Empire State Building gets left-field $2 billion offer to sell

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City real estate company offered to buy the Empire State Building for $2 billion, a written offer showed, significantly below the skyscraper's appraisal price and about three weeks after investors in the iconic building approved a plan to take the tower public in a real-estate investment ...

Journalist who brought down U.S. general is killed in Los Angeles car crash

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Journalist Michael Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Stone magazine profile of the U.S. military chief in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, led to the general being relieved of command, died on Tuesday in a car wreck in Los Angeles, his employer ...

Voice Did the right one win

Entertainment Weekly - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

#LS-100 ID is for Link Smart --> SPOILER ahead! Read on to find out whether Danielle Bradbery, Michelle Chamuel, or the Swon Brothers took home the season 4 win at the end of tonight’s finale — which featured performances by Cher, Christina Aguilera, Pitbull, Florida Georgia Line, Nelly, Bruno Mars, Bob Seger, Hunter Hayes, and OneRepublic. Whew! The winner ...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 benchmarked sports extremely fast GPU

Ars Technica - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

At this point, almost every high-end Android phone we've seen this year has arrivedsporting Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 SoC, which combines four of the company's Krait 300 CPU cores with the Adreno 320 GPU used in last year's Snapdragon S4 Pro. But there's another chip that ...

Sports Briefing | Track and Field Jamaican Sprinter Suspended Over Drug Test

New York Times - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The Olympic 200-meter winner Veronica Campbell Brown of Jamaica is serving a suspension while antidoping officials rule on a recent positive drug test. Her manager said Campbell Brown was ...

SYTYCD top 20 Your take

Entertainment Weekly - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Top 20 performance show later on; in the meantime, here’s the list of the Top 10 Guys and Top 10 ‘Gulls’ (Cat Deeley speak) for season 10 — separated by dance ...

Elijah Wood Maniac-al passion

Entertainment Weekly - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

the most beautifully cut-together trailers I’ve seen in a long time. Elijah Wood talks more about his fascination with horror in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly. You can check out the trailer ...

Delicious recipes for breakfast

West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

I'm a huge fan of breakfast, but I also like to sleep as long as possible.As a result, most weekdays all I have time for - after getting the kids out the door for school and walking the dog - is a quick bowl of cereal instead of the slow-cooked, chewy steel-cut oats I hanker for this time of year. Sure, it's the most important meal of the day, but who's got 40 minutes to make ...

Dont let perfectionism ruin work goals

West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Remember how your parents and teachers always told you to do your very best?They were right. But some of us took that advice too far.The result is perfectionism, the belief that we have to do everything perfectly at work and in our private life or we will be "unworthy" or a "bad person."Perfectionism is born of insecurity and a need for complete control. At work it can be ...

Finding their Zen in sports

China.org.cn - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

"Many spectators were curious. Some said that monks should stay in the temple to study Zen (a school of Buddhism) and meditate, wondering why we appeared," recalls Yan ...

Motherlode Blog The Home-Cooked Challenge Taking Time Now to Save Time Later

International Herald Tribune - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

$403.39 worth of better choices. My point is that it did take time. It’s silly to pretend that it didn’t. Buying the same things I would normally buy would have been faster. Skipping the Sunday meal planning would have freed up that hour -- which I would surely have then spent staring into the fridge and cabinet during the week, trying to figure out what to cook, but it would have ...

Top cop wants booze ad ban during TV sport

News.com.au - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

AUSTRALIA'S alcohol industry is raising a "one-fingered salute" to society by continuing to push its product onto youngsters, Western Australia's top cop Karl O'Callaghan ...

Game 3 of Stanley Cup final sets new NHL record on NBC Sports Network

The Globe and Mail - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Chicago Blackhawks centre Michal Handzus (26) mixes it up with Boston Bruins defenceman Johnny Boychuk (55) during the first period in Game 3 of their NHL Stanley Cup Finals hockey series in Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 2013. (WINSLOW ...

Scot and South African appointed to spearhead Commonwealth sport development projects

Inside the Games - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

This position will lead the sponsorship new business acquisition process for the NBA for Africa. The focus will be on new partner development - prospecting, pitching, negotiating and securing new corporate ...

Face-down restraint ban considered

Independent UK - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Ministers will consider a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental health hospitals after new figures that show nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint were recorded in just one ...

iStyle Mix but don’t match

The Independent - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Fortunately, this summer you can increase the amount of pigeon Italian you know by peppering conversations with the word "spezzato". For the uninitiated, this sartorial turn of phrase, when translated into English, literally means "broken". Apply this visually to what you wear, and it becomes the subtle art of mis-matching your jacket with your trousers. Sounds easy, right? ...

NHS watchdog accused of hospital scandal cover-up

The Independent - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Britain's NHS regulator has been accused of covering up their failure to prevent a scandal at a hospital maternity unit where at least eight babies are thought to have died from neglect, according to a damning report to be published ...

Lifestyle Lift changes national ads after probe

USA Today - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Four years after settling similar charges in New York, the plastic surgery company Lifestyle Lift reached a settlement with the Florida attorney general that requires it to change its marketing ...

Psychiatrists call for action over premature deaths of mentally ill

Independent UK - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

An international group of psychiatrists today launches a drive to end the global scandal of premature deaths among people suffering from severe mental ...

UK defies European car sales downturn

The Independent - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Sales were down 5.9 per cent against a year earlier across the European Union, falling to just 1.04 million, the ACEA car makers' association said. This was the worst May since 1993, when sales dropped below 1 million. The downturn punished all major markets as the eurozone wallows in a sixth straight quarter of recession and record unemployment. Sales plummeted 9.9 per cent in Germany and ...

Universities Sport success not as vital as it used to be

The Independent - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The days of universities seeking the best athletes and sportsmen and women to boost their sporting prowess appear to be over, according to a new ...

CO Canal Towpath Trail ‘judged’ as great recreation

Tribune Review - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The 185-mile C&O Canal Towpath Heritage Trail is managed by the National Park Service. This peaceful scene along the trail was taken by park volunteer Nancy ...