A review published in The Lancet Oncology finds that although users of smokeless tobacco products (STPs) likely have a lower cancer risk than smokers, they are still increasing their risk of developing several types of cancer.
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]]> aDear Prime Minister, Nahas Angula and the good people of Namibia, The largest slaughter of wildlife mammals in Africa is now being slaughtered by Namibians in Namibia. The least human populated country on earth. Namibia's seal hunt is the second largest
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]]> A German court on Wednesday handed heavy jail sentences to two men for abducting, raping and keeping three women as sex slaves in a house in Garlstedt near Bremen in 2006.
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]]> The 2008 Freedom Swim across the Peace River drew hundreds of swimmers, dozens of paddlers and one plein air painter. Eric Wilson, a Charlotte County draftsman, set up his easel on the north shore of the river. He daubed acrylic
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]]> ER patient lies sprawled on the ER waiting room floor for 63 minutes as her life ebbs away and the ER staff does absolutely nothing to help her. Security guards look straight at her and do nothing--not even summon the attention of medical staff. How incre
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]]> For the first time, the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is about to get a substantial hand from advertisements by an outside group.
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]]> Obama won 59 percent of support from registered Democrats polled in June; now he garners 54 percent.
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]]> Most of the beloved park, located on Orr Springs Road between the coast and Highway 101, looks untouched by fires. However, low flames were still consuming occasional logs last Thursday, and smoke was floating out from isolated spots high in the giant red
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]]> The frontier town of Satipo, on the edge of the Central Amazon, is a prime example of how illegal logging thrives, not only in Peru, but around the world.
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Asia Cup 2008
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]]> Police said the 49-year-old woman was jogging through the park with her english pointer just before noon on Saturday.
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]]> After a full bottle, Elliott the Otter lets Larry Elliott rub his belly and calm him before another walk at Brookgreen Gardens
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]]> Medieval skywatchers got to see a star explode, but modern-day astronomy buffs get all the pretty pictures of its ghostly remains.
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]]> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diabetes drugs would be subject to more stringent safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions of dollars, under recommendations made Wednesday by a government panel.Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 14-2
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]]> GREENDALE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A 91-year-old woman who had crawled under her car to look for her keys ended up stuck beneath an axle for two days until her mail carrier noticed letters piling up, police said.Betty Borowski, of the Milwaukee suburb of Green
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]]> The park’s co-owner Michelle Ashton under investigation for allegedly attempted to sell six endangered tiger cubs in a McAllen Wal-Mart parking lot on Sunday.It is believed the animals were destined for Mexico possibly violating American and international
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]]> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush heads to Japan on Saturday for his final G-8 summit of world leaders as the global economy slumps, energy prices soar and food shortages loom in the developing world.
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]]> ROME, Italy (AP) -- A fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica and was tried by a Vatican tribunal, a Vatican judge said in an interview published Saturday.
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]]> People in the United States are leaving their gas guzzlers in the garage, as the nation of road movies, freeway freedom and dreams of endless horizons wakes up to the reality of soaring fuel prices.
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]]> Evidence of a conspiracy to overthrow the pro-Western Islamist government has laid bare the resentment of the country's secular elite in a divided country.
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]]> Mice genetically engineered to overproduce the brain chemical serotonin died at an early age after developing symptoms similar to those of sudden infant death syndrome, suggesting improper regulation of serotonin may cause SIDS in humans
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]]> Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, 48-year-old gas station owner Kent Couch realized his boyhood dream Saturday of flying a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled party balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon high desert to land ...
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]]> In American politics, patriotism is the most potent of issues, which is why Barack Obama, possibly the most liberal member of the US Senate, has spent the past week on a mission to plant his own flag in the safe, indisputably patriotic, political centre.
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]]> Memphis, TN - A Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy was suspended Monday. Investigators said the deputy told one story about how a suspect died over the weekend, but apparently the deputy’s dash cam video showed something different. Now a witness is talking.
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]]> PINELLAS COUNTY – The latest forecast from the National Weather Center says that Tropical Storm Bertha could strengthen into the first hurricane of the 2008 season as early as Tuesday afternoon Bertha formed July 3 in the far eastern Atlantic near the
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]]> Could be that Obama is a inexperienced politician whose flip flops are so glaring, that normal Democrats have realized that there is only one adult in this race, and rather than damage the country, they will vote for McCain or just stay home.
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The animal, which had been on its way to an agricultural show, was spotted by a motorist on the A9 near Dunblane in Perthshire at about 0830 BST.

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]]> Three circus animals had to be rescued by volunteer firefighters after the transport truck carrying them overturned in a remote N.L. community. "There are four very sharp turns here in town, a tractor-trailer was coming around one of
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]]> PENSACOLA, Fla. - Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide
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]]> ay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fake Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign,
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]]> The dolphins at the Balik dolphin park in Turkey may seem a happy... but a closer look reveals the scars on their head, telling a far different story.
They lead a miserable, stressed-out existence, trapped in a small pool where British tourists pay up to
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]]> A 1.8m BLACK-HEADED python has been found in a toilet bowl on the 10th floor of a Darwin apartment block.

It is believed the snake had been living in the plumbing of the building for some time.

Reptile wrangler Chris Peberdy rescued it after the te
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]]> Aid workers, who asked not to be identified, said the inquiry was focusing on Indian U.N. peacekeepers accused of paying for sex with underage girls in Congo's violence-torn east.
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]]> The bill will allow authorities to recognise vaccinations or treatments recommended by the World Health Organisation, to be forcibly given by an officer to prevent the spread of a communicable disease.
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]]> A little old but covers the cover ups as they were beginning as true today as will be shown sensational allegations of rampant sexual exploitation and rape of young girls and women by the U.N.'s so-called "peacekeepers" and civilian staffers in the Congo
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