Monday, 22 August 2011

Kardashian, Humphries to wed in evening ceremony

 Calif. (AP) — Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are ready to walk down the aisle.The 30-year-old reality star and 26-year-old professional basketball player will be married Saturday evening in the exclusive Montecito area near Santa Barbara, Calif., in a ceremony that will be televised as a two-part special on E! in October.
It will be the first marriage for Humphries and the second for Kardashian, who was married to

FDA approves Seattle Genetics cancer drug

WASHINGTON- Drug regulators gave the go ahead on Friday for a blood cancer medicine by Seattle Genetics Inc, making it the first drug for Hodgkin's lymphoma approved in more than 30 years.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Seattle Genetics' Adcetris to treat two types of relatively rare

Tecca TV: TechLife on underwater art, Star Wars currency, healing through social media, and more

Welcome everyone to TechLife on Tecca TV, where we give you the 5 best technology-meets-lifestyle news stories in only 5 minutes. We try to bring a bit of Friday Fun to you each week! If you missed our episode last week, be sure to check it out for our take on the world's tallest tower, iPad ninja smugglers, NASA telling us we're all aliens, and more.
This week we discuss President Obama joining Foursquare, an iPad case

American Association of University Professors expresses concern over Dept. of Education’s new mandates

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Thursday expressed concern to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over the sexual harassment guidance the department issued to colleges in April.
In a letter to Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education, AAUP explained that while the organization has been pleased with the government’s push to reduce gender

Obama: Low rating shows unhappiness with Congress

VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (AP) — President Barack Obama says his low approval rating is a reflection of public unhappiness with Congress.
Obama tells CBS in an interview broadcast Sunday that he's "impacted," just like Congress, when people aren't happy with Washington.
He says he understands that his arguments that the country would have been

Analysis: Slowdown in core a new threat for euro zone

BERLIN - It's not hard to come up with reasons for the euro zone's exasperating inability to get a grip on its debt crisis.There's the German government's reluctance to take the bold steps that seem necessary to bring about a change in market sentiment toward Europe's single currency project.
There's the incessant public squabbling between the

Prosecutor to drop Strauss-Kahn case: report

 NEW YORK - Prosecutors will ask a judge to dismiss all charges in the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing on Tuesday, the New York Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.
The Manhattan district attorney's office will file a motion recommending the case be dropped and laying out the chronology of events that led to that point, according to the Post.
Strauss-Kahn, who has denied the allegations, was once seen as a leading contender to be president of France until a