Italy seeking women with breast implants
ROME (AP) — Italy’s health ministry is asking hospitals to track down women who received silicone breast implants made by a suspect French company due to concerns the implants may be unsafe.
The ministry’s health council also suggested that women with Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, implants contact their surgeons because there’s a “greater probability of rupture and inflammatory reaction.” The council met Thursday in an emergency session to discuss the potential threat of the silicone implants.
French health authorities today will decide whether to recommend mass surgery for women who received PIP implants. Investigators say they were made with cheap industrial silicone, not medical grade silicone, and that more than 1,000 women have had one or two implants burst.
Natural gas shipper eyes Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Natural gas shipper Excelerate Energy says it plans to develop a floating, liquid-natural-gas terminal off Puerto Rico.
Excelerate Energy L.P. says it has an agreement with Puerto Rico’s electric power authority to supply the Aguirre Power Plant from a floating port to be located about four miles off the island’s southern coast.
The Woodlands, Texasbased company said in a statement Thursday that construction is expected to start in the third quarter of 2013. The Aguirre GasPort would be in operation in May 2014.
Finnish police detain Lambert after fight
HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish police say they detained Adam Lambert after he assaulted people who tried to break up a fight between the former “American Idol” star and his boyfriend in downtown Helsinki.
Detective Superintendent Petri Juvonen said the fight spread from a popular gay bar early Thursday into the street where Lambert was suspected of hitting two people who tried to break it up.
Juvonen said that Lambert’s boyfriend, “Finnish Big Brother” star Sauli Koskinen, also was held for questioning. He said no weapons were used, no one was seriously hurt and that the two were released after a few hours and that no further action will be taken.
Lawyer made up story of Berlusconi payoff
ROME ( AP) — A British lawyer says he invented accusations that Silvio Berlusconi paid him $600,000 to lie on the stand to protect the former Italian premier’s business interests.
David Mills’ testimony Thursday at Berlusconi’s corruption trial in Milan undercuts prosecutors’ case against the politician.
Prosecutors allege Berlusconi paid Mills to give false testimony in two 1990s trials to shield Berlusconi and his Fininvest holding company from charges relating to the purchase of U.S. film rights.
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