…n the internet. “Often, they want to know more about world events and breaking news. Twitter has emerged as a vital source of this real-time information, with more than 100 million users sending 250 million tweets every day on virtually every topic. As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and tweets are often the most relevant resu…
…Council. State media reports of the results following Saturday’s second and final round of the referendum suggested that some 63% of voters had backed the charter. Turnout was low, estimated at 30%. Egyptians are awaiting the official results of a referendum on a controversial draft constitution The electoral commission said it was compiling results from both rounds and that no time had be…
Egypt’s presidential poll results have been delayed by the election authorities, raising further tension across the country. The results had been due to be announced on Thursday, but the election commission said it needed more time to look into complaints presented by the candidates. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi and former PM Ahmed Shafiq both claim they won last weekend…
…lso secured the support of several leading liberal figures and youth activists in Egypt, including Wael Ghonim, who played a key role in the uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down in February 2011. Ahmed Shafiq came second to Mohammed Mursi in last month’s first round, in which turnout among the 52 million eligible voters was only 46%. But the former air force commander, who served…
VMA 2011: tribute to Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse toxicology tests results showed absence of ”illegal substances” in her body at the time of her death, according to a today family statement. Amy Winehouse was found dead at her residence in north London on 23rd of July 2011. Amy Winehouse family’s today statement said: ”Toxicology results returned to the Wineho…
…lymphocytic leukemia and infected their T cells with the virus. When they infused the blood back into the patients, the engineered T cells successfully eradicated cancer cells, multiplied to more than 1,000 times in number and survived for months. They even produced dormant “memory” T cells that might spring back to life if the cancer was to return. On average, the team calculat…
2012 Election: voting results so far Alabama (9 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 61% (1,245,221 votes) Barack Obama 38% (787,027 votes) Alaska (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (120,329 votes) Barack Obama 41% (90,743 votes) Arizona (11 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (896,302 votes) Barack Obama 43% (707,744 votes) Arkansas (6 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 60% (631,244 votes) Barack Obama 37% (38…
The final voting precincts on the west coast won’t even begin to be tallied until early Wednesday morning, but the election could be decided much earlier than that. Polls begin to close at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and results will flood in not long thereafter. Whichever candidate reaches 270 electoral college votes wins the White House. Crucially, Barack Obama won each of the swing states li…
Google has decided to change the way it calculates search results in an effort to make sure legal download websites appear higher than pirate sites. The world’s biggest search engine announced the change in a blog post on its website. The move has been welcomed by record companies in the UK and Hollywood film studios. Google has decided to change the way it calculates search results in an…
…ent ends weeks of speculation over the cause of Whitney Houston’s death. Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bath of her Los Angeles hotel room on the eve of the Grammy Awards on February 11. In a statement, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office described Whitney Houston’s manner of death as an “accident”, adding that “no trauma or foul play is suspecte…
…e to the vaccine. ImMucin, a breakthrough vaccine that targets a molecule in 90% of all cancers has been tested on humans for the first time If all goes well, ImMucin could be on the market by 2020. Rather than attacking cancer cells, like many drugs, ImMucin harnesses the power of the immune system to fight tumors. The search for cancer vaccines has until now been hampered by fears that h…
…rts and appears to be already ahead in key state Florida. Early voting results released so far show success in Florida for Mitt Romney but encouragement for Barack Obama in North Carolina • Colorado: 325,810 votes have been cast so far – 126,539 from Republicans and 120,965 from Democrats and 75,030 from unaffiliated voters • Florida: 925,604 votes as mail-in-absentee ballots have been cast…
An anonymous author who works in the pharmaceutical industry wrote several anonymous editorials in this weeks British Medical Journal in which they claim: “Some of the [post-marketing] studies I worked on were not designed to determine the overall risk/benefit balance of the drug in the general population. They were designed to support and disseminate a marketing message.” According to the writer…
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Olanow. The most common side effects associated with LCIG treatment involved complications due to inserting the device, abdominal pain, pain during the procedure and nausea. Adverse events occurred in 35 (95%) patients receiving LCIG compared with 34 (100%) in the placebo group. The most common events were complications of device insertion (51%), abdominal pain (42%), procedural pain (32%), and na…
…l from grace. The report also ends weeks of speculation over how the 48-year-old pop icon died, with some members of her family even suggesting foul play may have led to the surprise death on February 11. Ed Winter, spokesman for the coroner’s office, said the official cause of death was accidental drowning. He added that heart disease and the star’s cocaine use were contributing factors to her co…
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About 25 million people have already voted in 34 states and the District of Columbia, either by mail or in person. No votes will be counted until Tuesday but some key states are releasing the party affiliation of those who vote early. Colorado Votes: 1.5 million Democrats: 35% Republicans: 37% Florida Votes: 3.5 million Democrats: 43% Republicans: 40% Early voting results 2012 Nevada Vote…
…ncies between initial tally sheets and the results reported in the media. John Mahama’s presidential adviser Tony Aidoo said there was no foundation for the allegations. Nana Akufo-Addo lost the 2008 presidential poll by one percentage point, but accepted the result. Glitches with a new finger-printing system meant that voting continued into Saturday in some parts of the country. However, ob…
Google has been ordered by a German federal court to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The court said Google must ensure terms generated by auto-complete are not offensive or defamatory. The court case was started by an unnamed German businessman who found that Google.de linked him with “scientology” and “fraud”. Google must now remove defamato…
…. The scientists were able to replace the mitochondrial DNA in 65 of the eggs and then looked to see how well these fared over the next week or so. The fertilization rate afterwards was similar to the 33 control eggs that had not been manipulated, although over half had abnormal qualities. Those that did fertilize normally developed to blastocyst stage – five or six days later, the point at…
Khloe Kardashian has decided to chose a stunning bright blue Celine minidress for X Factor results show, and pared it with a pair of Tom Ford shoes and a matching cuff. Kim Kardashian, 31, tweeted supportively: “Seriously my sister @KhloeKardashian looks so stunning on @XFactorUSA! love her hair, make up, that blue dress, everything!” But then she tweeted a link to her blog entitled “Red leather…
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…ell as low as $1.295, its lowest since January, and dropped to three-year lows against the pound. The main European stock markets fell early on before recovering. In Germany, the DAX fell by more than 2%, but by mid-afternoon was only down by 0.1%. In Paris, the CAC 40 recovered to trade up by 0.7%. Athens shares fell by as much as 8.3%. In London, markets were closed for a bank holiday. Euro fel…
…weeks, called after a 6 May vote proved inconclusive. On that occasion, each of the main parties tried but failed to form a coalition government. New Democracy is thought to have polled between 28 and 30% of votes, with 27-28% for Syriza, one exit poll carried out jointly by five polling companies for the main TV channels showed. An earlier version of the poll only 80% complete had the two parties…
…ends to make report the results in a scientific publication. After 8 weeks of Revitalift Laser X3 treatment applied twice daily, the product reduced cutaneous micro-relief by 18 percent compared with 20 percent for the laser CO2 It was found that after eight weeks of Revitalift Laser X3 treatment applied twice daily, the product reduced cutaneous micro-relief by 18% compared with 20% for the lase…
…istian Wulff’s political career. German newspaper Die Spiegel reports she has spent over two years fighting allegations she was once employed as an escort. “Her lawyers have already issued 34 successful cease-and-desist orders, including one against a prominent German television personality this weekend,” the paper notes. The same paper says a defamation suit was launched against…
Scientists say they are a step closer in the difficult journey towards developing a male contraceptive pill, after successful studies in mice. A contraceptive pill for women has been around for decades, but an equivalent for men has proved elusive. A US study, published in the journal Cell, showed a drug could make mice temporarily infertile without hampering their sex drive. Experts said the fin…
