as well as the European session (so far) most equity and commodity markets are in positive territory compared to Friday's... close mostly all based on moving Greece out of the media headlines. See all stories on this topic »

The Iranian media frenzy Jerusalem Post The direct result is that every day we see a headline about Iran in the news even though the stories themselves are often dangerous, undeserving of publication and sometimes even ridiculous. A good example of a risky item would be a recent piece which ... See all stories on this topic »

Zambia ride on destiny, crowned Champions of Africa Firstpost The fact that Didier Drogba, one of the world's most highly rated strikers, missed a penalty kick before the match went to extra-time and the eventual shoot-out, was enough proof that this Cup was for those who lost their lives in bringing glory to a... See all stories on this topic » Firstpost

SRK upset over Hrithik's 'hot Gauri' tweet Emirates 24/7 And hottest if I may add! Gauri khan!!! Watch out world, she's about to arrive.” Shah Rukh Khan, who recently made headlines for slapping Shirish Kunder, is now said to be annoyed with Hrithik Roshan, reportsHindustan Times. See all stories on this topic »

We Need To Start Again On Chief Executive Pay Motley Fool UK Endless newspaper headlines shout about rocketing fat cat pay. Stephen Hester, head of Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE: RBS), has had to forego his million-pound bonus, and I don't think he'll be the last. Every time the new pay package of a senior ... See all stories on this topic »

Old dog won't let go of the bone Stuff.co.nz In 2002, after National's vote sank to an all-time low, Mr Peters daily put the political boot into the bigger party and stomped the debating chamber demanding he be taken seriously as the real Leader of the Opposition. He hogged the headlines, ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

ETF Has First Drop of 2012 as Greece Slams Oil: Russia Overnight BusinessWeek Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer, dropped 1.2 percent to HK$6.55 in Hong Kong trading as of 11:01 am local time. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index gained 0.2 percent today after Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos obtained approval from his ... See all stories on this topic »

America's Risky Myopia on Iran Middle East Online However, the New York Times reports growing anxiety among Iran's middle classes. Already there have been reports of new military maneuvers by Iran and US troops being dispatched to islands off the coat of Yemen, near Iran. Under Republican and Israeli ... See all stories on this topic »

Bollywood kisses - kal aur aaj Films of India Right from the black and white period to the era where a kiss is a norm for any average film, here are some of the more famous kisses that madeheadlines in B-town. 1933 Karma - Believe it or not – this scene is from the 1933 film Karma starring ... See all stories on this topic »

The turning of the tide New Statesman (blog) Returning to her primary school in Worcester as female last September, Livvy James found her story strewn across theheadlines after other children's parents took it to local newspapers and the nationals picked it up. Having been compelled to explain ... See all stories on this topic » New Statesman (blog)

Deutsche Bank Said to Settle Kirch Case for About $1 Billion San Francisco Chronicle "The case meant negative headlines for Deutsche Bank. It wasn't so much of a business problem as a reputational one for the company," said Michael Seufert, an analyst with Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale in Hanover who recommends investors hold ... See all stories on this topic »

Investindustrial in bullish mood Financial Times On one of his frequent visits to London, Italy's most prominent private equity investor is beaming amid what he calls the best opportunities in Italy and Spain in a long time. “Today, Spain is the best market we have ever seen,” the chairman of ... See all stories on this topic »

As confidence grows, the regime's vice-like grip loosens Democratic Voice of Burma For the regime, releasing its archenemy was a good news story and it wanted the world to know about it. A similar process is happening now. Enter the words Burma or Myanmar into Google News and the result is a list of headlines littered with words such ... See all stories on this topic »

Chinese fans grieve over Whitney Houston's death People's Daily Online I believe the best way to commemorate her would be listening to her songs one more time," netizen "Shuyejiandeyangguang" wrote online. The singer's death made headlines across major website in China. As of 10 pm Sunday, more than 700000 micro-blogs ... See all stories on this topic »

A Guide for Big Bosses on How to Look Bad-Ass China Digital Times That introduced the world to the brand-new image of China's new generation of leaders. Today, Western suits have become the dress code for the politicians of the Celestial Empire. The bosses of the current empire especially like suits with two buttons ... See all stories on this topic »

Press freedom Today's Zaman From this perspective, it is no less an offense to try to pave the way for a coup, run headlines provoking the army to take action, make opponents the targets of shady networks by publishing news stories about them or to write books in cooperation with ... See all stories on this topic »

Karachi Literature Festival DAWN.com Dawn.com invites its readers to be a part of its Live Blog for the Karachi Literature Festival 2012 and share their experiences by blogging in real time by sending in comments and pictures at blog@dawn.com or use #dawn_com on Twitter. See all stories on this topic » DAWN.com

Race and Beyond: are Americans in denial about inequality? The Grio According to a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted last month, nearly 20 percent of households earning at the poverty level ($15000 or less annually) believe they're solidly middle class. Clearly belief in the American Dream is alive and well, ... See all stories on this topic »

Kaspersky maintains profitability and control as they move into 2012 The Tech Herald There were several reporters in Mexico with me, many of whom I've met before, and others who I've just followed while reading the headlines. On top of that, several of Kaspersky's research staff were on hand to talk about almost anything. See all stories on this topic » The Tech Herald

Priyanka Gandhi: Daughter of a political destiny India Today In a nation where public faith in politicians is at an all time low, Priyanka has clearly restored an element of charisma to electioneering. As the young and refreshing face of one of theworld's most famous political dynasties she has given new hope. See all stories on this topic » India Today

Love is all you need for excellent results in business and life Business Daily Africa Tim Sanders, a former Yahoo senior executive and a best-selling author of the book 'Today We are Rich', once said that in these times of war, recession and other problems, what the business world needs is less greed and more love, I concur. See all stories on this topic »

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