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Visitors to a Staten Island park stumbled on a grisly scene twice this week: a mutilated animal wrapped in a white sheet.

Just a couple of days after returning from a Washington education summit, Minnesota Gov.

A star-studded audience turned out to remember actress Wendy Richard as a plaque was unveiled in her memory.

A A A' Zimbabwe's official newspaper says the coalition government has pledged to withdraw troops from the Marange diamond fields and meet international mining standards.

This is denounced in a Human Rights Watch HRW Report issued yesterday 2 July. The document, which accuses also Congolese military, says that the troops mainly responsible for the humanitarian crisis in the eastern Congolese region of North Kivu and in the district of Upper Uele , are respectively the rebel troops of FDRL and LRA.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Tropical Diseases Article Date: 02 Jul 2009 - 4:00 PDT Deadly diseases including plague, Ebola and Rift Valley Fever are being targeted as part of a new multi-million pound international partnership involving African researchers and the London ...

Los Angeles Sentinel Publisher Danny Bakewell, the new chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200 Black-owned newspapers, says he aims to fortify the power of the Black Press of America by unifying its ranks while also uniting with other civil rights organizations.

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Endocrinology Article Date: 03 Jul 2009 - 1:00 PDT The single-nucleotide polymorphism known as 2q35-rs13387042 is associated with increased risk of estrogen receptor -positive and -negative breast cancer, according to a study published online July 1 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons , Wikipedia 's repository for free, sharable multimedia files.

Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week.

DEKALB – The DeKalb Public Library is bringing the Big Read back in a big way.

A federal judge says he won't halt BP Whiting's expansion or hear a national environmental group's appeal of the refinery's air permit.

Italy's parliament has given final approval to legislation that allows unarmed citizen patrols and imposes tough measures aimed at fighting illegal immigration and boosting security on the streets.

A national study puts Illinois among the top 10 states with the highest percentages of overweight or obese teenagers.

Obesity rates among adults rose in 23 US states over the past year and did not decline anywhere, says a new report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Jul 02 - A new report by human rights group Amnesty International says Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during the 22-day Israeli Gaza offensive.

Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

Greenpeace International on Wednesday criticized some major PC makers for backtracking on commitments to reduce hazardous substances in hardware.

Despite pushes to fight obesity in the United States, a report finds many people aren't feeling the burn.