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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Monday lifted a ban on social networking website Facebook which had carried a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad, but access to any "blasphemous" material will remain blocked, officials said.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and China agreed on Monday to set up an emergency hotline and set in place ways to prevent maritime friction sparked by Beijing's growing naval reach from getting out of hand.
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Using genetic particles known as small interfering RNAs, scientists have halted the replication process of the deadly Ebola virus in monkeys; a breakthrough that the researchers say should be reproducible in humans...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli marines stormed a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza on Monday and at least nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed, triggering a diplomatic crisis and an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council.
FRANKFURT/MADRID (Reuters) - The European Central Bank warned on Monday that euro zone banks face up to 195 billion euros in a "second wave" of potential loan losses over the next 18 months due to the financial crisis, and disclosed it had increased purchases of euro zone government bonds.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos is favored to win a June run-off after a solid victory in a first round presidential vote that consolidated his position as heir to the popular incumbent.
AMATITLAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - Stunned victims of Tropical Storm Agatha wept by destroyed homes and rescue crews dug bodies out of mud in Guatemala on Monday after torrential rain killed at least 113 people across Central America.
BOSTON--As most of us learned in school, fruit is delicious because it evolved to be eaten--if plants can entice animals to eat their seeds, they'll be spread far and wide in handy packets of fertilizer. But spices are different. Spices and herbs such as thyme, oregano, turmeric and cinnamon get their singular flavors from compounds that are actually toxic in concentrated doses--and plants probably evolved to express these toxins so their leaves and berries would not be eaten. So why do we humans cultivate them and put them all over our food? Nobody knows for sure, but as explained today in a presentation here at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists are starting to discover a whole host of health benefits from common herbs and spices--and it's possible that we humans evolved a taste for these toxic compounds because they help our bodies function better. Spices top the list of foods rich in antioxidants , explained Marianne Gillette, a vice president at McCormick & Company, whose background is in experimental taste research. One half teaspoon of ground cinnamon has as many antioxidants as a half cup of blueberries; a half teaspoon of dried oregano rivals three cups of raw spinach. [More]
SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) - China deflected pressure to censure North Korea at a regional summit on Sunday, instead urging its neighbors to calm tensions over the sinking of a warship and avoid any clash that could shake Asia.
VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Oil from BP's out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters said on Monday, as public anger surged over the country's worst environmental disaster.
LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. citizen Lori Berenson, freed on parole last week from a Peruvian prison, has asked for her 20-year sentence to be reduced so she can return to the United States.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman recovered a wide lead over her rival for the Republican nomination in California's governor race after the pair stepped up their costly television campaigns accusing each other of being too liberal, a poll showed on Sunday.
Research on acupuncture just got a shot in the arm. Well, a needle near the knee, actually. Because a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience [Maiken Nedergaard et al, http://bit.ly/auzHwx ] has uncovered a mechanism that could explain how this traditional healing process can help reduce pain. [More]
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The remnants of Tropical Storm Agatha dumped more rain across Central America on Sunday after killing at least 74 people in the region, sparking fears of further mudslides in three countries.
LONDON (Reuters) - France admitted on Sunday that keeping its top-notch credit rating would be "a stretch" without some tough budget decisions, following German hints that Berlin may resort to raising taxes to help bring down its deficit.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top military officer said on Sunday he would like Congress to hold off passing legislation to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military until the Pentagon completes a review of how to implement the policy.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's Free Democrats has given his party a green light to work with the opposition Social Democrats in a key western state, a move likely to deepen tensions in Chancellor Angela Merkel's embattled coalition.
A pond is a rich ecosystem, full of nutrients and life (and lots and lots of beetles). Each pond often has a unique array of species, from plankton to fish--even if it was created by scientists. Biologist Jon Chase and his colleagues at Washington University in Saint Louis had noted that it was nigh impossible to make the ecosystems in 300 gallon plastic pools exactly the same--even if all the starting conditions were identical. So he spent seven years trying to figure out why. [More]
By Paul Day MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Socialist government grappled with a deepening political crisis on Sunday, with reforms of a "dysfunctional" labor market hanging by a thread and its chances of survival beyond the autumn looking shaky.
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