LONDON (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday it had completed the sale of 28.2 million shares in Aspen Pharmacare at 250 rand each, raising gross proceeds of 7.059 billion rand ($ 694 million). Shares in the South African drug maker closed at 267.40 rand on Tuesday. GSK had previously said it planned to reduce its investment in the South African drug maker by one third, while remaining committed to working closely with Aspen. It now has a reduced stake of 12.4 percent. ($ 1 = 10.1738 South African rand) (Reporting by Ben Hirschler) Investment & Company...
SLIDESHOW: Barking mad? St Ives firm Woof and Brew launch herbal tea range … – Cambridge News [ BeritaTerkini ]
Charis makes the tea for Waffle to try, using Woof Brew herbal tea bags for dogs 6 Images What do you get for the dog that has everything this Christmas? How about herbal tea? Customers of a new St Ives firm are literally lapping up the range. But the people behind Woof and Brew are not barking mad, they have set their sights on a piece of the lucrative pet food market which is worth £2.7 billion a year in the UK alone. And behind the fun idea of herbals tea bags for dogs there is a serious message that the drinks contain anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals designed...
Voters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, defeat measure to limit abortions [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Zelie Pollon SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) – A municipal ballot measure that would outlaw most late-term abortions in New Mexico’s largest city appeared headed for defeat in a special election by Albuquerque voters, early returns showed on Tuesday. The measure, were it approved, would bar doctors within city limits from performing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, allowing for few of the exemptions permitted in most late-term abortion bans enacted in other states in recent years. No exceptions are made for victims of rape or incest. The ban could be waived only...
Measure to limit abortions appears headed for defeat in Albuquerque, New Mexico [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Zelie Pollon SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) – A municipal ballot measure that would outlaw most late-term abortions in New Mexico’s largest city appeared headed for defeat in a special election by Albuquerque voters, early returns showed on Tuesday. The measure, were it approved, would bar doctors within city limits from performing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, allowing for few of the exemptions permitted in most late-term abortion bans enacted in other states in recent years. No exceptions are made for victims of rape or incest. The ban could be waived only...
David Blaine’s ‘Real or Magic’: Ranking the Celebrity Reactions [ BeritaTerkini ]
From the bored to the astonished, see who was the most fun to watch Thankfully, David Blaine: Real or Magic, the latest TV special from the magician and endurance artist, stayed away from entombing, freezing, or electrocuting Blaine in favor of letting him show off his impressive magic skills. Some of Blaine’s audiences were impromptu street crowds, but many were celebrities: their presence both demonstrates the circles he travels in and serves as implicit validation that what we’re seeing isn’t the product of camera trickery — surely Lenny Kravitz and Will Arnett have better things to do with...
First batch of Chinese aid arrives in typhoon-struck Philippines [ BeritaTerkini ]
MANILA (Reuters) – The first batch of Chinese relief supplies has arrived in the Philippines, Chinese state television said, days after Beijing drew criticism for not doing more to help victims of one of the world’s biggest typhoons. The Philippines and international armed forces and aid agencies are struggling to get help to devastated areas due to the extent of the destruction from Typhoon Haiyan, which has left more than 4,000 dead and 4 million people displaced. A cargo plane carrying tents and blankets landed in the central Philippine city of Cebu on Tuesday, CCTV...
Coco Rocha Debuts Burgundy Justin Bieber-Inspired Haircut—All the Details! [ BeritaTerkini ]
von Jennifer Chan| Übersetzt von Jennifer Chan 19. November 2013 – 16:52 Coco Rocha is ready to rock the holiday season! Just this afternoon, the gorgeous model stopped into Ramirez Tran salon in Los Angeles for a bold new update to her pretty pixie cut. The redhead debuted her cropped ‘do back in August, and this time around she went even shorter! Her stylist, Anh Co Tran, who is responsible for her shorter locks, gave us the exclusive details directly after Rocha stepped out of the salon and dished on her beauty services of the day. NEWS: Coco Rocha cuts a pixie for Allure...
Warning over tablet storage costs [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – Some manufacturers are charging more than a 1,000% mark-up for extra storage space on tablet computers, according to a Which? investigation. Consumers opting for a 32GB iPad Air will have to pay £80 more than they would for the 16GB version, despite it costing Apple less than £6 to buy the additional memory at market prices, the watchdog claims. It said tablet manufacturers can buy Flash memory storage at a market price of £5.95 for 16GB, yet Google charges an extra £70 to increase the memory on its Nexus 10 from 16GB to 32GB and Amazon charges £40 for the...
Warning over tablet storage costs [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – Some manufacturers are charging more than a 1,000% mark-up for extra storage space on tablet computers, according to a Which? investigation. Consumers opting for a 32GB iPad Air will have to pay £80 more than they would for the 16GB version, despite it costing Apple less than £6 to buy the additional memory at market prices, the watchdog claims. It said tablet manufacturers can buy Flash memory storage at a market price of £5.95 for 16GB, yet Google charges an extra £70 to increase the memory on its Nexus 10 from 16GB to 32GB and Amazon charges £40 for the...
Signs of ‘sudden’ cardiac death may come weeks before: study [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Ransdell Pierson and Bill Berkrot (Reuters) – Signs of approaching “sudden” cardiac arrest, an electrical malfunction that stops the heart, usually appear at least a month ahead of time, according to a study of middle-age men in Portland, Oregon. “We’re looking at how to identify the Tim Russerts and Jim Gandolfinis – middle aged men in their 50s who drop dead and we don’t have enough information why,” said Sumeet Chugh, senior author of the study and associate director for genomic cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles. Some 360,000 out-of-hospital...
U.S. FDA panel backs BioMarin’s Morquio A Syndrome drug [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Toni Clarke (Reuters) – An experimental drug to treat Morquio A Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes skeletal malformation and a variety of related lung, eye, ear and heart problems, should be approved, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded on Tuesday. The 21-member panel voted overwhelmingly in favor of approval, saying the benefits of the drug, Vimizim, which is made by BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc, outweigh its risks. The FDA is not obliged to follow the recommendations of its advisory panels but typically does so. Morquio A...
U.S. Justice Department rape statistics understate problem: study [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice should change how it counts the number of sexual assaults that occur in the United States because its tally understates the numbers by possibly as much as seven-fold, an outside advisory panel said on Tuesday. Instead of relying on the National Crime Victimization Survey, which looks at all crimes, Justice officials should instead design a separate survey that measures only rape and sexual assault, it recommended. In a report requested by the department, the National Research Council’s outside advisers...
Some babies born very small do just fine as adults [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although babies who are born weighing less than 3.3 pounds face challenges early on, by adulthood many report doing well, according to a new study. Growing up, those kids have an increased risk of physical and mental health problems, past studies have shown. They also tend to do worse in school than their peers and have a harder time socially. But by the time they reach adulthood, many seem to have left those problems behind. “It looks to us as if, despite many challenges early on and some functional issues, like myopia (nearsightedness),...
Three Czech operators win 4G auction, newcomers miss out [ BeritaTerkini ]
Reuters – PRAGUE (Reuters) – Telefonica Czech Republic, T-Mobile and Vodafone won an auction of radio spectrum for 4G high-speed mobile data networks, the telecoms regulator said on Tuesday. The regulator, CTU, said two newcomers that had taken part in the sale, which raised 8.5 billion crowns (261 million pounds) for the country, did not gain licences. (Reporting by Jason Hovet; editing by Tom Pfeiffer) //...
Travel Industry News & International Travel News [ BeritaTerkini ]
404 Oh no! We were unable to find a pulse. We can’t imagine what you’re going through right now. You must be feeling an extreme sense of loss and confusion. Something you needed that was supposed to be here, but isn’t. You might try one of the following to find something meaningful and try to move on: //...
Yellow Dogs Benefit Concert Features Nada Surf, Kyp Malone and More [ BeritaTerkini ]
Musicians pay tribute to slain members of Iranian band at Brooklyn Bowl “Usually I have too much to say, and now I don’t have enough,” said Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws last night at the Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg. There, a host of local musicians held a benefit for the Yellow Dogs, an Iranian-American dance-punk band that lost two of its members and a frequent collaborator and close friend in a tragic shooting last week. It was a fitting statement for an evening that felt more like a memorial service than a fundraiser, one in which the most important sentiments were expressed through music...
Which is the cheapest budget airline? [ BeritaTerkini ]
Pegasus airlines offers an average one-way ticket price, including fees, of €63.19. Photograph: Alamy A cheap flight is rarely as cheap as you think it’s going to be – once the various fees have been added – but some budget airlines are cheaper than others. According to a recent report by flight comparison website WhichAirline, the cheapest lowcost carrier in Europe is Pegasus, a relatively unknown Turkish airline. After comparing 20 airlines, Pegasus came out top with an average total price of €63.19 one-way (including 20kg baggage allowance and a transaction fee). The airline flies to...
Wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Laureate appeals for his retrial [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) – The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo has filed an extraordinary appeal for his retrial, his lawyer said on Tuesday, in a move that could renew the focus on China’s human rights record. The news comes two weeks ahead of a visit to China by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, during which human rights will likely be raised amid a broader crackdown on dissent and freedom of speech and assembly. Liu, a veteran dissident involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests crushed by the Chinese army, was jailed in 2009...
LED smartbulb ‘nourishes’ your circadian rhythms [ BeritaTerkini ]
If you have trouble falling asleep or wake up groggy, you can now purchase a light-emitting diode (LED) smartbulb that reportedly can be programmed to tweak your circadian rhythms throughout the day. Circadian disruptions, and the anxiety, insomnia and fatigue that they can cause, can decidedly be linked to the modern era, with people working late into the evenings in offices dominated by artificial light or looking at computer screens before bedtime, which research has found can leave people in an almost permanent state of jet lag. British LED lighting company PhotonStar...
U.N. disaster chief stresses long-term needs for Philippines [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Stuart McDill GUIUAN, Philippines (Reuters) – The head of U.N. disaster relief visited the heart of the Philippine disaster zone on Tuesday and stressed the need for long-term planning as well as emergency relief to ensure farmers and fishermen can resume their livelihoods. Valerie Amos toured the devastated coastal town of Guiuan in Eastern Samar, where Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall on November 8 wiping out just about everything in its path, as a government official estimated the reconstruction bill would reach $ 5.8 billion. “We’ve had people here for a couple...
About 70 taken ill after California chemical plant leak [ BeritaTerkini ]
(Reuters) – About 70 people were taken ill after a sulphuric acid leak at a chemical company in California late on Monday, Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said. People in the Carson area complained of throat and nose irritation and vomiting after being exposed to an “apparent sulphuric acid release in the air from a neighboring business,” Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Robert Diaz said. Thirteen people were treated at local hospitals and later released, Fire Department official Phil Ulloa said. Others were treated at the scene. Ulloa said...
Macau Grand Prix quenches thirst for speed, danger [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Mark Dreyer MACAU (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton calls it the world’s “coolest street circuit” and some of the greatest names in motorsport such as Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher have savoured its super-fast straights and treacherous corners, but for many the Macau Grand Prix is all about the danger. Each year fans flock to the southern Chinese territory to see motorcycles and cars flirt with barriers at breakneck speeds as they hurtle around the 6.2-kilometre Guia street circuit. The racing festival marked its diamond jubilee this month, with 13 races spread out over...
NYC to ban tobacco sales to anyone under age 21 [ BeritaTerkini ]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg planned to sign landmark legislation banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone under age 21, making the Big Apple the first large city or state in the country to prohibit sales to young adults. City health officials hope that raising the legal purchase age from 18 to 21 will lead to a big decline in smoking rates in a critical age group. A majority of smokers get addicted to cigarettes before age 21, and then have trouble quitting, even if they want to do so. The ban has limitations, in terms of its ability to stop...
