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More than 500 soldiers belonging to an elite paramilitary force in India are infected with HIV, the chief of the force has said.
Seventy troops of the 173-year-old Assam Rifles have died of the infection in the past 10 years, according to Lieutenant...
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Women who have had a miscarriage could be at greater risk of miscarrying again if they are obese, research suggests.
A team from London’s St Mary’s Hospital followed the progress of 696 women whose miscarriages were classed as...
Scientists have uncovered a chain reaction which could link a type of bacterium living in our intestines to the development of colon cancer.
Enterococcus faecalis is harmless in the vast majority of people, but US scientists have found that it can...
Edinburgh’s first car number plate has fetched almost £400,000 at auction.The registration “S1″ was originally bought in 1903, the year registration numbers were introduced.
The number plate was first owned by Sir John H A MacDonald,...
A Berlin auction house says it has sold one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall for more than 7,800 euros (£6,150).
The large graffiti-covered stretch of the wall, which once divided capitalist West Berlin from the communist East, was...
At least 17 people have been killed by floods triggered by monsoon rains in India’s eastern state of Orissa.
Some 2.4 million people in Orissa have been affected, officials say. More than 200,000 people have been evacuated from the worst-hit...
Randomly chosen visitors to Yahoo’s website will soon be helping the web giant re-design its main page.
Those picked will give feedback to Yahoo about the different ways that information and applications can be presented to regular users.
The...
Children suffering abuse will soon be able to contact the NSPCC’s ChildLine via text messages and the internet.
The NSPCC hopes to reach more at-risk children by making use of the technology that youngsters are comfortable and familiar with.
The populations of the world’s common birds are declining as a result of continued habitat loss, a global assessment has warned.
The survey by BirdLife International found that 45% of Europe’s common birds had seen numbers fall, as had more...
Archaeologists have pinpointed the construction of Stonehenge to 2300 BC - a key step to discovering how and why the mysterious temple was built.
The radiocarbon date is said to be the most accurate yet and means the ring’s original bluestones...
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