UK's FTSE 100 Index Nears a 5-Year High; LSE, Vodafone Gain (Cirrhosis)

UK's FTSE 100 Index Nears a 5-Year High; LSE, Vodafone Gain
Bloomberg - 3 hours agoMarch 13 (Bloomberg) -- The UK benchmark stock index rose for a third day, reaching its highest in almost five years. London Stock Exchange Plc led gains in the broader FTSE 250 Index after the bourse received ...

Aspirin 'top choice' for lowering heart risk
Independent Online - 2 hours agoAtlanta, Georgia - Aspirin remains the drug of choice to reduce the risk of heart disease, researchers said here. Researchers made the conclusion in a study evaluating whether taking aspirin with the blood ...

Duke is No. 1 in final poll for seventh time
SI.com - 47 minutes agoDuke was back in a familiar place in The Associated Press' final college basketball poll Monday. The Blue Devils (30-3), the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, were the top-ranked team in the season's final poll for the fifth time since 1999. ...

Ex-Judge in Iraq Stands by Death Sentences for 148 Shiites
New York Times - 35 minutes agoBAGHDAD, Iraq, March 13 A former judge in Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Court acknowledged today that he sentenced 148 Shiites to death in 1984, but he said they had received a proper trial and had confessed to trying to assassinate the former Iraqi ...

Thousands rally for showdown march against Thai PM
Reuters - 3 hours agoBy Pracha Hariraksapitak. BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters trying to overthrow Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra staged an all-night rally in Bangkok on Monday as a warm-up to a dawn march on his office. ...

Judge halts Moussaoui death trial for 2 days
Reuters - 38 minutes agoBy Deborah Charles. ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday put on hold the death penalty case against September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, declaring angrily she found it "very difficult ...