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New York, June 7 (DPA) Myanmar's military government has provided entry visas to 180 UN relief workers and authorised other international staff to provide assistance to victims of last month's Cyclone Nargis, the top UN coordinator for emergency humanitarian operations has said. Myanmar's opening of its doors to international rel...
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A San Mateo County Superior Court Judge agreed with prosecutors today when he decided a man who helped a suspected murderer escape from San Mateo County Youth Service Center in February deserves to be incarcerated for a pe...
Owing to this accomplishment, the US-based Save the Children Organization (SCO) said that only 31 percent of Filipino children below five years old—the smallest among developing countries—do not receive basic health care services.
An SCO report said that other developing countries with low proportion of under-five children without basic health care include Peru (32%), South Africa (32%),...
LABUANBAJO, Indonesia (AFP) — Five European divers fought off a komodo dragon and survived on shellfish for two nights after being washed up on a deserted Indonesian island which doubles as a dragon reserve, a French survivor said Saturday.
Laurent Pinel, 31, said the group lived off mussels scavenged from the beach and had to repel the dragon during the 36 hours they waited to be ...
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The latest young man to die in a county blighted by apparent suicides was friends with one of the other victims, residents said on Saturday.
South Wales Police confirmed they were investigating the death of a 26-year-old man from Bridgend, but he has not yet been named.
Twenty other young people are suspected to have killed themselves in the county since the beginning of last year.<...
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BIRMINGHAM, England: Maria Sharapova has decided not to compete on grass before Wimbledon for the first time in her career, opting out of playing her usual warm-up tournament in England.
Sharapova is hoping to avoid any injury concer...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The federal Food and Drug Administration saysa Minneapolis seafood processor has violated food safety laws.
The FDA says Captain's Select Seafood Inc. has an extensivehistory of violating the Federa...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Budget Committee said Saturday that a 2009 spending blueprint passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress will restore funding for health care, energy and education while leading to a balanced budget by 2012.
Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., said the budget plan rejected proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and would broaden the Children's H...
UK tabloid Daily Star pays libel damges to Ozzy Osbourne
June 7, 2008 at 11:07 am · Filed under Current Events , Entertainment , NewsLog , UK , law
The Daily Star, a tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, has paid an undisclosed amount of libel damages to Ozzy Osbourne stemming from an inaccurate representation of his appearance at the Brit Awards.
Osbourne, famous for ...
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The risk of type two diabetes sufferers developing serious complications can be reduced by lowering blood glucose levels beyond the current standard practice, an Australian-led global study has found.
The five-year study, overseen by the Sydney-based George Institute for International Health, involved 11,140 people in 20 countries.
It found reducing the haemoglobin A1c level, a mark...
OTTAWA - Screening officers at Canada's airports who ask passengers to empty their pockets have been given a stern warning: Stop emptying your own pockets in the X-ray machines.
Maintenance technicians have found a heap of garbage inside the expensive machines, which are used to scan hand luggage, purses, jackets and other items for potential weapons.
The junk they've extracted fr...
In a swipe at the Government he said Britain had become a less business-friendly location.
Alliance Boots' board meetings will now be held in Switzerland rather than the UK. It will not result in UK redundancies and is unlikely to have tax implications because the vehicle that owns Alliance Boots is Gibraltar-based. Alliance Boots will retain a London head office and its large complex in...
DENVER -- Right-handed reliever Luis Vizcaino watched the Rockies' come-from-behind, 6-4 victory over the Brewers on Friday night and felt the familiar excitement of being a part of a team catching fire.
Vizcaino was a part of a Yankees team that had its struggles last season, but pulled its act together and made the playoffs. Of course, those who were with the Rockies last year know a l...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Bo Diddley's funeral rocked and rolled Saturday with as much energy as his music.
For four hours, friends and relatives sang, danced and celebrated the life of the man who helped give birth to rock and roll with a signature beat that influenced Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and many others.
As family members passed by the Rock and Roll Ha...
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Satirist-turned-Senate hopeful Al Franken convinced Democratic activists today to look beyond controversies over his past as he secured the party’s U.S. Senate endorsement on the first ballot.
Two days after a Becker County jury convicted him of killing his best friend, Ken Andersen said he may have been framed.
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