LONDON — There is growing optimism that a ceasefire in Turkey’s three-decade war with Kurdish guerrillas will be declared to coincide with the Kurdish New Year in three weeks.Under a draft plan reported on Wednesday, the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., would lay down its arms on March 21 and withdraw its forces from Turkish territory by August.The potential for a breakthrough in ending...
Kathy Bates Joins American Horror Story, Ron Livingston Joins Boardwalk Empire
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 02/27/2013 at 01:45 PM EST Kathy Bates and Ron Livingston Retna; WireImage Two familiar stars will join the casts of American Horror Story and Boardwalk Empire for the shows' new seasons.Kathy Bates, who won an Oscar for her frightening role...
Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital
Label: HealthBOSTON (AP) — A Vermont nurse disfigured in a 2007 lye attack has received a new face at a Boston hospital.Carmen Blandin Tarleton's full facial transplant at Brigham & Women's Hospital included transplanting a female donor's facial skin to Tarleton's neck, nose and lips, along with facial muscles, arteries and nerves.Hospital officials say the 44-year-old Thetford, Vt., woman suffered burns on...
Wall Street climbs on Bernanke, economic data
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose 1 percent on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke remained steadfast in his support of the Fed's stimulus policy and data pointed to economic improvement. In his second day before a congressional committee, Bernanke repeated testimony in which he defended the Fed's policy of buying bonds to keep interest rates low in order to promote growth...
Feb
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IHT Rendezvous: Memories of Floating Over Luxor, Now Tinged With the Macabre
Label: WorldMy 5-year-old son spent the entire hot-air balloon ride over Luxor crouched in the bottom of the basket, terrified of the flames that kept shooting into the balloon—the flames that produced the hot air that kept us afloat. He missed the glorious views: of the ancient ruins and the quilts of green grass, of the magnificent sunrise and the dancing shadows it created out of the dozens of other hot-air...
See the Most Amazing Oscar Red Carpet Run-Ins
Label: Lifestyle Halle Berry takes Quvenzhané Wallis under her wing, Adele trades compliments with Jennifer Aniston and more star encounters Credit: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty
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C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general.Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the best known and most influential person to carry that title. Koop, a 6-foot-1 evangelical Presbyterian with a biblical prophet's beard, donned a public health uniform...
Wall Street up as Bernanke defends policy, warns on cuts
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks advanced on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed's bond-buying stimulus before Congress, but he warned forced spending cuts that could be triggered this week represented a headwind for the economy. Gains in homebuilders and other consumer stocks, following strong economic data, kept the S&P 500 up slightly and a 5 percent...
Feb
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India Ink: ‘Life of Pi’ Shines at the Oscars
Label: WorldWhile no Indian film was up for nomination in the 85th annual Academy Awards, held Sunday night in Los Angeles, Taiwan-born Ang Lee’s win in the Best Director category for “Life of Pi’’ ensured a national connection to this year’s Oscars.The movie, based on the 2001 novel by Yann Martel, is set in the mid-1970s in the town of Pondicherry (now Puducherry), a former French colony in India. Mr. Lee shot...
Still Got It! Seven PEOPLE's Sexiest Men Alive Hit Oscar Red Carpet
Label: Lifestyle Years have passed for some of our favorites, but that didn't stop Ben Affleck, Richard Gere, Denzel Washington and more from looking stunning Credit: George Pimentel/Getty Updated: Monday Feb 25, 2013 | 01:30 PM EST Subscribe Now ...
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