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Investors call for the UK defence group to review strategy in light of the failure of a tie-up with EADS, but management sees no need to change course

Aljazeera: China's Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 05:06 AM PDT

First Chinese national to win highest fiction prize praised for "hallucinatory realism" that mixes past and present.

Aljazeera: US embassy security chief killed in Yemen

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 06:05 AM PDT

Qassem Aqlani, Yemeni head of security at the US embassy in Sanaa, shot dead on way to work by motorcycle gunman.

Financial Times: US jobless claims drop sharply to 339,000

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 06:42 AM PDT

Number claiming unemployment insurance falls to four-year low while trade deficit widens as global slowdown reduces demand for US-made goods

Financial Times: Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 09:16 AM PDT

The celebrated writer's work, known for its gritty tales of peasant life, is praised by the Swedish Academy for its 'inside' view of Chinese society

Aljazeera: Armstrong 'unaffected' by doping report

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 10:55 AM PDT

Cyclist gives off air of indifference to claims that he was at centre of biggest doping scandal in sporting history.

Huffington Post: Colin Furze Tries For Stroller World Record By Building 'World's Fastest Pram'

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 11:07 AM PDT

Colin Furze's "megapram" is a stroller built with the parent -- not the baby -- in mind. If the parent is a world record coveter with a need for speed, that is.

"I decided after becoming a dad i should rock the world of child care so tick that box i think," the British plumber and "garage inventor/video maker" brags in the description for the YouTube video he made to document the project.

As Furze tells viewers, his super-stroller has 10 horsepower and four gears as well as "every comfort a normal pram's got." Except, presumably, any illusion of safety. "It's not for women, it's for men," he adds.

Huffington Post: Opana: Abusing Pain Drug Can Cause Fatal Blood Disorder, FDA Warns

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 11:17 AM PDT

Oct 11 (Reuters) - People who abuse the prescription pain drug Opana ER by injecting it into their bloodstream risk developing a serious blood disorder that could result in kidney failure or death, U.S. health regulators warned on Thursday.
Opana, a powerful opioid painkiller containing oxymorphone, is produced by Endo Pharmaceuticals.
The blood disorder, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, resulted in kidney failure requiring dialysis in some cases and at least one death, the Food and Drug Administration said.
The disorder causes clots to form in small blood vessels throughout the body, limiting or blocking blood flow to the organs.
Platelets, a certain type of blood cell, help the clotting process. When this disorder occurs, however, platelets clump together in the blood clots, making fewer platelets available in the blood in other parts of the body to help clotting there.
This can lead to bleeding under the skin and purple-colored spots called purpura, or to bleeding inside the body.
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura can cause death or lead to other complications with permanent damage, including brain damage and stroke, in addition to kidney failure.
The FDA said problems appear to occur with Opana ER only when it is abused and injected intravenously. Opana ER is meant to be taken orally and should be taken only when prescribed and as directed.
Prescription drug abuse leads to more deaths in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined, and rural residents are nearly twice as likely to overdose on pills than people in big cities, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Law enforcement officials are alarmed by the rise of Opana abuse, which they said started after Oxycontin was changed in late 2010 to make that drug more difficult to snort or inject for a heroin-like high. Oxycontin is a brand of oxycodone.
Opana abuse can be deadly because it is more potent, per milligram, than Oxycontin and users who are not familiar with how strong it is may be vulnerable to overdosing.
Opana, known by such street names as "stop signs," "the O bomb," and "new blues," is crushed and either snorted or injected. Crushing defeats the pill's "extended release" design, releasing the drug all at once.

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