Month: February 2014

ABC News’ Abbie Boudreau, Amanda Keegan, Derick Yanehiro and Alison Kenworthy report: It’s that terrifying moment of truth: stepping on the scale and realizing that the voice in your head… is real? Meet Carrot Fit, what some are calling a fat-shaming app that’s supposed to…        

By Mehrdad Balali DUBAI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has told his French counterpart a trip to Iran by French executives was "not helpful" and that it gave the wrong impression that the West could do business with Tehran as usual, a U.S. official said. Under an interim deal reached by Iran and six world powers in November, Tehran agreed to limit parts of its nuclear work in return for the easing of some international sanctions. The easing of sanctions, which began in late January, has prompted Western firms to race for business opportunities. Iran welcomed more than 100 executives from France's biggest firms on Monday, the most senior French trade mission in years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising CVS Caremark for its decision to stop selling tobacco products at its drugstores.

Hope Juarez, who was 6 pounds, 2 ounces, had lost about 80 percent of her blood in a fetal-maternal hemorrhage and her hemoglobin level was 3.8; an average baby should be between 10 and 15.        

A Cuban doctor working in Brazil has sought political asylum in the office of a conservative party complaining that Cuba’s communist government takes too big a slice of her pay, a party official said on Wednesday. Ramona Rodriguez, 51, entered the office of the center-right Democratas party leadership in the lower chamber of Brazil’s Congress on Tuesday afternoon and slept the night on a sofa, the official said. Rodriguez is one of 7,400 Cubans in Brazil who work in a program that hires foreign doctors to attend the sick in slums and remote rural locations unattended by Brazilian physicians. Under an agreement signed last year with Cuba through the Pan-American Health Organization, or PAHO, the Cubans get only one fifth of the 10,000 reais ($4,100) a month that Brazil pays each physician in the program.