October, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Vatican criticises Nobel’s choice of Robert Edwards

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THE Vatican has criticised the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Medicine to IVF pioneer Robert Edwards. “I find the choice of Robert Edwards completely out of order,” Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head […] […]

‘Gay’ Saudi prince killed servant at London hotel, court hears

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A SAUDI prince strangled and beat his male servant to death during an apparent gay sex attack in a London hotel room, a British court heard yesterday. Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, 34, […] […]

Prince William rescues sick crewman from UK offshore gas rig

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PRINCE William rescued a seriously-ill crewman from an offshore gas platform, the Royal Air Force said in a statement today. The second-in-line to the British throne was a co-pilot in a four-man crew of an […] […]

Wiretap evidence fails in NY drug case against Jamaican

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In July this year two New York Federal Court-appointed officials flew into Kingston. They had read a story in this column about intercepted communication which had been illegally passed from a government interception facility in […] […]

New technique promises to take the lottery out of IVF

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Thousands of infertile couples who repeatedly undergo IVF treatment in the hope of having a baby could soon benefit from a scientific breakthrough that promises a radical increase in the chances of a successful pregnancy. […] […]

Pakistan, US tensions spike after border closure

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ISLAMABAD – Hundreds of US and NATO trucks carrying fuel and other supplies for troops in Afghanistan lie idle. Dramatic images of Taleban attacks on these convoys are splashed across front pages in this anti-American […] […]

New egg and baby study scrambles old thinking on allergies

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Delaying the introduction of eggs into babies’ diets seems to increase up to fivefold the chance infants will become allergic to the food. The finding by Melbourne researchers is the reverse of the existing widespread […] […]

New pathway found to storing memory

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SCIENTISTS have found a previously unknown and alternate pathway by which memories are stored in the brain, allowing so-called “second-learning”. The discovery by Australian and American scientists challenges the orthodox view on how the brain […] […]

Jailed rapper Lil Wayne put in solitary

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GRAMMY-Award winning rapper Lil Wayne has been moved into solitary confinement to serve the remainder of his prison sentence on a weapons charge. He was placed into punitive segregation in New York’s Rikers Island prison […] […]

North Korea restores nuclear reactor facilities

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NORTH Korea is restoring facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the source of weapons-grade plutonium in the past, South Korea’s defence ministry says. “North Korea is restoring nuclear facilities and continuing maintenance activities at Yongbyon,” […] […]