Cellphones Link To Child Misbehavior
Researchers studying the health effects of cellphones say they have found evidence that when pregnant women use them regularly, their children are more likely to have behavioral problems. The stud...
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Researchers studying the health effects of cellphones say they have found evidence that when pregnant women use them regularly, their children are more likely to have behavioral problems. The stud...
Three Russian satellites have failed to enter orbit after they were launched on a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russian aerospace experts said the satellites and the upper sta...
Facebook is redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's most popular features, photos. Facebook...
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The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position. The body said it would look into whether the...
The World Health Organisation has recently released the results of health surveys on world obesity, and the study showed Pacific Island countries make up most of the top 10 list of the world's fatte...
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Scientists have identified a gene which may play a role in a common defect affecting the genitalia of baby boys. Hypospadias, which affects one in every 375 boys, is the result of incomplete devel...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that the world's international migrants are estimated to be 214 million in 2010, China's Xinhua news agency reported. In a report named "Wo...
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n the spring of this year, the "Facebook alternative" Diaspora achieved extensive media coverage -- including an article in the New York Times -- and raised tens of thousands of dollars in funding f...
Australians enjoying the summer sunshine can now know when it's time to cover up and avoid potentially cancer-causing ultraviolet rays thanks to a new iPhone application. Australia has one of t...
Several Black Friday shoppers eager to get great holiday deals were trampled Friday morning as they surged through store doors in North Buffalo, New York. CNN affiliate WIVB had a camera inside th...
The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has found it causes 600,000 deaths every year. One-third of those killed are children, often exposed to smoke at home, the World Health O...
A drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer gay and bisexual men some protection against contracting the virus, the authors of a new study say. Trials of the combination drug Truvada amo...