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  • Touch-oriented Windows 8 unveiled

    2011-06-02 15:07

    Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in Palos Verdes and Taipei.

  • Kids of divorce score worse in math

    2011-06-02 14:33

    Children of divorced parents often fall behind their classmates in math and social skills and are more likely to suffer anxiety, stress and low self-esteem, according to a new study.

  • Congratulations times 6! Sextuplets born in US

    2011-06-02 14:26

    A statement from Abington Memorial Hospital says sextuplets were born there on Wednesday.

  • Russia bans EU vegetables due to E.coli fears

    2011-06-02 13:33

    Russia banned imports of raw vegetables from the European Union on Thursday because of the E.coli outbreak centred in Germany, Russian media cited the head of the consumer protection agency as saying.

  • Two-drug therapy may treat certain type of breast cancer

    2011-06-02 13:02

    A new study by US researchers shows that a significant percentage of participants with HER2-positive breast cancer had their tumors entirely or almost completely eradicated after taking a combination of two drugs - lapatinib and trastuzumab.

  • Smoking gun elusive in deadly E. coli outbreak

    2011-06-02 10:01

    European health officials tracking one of the worst E. coli outbreaks on record might never know where it came from. It's a sad fact of life in food poisoning cases: There often is no smoking gun.

  • European food contamination kills 17

    2011-06-02 06:49

    The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is one third higher than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday.

  • Germany: Searching for bacterial outbreak source

    2011-06-01 17:21

    Scientists have still not been able to pinpoint the source of an unprecedented foodborne bacterial outbreak, Germany's agriculture minister said Wednesday.

  • Shuttle Endeavour ends 19-year flying career

    2011-06-01 16:16

    US space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday morning, ending its 19-year flying mission.

  • Spanish cucumbers not E.coli source

    2011-06-01 09:39

    German laboratory tests on Tuesday ruled out Spanish cucumbers as the source for spreading fatal enterohamorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) which has killed at least 16 people within Europe.

  • WHO says cell phone use "possibly carcinogenic"

    2011-06-01 09:26

    Using a mobile phone might increase the risk of developing certain types of brain tumours and consumers should consider ways of reducing their exposure, World Health Organisation (WHO) cancer experts said on Tuesday.

  • Sturgeon's death highlights threat to ancient fish

    2011-05-31 15:51

    Alas, poor Harald. Wired up to a satellite transmitter, he had much to teach science about the life of the great sturgeons of the Danube River and Black Sea.

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