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Lily Allens MySpace Alcoholic confession was made Up

Lily Allen has hit out at media reports claiming that the she admitted to being an alcoholic. The 22-year-old insisted that whatever was written on her Myspace blog was made up and not written by her. "It never was on the Myspace blog. Someone made it up, Contactm...

6,000 Turkeys Slaughtered at Czech Bird Flu Farm

...ities remain optimistic that the outbreak will not hit poultry exports, Russia announced Thursday that steps to ban Czech birds, meat, eggs and equipment connected to the poultry industry would be taken within "two to three days". Czech Agriculture Minister Petr Gandalovic reacted to the threatened Russ...

Dengue Fever Deaths Up in Vietnam

...toms, aching joints and fatigue. "Vietnam's worst hit provinces were in the Mekong delta," said Tran Thanh Duong, an official with the ministry's preventive health care department. "The increased infection rate is mainly due to unusually hot weather and too much rain this year, which has provided good...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...ignature wound: traumatic brain injury. Soldiers hit in the head or knocked out by blasts "getting you...the face, hands, feet and legs when his Humvee was hit with an IED two years ago. A partial amputee with speech and other problems from a severe brain inju...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...S pandemics, unsafe food and scarce water supplies hit the headlines daily. Rapid change is creating new interactions between people, environment and technology, but also new problems, such as novel strains of avian flu and HIV drug resistances. Yet billions in aid could be wasted because current poli...

Indonesia Bird Flu Victim in Recovery

...donesia's 101st case. Indonesia has been the worst hit by the deadly H5N1 virus, with 80 fatalities to date. Daad said the girl had been treated with tamiflu as soon as she was admitted to hospital on Tuesday....

Charity Slot Machines a Thing of the Past in Norway

...y the state's machines. But they can't expect to hit the jackpot -- their share of the profits will be significantly lower than what they have been accustomed to. "We're trying to cut costs, we're rationalising, we're going through our expenses with a fine-toothed comb," said Apeland. "But we will no...

Pete Doherty "not Ready" to Quit Drug Use

... "Pete's not ready to give up yet. He will have to hit rock bottom before he can rise up again," Contactmusic quoted Jacqueline, as saying. Meanwhile Doherty has been named the "celebrity flatmate from hell" in a new poll. The results of the poll are based on the participants' responses to the questi...

US Whizkids Create Eco-friendly Building Material from Mushroom

...atents, though, Bayer and McIntyre realized they'd hit upon a relatively original idea. Unlike many green building products, Greensulate isn't made from pre-existing materials. It requires little energy or expense to produce because it's grown from organic material. Here's how it works: A mixture of wa...

Violent Videogames Attract Criticism Again

...ople who like horror will love it." When the Wii hit the market, many people were excited about its possibilities. Teenagers would get up off the couch and exert themselves while playing. The game system has also been used in physical therapy and in retirement communities, where elderly residents are u...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

...'s happening with the older animals is this double hit of both age and estrogen decline. The findings of this study suggest that the timing of any hormonal intervention may be important, and that there is a window of opportunity to preserve brain function before it has deteriorated too far. "If the b...

Link Between Teenage Violence and Domestic Violence Found

..., biting or punching their partner, threatening to hit or throw something at their partner, and pushing, grabbing or shoving their partner. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Mental Health, the paper appears in the current issue of the journal Violence and Vict...

Cox Cringes Seeing Her Skinny 'Friends' Body!

...back at her pictures and videos of her days on the hit TV sitcom she can't help but cringe over her thin frame. "There was a period when I was on Friends and I was really, really thin. I thought I looked great. In retrospect, I didn't," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying. "I can take care of other pe...

UN Report Warns of 'environmental Refugees'

Climate change will not only hit drier cities like the Indian capital but also modify the migration patterns of rural and urban areas, warns a UN report released Wednesday. "Much of the environmental refugees never return to the rural areas from which they were first displaced," ...

Canadian Mountain Bikers Hit by Bacterial Infection

... the last three days," posted Spaz. "Not sure what hit me (felt like a truck)," posted Shorelocal. The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority says 18 participants or spectators at the Test of Metal mountain bike race June 16 have confirmed cases of campylobacter. Symptoms last up to seven days and include ...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

...nd with this new imaging technology, we can really hit the spot." Monitoring and Adaptability Important It was shown that HDR brachytherapy in combination with the live image-guidance technology makes it easy to monitor both the tumour and adjacent organs during treatment. Nucletron's innovative tec...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...duce fruit at all," he told AFP. He too has been hit by capricious weather. "In February we had 80 mill...s always one of the last places in Australia to be hit by drought and one of the first to recover. But the prolonged dry has slashed rainfall and wine pr...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

...nalists. Eight of Assam's 29 districts have been hit by the mosquito-borne disease. "Between January and April, some 25 people have died of malaria and 9,721 people tested positive for the disease in the same period," the minister said. Unofficial reports put the death toll at around 40. Experts sa...

Cause of Gender Differences in Blood Pressure, Kidney Damage Under Study

...urs more rapidly than it does in women, until they hit menopause. I look at our spontaneously hypertensive rats and see the same dichotomy in blood pressure, Dr. Sullivan says of the animal model she studies. There are also differences in development of renal injury in the human population and chroni...

Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

...adication programme. Many of the worst kala azar hit areas of Bihar are the northern districts of Vaishali, Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Sheohar and East and West Champaran. Bihar last faced a kala azar epidemic in 1991 when 250,000 cases were reported. In 2000, the numbers were low but started rising fro...

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