Chavez back in Venezuela after Cuba treatment

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived back home early Friday after 10 days of medical treatment in Cuba, but his failure to attend a regional meeting in Brazil raised new questions about his health.State television showed Chavez arriving at Caracas' airport and walking down the steps from the presidential jet wearing a track suit. He smiled and laughed heartily as he...

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Lawyer: McAfee better, hopes to stay in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A lawyer for software company founder John McAfee  said Friday that the self-styled fugitive is feeling better after suffering chest pain and that he has filed three separate legal appeals in hopes his client can stay in Guatemala, where his political asylum request was rejected.Attorney Telesforo Guerra told reporters outside the detention center where McAfee is being...

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After long disdain, Jamaica gets 1st patois Bible

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — When English teacher Faith Linton  first proposed translating the Bible into Jamaica's patois tongue in the late 1950s, most people who heard the idea shook their heads.Some on the deeply Christian island believed it was sacrilegious. Others opposed it because the unique mixture of English and West African languages was widely disdained by the elites as a coarse linguistic...

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Puerto Rico governor to push for statehood

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor will call a special legislative session to push for approval of a resolution urging the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama to honor the results of a recent referendum on changing the island's political status.Gov. Luis Fortuno, who backs seeing statehood, said Saturday that Puerto Rican voters embraced statehood and rejected the current U.S....

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Venezuela's Chavez says cancer back, plans surgery

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Saturday night that his cancer has returned and that he will undergo another surgery in Cuba.Chavez, who won re-election on Oct. 7, also said for the first time that if his health were to worsen, his successor would be Vice President Nicolas Maduro."We should guarantee the advance of the Bolivarian Revolution," Chavez said on television,...

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EBay's double tax base prompts calls for investigation

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Germany may have missed out on a combined $1 billion in sales tax since online marketplace eBay picked a tiny Luxembourg office as its base for EU sales, a shift that lawmakers say should now be investigated.EBay's nomination of Luxembourg unit eBay Europe Sarl - with a staff of nine - as its provider of services to EU clients allows it to charge customers in Europe...

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Twitter in legal spat over data clampdown

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc's steadily tightening grip over the 140-character messages on its network has set off a spirited debate in Silicon Valley over whether a social media company should or should not lay claim over its user-generated content.That debate has now landed in court.A San Francisco judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order compelling Twitter to continue...

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Professor finds profiling in ads for personal data website

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Dr. Latisha Smith, an expert in decompression sicknesses afflicting deep sea divers, has cleared criminal background checks throughout her medical career. Yet someone searching the Web for the Washington State physician might well come across an Internet ad suggesting she may have an arrest record."Latisha Smith, arrested?" reads one such advertisement.Another says: "Latisha...

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EU plan could push up access costs for broadband challengers

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Smaller telecoms providers may have to pay more to rent space on networks owned by former monopolies as part of efforts to boost the fiber broadband rollout, a European Commission document seen by Reuters showed.The Commission's recommendation came after strong criticism from major operators, such as Telecom Italia SpA, forced it to backtrack from an initial proposal to cut such...

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Thousands touched by photograph of New York cop helping shoeless man

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A photograph of a New York City police officer  crouching by a shoeless panhandler to give him a new pair of boots on a cold night in Times Square has drawn a deluge of praise after it was published on the police department's Facebook page this week.By Thursday afternoon, nearly 394,000 people had clicked a button on the department's Facebook page to indicate that they "liked"...

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