LONDON - British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline said Tuesday it was working with health authorities here probing the death of a schoolgirl following a cervical cancer vaccination.
The 14-year-old died...
L'AQUILA - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday marked his 73rd birthday in L'Aquila in central Italy's quake-hit Abruzzo region where nearly 300 people died in April.
The...
PARIS, Claire Rosemberg and Jean-Francois Guyot - Screen legend Brigitte Bardot marked her birthday on Monday with a call for her "splendid twin" Sophia Loren, who like her turned 75 this week, to...
WASHINGTON - More women are having both breasts removed after cancer is diagnosed in one, even though there is little evidence that a double mastectomy can improve survival, a study showed Monday....
STOCKHOLM, Igor Gedilaghine - Movie buffs, art collectors and Ingmar Bergman fans will be able to put their hands on the legendary Swedish film-maker's personal items when they go under the hammer...
TAIPEI - Taiwan has decided not to allow Rebiya Kadeer to visit, an official said Friday, two days after the exiled Uighur leader, branded a "separatist" by Beijing, expressed a wish to travel to the...
CAIRO, Jailan Zayan - "I'm addicted to being awake," says Sameh Marghani, under the dizzying lights of a Cairo neighbourhood teeming with families shopping and teenagers nodding to the boom-boom of...
GENEVA - The World Health Organization said Thursday that pharmaceutical firms can produce only three billion doses of swine flu vaccines a year, covering less than half of the global population....
The animals' numbers were decimated during the 27-year civil war that shattered this country on Africa's southwestern coast, before it ended in 2002. Among the survivors, many giant sables stopped...
PARIS, Mehdi Cherifia - A group of self-styled French "Retrogamers" is calling for the creation of a special museum for the classic video arcade games that bewitched millions of teenagers in the...
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