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Breast Cancer Risk Not Linked To Your Mom’s Cancer Genes

Your Breast Cancer Risk Not Linked to Your Mother’s, Say U.S. Researchers

The likelihood of contracting breast cancer need not run through family lines, contrary to popular belief. According to new research, it is being suggested that women may not run the risk of breast cancer if their mothers or other members of the family test positive for genetic mutations of the same. The new findings, therefore, suggest that women who test negative for the mutation may not need extra cancer screening and increased preventive measures.
Herman Cain

Cain Denies Sexual Harassment: How Will Scandal Affect GOP Frontrunner's Campaign?

Cain has vehemently denied POLITICO's accusations, but the candidate and his staff are still being asked about nothing else, with commenters grilling the GOP frontrunner mere hours after the story broke. Will Cain be able to rebound from this scandal? or will his use of the Clarence Thomas race card and unconvincing denials by chief manager Mark Block end his chance at the presidency?
Mugabe

Mugabe says he's still fit, may target Swiss assets

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe denied speculation his health is failing and hinted at taking action against Swiss firms in retaliation for his wife and aides being denied visas to visit Geneva, the official Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
Saint Guido Maria Conforti

Pope Canonizes Catholic Church's Three New Saints: Who Are They?

Pope Benedict XVI beatified the Catholic Church's three newest saints -- Italian bishop and missionary Monsignor Guido Maria Conforti, Spanish nun Sister Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro and an Italian priest Rev. Luigi Guanella -- during a mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday.
Steve Jobs

Mona Simpson Shares Steve Jobs' Final Words: 'Oh Wow, Oh Wow, Oh Wow'

Late Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson has shared the final words of her genius brother in the eulogy she delivered at his Oct. 16 memorial service at Stanford University. The surprising last words that Jobs uttered from his deathbed were, Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.
A woman smoking a cigar arrives at the Partagas factory in Havana for a visit during the ongoing annual Cuban cigar festival

When a Cigar is Just a Cigar: A Woman in a Man's World

I am the only woman in the establishment and yet I barely notice, so at home do I feel. I've just perched myself in one of the lounge's lion-armed chairs, newspaper in hand, when, from across the room, a man bellows, Rocky Patel; toro; 1992; a Nicaraguan blend. I used to like those. Good smoke.
File photo of Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef attending a news conference in the holy city of Mecca

Saudi King Abdullah Names Brother Nayef Crown Prince

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has appointed Interior Minister Prince Nayef as the new crown prince, the royal court said in a statement issued Friday, signaling an orderly process of future succession in the world's largest oil exporter.

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