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Getty Images/ AP Miley Cyrus took to Twitter Thursday to dismiss rumors of insulting comments she supposedly said about Beyonce. Miley Cyrus was quick to dismiss she ever had ill words about Beyonce amid rumors she’s drummed up the first feud of the New Year. “That quote people MADE UP about Beyonce just made me lol!” the 21-year-old pop star ...

Fleet Architects, LLP A development group plans to build a $ 200 million convention center, hotel, apartments and retail on the site of a car dealership in Corona. A spacious convention center and 25-story hotel and apartment complex will soon rise on the site of a Corona car dealership near Citi Field. Fleet Financial Group plans to break ground on ...

AblaFahita via Facebook Egyptian puppet Abla Fahita has come under fire by controversial blogger Ahmed Spider, who backed ousted President Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian government has questioned a phone company accused of using a puppet in its commercials to spread coded messages about a terrorist plot. The Vodafone Egypt commercial shows talkative puppet Abla Fahita looking for her dead husband’s ...

Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News Kevin Gilbride, after seven seasons as the Giants’ offensive coordinator, is expected to retire. Kevin Gilbride isn’t getting fired, but he is set to leave the Giants. The Giants’ embattled offensive coordinator is expected to announce his retirement soon. While nothing is official, a source said Thursday afternoon that things were “headed that way.” The ...

Orbiting high over the lunar surface is LADEE, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, with a mission to probe the moon’s exosphere and dust clouds. It will take readings using a number of spectrometers and specialized equipment, piling up stores of data as quickly as it can manage. In just 100 days of primary operation, it will compile enough ...

When AMD announced its new graphics API, Mantle, it showcased Battlefield 4 as the first game to support the tech, with availability supposedly arriving in December. Now that’s been delayed — AMD sent out a public statement to journalists notifying them that the API is “now targeting a January release.” Given the state of BF4, this is scarcely surprising. While ...

Mrs Thatcheer tops a poll [GETTY] The Tories’ Iron Lady topped a survey in which MPs rated every leader between 1945 and 2010. She beat Labour’s Clement Attlee into second place. David Cameron, who has not yet completed his tenure at No 10, was omitted from the University of London study. In it, MPs were invited to evaluate the success ...

Jorge Cabrera / Reuters Radiation treatments usually take up to an hour, five days a week, for up to seven weeks, the researchers said. Child care issues may keep breast cancer patients from getting the treatments they need, a new study suggests. Mothers with young children were more likely to skip recommended radiation treatments after breast cancer surgery because of ...

It was the best of times … and the worst! Here’s a roundup of our favorite and least favorite moments of 2013. KLG: I loved when the little boy came up to the Pope and hugged his leg and sat in the Pope’s chair and the way the Pope reacted to him. It’s a new Pope, and it’s such a ...

Andrew Theodorakis/New York Daily News Mom Metok Dolma and dad Dorjee Choet­so, both of Queens, welcome baby girl Ten­zin Choetso, born at Elmhurst Hospital on Wednesday one second after the new year began. Three New Year’s babies born at or just after midnight made for a dramatic and happy beginning to 2014, and one of them has a blessed start ...