Lukas Coch / AFP – Getty Images Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is rushed out of a Canberra restaurant by security agents on Thursday, losing a shoe in the process. By msnbc.com staff and news services Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is on firm footing again. A blue suede shoe that she lost as she [...]
By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who walk at least 10,000 steps a day have no greater muscle strength and perform no better on tests of balance and agility than women who walk fewer than 7,500 steps, according to a new study. Researchers did find, however, that extra walking each day is [...]
TEHRAN, Iran ? A lawyer says an Iranian graduate student studying at the University of Texas has gone on trial in Tehran on charges of having “relations with a hostile country” and receiving “illegitimate funds.” Saeed Khalili says his client, Omid Kokabee, pleaded not guilty to both charges at the opening session of his trial [...]
? SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – North Korea’s state-run television called new, untested leader Kim Jong Un a “military genius” on Sunday and showed him driving a tank, sitting in the cockpit of a warplane and interacting with soldiers in a youthful display of camaraderie that was unlike the style of his late father. The broadcast, [...]
02/14/12 Rancho Santana, Nicaragua ? Where we part company with Warren Buffet? Here?s the Sage of Omaha, explaining, in Fortune Magazine, why bonds are dangerous: Investments that are denominated in a given currency include money-market funds, bonds, mortgages, bank deposits, and other instruments. Most of these currency-based investments are thought of as ?safe.? In truth [...]
