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High starch intake can increase the risk for breast cancer recurrence, according to findings in a study.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction because a juror tweeted and another slept during the trial.

A man who fathered 14 children through sperm donation has come under uneasy spotlight from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA has termed Trent Arsenault, 36, as “manufacturer of human cells” and wants him to stop his free sperm donation drive.

The Coca-Cola company has exhibited its secret formula at its World of Coca-Cola corporate museum in Atlanta for the first time, much to the joy of its signature drink fans.

The ability to digitally transpose a human being's facial features on to the face of another person is no longer an expensive proposition. Kevin Dale, a graduate student at Harvard University, has claimed the creation of a technique that allows technicians to do just that, with minimum investment.

Candace Gingrich-Jones, the half-sister of GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, has said she will work hard to get President Barack Obama re-elected next year. Gingrich-Jones, a lesbian gay rights activist, disagrees with her Gingrich (with whom she shares her mother) on gay rights.

Those who are habitually hooked on to their mobile phones while driving and whom warnings and punishments cannot deter, can now bank on a technology that can literally shut phones down when the owner is at the wheel.

According to reports, the liquid coolant used in Chevrolet Volt batteries might have caused the fire that broke out inside the electric car. General Motors (GM) is, apparently, examining the possibility.

Police haven't been able to establish the whereabouts of a man reportedly out on a revenge mission, but according to them, he could be hiding in the woods in the vicinity of New Hampshire-Maine border after scaling a prison razor wire fence on Thursday.

Petroleum major BP has accused Halliburton Energy Services Inc., the U.S. and Dubai-based oilfield services corporation, of intentionally destroying crucial evidence related to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

Just a month shy of her first anniversary as Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff's tenure has been marred by a series of corruption scandals involving cabinet ministers. Rousseff has lost minister after minister to corruption scandals since last June, almost at the rate of one a month. The latest to lose his office is Labor Minister Carlos Lupi. The successive resignations point directly to the corruption that is deeply embedded in the public administration system in Brazil.

Industrial output in the Eurozone fell 2 percent in September, compared to the previous month, indicating that recovery in the sector has ended.

After weeks of pumping oil from Rena, a Liberian ship stranded off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, salvage teams are still removing containers from the vessel in a desperate attempt to avoid an environmental disaster.

The Japanese economy came back to life the first time in four straight quarters, posting a 1.5 percent growth in the July-September quarter. According to data released by the Cabinet Office, the annualized growth of the economy was an impressive 6 percent.

The Chinese government slapped a $2.4 million tax notice on one of its most prominent artists; one who played a key part in the design of the National Stadium known as the Bird's Nest where the 2008 Summer Olympics were held.

With 12,000 pro-democracy activists having been sent to military trial ever since the junta took the reins and an oppressive law that criminalizes strikes and protest marches put in place, Egyptians are wondering if this was the emancipating they had risked their lives to achieve.

Kim Kardashian has said the decision to divorce NBA star Kris Humphries after a 72-day marriage was not an easy one. That was perhaps an understatement, considering how busy she has been of late, with the million-dollar wedding and all.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The wrath of jilted women has often resulted in gruesome killings of partners. Now, in a freakish case, a UK woman has gone on trial for killing her husband by pulling the handbrake of the car he was driving at 60 miles per hour and causing a fatal crash.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been named in the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons 2011 report, for his alleged sexual exploits with an underage girl.

At least 12 Americans were killed in Kabul on Saturday when a Taliban suicide bomber unleashed the deadliest attack on U.S. armed forces since the shooting down of a helicopter in August that killed 30 Americans. More American blood sacrifice in a thankless beneficiary country...

Apple Inc. appears to be bolstering its mapping-technology arsenal to better compete with Google Inc. on that front by reportedly purchasing a Sweden-based 3-D mapping company called C3 Technologies.

The name Herman Cain meant a disarmingly easy tax plan, some quick witticisms and a typical American success saga. Now that could be changing even as the Republican nomination race is changing gears. How about a pro-liquor Cain who lobbied hard for the tobacco industry and was so anti-worker that he lobbied against a hike in the minimum wage? Recent events have led to a really troubling twist in the tale, for the surprise package in the Republican bundle of White House seekers.

The death of Moammar Gadhafi has definitely clarified one piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is the global oil market: There is now one fewer issue to hinder production security in a host of oil hot spots.

The hypocrisy and opportunism in other capitals don't absolve Gadhafi of the crimes he committed against ordinary Libyans, against humanity. But there is something sinister and sleazy about the current consensus in world capitals about how utterly wretched Gadhafi was.

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain raised $2.8 million in the third quarter, an increase in campaign contributions that reflects his growing stature as a viable candidate in the 2012 race to the White House.

Notorious Doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping, of the Family Radio mission, has returned with the prediction that the world will end on OCtober 21, 2011 -- a day when the Rapture promised to take place earlier his year, in May, will finally seperate the chaff from the grain.

The finding last month that neutrinos travel faster than light whipped up frenzied debate in scientific circles by virtue of its potential to knock Einstein's special theory of relativity from the high pedestal.

From a server glitch at a Japanese carrier selling iPhone 4S to Steve Wozniak taking his position in a line at an Apple Store in California, and from the spectacle of people braving the weather to others bringing in cattle to stand in the queue, the iPhone 4S launch day is shaping up in colorful way. There ought to be solid reasons why iPhone 4S is a good buy right now. The following are some of them:

Analysts have predicted that between three and four million iPhone 4S units will be sold during this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world have taken their position in long lines in front of Apple Stores sand other carrier/retailer stores where the device is being sold.