RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Dressed up in elaborate, feminine outfits and artfully applied makeup, they are showered with money while dancing at all-male wedding parties. But the lives of transgender people in Pakistan are also marked by harassment, rejection and poverty.Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the roles of the sexes are traditionally starkly drawn....
Nov
09
Transgender Pakistanis face society's scorn
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Social media shakes up solitary online FX trading
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LONDON (Reuters) – The solitary world of online foreign exchange trading is emerging from the shadows as solo investors turn to specialist social media networks to link up with their peers and seek market-beating strategies.Individual or retail trading, estimated at 8-10 percent of the $ 2.5 trillion daily spot FX market, used to conjure an image of a...
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He called it, and now Silver's a pop-culture star
Labels: Lifestyle 0 commentsNEW YORK (AP) — The other night, Nate Silver got a little taste of what things are going to be like for him, post-Election 2012.The 34-year-old statistician, unabashed numbers geek, author and creator of the much-read FiveThirtyEight blog at The New York Times had gone out for a drink with friends on Manhattan's Lower East Side. But he couldn't stay incognito; Immediately, he says, people sitting...
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Malaria vaccine a letdown for infants
Labels: Health 0 commentsLONDON (AP) — An experimental malaria vaccine once thought promising is turning out to be a disappointment, with a new study showing it is only about 30 percent effective at protecting infants from the killer disease.That is a significant drop from a study last year done in slightly older children, which suggested the vaccine cut the malaria risk by about half — though that is still far below the...
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Obama: U.S. voted for tax hikes on rich
Labels: Business 0 commentsPresident Barack Obama makes remarks on the "fiscal cliff" in the East Room of the White House (Kevin Lamarque …Claiming a mandate from his election romp over Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama announced Friday that he had invited Congressional leaders to the White House next week for talks on how to steer the battered economy away from a "fiscal cliff." Obama said he was open to compromise...
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Nov
08
Myanmar says Obama to visit later this month
Labels: World 3 commentsYANGON, Myanmar (AP) — President Barack Obama will make a groundbreaking visit later this month to Myanmar, an official said Thursday, following through with his policy of rapprochement to encourage democracy in the Southeast Asian nation.The Myanmar official speaking from the capital, Naypyitaw, said Thursday that security for a visit on Nov. 18 or 19 had been prepared, but the schedule was not final....
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Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year
Labels: Technology 0 commentsSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds. Access to that sizeable checkbook means Google Ventures will be able to invest in more later-stage financing rounds, which tend to be in the tens of millions...
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Man pleads no contest in 'Bling Ring' case
Labels: Lifestyle 0 commentsLOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who had been accused of burglarizing Paris Hilton's home pleaded no contest on Thursday to receiving jewelry stolen from the house during a rash of break-ins by a group dubbed the "Bling Ring."Roy Lopez Jr. was then sentenced to serve three years of supervised probation.Lopez, 30, was initially charged with felony residential burglary and conspiring with other members of the...
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Obama's health care overhaul turns into a sprint
Labels: Health 0 commentsWASHINGTON (AP) — The long slog has turned into a sprint. President Barack Obama's health care law survived the Supreme Court and the election; now the uninsured can sign up for coverage in about 11 months."We are out of the political gamesmanship and into the reality," said Sandy Praeger, Kansas' Republican insurance commissioner. Next week, states have to say if they're committed to building the...
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Loughner gets life for deadly Ariz. rampage
Labels: Business 0 commentsTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The man who pleaded guilty to a deadly Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.U.S. District Judge Larry Burns sentenced 24-year-old Jared Lee Loughner for the January 2011 attack that left six people dead and Giffords and others wounded.Loughner pleaded guilty to federal charges under an agreement that...
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