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A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians.
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Ex-British PM Tony Blair says he may cancel a book-signing in London in light of the hostile reception he got in Dublin.
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There is some promising news for the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile, with government officials now saying they could be freed by mid-November.
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Two men were killed when a small plane crashed shortly after it took off near Lumby, B.C., police say.
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Nova Scotia Power crews are busy trying to restore power to more than 1,500 customers after Hurricane Earl hit the province.
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The Spanish government has rejected a new ceasefire announcement by the separatist group ETA and ruled out negotiations on an independent Basque homeland, saying the militants have been decimated by arrests and are desperate to regroup and rearm.
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Searchers have pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway as further mudslides from days of torrential rain raised Guatemala's official death toll to 44.
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A forensic autopsy will be performed Tuesday on human remains found just east of Orangeville, Ont., with results expected no earlier than the next day on whether they are from missing nurse Sonia Varaschin.
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The United Nations estimates eight to 10 million people in Pakistan still need daily help out of a total of 18.7 million affected by the flooding.
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A man is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday in connection with the death of Ann Marie Shirran, the St. John's woman who had been missing since mid-July.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Infants and preschoolers who don't
get enough sleep at night are at increased risk for later childhood
obesity, a new study suggests.
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AP - GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes pill Avandia should be pulled from the U.K. market because of concerns that the drug can increase the risk of heart attacks, British drug regulators said Monday.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- As parents prepare for their
children's return to school, they need to remember that healthy meals and
snacks are essential for learning.
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Reuters - People who take a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates for more than five years may be doubling their risk of developing cancer of the gullet or esophagus, a British study found on Friday.
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AFP - Most US kids saw fewer TV food ads between 2003 and 2007, but black kids were bombarded with more calorie-rich advertising than whites, a study showed Monday.
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AFP - Children under the age of five who don't get enough sleep at night are more likely than kids who do get their 40 winks to become obese at a young age, a study published Monday showed.
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AP - The vaccine used to contain the recent swine flu pandemic was effective, but health authorities will need to ramp up the speed and volume of production during the next global outbreak, a World Health Organization official said Monday.
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AP - UNICEF says more than 300 people have died in the West African nation of Cameroon from the country's worst cholera outbreak in 20 years.
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AP - It's hard to predict which pills will best lower which patient's high blood pressure, but researchers are hunting ways to better personalize therapy — perhaps even using a blood test.
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AP - Federal regulators have backed off a plan to remove a Shire PLC low blood-pressure treatment from the market after warning in August that the drug has not been proven effective.
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