ScreenSingapore 2012 Kicks Off in Southeast Asia

Gorgeous and Green, the annual fundraiser for Global Green, takes place at the Bently Reserve on December 11, 2012.

Faconnable recently opened its doors for supporters of Children of Shelters. Their annual fundraiser “Jingle & Mingle” takes place December 6, 2012.

Located at 2724 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, this beautiful 1894 Queen Anne mansion has gone on the market with an asking price of $30 million.

San Francisco Parks Alliance and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department recently hosted Party for the Parks at the Anglers Lodge in Golden Gate Park.

Black Waverly Side Chairs, Pair

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Lexington Bench, Black

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David Easton Jaipur Zigzag Rug, Mauve

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Harry Redknapp is set to make his first signing as Queens Park Rangers manager as he prepares to offer a contract to free agent Tal Ben Haim. The Daily Mail has reported that the former Bolton, Chelsea and Manchester City defender has been invited to train with QPR as Redknapp looks to find an immediate solution to bolstering his options in defence. Harry Redknapp is hoping to save QPR from relegation after taking over from Mark Hughes Reuters Ben Haim would be available to join the club immediately as he left struggling Portsmouth in the summer after finally settling a dispute over his wages and has since been solely playing international football for Israel . The central defender featured in the 4-0 defeat to Russia back in September and has been training with a number of Israel i clubs over the past few months in order to maintain his fitness. However, it seems he favours a return to the Premier League and is hoping to impress Redknapp enough to earn a contract with the struggling London club.

LONDON – The U.K. video-on-demand streaming service LoveFilm, owned and operated by Amazon, has struck a deal with Nintendo’s Wii home console to offer gamers access to movies including The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and TV shows Downton Abbey . LoveFilm will also launch on Nintendo’s new high definition home console Wii U “shortly,” the company said. There are around eight million U.K. Wii users, boosting LoveFilm’s potential customer base. The LoveFilm Instant service offers users unlimited movies and TV series instantly via their Internet-connected Wii console from £4.99 ($8) per month

LONDON – The U.K. video-on-demand streaming service LoveFilm, owned and operated by Amazon, has struck a deal with Nintendo’s Wii home console to offer gamers access to movies including The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and TV shows Downton Abbey . LoveFilm will also launch on Nintendo’s new high definition home console Wii U “shortly,” the company said. There are around eight million U.K. Wii users, boosting LoveFilm’s potential customer base. The LoveFilm Instant service offers users unlimited movies and TV series instantly via their Internet-connected Wii console from £4.99 ($8) per month. The service will launch this month with Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr

The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year pounded the southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday, killing four people, destroying homes and toppling power and communication lines, officials said. Typhoon Bopha, with wind gusts of up to 195 kph (121 mph), made landfall at dawn, uprooting trees and tearing off roofs and was headed for major tourist destinations in the central Philippines. About 20 people were reported missing. “There goes my house,” Landring Ceballos, a fisherman in Davao Oriental province told reporters by telephone from high ground as he watched winds lift his makeshift house and dump it in the sea. Benito Ramos, executive director of the national disaster agency, said four people were confirmed dead. Media said dozens of people were injured by flying debris, falling trees and swept away by swollen rivers and flash floods. About 20 people, including six soldiers, were reported missing when rampaging water swept an army base, a military spokesman said, adding rescue helicopters had been grounded

Washington and its allies are reportedly weighing a range of military options in Syria after the U.S. intelligence reports suggested that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime may be gearing up to deploy their stockpile of chemical and biological weapons in a last-ditch effort at survival. The options currently being discussed range from aerial strikes to limited raids by regional forces to secure the stockpiles, the Associated Press  report ed citing a U.S. government official and a former official, both speaking on condition of anonymity. Syria might have begun processing chemicals that can be used to make the deadly sarin gas, another U.S.

South Korean electronic major LG has introduced Optimus L9 in India . The newly-launched deviec is the latest in the L series line of smartphones. The Optimus L9 is priced at ₹23, 000 in the  LG India website . However, India n online retailer  Flipkart  is selling the same model for ₹18, 490. The date of shipment has not been updated

London Mayor Boris Johnson said on Tuesday the British people should be given a referendum on whether to stay in a European Union pared back to the single market only. Speaking at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event in London , Johnson said Britain’s relationship with the EU should be renegotiated around a model based on free trade and fewer barriers to business. If achieved, he said, that would allow London to flourish further as a financial centre. “The euro is a calamitous project,” he said in a speech. “We should use the opportunity of the Treaty changes — perhaps over the banking union — to convene an intergovernmental conference in which we bring Britain’s membership in line with what people want. “Boil it down to the single market. That is a renegotiated Treaty we could and should put to the vote of the British people,” he said.

Stock futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 all up 0.1 percent. * The White House dismissed a “fiscal cliff” proposal from congressional Republicans on Monday that included tax reforms and spending cuts, saying it did not meet President Barack Obama’s pledge to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. * ICSC/ Goldman Sachs release chain store sales for the week ended December 1 at 7:45 a.m. EDT.