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Pakistan opposition leader 54-year-old former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack at a campaign rally that also killed at least 20 others, aides said.

THE Scottish government has decided to splash out £10,000 to advertise its anti-drink driving campaign in several video games including Need for Speed: Carbon, Project Gotham Racing 4 and NBA Live..

A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime — that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray.
In “The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret,” journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell — aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner — got an [...]

U.S. researchers shows genetic mutation of the BRCA1 gene appears to link Hispanic, young African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish women who have breast cancer.The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at more than 3,000 cancer patients in the United States diagnosed before age 65 between 1996 and 2005.

One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped around 5 p.m. and was later shot and killed by the authorities,from its cage shortly after the facility closed.

Physicians understand that practicing good medicine requires the constant acquisition of new knowledge, though they often assume their existing medical beliefs do not need re-examination. These medical myths are a light hearted reminder that we can be wrong and need to question what other falsehoods we unwittingly propagate as we practice medicine. We generated a [...]

A US military judge ruled in a decision made public on Thursday that Osama bin Laden’s driver is not a prisoner of war as defined by the Geneva Conventions and can be tried by a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.
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Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published. Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret’s publisher, said “I’m pleased to have reached this amicable settlement, and will now [...]

Microsoft has released to the public a near-final version of a major update to its Windows XP operating system.As of Wednesday, the ‘Release Candidate’ for Windows XP Service Pack 3 was available as a 336 Mbyte download from Microsoft’s Web site. The software had previously been available only to participants in Microsoft’s official test programs.Download [...]

Singer Britney Spears’ actress sister, Jamie Lynn, who plays a schoolgirl in US TV comedy Zoey 101, has told OK! magazine she is pregnant at the age of 16.She said she was 12 weeks into her pregnancy, and planned to raise her child in Louisiana for “a normal life”.The father is her longtime boyfriend, Casey [...]

Manchester United football players found themselves at the centre of an unfolding sex scandal today after a 26 year-old woman claimed she was raped at Manchester’s Great John Street Hotel where Manchester United players and other guests were attending a party.
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The bright yellowish-orange “star” poised above the constellation Gemini is actually the planet Mars, and tonight the icy world will make its closest approach to Earth until 2016.
Earth passes Mars every 26 months, overtaking it in an “orbital race” as both bodies go around the sun. (Explore planetary orbits using an interactive solar system.)
Mars Closest [...]

Mammal expert Martua Sinaga holds a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) rat that may be a species new to science. The rat was found in the remote Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, Indonesia, on a June 2007 expedition, experts announced yesterday.
Researchers from Conservation International and the Indonesia Institute of Science had previously discovered several new species of [...]

An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son “Friday” , Friday/Gregory Germano was born in Genoa 15 months ago, and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on.
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Fidel Castro 81-year-old,indicated Monday in a statement read aloud during a news roundtable programme on Cuban television that he was willing to hand over the reins of Cuba’s government to a younger generation of leaders.
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Iran received a first delivery of enriched uranium from Russia, allowing for the completion of a long-delayed reactor at Bushehr that is at the center of an international dispute over Iran’s nuclear program..
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