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Investors bilked in $7B scheme feel forgotten
Sitting in the back of a courtroom where Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford is being tried for fraud, retired IBM engineer Jim Eccles was eager to see the man accused of bilking thousands of investors in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Eccles, who lost his life savings, said he'd spent hours traveling on a bus for one reason."I wanted to see the guy that stole my money," the 76-year-old Austin resident said

Marcellus Shale gas drillers recycling more waste

Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale gas drilling companies are recycling more and more of their briny, chemical-laden wastewater, in most cases complying with a request from state officials to keep the

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Save the Children asks CM to create and chair a Nutrition Mission to deal with malnutrition
A delegation of health workers of Delhi and Save the Children International CEO Jasmine Whitbread, Save the Children India Chairman Harpal Singh and CEO Thomas Chandy today asked Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to constitute and chair a Nutrition Mission, to which she agreed. Save the Children’s global report on malnutrition, A Life free From Hunger, was presented to the Chief Minister by the delegation, who congratulated her for Delhi meeting the MDG4 (Millennium Development Goal 4) target on child mortality. Stating the critical need to deal with malnutrition, Mr Singh said, “The demographic dividend can only happen if children are healthy.”

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LA radio hosts suspended for Houston comments
A Los Angeles radio station has pulled two popular talk radio hosts off the air for comments they made about Whitney Houston.

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China's heir apparent wraps up US visit in LA

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's pivotal four-day visit to the United State brings him and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday to Los Angeles, where the vast trade imbalance between the two

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New Survey finds Rising Food Prices Forced Nearly a Third of Families Surveyed in India to Cut Back on Food with their Children not having Enough to Eat
A recent survey by Save the Children has revealed that after a year of soaring food prices, 29% of the Indianfamilies covered by the survey say they have been forced to cut back on food, complaining that they did not have enough to eat.Since last year and in 2012, food prices have risen, except an odd week or so when they have dropped marginally.

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