Insight: France's love affair with nuclear cools | Reuters

Insight: France's love affair with nuclear cools | Reuters: (Reuters) - "For decades, the elite engineers turned out by Paris's grand Corps des Mines academy were faithful followers of the pro-atomic creed that transformed their country into the most nuclear-reliant nation in the world."

U.N. set for implicit recognition of Palestinian state, despite U.S., Israel threats | Reuters

U.N. set for implicit recognition of Palestinian state, despite U.S., Israel threats | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The U.N. General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government."

SAC Capital threatened with fraud charges: sources | Reuters

SAC Capital threatened with fraud charges: sources | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The U.S. government is threatening to file civil securities fraud charges against SAC Capital Advisors and is tightening the regulatory screws around Steven A. Cohen, the $14 billion hedge fund's founder and one of the industry's most famous traders."

Ukraine's Chernobyl site reaches milestone - Europe - Al Jazeera English

Ukraine's Chernobyl site reaches milestone - Europe - Al Jazeera English: "Colossal arch-shaped structure created to shelter exploded reactor raised to its full height by decontamination workers."

Wall Street adds to losses after housing data | Reuters

Wall Street adds to losses after housing data | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Stocks extended losses on Wednesday after data showed new single-family home sales fell slightly in October and the government revised sharply lower its estimate for the prior month's sales, denting optimism over one of the brighter sectors of the economy."

U.S. bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal | Reuters

U.S. bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The U.S. government temporarily banned BP Plc from federal contracts on Wednesday over its "lack of business integrity" in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, a move that the British company had said could force it to rethink its entire U.S. operations."

Facebook not so fun with a click from boss or mom | Reuters

Facebook not so fun with a click from boss or mom | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Posting pictures of yourself plastered at a party and talking trash online with your Facebook friends may be more stress than it's worth now that your boss and mom want to see it all."

Global economic woes prompt soul-searching on capitalism | Business | guardian.co.uk

Global economic woes prompt soul-searching on capitalism | Business | guardian.co.uk: "While policymakers insist vigorous recovery will arrive, there is concern that deep structural problems are stalling a revival"

Truly hairy mid-life crises: chimps and orangs get them too | Reuters

Truly hairy mid-life crises: chimps and orangs get them too | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Forty- and 50-somethings in the throes of a mid-life crisis should probably stop blaming a troubled marriage, their kid's college costs, or technology that makes them feel about as modern as papyrus compared to their younger colleagues."

Professor finds profiling in ads for personal data website | Reuters

Professor finds profiling in ads for personal data website | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Dr. Latisha Smith, an expert in decompression sicknesses afflicting deep sea divers, has cleared criminal background checks throughout her medical career. Yet someone searching the Web for the Washington State physician might well come across an Internet ad suggesting she may have an arrest record."

Gaza conflict: family's four children buried as bombardment continues | World news | guardian.co.uk

Gaza conflict: family's four children buried as bombardment continues | World news | guardian.co.uk:

"At least 18 children have been killed since the start of the conflict last Wednesday, and more than 600 civilians have been injured, he said. The Gaza health ministry said 24 children had been killed." (my selection)

Former UBS Paris head placed under investigation | Reuters

Former UBS Paris head placed under investigation | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The former head of UBS's (UBSN.VX) French arm has been placed under investigation as part of a months-long probe into allegations the Swiss bank aided clients evade taxes, a judicial source said on Monday."

Dark matter: the underground lab searching for wimps | Science | The Observer

Dark matter: the underground lab searching for wimps | Science | The Observer: "At Gran Sasso National Laboratory, nearly a mile beneath an Italian mountain range, physicists are trying to isolate the particles they believe hold the universe together"

Body found from Black Elk oil rig explosion | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Body found from Black Elk oil rig explosion | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Divers retrieve remains of one of two missing workers from Gulf of Mexico platform, while four burnt men fight for lives"

Israeli air strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza: Hamas | Reuters

Israeli air strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza: Hamas | Reuters: (Reuters) - "At least 11 Palestinian civilians, including four children, were killed on Sunday in what Hamas said was an Israeli air strike on a Gaza apartment building, the highest death toll in a single incident in five days of fighting."

Egypt's Mursi says Israel attacks on Gaza unacceptable | Reuters

Egypt's Mursi says Israel attacks on Gaza unacceptable | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi condemned Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as unacceptable on Thursday, in his harshest public criticism of Egypt's neighbor since taking office in June."

Pakistan developing combat drones | World news | guardian.co.uk

Pakistan developing combat drones | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Islamabad, which publicly condemns attacks by US drones on militants in tribal areas by the Afghan border, has built its own"

Google transparency report 2012: find out what the world's governments want to know about you | News | guardian.co.uk

Google transparency report 2012: find out what the world's governments want to know about you | News | guardian.co.uk: "Which governments wanted Google to remove content - and asked for information on web users this year so far? Why are UK requests for content to be removed up by 98%? And how does the US compare?"

Israel fires into Syria for second day | World news | The Guardian

Israel fires into Syria for second day | World news | The Guardian: "IDF says it made direct hit, believed to be on Syrian mobile artillery, in response to shell landing near post in Golan Heights"

Israel says may escalate as Hamas joins Gaza clashes | Reuters

Israel says may escalate as Hamas joins Gaza clashes | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Israel said it was poised to escalate attacks on the Gaza Strip on Sunday following a surge of rocket and mortar salvoes by Hamas and other Palestinian factions."

Stones vs. drones! (my comment)

Exxon shuts pipeline after oil leak offshore Nigeria | Reuters

Exxon shuts pipeline after oil leak offshore Nigeria | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Exxon (XOM.N) has shut a pipeline off the coast of Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state after an oil leak started by an unknown cause, the company's local unit said on Saturday."

Goldman in settlement talks with U.S. over trading loss | Reuters

Goldman in settlement talks with U.S. over trading loss | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Goldman Sachs Group Inc is in settlement talks with the U.S. government over an $8.3 billion position that one of the investment bank's traders had concealed five years ago, according to a published report."

Obama insists on tax hike for rich as part of fiscal deal | Reuters

Obama insists on tax hike for rich as part of fiscal deal | Reuters: (Reuters) - "President Barack Obama said on Friday he was prepared to compromise with Republicans to avert a looming U.S. fiscal calamity, but insisted a tax increase for the rich must be part of any bargain."

Iran says repelled unidentified plane from its airspace | Reuters

Iran says repelled unidentified plane from its airspace | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Iran repelled an unidentified aircraft violating its airspace, it said on Friday, after Washington reported a U.S. surveillance drone was shot at by Iranian warplanes last week."

Sending surveillance drones in or near Iran can only be a provocation. iran has complied with the to halt further enrichment of uranium but maybe the war mongers want to start some new conflict in the region.

Sandy might send more than 250,000 cars to scrap heap | Reuters

Sandy might send more than 250,000 cars to scrap heap | Reuters "(Reuters) - Superstorm Sandy may consign as many as a quarter of a million new and used cars and trucks to the scrap heap, a loss that could eventually lead to a spike in new auto sales, automakers and dealers said."

New York, New Jersey order evacuations ahead of new storm | Reuters

New York, New Jersey order evacuations ahead of new storm | Reuters: (Reuters) - "New York and New Jersey ordered the evacuation of nursing homes and low-lying coastal areas already devastated by deadly Superstorm Sandy as a smaller but still powerful Nor'easter approached from the Atlantic Ocean."

Alan Moore debut single released by Occupation Records | Books | The Guardian

Alan Moore debut single released by Occupation Records | Books | The Guardian: "Comic book author, whose V for Vendetta mask is an Occupy symbol, likens today's stark economic divides to work of killer"

Iran suspends uranium enrichment | World news | guardian.co.uk

Iran suspends uranium enrichment | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Move intended as gesture of goodwill before negotiations with US over nuclear programme begin next week"

Insight: Flooded New York plans to tame the sea, but who pays? | Reuters

Insight: Flooded New York plans to tame the sea, but who pays? | Reuters: (Reuters) - "When Jeroen Aerts, a Dutchman tasked with crafting a plan to defend New York City from flooding, first looked at its coastline seven years ago, he was taken aback by how vulnerable it was."

Soldiers win $85m compensation from Iraq war contractor | World news | guardian.co.uk

Soldiers win $85m compensation from Iraq war contractor | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Kellogg Brown and Root, formerly part of Halliburton, exposed water plant guards to dangerous carcinogen, court finds"

"Like all hexavalent chromium compounds, sodium dichromate is considered hazardous. It is also a known carcinogen." Wikipedia

Event though the military knew soldiers would be exposed to sodium dichromate the big wigs, the ones who rarely are on the terrain, chose to ignore it and exposed their men and women. Diabolic (my comment)

Bahrain must lift ban on all protests: Amnesty | Reuters

Bahrain must lift ban on all protests: Amnesty | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Bahrain must lift its total ban on opposition protests, which violates the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday."