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A lab officer prepares blood samples from a cancer patient for further DNA testing, Thursday April 19, 2007 at a medical lab at the National University Hospital in Singapore, a country well known for its advanced medical treatment and research facilities. The number of cancer cases in Asia is set to rise dramatically by 2020 due largely to longer life spans and changing lifestyles, threatening a health crisis as poorer countries in the region struggle to keep up.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) World facing cancer ‘tidal wave’
The Irish Times2014-02-04
The World Health Organisation has warned of a “tidal wave” of cancer and has called for the introduction of restrictions on sugar and alcohol. The agency predicted the number of cases worldwide is expected to rise by 75 per cent over the next 20 years. In 2012 there were 14.1 million new cases of cancer around the globe but experts from the World Health Organisation’s cancer body, the...

Newton mourns death of high school junior Roee Grutman
The Boston Globe2014-02-06
Newton is mourning the loss of Roee Grutman, a Newton South High School junior who died unexpectedly Thursday morning, according to a letter to parents from school Superintendent David Fleishman.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.boston.com/c/35022/f/647066/s/36cc9cf7/sc/35/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/><div class='mf-viral'><table...

Russian security personnel patrol Olympic park ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. US warns Russia Olympics of 'toothpaste' bomb
Al Jazeera2014-02-06
The United States has issued a warning to airports and to some airlines flying to Russia for the Olympics to watch for toothpaste tubes that could hold ingredients to make a bomb on a...

Bob Costas begins Sochi Games primetime coverage with eye infection
Yahoo Daily News2014-02-07
View gallery. (@dkitendaugh) Russia, what have you done to our precious Bob Costas? With all the talk of problems leading up to the Sochi Games, Americans saw a familiar Olympics face looking a tad unfortunate in the opening minutes of NBC's first primetime broadcast....

File - Caged chickens at a poultry farm in the Philippines. A new strain of bird flu could cause a pandemic according to scientists. Scientists talk of 'pandemic potential' after first confirmed human death from new strain of bird flu
The Independent2014-02-05
Chinese scientists have said the “pandemic potential” of a new strain of bird flu “should not be underestimated” after the first known human infection resulted in the death of an elderly woman. The new strain is a variant of a virus known as H10N8, which scientists believe may have originated in wild birds, and later spread to poultry. The victim, a 73-year-old woman from Nanchang City in...

Visage exploit to get max rank on 'Dota 2' Year Beast
The Examiner2014-02-06
There is an exploit which allows you to auto attack the year beast without him being able to attack...

Bob Costas’ eye infection startles NBC Olympic viewers; host wears glasses
The Examiner2014-02-07
Bob Costas fans weren't prepared for the 2014 Sochi Olympic debut that they got on Thursday night. It wasn't because the Olympic figure skating was slow or that that Olympic interviews were boring, but it was Bob Costas’...

'The Biggest Loser': Why was Rachel Frederickson allowed to lose too much weight?
IMDb2014-02-05
The winner of Season 15 of "The Biggest Loser" was revealed last night, as the show usually does, live in front of a cheering crowd. Rachel...

Texas executes female murderer Suzanne Basso
BBC News2014-02-06
A woman convicted of murder in Texas has been put to death, only the 14th time a female has been executed in the US in nearly four decades. Suzanne Basso,...

2 injured as roller coaster ride tilts at Adlabs Imagica
The Times of India2014-02-05
NEW DELHI: Two people were injured when a roller...

Shiite Muslim women express their grief during the festival of Ashoura in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Dec. 26, 2009. Iraq slammed for women prisoners abuse
Al Jazeera2014-02-06
Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of sexual abuse, Human Rights Watch has said. Many women were detained for months or even years without charge before seeing a judge, HRW said in a report on Thursday, and security forces often questioned them about their male relatives' activities, rather than crimes...

Journalists in Sochi tweet funny and gross hotel experiences
Atlanta Journal2014-02-05
Media arriving early for the Olympics are finding that many of the hotels reserved for journalists aren't ready, and if they...

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Hama and Syria's Autonomous Solution
WorldNews.com2014-02-05
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Hama was a prelude to Syria's current nightmare. It was also a forewarning of how long-repressed sectarian identities and the suppression of religion and culture by minority regimes, including meddlesome and foreign powers, always leads to killing, even enormous atrocities and massacres. Just before February 2, 1982, in the city of Hama, Syria, the...

Así se cayó la pared sobre los bomberos
Clarin2014-02-05
05/02/14 - 10:32 El incendio en un depósito de archivos de Barracas derivó en una escena desesperante y tremenda al desplomarse una pared...

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN (July 22, 2003)--The Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis (WHEC 725) alongside Zhong Guo Yu Zheng 118 (Chinese Fisheries law Enforcement Vessel). The United States and Chinese officials have been working together to find and stop fishermen who use environmentally destructive fishing nets. U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO (91377) ( COAST GUARD CUTTER JARVIS AND FISHERIES (FOR RELEASE) ) US Official to China: Clarify or Adjust South China Sea Claims
Voa News2014-02-06
VOA News The United States' top diplomat on East Asia has suggested China's wide-ranging territorial claims in the South China Sea do not comply with international law and should be clarified or adjusted. China claims nearly the entire 3.5-million square kilometer South China Sea, by virtue of what it sees as its historical rights within the so-called nine-dash line. Vietnam, the...

IBM Brings Watson to Africa (IBM - International Business Machines Corporation)
noodls2014-02-06
(Source: IBM - International Business Machines Corporation) LAGOS and NAIROBI - 06 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa in a bid to fuel development and spur business opportunities across the world's fastest growing continent. Dubbed "Project Lucy" after the earliest known human ancestor, IBM will invest US$100 million in...

Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga's tale of survival sparks joy in his home town
Canberra Times2014-02-05
The family of castaway fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga (L-R). His sister Fatima Orellana, father Jose Ricardo, and mother Maria Julia Alvarenga. Photo: Reuters Mexico: In a tiny Mexican coastal village, the fisherman had long been given up for dead. Lost at sea more than a year ago, in terrible conditions that claimed the lives of four others, there was no hope of his return. So it was with a...

Así reaccionó el día que vio llover por primera vez 
El Pais Digital2014-02-06
Tiene 15 meses y nunca había visto llover. Su hermana la grabó saliendo a mojarse con el agua y el video...

A young Sikh protestor holds a placard as dozens of others burn tires during a protest against Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent remark on the country's 1984 anti-Sikh riots, in Jammu, India, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Golden Temple attack: India Sikhs demand raid documents
BBC News2014-02-06
The main Sikh political party in India, the Akali Dal, has protested outside the parliament, demanding that the government declassify documents related to the 1984 raid on a Sikh temple. It comes days after Britain said it advised India during the raid on the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine. Hundreds died when the army stormed the shrine to flush out Sikh...

Olympic toilet humor? Sochi's bathroom signs forbid fishing, puking in toilets
The Examiner2014-02-04
Rules about the bathrooms in Sochi, Russia have once again given Olympic fans some fascinating toilet humor. The latest is from Sebastien Toutant who is an Olympic athlete currently in Sochi ready to...

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