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China has long way to go on health reforms
Beijing - Chinese authorities released a long-awaited health reform action plan...
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Obama to End Restrictions on Stem Cell Research
Science matters to the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama will most likely sign...
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Medical Marijuana Supported By President Obama
President Barack Obama said as a candidate that states should decide their own medical marijuana...
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UN Needs Another $11.3 Billion To Fight Against AIDS
The world needs to spend another 11.3 billion dollars to reach the goal of providing universal AIDS...
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Illinois Homes Have Too Much Radon
According to a new study released by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, 42 percent of...
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Radon Must Be Stopped – 1,100 People Die Annually
Even if nobody expected this, it looks like 95 percent of 1,100 deaths caused each year by radon...
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Update: Bayer Warned over Aspirin Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent
a warning letter to Bayer Health Care saying the...
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3 Percent of American Children Are Unisured, with an Insured Parent
More than 2 million American children have
no health insurance because their parents can’t afford...
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Hope for South Africa! “HIV Causes AIDS,” Health Minister Barbara Hogan States
This week, South Africa’s new Health Minister,
Barbara Hogan, said it was unquestionable that HIV...
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Confusion around Health Care Plans Offered by McCain and Obama
Both presidential candidates Barack Obama
and John McCain agree that Americans are spending too...
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Lake County Thinks About Broadening Smoking Ban
Currently, smoking is banned in most Illinois public buildings, such as restaurants, taverns, pubs,...
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Adult Obesity Reaches Alarming Rates
A survey published in the report entitled “F As In Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America...
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More People than Ever Have Access to AIDS Medication
A recent report shows good results as far as the AIDS epidemic is concerned. More infected people...
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California Towns Backtrack on Medical Marijuana
After rampant abuse in some areas, towns which supported medical marijuana plantations in...
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VA Staffer Involved in Email Scandal Testifies
Norma Perez, an employee with the post-traumatic stress
disorder program at the Olin E. Teague...
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Cutting Through McCain's Health Care Nonsense
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is apparently trying to oversimplify things...
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WHO: Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion People In The Next Century
Have you ever tried to count to 1 billion? It will take some
time, isn’t it? Now try to imagine...
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Technology
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The FTC Asks For Better Privacy Protection Online
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just issued revised guidelines for behavioral advertising,...
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China Continues Anti-Porn Fight, Shuts Down 1250 Websites
China continues its fight against online vulgarity, as officials confirmed shutting down 1250...
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China Blacklists Google, Other Websites For Spreading Pornography
The Chinese government has taken a clear stance against websites that spread pornographic material...
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No More Free Communication Over The Phone For Barack Obama
Verizon Wireless admitted late Thursday that several of its employees broke company rules by...
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EFF Takes Legal Action Against NSA’s Surveillance Practices
Civil right organization EFF this week continued its quest
to stop unconstitutional surveillance...
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U.S. Technology Giants Develop Voluntary Code of Conduct
Countries that have restrictive Internet
policies, like China, now require a voluntary code of...
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Government Sued Over Unconstitutional Cell Phone Tracking Practices
The controversy over mobile phone tracking is far from being
a settled issue, as two civil rights...
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ICANN Approves Expanded TL Domains, Internationalized Names
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, approved a proposal to create an...
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Google's Many Uses: Hack Tool
Notorious hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) has created a tool which makes use of Google to...
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44,000 Porn Sites Closed By Chinese Authorities
With one idea in mind, that
pornography perverts the young population, the Public Security...
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ICANN Tests Internationalized Domain Names in 11 Languages
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has started live testing of...
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Specials
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IMF: Global economy to shrink in 2009
Washington - The global economy could shrink as much as 1 per cent this year, the International...
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China Wants Help To Stop Porn From Flooding The Country
The Chinese government announced its decision to start a month-long...
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Fleeting Expletives Brought Before The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court discussed on Tuesday the problem of dirty
words on television and, while...
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Palin, Biden fight over change, economy, war on terror
Washington - US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality...
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Hacker Needed Only 45 Minutes To Hack Sarah Palin's E-mail
The news about the intrusion on Republican vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin's private...
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Palin brings new voice to Republican "reform" ticket
St Paul, Minnesota - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin painted herself as a reformist Washington outsider...
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Ayurvedic Medicines Sold Online Contain High Levels of Toxic Metals
Ayurvedic medicines are frequently
contaminated with lead, mercury and arsenic, a new study found....
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AMA Issues Apology for Decades of Racism
The American Medical Association, the US’ largest
medical association on Thursday issued a formal...
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VA Staffer’s E-Mail Calls for Fewer PTSD Diagnoses
An employee with the post-traumatic stress disorder program at
a medical facility for veterans in...
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Australia Wants New, Not Different
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, winner at the last four elections runs again for the same...
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Sections of the Patriot Act Unconstitutional- Judge
A U.S. District Judge decided to strike down for the second time key sections of the Patriot Act...
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Business
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China's GDP growth slows to 6.1 per cent
Beijing - The expansion of the Chinese economy slowed to a record low in...
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Japan launches 154-billion-dollar stimulus plan
Tokyo - The Japanese government and the ruling coalition parties finalized an...
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US reviewing trade barriers, existing free-trade deals
Washington - The United States is reviewing existing free- trade deals and will take other...
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Bank of England cuts interest rates to all-time low
London - The Bank of England Thursday slashed interest rates to an historic low of 1.5 per cent in...
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Half-price BMW, Anyone? South Africa Feels The Squeeze
Johannesburg - When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was...
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World could lose 20 million jobs from crisis - ILO
Geneva - The global financial crisis could cost some 20 million jobs worldwide, the International...
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Asian-Pacific Stocks Rising on South Korea Financial Rescue Package
Tokyo - Asia-Pacific stocks rose on Monday after South Korea announced a more than...
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Britain's banking revolution to mark end of an era
London - In Britain, the NICE decade, defined by Bank of England governor Mervyn King as one of...
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Battle lines drawn over giant US finance rescue
Washington - Battle lines were being drawn in Washington on Sunday over the US government's rescue...
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Former HP Vice President Accused of Trade-Secret Theft
Mr. Atul Malhotra seemed to have gotten into troubled since the very beginning of his job as vice...
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ICANN Approves Expanded TL Domains
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, approved a proposal to create an...
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FCC Rules Against Verizon
On Friday, the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission ruled against Verizon in a matter regarding...
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Greenspan Says Recession Chance Less Than 50 Percent
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said to BBC Radio 4 that there is a less than 50...
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FBI Pursues Overseas Leads to Catch Store Extortionists
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching for information abroad to nab the serial...
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World
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Thai army moves in, clashes with anti-government protestors
Bangkok - Thai soldiers fired at protestors driving buses at them and used tear...
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China, EU to establish renewable energy institute
Beijing - China and the European Union on Monday signed an agreement to expand...
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French bishop sparks new row on condoms and AIDS
Paris - The bishop of the French city of Orleans, Monsignor Andre Fort, rekindled a row...
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Home of former British banking boss targeted by vandals
London - The private home of a top British banker at the centre of a heated row over lavish...
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Huge crowds protest Sarkozy's economic policies
Paris - Up to 3 million people took to the streets of cities throughout France on Thursday to...
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France slams pope's condom statements
Paris - The French government on Wednesday sharply criticized comments made by Pope Benedict XVI...
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China ready to add to economic stimulus, Wen says
Beijing - Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday said China has made contingency...
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Global Warming Is Happening Now!
Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist and head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, issued a...
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Killing By Pederast Sparks Justice Scandal In Spain
Madrid (dpa) - A year ago, 5-year-old Mari Luz Cortes left her home in the southern Spanish city of...
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Furor Graeca over Teenager’s Death Finally Calms Down
After four days of riots, fire and teargas, calm has finally
returned to Athens. According to a...
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Elders Tell MDC: Join Government Now, Push For Change Later
Johannesburg - The Elders on Monday urged Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change...
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South Korea Asks North Korea To Cooperate
Seoul - South Korea sent a message earlier today to North Korea, demanding its officials not to...
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New Zealand Election Winner in Talks on Forming Government
Wellington - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key, whose conservative National Party won the...
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New Zealand's New Leader Keeps Right-Wing Allies at Distance
Wellington - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key, the self-confessed centrist leader of a...
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SADC backs Mugabe over powersharing; to "assist" Congo Army
Johannesburg - The suffering of Zimbabweans looked set to continue for some time to come Sunday...
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New Zealand's new prime minister is poor boy made good
Wellington - New Zealand's new Prime Minister, John Key, 47, who steered his conservative National...
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Germany Marks 70th Anniversary of Pogrom against Jews
Berlin - Flames leaped into the sky across Germany when the Nazis gave a foretaste of the Holocaust...
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New Zealand conservatives favoured to win general election
Wellington - New Zealand's conservative National Party is poised to sweep from power the Labour-led...
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Queen's outburst sparks debate about monarchy in Spain
Madrid - During her 33 years as queen, Sofia of Spain had been known for her gentleness and...
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Sarkozy Creates Investment Fund for Strategic Enterprises
Paris - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday the French government will establish an...
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World Looks at China "More than Ever" during Current Crisis
Beijing - Can China save the world from the current financial crisis? To give the answer right...
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Former Thai Premier Thaksin Gets Two Years
Bangkok - Thailand's Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to two...
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Reformists urge Khatami to run against Ahmadinejad
Tehran - Leading reformists in Iran have urged former president Mohammad Khatami to run against...
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Controversies Fade and Legends Grow as Masses Mourn Haider
Vienna - Joerg Haider was one of Austria's most divisive political figures, but his memorial...
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Bosnia Remains Blocked amid Hatred and Mistrust
Sarajevo - Despite a 13-year, multi-billion-dollar international peacekeeping and development...
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437 Injured, Two Dead in Bangkok Conflicts between Police and Protestors
Bangkok - Conflicts in Bangkok between police and protestors around Parliament claimed two dead and...
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As Stock Markets Plunge, US Candidates Duel over Way Out
Washington (dpa) - As the financial crisis erodes the retirement nest eggs of millions of...
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Peter Mandelson in "shock return" to British government
London - Peter Mandelson, the kingmaker, spin-doctor and key strategist of modern British politics...
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British conservatives set to hear Cameron's economic policy
London - Britain's Conservatives
were set to start their party conference Sunday, with party...
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Obama, McCain clash over Iraq, Iran in first debate
Washington - Democrat
Barack Obama and Republican John McCain clashed in their first debate...
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