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Graphic cigarette warnings 'work'

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Images of patients on ventilators on cigarette packets help smokers heed the health warnings about smoking better than written warnings, says US research.
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Alzheimer's gene 'diabetes link'

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Scientists say they have identified a possible genetic link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
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Bolivia tries out anti-fraud pens

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Bolivian custom officers are to be handed out special pens, with a hidden camera and voice recorder, as part of a plan to tackle corruption.
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Argentina demands Falklands talks

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Argentina's president demands the UK negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, on the 30th anniversary of the end of the 1982 war.
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New festival celebrates rare bird

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
One of Scotland's rarest and most elusive birds is to be celebrated in a new festival on the Western Isles.
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Farm bill seeks to weed old subsidies

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
When the wind blows the wheat and the corn stalks glisten in the bright sun, it is easy to see why the Schmidt family has farmed Maryland fields for nearly a century.
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Ageing in centenarians and newborns

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Joining the hunt for clues to ageing
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Gruesome video leads to teacher firing

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
A Montreal teacher was fired for showing his 10th grade students the killing and dismemberment video allegedly filmed by Canadian gay porn actor Luka Magnotta, the school board said Thursday.
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'Bath salts' in NY naked rampage?

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
New York State Police believe a woman was high on "bath salts" and was "highly combative" when they arrived.
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Turning Rio rhetoric into reality

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Airport development plan on UK coast points up Rio+20 dilemmas
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Teacher job prospects 'improving'

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Job prospects for probationer teachers in Scotland have improved over the past year, a survey suggests.
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Health care reform: Top things to know

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
While many changes to Americans' health care outlined in the the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act don't take effect until 2014, a Supreme Court ruling expected this month could stop those changes from coming at all.
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'Little progress' on ocean life

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Only "pitiful" progress has been seen on pledges made at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to protect ocean habitats and reduce fishing fleets, say scientists.
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Hockey mom scolds ref on the ice

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
A hockey mom walks onto the ice during a brawl to scold the ref for not intervening.
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Reagan son candid about sex abuse

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
Michael Reagan shares candid details of a childhood of sexual abuse
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Obama signs new Trade Center beam

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
With the under-construction One World Trade Center fast approaching its final height, President Barack Obama visited the New York tower Thursday to get an update on its growth and help prepare one of the finishing touches.
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Sandusky accuser: I screamed in vain from basement

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The prosecution's case in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial neared its conclusion on Thursday after just four days of testimony, with three more accusers taking the witness stand, including a young man who said the former Penn State assistant football coach raped him as a teen guest in Sandusky's home....
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Sandusky accuser: I screamed in vain from basement

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The prosecution's case in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial neared its conclusion on Thursday after just four days of testimony, with three more accusers taking the witness stand, including a young man who said the former Penn State assistant football coach raped him as a teen guest in Sandusky's home....
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Obama signs beam of One World Trade Center

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
With the under-construction One World Trade Center fast approaching its final height, President Barack Obama visited the New York tower Thursday to get an update on its growth and help prepare one of the finishing touches.
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Quiz of the week's news

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:56
What reason did the UK's Royal Mail give for not delivering post?
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