Drugmaker Vivus Inc. says federal health regulators declined to approve its experimental diet pill Qnexa, which some doctors and investors have touted as a potential blockbuster weight loss medication.
Vivus said the Food and Drug Administration decided the drug cannot be approved in its present form and asked for more study results and more information on [...]
The United States no longer owns the world’s fastest supercomputer.
A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster than the previous speed leader, a computer at a U.S. lab in Tennessee.
The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous [...]
Rising numbers of captive tigers in the United States are putting citizens at risk and could be fueling illegal trade in animal parts, which threatens their survival in the wild, conservationists have warned.
“Tigers Among US,” published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network estimates that there are more than [...]
An Ohio zoo says the longest snake living in captivity has died.
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium says workers found the 24-foot python Wednesday morning dead from an apparent tumor.
The snake was named Fluffy. It held the Guinness World Record as the longest snake living in captivity. It was about as long as a moving van [...]
He may be gone, but he’s not forgotten. In fact, Michael Jackson has brought in so much bank since his June 2009 passing that he’s landed the No. 1 spot on Forbes’s Top-Earning Dead Celebrities List.
According to Forbes, Jackson’s estate has brought in a whopping $275 million over the past 12 months – more than [...]
The fabled PlayStation Phone has finally surfaced, and it is definitely packing Google’s Android OS.
A few months ago, rumors surfaced about the existence of a PlayStation Phone, a hybrid mobile and gaming device with a 5-megapixel camera, 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, slide-out gaming pad and the Android Gingerbread OS. While those reports contained several details [...]
he new-look Miami Heat insist it is too early to judge their NBA title credentials after losing their opening game of the season 88-80 to the Boston Celtics on Tuesday.
In one of the most highly-anticipated games in the series’ history, the Heat — complete with their star trio of Dwayne Wade and new signings Chris [...]
A second-place finish on Monday’s “Dancing With the Stars” couldn’t save Audrina Patridge.
The reality TV beauty was dismissed from the hit ABC show Tuesday.
“I had so much fun this entire experience and made such good new friends,” she said, thanking the judges and her fans. “It’s been a fun journey.”
Patridge and professional partner Tony Dovolani [...]
The MassKara Festival is in its 31st year of continued celebration. An idea born from a period of tragedy and crisis, it was seen as a way to unify the people of Bacolod in the face of adversity.
MassKara is combination of two words: mass, meaning many, or multitude, and kara, a Spanish word for face. [...]
For Yoshihiko Noda, Japan’s finance minister, the G20’s weekend warning against disorderly exchange rate movements suggested the yen might enjoy a “more stable” relationship with the dollar and euro.
That looks unlikely — at least if your definition of stable means an end to the Japanese currency’s climb against the greenback, an ascent only briefly interrupted [...]
