Wild bird care products grew by 6.8% in value and 5.5% volume between January 2012 and January 2013, according to the latest figures from GfK. Wild bird care ranges were boosted by the recent cold weather Within this market, wild bird food accounted for 80% of total sales, and 20% for bird feeders and accessories. [...]

President Obama is on the road, promoting his solution to the so-called “fiscal cliff.” He’s also in negotiations over the issue with House Speaker John Boehner. But can they come to an agreement in time? Host Michel Martin talks with Ron Christie, a Republican strategist, and Michael Fauntroy, an associate professor at George Mason University. [...]

The boxer played by Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter has been hospitalised following a dog attack. Micky Ward, the athlete whose early career was retold in last year’s Oscar-winning picture, fell victim to a stray while walking his own pet in Massachusetts on Wednesday, according to TMZ.Ward was admitted to a local medical facility after [...]

Depuy Hip Lawsuit News and Info Depuy Hip Lawsuit 02/18/2013  In the midst of an ongoing Depuy Hip Implant Lawsuit due to defects, new issues arise with Depuy Hip Implants as well as other metal on metal hip implants. Johnson and Johnson already faces the prospect of a large number of trials from lawsuits filed [...]

Red Bull chief Christian Horner’s visit to the Ferrari headquarters in Maranello on Friday is believed to be due to a meeting over talks for a new Concorde agreement. By ESPNSTAR.com staff Many reports in the Italian media erroneously speculated that Horner was being considered for a shock switch to the Italian marque.  However, it [...]

AMD’s Radeon Sky hardware is designed to offer cloud gaming providers high-performance specialised rendering hardware, but can it compete with Nvidia’s GeForce GRID? AMD has confirmed its plans to compete with Nvidia in the burgeoning cloud gaming rendering-as-a-service market, launching a new family of server-centric graphics processors called the Radeon Sky Series. Unlike the desktop [...]

Michigan is now the nation’s 24th right-to-work state, where unions cannot automatically collect dues or fees from workers. The governor signed the law just hours after it was approved by the state’s legislature in a day marked by protests. Source: NPR : National Public Radio

Last Saturday, as Ritz-Carlton general manager Andrew Torriani and I finished up our second course of a perfect seared scallop with puréed spring peas in the hotel’s not-quite-open Maison Boulud, I asked him if there was anything he was nervous about as he looked ahead to his official opening on Monday. Say, whether Montrealers would [...]

Image: Douglas Blackiston When Tufts University developmental biologist Michael Levin proposed tweaking cells’ electrical signals to create new patterns of growth, he encountered some resistance. "People thought it was nuts," Levin says. That's because although all cells have electric potentials (defined as the amount of energy required to move a given electrical unit against an [...]

Luke Smith proposed to his girlfriend Kayley Painter on the Jetstar pop-up comedy flight. Picture: Jetstar Source: Supplied A BRISBANE radio competition winner has stunned some of Australia’s best-known comedians by proposing to his girlfriend on a Melbourne-bound flight. Funny men Peter Helliar, Tommy Little and Karl Chandler surprised passengers on a Jetstar flight from [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. The Forbidden Fashion Show roars into the Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, May 21, with sexy swimwear and lingerie strutting a runway designed like a roadway. The James Bond-themed show, titled “Live Another Night,” is in its fourth year, and it’s the only show of its kind in Seattle, [...]