AUSTIN, Texas Lance Armstrong apologized to the staff at his Livestrong cancer foundation before heading to an interview with Oprah Winfrey, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussion was private. Play VideoAnti-doping chief: Armstrong bullied witnesses 38 PhotosLance Armstrong Stripped last year of...
Lance Armstrong Apologizes to Livestrong Staff
Labels: Business Lance Armstrong apologized today to the Livestrong staff ahead of his interview with Oprah Winfrey, a foundation official said.The disgraced cyclist gathered with about 100 Livestrong Foundation staffers at their Austin, Texas, headquarters for a meeting that included social workers who deal directly with patients as part of the group's mission to support cancer victims.Armstrong's...
Mali Islamists counter attack, promise France long war
Labels: WorldBAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels launched a counteroffensive in Mali on Monday after four days of French air strikes on their northern strongholds, seizing the central town of Diabaly and promising to drag France into a brutal Afghanistan-style war. France, which has poured hundreds of troops into the capital Bamako in recent days, carried out more air strikes...
'Very happy' Bush the elder leaves hospital
Labels: Technology WASHINGTON: Former US president George H.W. Bush was released from hospital on Monday following more than two months of treatment for bronchitis, a bacterial infection and a persistent cough."Mr Bush has improved to the point that he will not need any special medication when he goes home, but he will continue physical therapy," said physician Amy Mynderse.Bush, at 88 the oldest surviving...
Dell in talks with private-equity firms to go private, report says
Labels: LifestyleThe Dell XPS 13 ultrabook Dell is in buyout talks with at least two private-equity firms, Bloomberg reported today. The talks, which would take the computer hardware maker private, are still preliminary and could fall apart because the firms may not be able to line up financing or resolve how to exit the investment in the future, Bloomberg said, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. One...
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McChrystal: I regret not finishing the job in Afghanistan
Labels: Health (CBS News) Amid news that the White House is pushing for a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal said today on "Face the Nation" he regrets that he didn't get to finish the job there. "I have regrets that some of the things I was responsible for, I didn't finish," he said, referring to his forced resignation in 2010 over a Rolling Stone article that...
Thousands Protest in Moscow Against Adoption Ban
Labels: Business Jan 13, 2013 10:37am KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty ImagesMOSCOW — Thousands of Russians took to the streets on Sunday to protest Russia’s new ban on adoptions to the United States.In what organizers called the “March Against Scoundrels” they paraded down a tree-lined boulevard in central Moscow chanting “Hands off our children” and “Russia will be free.” They also...
France bombs Islamist stronghold in north Mali
Labels: WorldBAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - French fighter jets pounded an Islamist rebel stronghold deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country's north. The attack on Gao, the largest city in the desert region controlled by the Islamist alliance, marked a decisive intensification...
France pounds Islamist strongholds in northern Mali
Labels: Technology BAMAKO: French jets pounded the Islamist strongholds of Gao and Kidal in northern Mali on Sunday, forcing insurgents to flee on the third day of a game-changing intervention that has been met with relief by the population and spurred the region into action."Stopping the terrorists -- it's done," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. "Today we started taking care of the terrorists'...
Apple is done, say teens
Labels: LifestyleLove on the Surface.(Credit:Microsoft/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)When you want to know what's cool, you ask a teenager.You have to ask her nicely or she will scowl you into oblivion or patronize you into a painful purgatory.So I'd like to prepare you for some of this difficulty.Teens have decided that Apple is, like, so over. If you want to be a veritable cooleratus, you want to be...
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