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Daily Archives: Jan 18, 2012

Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized on Friday, killing at least 11 people, has admitted making a navigation mistake

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Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized on Friday, killing at least 11 people, has admitted making a navigation mistake,...
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are living “separate lives” after 14 years spent together

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Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are living “separate lives” after 14 years spent together, it has been claimed. Vanessa Paradis was nowhere to be seen...
Digital pills

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Proteus Biomedical, Redwood City, California, and the healthcare company Lloydspharmacy are about to launch digital pills in the United Kingdom, as they announced on...
Meningitis B has been an elusive target for vaccine developers, as it is a group of thousands of subtly-different strains of bacteria, making it difficult to find a single jab that could cover them all

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A vaccine against one of the most common forms of childhood meningitis could reduce the number of deaths in the world. The current vaccination programme...
Zebra appeared to be keen on a crisp that Megan was about to eat, but instead caught the young woman near the collarbone

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Megan, a young tourist, was left in tears after she was attacked by a zebra that lurched into her car and bit her on...
Tests on mice showed that both Glivec and Sutent depleted pericytes by 70 percent while metastasis rates tripled

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A new study suggests that cancer drugs that shrink tumors by cutting off their blood supply may end up helping them to spread. Drugs such...
Live Interactive Teledermatology

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A study, published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Archives of Dermatology and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research...
Infrared rays will be used to scan a form of natural energy - like radiation - emitted from the body of someone concealing a gun on the street

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US police is developing an infrared body scanner that can detect whether a suspect is carrying a weapon without needing to frisk him. Infrared rays...

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Nuckin Futs, a nutty snack company from Australia, has won the right to use the name, despite an official ruling that it was offensive. A...
A 30-year Scandinavian study suggests that oral contraceptives may alleviate painful periods for some women

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A 30-year Scandinavian study suggests that oral contraceptives may alleviate painful periods for some women. Estimates suggest more than half of women have suffered from...
Ryan Brunn, 20, pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges including murder and child molestation in the December 2 killing of Jorelys Rivera

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Janitor Ryan Brunn faces life in prison for beating and killing a 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera from Georgia, who disappeared from a playground at her...
Gemma Barker created false alter egos so she could have sexual encounters with her 15 and 16-year-old victims

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Behind the innocent aspirations and her shy smile, the 19-year-old Gemma Barker from Staines, Middlesex, UK, led a double life that saw her pose...
Two leading British aid organizations say that thousands of needless deaths occurred from famine in East Africa last year because the international community failed to heed early warnings

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Two leading British aid organizations say that thousands of needless deaths occurred from famine in East Africa last year because the international community failed...

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Five foreign tourists have been killed and other four have been kidnapped in Ethiopia during an attack by unknown gunmen, the government says. European nationals...
Kris Jenner posing for a series of high school year book black and white pictures dating from the early 1970s

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New images of Kris Jenner have emerged, with the Kardashian matriarch posing for a series of high school year book black and white pictures...
Salvage work on Costa Concordia cruise ship is expected to begin later on Wednesday, as hopes fade that any more survivors will be found on the stricken cruise ship

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Salvage work on Costa Concordia cruise ship is expected to begin later on Wednesday, as hopes fade that any more survivors will be found...