Yen resumes fall after G20, U.S. holiday thins trade

LONDON (Reuters) - The yen resumed falling on Monday after Japan signaled it would push ahead with expansionist monetary policies having escaped criticism from the world's 20 biggest economies at the weekend. Industrial metals also dipped and European shares were soft on lingering worries about the economic outlook, especially for the euro zone. While the risk of an inconclusive outcome...

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IHT Rendezvous: In Singapore's Immigration Debate, Sign of Asia's Slipping Middle Class?

BEIJING — Immigration is a hot-button issue nearly everywhere in the world, though the contours of the debate vary from place to place. In the United States, sweeping changes to the law may offer legal residency for millions of people who have entered the country illegally, my colleague Ashley Parker reports.In Singapore, the debate looks somewhat different: The government plans to increase the population...

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Jeff Timmons: 98 Degrees Reunion 'Brings Back A Lot of Great Memories'

By Steve Helling 02/17/2013 at 03:05 PM EST From left: Jeff Timmons, Justin Jeffre, Nick Lachey and Drew Lachey D Dipasupil/FilmMagic Teenyboppers of the 90s, rejoice! 98 Degrees is back in the studio and reliving old times. Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons...

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UN warns risk of hepatitis E in S. Sudan grows

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says an outbreak of hepatitis E has killed 111 refugees in camps in South Sudan since July, and has become endemic in the region.U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards says the influx of people to the camps from neighboring Sudan is believed to be one of the factors in the rapid spread of the contagious, life-threatening inflammatory viral disease of the liver.Edwards...

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Vast Throng in Bangladesh Protests Killing of Activist

Pavel Rahman/Associated PressMourners in Bangladesh on Saturday carried the coffin containing the body of Rajib Haider, an organizer who was killed. NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of people resumed mass demonstrations in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday, intensifying their demands for more severe punishment for war criminals from the country’s 1971 liberation war, while also demanding justice for the...

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Stories You Loved: Mariska Hargitay Loves Her Curves from Motherhood

02/16/2013 at 02:30 PM EST Mariska Hargitay Courtesy Ladies Home Journal In another week of tragedy, it was a breath of fresh air to read something lighthearted, like Mariska Hargitay's outlook on her body after baby.Readers loved the reason why the Law &...

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UN warns risk of hepatitis E in S. Sudan grows

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says an outbreak of hepatitis E has killed 111 refugees in camps in South Sudan since July, and has become endemic in the region.U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards says the influx of people to the camps from neighboring Sudan is believed to be one of the factors in the rapid spread of the contagious, life-threatening inflammatory viral disease of the liver.Edwards...

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G20 steps back from currency brink, heat off Japan

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Group of 20 nations declared on Saturday there would be no currency war and deferred plans to set new debt-cutting targets, underlining broad concern about the fragile state of the world economy. Japan's expansive policies, which have driven down the yen, escaped direct criticism in a statement thrashed out in Moscow by policymakers from the G20, which spans developed...

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Amazon to Investigate Claims of Worker Intimidation at German Centers

BERLIN — The workers came from across Europe to pack boxes for the online retailer Amazon at distribution centers in Germany during the Christmas rush. They did not expect to be watched over — some say intimidated — by thugs in neo-Nazi-style clothing and jackboots. On Friday, Amazon said it was investigating claims made in a documentary that a subcontractor employed security guards with...

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Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries Divorce Is Headed to Trial

By Ken Lee 02/15/2013 at 03:45 PM EST Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian Seth Browarnik/StarTraks Kim Kardashian had a good day in court Friday in her ongoing divorce battle with Kris Humphries.A judge ruled that their case – in which Humphries alleges that Kardashian...

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