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Marijuana use in adolescents causes psychosis, according to a paper that appeared in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). This piece of research is significant in that it addresses a key question: in adolescents, is the higher-than-average instances of psychosis with marijuana users a cause-and-effect relationship or simply one of correlation?

Two people, including an American soldier, have been shot to death on a bus carrying US soldiers at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

Apple iPad 2 was spotted in Amazon’s German website by Yourdailyapple.net.

The chances of Portugal accepting a bailout has increased as hopes of reining in the borrowing costs of peripheral European governments have faded.

Forest Laboratories and Nycomed A/S said the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Daliresp (roflumilast) oral tablet to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Gold jumped against a falling Dollar in London trade on Tuesday, touching $1,432.10 per ounce, one dollar above the all-time peak of 7th Dec. Silver marks a fresh all-time high at $34.44/oz, while Western stock markets fell and Brent crude oil rose towards new two-year highs.

New computers from Lenovo show off a possible future of computer interfaces.

Iranian security forces have reportedly fired tear gas at anti-government protesters attending a rally in Teheran.

Boosted by the soccer World Cup, South Africa saw a record 15.1 percent increase in tourist arrivals in 2010 although the total of more than 8 million was not an all time-high, the tourism minister said on Tuesday.

The silver market has greeted the revival of forward sales by miners with sanguinity as prices sit at 31-year highs, but other signals suggest supply may really be scarce and investors are poised for more price gains.

Unemployment in the euro area fell back to sub-10 percent levels in January, official data showed on Tuesday.

Inflation in the eurozone rose from 2.3 percent in January to 2.4 percent in February year-on-year, according to the initial estimates by Eurostat.

Eurozone gross domestic product (GDP) will rise 1.6 percent this year, slightly above the previously forecast growth rate of 1.5 percent, the European Commission said in a report on Tuesday.

World Race 2011 will have about 25 cars from different countries racing to circle the globe on the same path on which the 1908-winner drove.

Manufacturing activity in the eurozone accelerated to a near 11-year high in February but input costs continued to rise, signaling inflationary pressures in the region.

Vidic has stepped up recently against Torres

Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition holds a narrowing one-point lead over the centre-left opposition in Baden-Wuerttemberg one month before the key state election, according to a poll published on Monday.

Iran has arrested opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, the opposition website Kaleme said on Monday.

Irrespective of whether the new government will be able to renegotiate a better bailout deal, the outlook for the country remains grim owing to looming fiscal squeeze and waning consumer confidence.Irish outlook to remain grim even if Fine Gael wins better bailout deal

The full text of resolution 1970 (2011) adopted by the UN Security Council on Feb. 26, 2011 imposing sanctions on Libya.

President Barack Obama has called Moammar Gaddafi to step down as leader of Libya, citing that the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters questions the legitimacy of his rule