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Feet come first when it comes to body parts with most fungi
The human skin's surface is home to the "skin microbiome," an ecosystem where fungus, bacteria and viruses coexist. Sometimes, things within the microbiome can go wrong: Fungal skin infections affect about 29 million people in the United States. Research on the topic is lacking because growing fungi in the laboratory is a slow, difficult process. Thanks to genome mapping, ...
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London attack suspects known to authorities
murder of a British soldier on the streets of London were known to security services, reports said. The reports came on Thursday as the ministry of defence named the soldier, who was hacked to death with a meat cleaver a day earlier in Woolwich, in the capital's south, as Drummer Lee Rigby. Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from London's Scotland Yard, said: "Police ...
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Latest developments on the attack
>Editor's note: Are you from the area affected, or London in general? What is your reaction to the incident? Send us your images, video and experiences.(CNN) -- The brutal killing of a British soldier Wednesday near a military barracks in the Woolwich neighborhood of southeast London has shocked the United Kingdom. Prime Minister David Cameron said the act appears to have been a terrorist ...
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Weiner More Lewd Photos Might Come Out
radio host in his first live interview since announcing his mayoral bid. "People may decide they want to come forward and say, here's another email that I got or another photo. I'm certainly not going to do that. So people may hear things that are true, they may hear things that are not true, but I'm going to try to keep being focused on issues that are important to New York ...
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Long War Wrong Winner
This analysis may, of course, prove correct. And, then again, it may not. Experts have, now and then, been wrong in their predictions. But it may not make any difference where American interests are concerned. It seems almost undeniable that the U.S. has crafted a lose/lose policy when it comes to Syria. We oppose the regime but only to the point of supplying its opponents with ...
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Banned Rafsanjani Blasts Irans Leadership
Ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (center, with white turban) arrived at Iran's Interior Ministry within minutes of the official close of registration for would-be candidates on May ...
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Steinitz concerned about UK-Israel relations
"It's difficult to say" if Britain was still a friend of Israel, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said in an interview published in ...
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Amnesty Both Israel Hamas guilty of war crimes
Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law during Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza in November of last year, Amnesty International concluded in a report released on ...
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Complexities of surgery for Syrian girl in Israel
Balancing a media blitz and concerns for the family's security when they return home, the organization who brought the girl to Israel say they hope she is the first of ...
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Instinct guided mom before twister
No one can know how many decisions were made by residents all across the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore as Monday's monster tornado bore down from the west. Decisions made just before the sky began to spin, big or small, bad or good, often made in a flash. Decisions that, for many, were in fact life or ...
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Michael Adebolajo British-born suspect in killing of Drummer Lee Rigby
MI5 admit they KNEW about fanatics who 'slaughtered soldier': Police raid house in Lincolnshire village as friends say British-born suspect became 'obsessed with radical Islam as ...
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Woolwich attack Put extremists on first plane back to wherever theyve come from demands furious Tory MP Bob Stewart
Former army officer Bob Stewart said the killers in the Woolwich attack had succeeded in securing publicity for their ‘perverted ideas’ and urged tough action to deal with ‘anyone that supports ...
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Could we soon REGROW limbs Scientists say salamander breakthrough could lead to radical new treatments
The amphibians' immune systems are the key to the trait, which allows them to regrow limbs as well as regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue and even parts of their ...
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Net migration to Britain falls by more than a third to lowest level in a decade after crackdown on bogus students
New figures from the reveal a net flow of 153,000 migrants into the UK in the year to September 2012. The number is down from 242,000 in the previous year, a fall of 37 per ...
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Michael Adebolajo How Woolwich suspect became obsessed with Islam as a schoolboy
The British citizen suspected of executing a serving soldier in the Woolwich terror attack was brought up as a Christian but became 'obsessed' with Islam as a schoolboy, it emerged ...
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Police commander forced to defend response time to desperate Woolwich killing 999 calls as he claims armed officers were there in 14 minutes
A police commander today defended his force after questions were raised about how long it took Metropolitan Police officers to reach the scene of the brutal killing in ...
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Twelve years for family GP who used secret camera inside James Bond-style wristwatch to film himself abusing up to 300 patients
A family doctor who used a secret camera inside his James Bond-style wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients was jailed for 12 years ...
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GPs are fed-up with childish and misleading attacks from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over chaos in AEs
Fed-up family doctors today launched a ferocious attack on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, accusing him of making ‘childish and misleading’ claims to shift the blame for chaos in the ...
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Rise in house fires caused by overheating Eccles cakes in a microwave
Firefighters are warning snack lovers not to warm their Eccles cakes in the microwave after a string of fires caused by the sugar bursting into ...
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Hate preacher Anjem Choudary blames presence of British troops in Afghanistan for Woolwich killing as he admits to attending the same mosque as suspect
Extremist: Anjem Choudary warned today there could be more 'lone wolf' attacks as he blamed British troops in Afghanistan for the slaughter of a ...
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High-priced necklace stolen in second Cannes theft jeweller
Thieves have made off with a high-priced necklace made by Switzerland's De Grisogono in the second jewellery theft at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the company said on ...
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WHO voices deep concern over spread of SARS-like virus
The World Health Organisation (WHO) voiced deep concern on Thursday over the SARS-like virus that has killed 22 people in less than a year, saying it might potentially spread more widely between ...
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Riots hit Stockholm suburbs for fourth night
Rioters torched cars and attacked local police stations in 15 immigrant-populated Stockholm suburbs in a fourth night of riots on Thursday, shattering Sweden's image as a peaceful and egalitarian ...
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Ecuador satellite collides with Russian space junk
A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, Quito's space agency said ...
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Poor nations deprived of billions as half of investment is chanelled through tax havens
Some of the world's poorest countries are missing out on billions each year due to investors chaneling money through tax havens before it reaches them, according to a charity ...
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Mexico has more to it than drugs and immigration
As Mexico’s image suffers damage abroad due to increasing levels of violence related to the drug crack-down by government, it may be helpful for Mexicans to remember that there is more to their country than drugs and immigration problems with the US. Some facts may be surprising and even shocking, especially to foreigners.
Mexico has been in the news frequently of late as the government carries out a crack-down on drug cartels and organized crime, the country’s murder rate is up, journalists have been killed for investigative reporting on drug gangs and our image internationally has generally been diminished by the tunnel vision of international news providers. Read more
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